I love fall, while a good pumpkin spice, or pumpkin pie can be amazing, I'm all about the apples. So we've been using apples a ton lately in our cooking, and our 9 year old is extremely happy about that. Apples aren't just for desserts, they pair perfect with pork too! This meal is devoured in our house. Everyone goes back for seconds, it's the perfect fall meal. It's so simple ...
Slowcooker Pork Barbacoa
Sometimes you just need to torture yourself with incredible smell coming from the kitchen for an entire day. Am I right? This weekend we used up our last two pork roasts that have been taking up freezer space to make our own slow cooker pork barbacoa. This tastes better than the barbacoa from Chipotle. This was so easy to make, I just let the pork roasts thaw in the ...
Blueberry Peach cobbler pie recipe
This blueberry peach cobbler pie recipe is a perfect hyrbid, part pie, part fruit cobbler, all parts delicious. A blueberry peach pie, topped with a brown sugar cinnamon oat cobbler crust. Serve it warm with a scoop of ice cream. Pie is one of the best desserts in my book. My birthday is later this month and my only request was a birthday pie. Specifically an apple pie ...
Roasted Summer Squash Marinara
It's summer squash season, which seems ironic, because it doesn't feel like summer anymore. The weather is cooling, the geese are starting to move south, the orchards are starting to open for the season. Fall is starting to creep in. We're soaking up the rest of summer though, and spending a lot of time tending our garden. We have an abundance of summer squash, which is ...
Sheet pan lemon roasted gnocchi
This was a recipe that was impossible to name. You have roasted gnocchi, onions, garlic, and grape tomatoes roasted until the gnocchi is perfectly golden and the tomatoes are bursting. Then you have the salad of torn basil and spinach, dressed with a great little dressing of a citrusy hazy IPA, olive oil, and lemon pepper. We just call it sheet pan gnocchi and it's one of our ...
Lemon Curd recipe (without using a double boiler)
There's something about lemon that's so bright and fresh and perfect for just about everything. I even use lemon for my favorite ever roasted vegetables. So naturally, I fell in love with the Noosa lemon yogurt, it's like eating a lemon meringue pie, but I can't find it in stores near me! So I recently made it my mission to make my own lemon curd from scratch. The first time ...
S’Mores Brownies
Last week was the 4th of July and I wanted to make a simple dessert to bring to the BBQ, ok, so I had my husband and 9 year old do the baking while I watched the little one. It was my idea though, so I get the credit, right? We made some really simple S'mores brownies in the oven! Yep, S'mores without the fire. We used my favorite Pampered Chef brownie pan a box mix, a simple ...
Homemade Chocolate Bar recipe
Homemade Chocolate Bar Recipe Chocolate bars will always remind me of waiting in line at the grocery store as a kid, if you stare long enough, one might magically happen to land on the conveyor belt of groceries, right? Now that I'm older I enjoy overpriced candy bars with fun things like potato chips in them. Candy bar maker Using a silicone chocolate bar mold I can ...
Green onion dip recipe
Green onion dip recipe We love green onions, so naturally we planted a ton of them in our garden. Well, we're not eating them as fast as we thought we would, and we keep forgetting about them. We'll be sitting down half way done with dinner, looking out at our garden and that's when we think "oh yeah, green onions would have been great on this." Moral of the story, I'm ...
Pineapple Mango Coconut Smoothie Recipe
I just read in a magazine that if you buy a nice blender it deserves a home on your counter so you'll remember to use it. Well, we have a nice blender the Pampered Chef Deluxe Cooking Blender and it's been used at least once a day since we bought it. My husband and I have been planning our morning smoothies the night before, it's serious business. Last night we planned on a ...
Tropical Mixed Berry Smoothie
Who doesn’t love a good smoothie to start your day? Smoothies are so filling and they’re packed with good nutrients. This recipe makes a batch for the whole family. I’m obsessed with the deep purple color it turned into. When I was picking out yogurt for smoothies I decided to try using Chobani’s coconut yogurt as a base for some fun tropical smoothies. This is one of ...