Chocolate Dipped Caramel Cream Filled Coconut Shortbread Cookies. Buttery coconut shortbread filled with a caramel cream buttercream, half dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with toasted coconut. Decadent and so delicious. I love cookies; coming up with new types, baking them, Eating them. But styling for photographs I am at such a loss sometimes. It literally took...
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Easy Cottage Cheese Deviled Eggs
Easy Cottage Cheese Deviled Eggs is a great way to use up leftover hard boiled eggs and add an extra boost of protein from the cottage cheese. I was trying to think up something witty for this cottage cheese deviled eggs post such as " sick of hard boiled Easter eggs yet?" or "not another...
Vegetable Loaded Avocado Egg Salad Recipe
Vegetable Loaded Avocado Egg Salad. I love egg salad and this is my absolute favorite version of egg salad with the addition of creamy avocado and loaded with veggies. Once in a while I will boil a dozen eggs to use throughout the week to add into meals such as salads, or for an extra...
Indian Mango Lassi Drink
Indian Mango Lassi Drink. This is one of the best drinks I have ever had, the mango lassi. I had an authentic one last weekend at a good friends wedding I was in and attended. The most amazing wedding I have ever been to. These are two of my best friends that finally after 10...
Dark Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe with Salted Caramel Buttercream
Dark chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel Swiss meringue buttercream are quite possibly my favorite cupcake flavor combination. Rich, moist, dark chocolate cupcakes with a silky caramel buttercream with hint of salt to balance the sweetness. Cupcake perfection. Everyone needs a good chocolate cupcake recipe and this one is mine. Rich, dark chocolate, moist and not...
Guinness Stout Mini Bundt Cakes with Baileys Buttercream
I am not Irish. But I love cakes. Especially boozy cakes. Like these Guinness Stout Mini Bundt Cakes with Baileys Buttercream and Irish Whiskey Caramel Sauce. Boozy cakes with boozy butter cream and boozy caramel sauce. Seriously doesn't get much better than this. I finally got to use the mini bunt pan that I stole...
Very Pink Raspberry Cosmopolitan Cocktail
This amazing cocktail, the Very Pink Raspberry Cosmopolitan, I made in honor of my friend Barb's daughter, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at a very young age, but fought it and won and is thriving cancer free now! I made this cocktail originally for a guest post on Very Culinary. (update 2022 - I have...
Cinnamon Dolce Oatmeal Cookies
Cinnamon Dolce Oatmeal Cookies. Like the fancy Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce Latte but in a tasty oatmeal cookie form. The once popular Starbucks cinnamon dolce latte was a long standing popular latte with the coffee giant. Unfortunately they have discontinued it from their menu. I love a dash of cinnamon in my coffee as well as...
Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Pineapple and Anaheim Chili Salsa
This grilled pork tenderloin is good. Like really really good. And see that rice? yup that's the cilantro lime rice from the other day. I made this meal a few days ago and I was going to post the pork recipe first but there was only one problem... We ate it. All of it. None...
Mexican Restaurant Style Cilantro Lime Rice Recipe
Mexican Restaurant Style Cilantro Lime rice is one of my favorite rice dishes and now you can make it at home with my easy to make recipe! I love making rice. Whether its sticky rice, Mexican red rice, Jasmine rice for bowl meals or this cilantro lime rice. We eat a lot of rice. We...
Hula Hula Tropical Smoothie
Hawaii in smoothie form. My version of a tropical smoothie from my favorite coffee shop in Kauai. So tasty and refreshing. It's about this time of year I get a major craving to head west for a few hours and land in Hawaii. Okay soooo maybe I crave that year round. So I try to...
Smoky Romanesco, Celery Root and Broccoli Soup
Smoky Romanesco, Celery Root and Broccoli Soup is another rich and creamy vegetable soup creation of mine. Plus there is bacon! I am beginning to call Saturdays around here Soup - er Saturdays. I have been making a ton of soup lately and it's always influenced what we get in our CSA/Bountiful Basket organic veggie...
Black Angus Cookies
Do you like cookies? Do you like chocolate? Then these cookies are for you. These cookies are mostly chocolate and the scan amount of flour per chocolate ratio makes these so rich and chocolatey. Get ready with a class of cold milk ( or hot coffee like I do) and indulge. Black Angus Cookies. I...
