Food
Cinnamon Sugar Pizza Sticks
I was a meal planning ninja last week. I was repurposing main ingredients into 3 different meals like a Food Network star. It was a sight to behold and a taste to savor. I had the dishes to prove it. It was in one of those moments of complete humility that I stumbled upon my greatest creation EVER. On Saturday night I was transforming the last of the Italian sausage and tomato sauce I had reserved from an earlier meal into homemade pizza. I had enough ingredients to make one pizza, but enough pizza dough for two pizzas. Huh. That was the start of a really delicious word problem. Don’t worry,…
Red Velvet White Chocolate Cookies
If you can’t bear the thought of fighting over the last heart-shaped box of chocolates at the drugstore for Valentine’s Day, this recipe is for you. If you really want to impress your Valentine with a homemade treat, this recipe is for you. If you really, really want just one freakin’ hour to yourself to binge on Netflix and cookies, this recipe is especially for you. And me. If only someone would invent a cookie where the calories didn’t count. Can I get an AMEN? Google should put some resources into developing that instead of the self-driving car. Way more market potential. These red velvet cookies are filled with decadent white chocolate…
Chocolate Peppermint Schnapps Cake
If I was to rename this blog, I think I would call it Baking With Booze. I mean, every time I do, we do have a pretty darn happy home! Last year I finally made my aunt’s Whiskey Cake and wrote about it in a blatant attempt to drool all over the Internet. When the Junk Whisperer visited me over Christmas, we brainstormed other ways we could adapt the recipe while daintily eating bites of Whiskey Cake and practicing portion control. Just kidding. The only thing that was true about that sentence was the brainstorming and the Christmas visit. She went home and made a Rum Cake, which I hear was…
White Chocolate Cashew Cookies
Every good cookie needs an equally good story. This one has touches of Little House on the Prairie, Desperate Housewives and Dirty Jobs. Doesn’t that sound appetizing? I used to be in marketing. It all started with a giant jar of UNSALTED cashews. That’s right. I accidentally purchased unsalted instead of salted cashews. How was I to know what would transpire after that? The humans I live with were displeased. In all fairness, they are also displeased with baths, vegetables, bedtime, wearing shoes and any days that start with school. But, back to the cashews. My husband decided to dip the cashews in Nutella. I decided to make White Chocolate Cashew Cookies. I’m…
Gingersnaps with White Chocolate Drizzle
I hope your New Year’s Resolution for healthier eating included a gingersnap exception. It’s the prudent thing to do. A little bit of indulgence helps one stay on the straight and narrow. Or so I imagine. These gingersnaps have a bit of spice and are nice and chewy. I actually already shared the original recipe and drooled over them here. I didn’t really think they needed the chocolate drizzle. It’s like apple pie needing vanilla ice cream. It doesn’t need it, but man, does it push the gluttony flavor experience over the top. That’s what the chocolate drizzle does for the cookies. Does anyone else ever see those cookie decorating…
Mulligatawny Soup
I’m baaacckk! More importantly, I’m almost functioning at 100%. Just a little more caffeine… Let’s just fake it until we make it, okay? Taking my own advice, I have some jaw-dropping news. Winter finally showed up in Georgia. That means our high might be 50 and our low is 25 degrees of freezing cold air. One region’s winter is another region’s balmy spring. I will cope by making one of my favorite soup recipes – Mulligatawny Soup. Mulligatawny Soup is a curry-based soup with Indian origins. In other words, it is delicious. It also has an odd combination of ingredients that you might never think to combine until you taste them here. Trust me. My…
What I’m Making for FriendsGiving
I am especially thankful this year. For reasons this mostly introverted personality still can’t quite fathom, we have been embraced by so many big-hearted people in Georgia. I don’t necessarily walk around under a cloud of warm fuzzies, so I think that says a lot more about them than me. When you move someplace new, without a support network, it can be overwhelming. To find people who have your back if you are running late for the bus stop or who will watch your kids when you are in the hospital or who make you laugh on a daily basis – well, it’s my idea of hitting the lottery. I’m…
Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits
Sometimes you have to give in to the urge. The craving. It’s the right thing to do when there is cheese involved. I modified my absolute favorite biscuit recipe to be a little bit more savory. It seemed like the right thing to do on a cold, blustery day. Yes, we do occasionally get those in Georgia and it prompts some serious hibernation tendencies and carbohydrate consumption. I’m not sure what accounts for those things on the other days in my life. When I went to link up my favorite biscuit recipe, I realized I haven’t ever posted about my favorite biscuits. The HORROR! How is that possible? I’m definitely…
Pomegranate White Chocolate Cookies
A lot of good things happen when Kroger has pomegranates on sale for a dollar each. And by good, I mean mouth-watering. Before this produce sale, I knew two things for certain: 1) I like pomegranate juice. 2) Pomegranate juice is expensive. Here’s what I did not know: 1) The least annoying way to get the pomegranate seeds out of the shell. Clearly, extracting those suckers is why the juice is so expensive. 2) The proper name for that shell and the seeds. (It’s the rind and the arils, by the way.) 3) What to do with the vast amounts of arils that come out of two pomegranates. To solve the…
Danish Pear Pie
I have a dear friend from Denmark. She’s one of those genuine, salt-of-the earth people. If I was ever sick or injured, I’d want to recuperate at her house because her kindness cup runneth over. A couple of years ago she brought dessert over to our house – a pear pie. I know it won’t surprise you to know that I was skeptical. Pears, in my book, should be crisp and crunchy. Not mushy, cooked and ripe-tasting. I realize I am in the pear minority. Well, I was wrong. I freely admit it. Every rule has an exception and this pear pie is mine. I begged and pleaded asked nicely for the…