Chief Mike's Loaded Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chief Mike's Loaded Chocolate Chip Cookies. Two weeks ago I hit a milestone on Facebook for my blog page. 500 "likes". I was STOKED. My friend Jen shared the love on her page, Thrive, to help me achieve this and one of her fans turned out to be my 500th like. So he said because...
Paleo Almond Joy Cookies
Paleo Almond Joy Cookies. A healthy almond butter cookie you can enjoy guilt free. When I made those coconut peanut butter cookies the other week, I was thinking " hmmm I wonder how these would be with almond butter instead of peanut butter" I could call them "Paleo" that way. I don't know all the strict...
"Snickers" Cream Puffs
My version of "Snickers" cream puffs aka chocolate cream puffs with both caramel and chocolate mousse fillings, chocolate and caramel sauce toppings and roasted peanuts. These, really, really really satisfy. I actually made these a few weeks ago for my dad's 70th birthday. He has several favorite desserts, one being cream puffs, the other being...
Tropical Scallop Salad with Avocado, Mango and Toasted Coconut
This tropical scallop salad with avocado, mango and toasted coconut combine for a delicious and healthy high protein salad. Perfect for lunch or dinner. What do these ingredients have in common? Why they are most of what goes into like my most favorite salad ever!! That would be this And here is the other...
Grilled Halibut with Kale Pistachio Pesto (Guest Post at JenSinkler.com)
I am guest posting over on Jensinkler.com today with this recipe for this Grilled Halibut with Kale Pistachio Pesto. One of my fave healthy meals. Its a great recipe for getting back on track after over indulging in party food from the Super Bowl Weekend. That is until you start in on Valentines day goodies...
Creamy Roasted Squash and Root Veggie Soup
Creamy Roasted Squash and Root Veggie Soup is a great way to use up some of winters best produce. I love soup. Like really love. Especially warm, comforting creamy roasted squash and root veggie soup, like this one here. I also love Cost Plus World Market and swoon over their dishes every time I am...
Vanilla Honey Salted Caramel Popcorn
Hi. My name is Shanna. And I am a salted caramel addict. If it can be made into salted caramel - I will make it. Such as this popcorn. Caramel popcorn good, salted caramel popcorn amazing!!!! I have friends that tell me they wish they knew how to bake, cook etc like I do. I...
Soft Coconut Peanut Butter Cookies For National Peanut Butter Day
Celebrate National Peanut Butter day any day you want with these Soft Coconut Peanut Butter Cookies. You can also make these on national peanut butter cookie day too! Apparently there are national food holidays every day. Sometimes several on the same day. I need a copy of this food holiday calendar. I am ALWAYS like...
Oh my darlin' Clementine Cupcakes
Oh my darlin' Clementine Cupcakes Please tell me we aren't the only ones that go through ohhhhh 20 or 30 lbs of clementines a week? We are slightly clementine obsessed over here. Clementines, Satsumas, Mandarins, Cara-Caras, Tangerines, and our favorite, Cuties. We go through 5lb bags in one day easily. Its mostly my 2 ½...
Lightened Up Roasted Veggie Mexican Lasagna
Lightened Up Roasted Vegetable Mexican Lasagna, tastes like enchiladas, layered like lasagna. I really wasn't sure if I should call this lasagna or lazy person's enchiladas. As in I am personally too lazy to roll them up in individual enchiladas so I layered instead like a lasagna. I mean it's really similar to enchiladas, and...
Gluten Free Vanilla Pomegranate Waffles
Gluten Free Vanilla Pomegranate Waffles made with one of my favorite fruits of winter. These waffles are so good and I want to eat them for breakfast every day. I have had a lifelong love affair with the pomegranate. It all started as a kid when I would go to the grocery store with my...
Kahlua Coffee BBQ Sauce
Kahlua Coffee BBQ Sauce is a tangy and sweet sauce that is super versatile for a variety of recipes. I think I crave summer and BBQ this time of year every year. ITS FREEZING out and I am in Vegas without snow on the ground like most of the country is so I shouldn't reeaaalllly...
Coconut Butter Poached Lobster with Pineapple Green Curry Sauce
Coconut Butter Poached Lobster with Pineapple Green Curry Sauce. I would eat this daily if I could. It is just that good. Actually the title of this recipe is Coconut and Butter Poached Lobster with Purple Sweet Potato Puree, Baby Bok Choy and Pineapple Green Curry Sauce. But there wasn't enough space to type...
Snowflake Sugar Cookies for #BloggersforSandyHook
December has always been the busiest month for me. The baking, shopping, wrapping gifts and sending cards and cookies and it seems to just get more hectic each year. But all my busyness came to a screeching halt last Friday. I was at the chiropractor office and when I sitting in low back traction I...
Brown Butter Salted Caramel Pretzel Thumbprint Cookies
Brown butter salted caramel pretzel thumbprint cookies. These are for all the salty-sweet lovers out there. I love these cookies and I know you will too. They are worth the effort to make. Thumbprint cookies are always a holiday classic, made many ways. Different flavors and fillings. These thumbprint cookies are perfect for those who...
Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are a gluten free version of a popular Christmas cookie. Once thing I love about the holidays/Christmas time, is cookie baking. I actually call it "cookie baking" season. I usually don't start baking until December 1st, I am one of those people that believes each holiday happenings should take place...
Odds And Ends
I have been meaning to start these posts for a while now, but I wasn't sure what direction I wanted them to go. I love reading "lifestyle", non-recipe posts on the blogs I follow; they peek into the blog owner/writer's world past all the baking, cooking, recipe fails and successes and giveaways, and allows one...
Spiced Mushroom Cookies
Spiced Mushroom Cookies. Lightly spiced cookies in a mushroom shape with a cocoa glaze. These are so fun and cute and I make them every year for my cookie gift box. What makes these mushroom cookies so special: These spiced mushroom cookies have been a holiday cookie staple in my life since I was a...
Upside Down Cranberry Bundt Cake with Cinnamon Streusel
Upside Down Cranberry Bundt Cake with Cinnamon Streusel. Your new go-to cake for the holidays! Since my last post was like a gazillion word this post will be short, sweet and to the point, maybe a little tart, just like this upside down cranberry bundt cake is. Or was. We ate it all. Twice. Oops....
Gluten Free Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies and Holiday Cookie Baking Tips
This is sort of a two part post. One for these deeeeeelicious gluten free pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies and one for MY own personal holiday cookie baking tips. I will alternate pictures of said cookies with my baking tips. First off a picture of these cookies: Yum right? Soft, spicy, pumpkiny cookies. There are two types...
Butternut Squash and Pomegranate Salad
Butternut Squash and Pomegranate Salad is quite possibly my newest fave salad. This speaks highly of this salad since I LOVE salads. So the other day were doing our usual spend entire paycheck grocery shopping at Whole Foods and it was right before lunch and I was STARVING. I walked by the deli to see...
Hearty White Turkey Kale Chili
Hearty White Turkey Kale Chili is a healthy and delicious way to use up leftover turkey from Thanksgiving or Christmas. Did you all have a great Thanksgiving holiday? Eat way too much? Not enough? Sick of all things turkey yet? Or still loving all the leftovers and things you can make with leftovers this white...
Sweet Potato Crepes With Orange Scented Cranberry Sauce
Sweet potato crepes with orange scented cranberry sauce. Fancy way of saying I put something orangey in the sauce. The food blog world is a lot like the stores when it comes to holiday decorating. MONTHS before the actual holiday is upon us there is decorations already up. In food blog world people are posting...
Maple Cinnamon Sweet Potato Apple Bake with Pecans
Maple Cinnamon Sweet Potato Apple Bake with Pecans. A healthier twist to traditional holiday sweet potato casserole. We will be going to my parents house for like the first time in 15 years for this holiday. My husband and I always end up working on Thanksgiving, the life of hospital employees, either working or on...
Apfelkuchen - Bavarian Apple Cake
Apfelkuchen. Or Apple Cake. Or Bavarian Apple Cake. OR "Happy Apple Cake" as I'm calling it. A recipe from my grandmother. Like many Bavarian/German/Austrian recipes they came from our Grandmothers or "Omas", right? This Bavarian apple cake was a common treat when I visited my grandparents as a kid, so was homemade apple strudel, spätzle...
Creamy Tomato Soup With Rustic Almost No Knead Bread
A big bowl of hot, creamy tomato soup and rustic crusty bread for dipping. Ultimate comfort food. The kind that mom used to make. The kind that you bring to a friend of neighbor in a time of need. That's comfort food. I love a rich, creamy tomato soup but I don't eat a lot...
Gluten Free Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins with Honey
Mmmm Gluten Free Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins with Honey. And yes, another pumpkin recipe. I told you I had a lot of pumpkin to use up. And I made them healthy by using gluten free flours and honey. This is sad. I actually had to make THREE separate batches of these Gluten Free Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins...