Recipes

Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe w/Toasted Pecan Butter Rum Sauce & Vanilla Whipped Cream

  Here’s a little bit of personal info about me: I’m kind of weird about the winter holidays.  I’m not a very traditional person and I don’t always agree with particular aspects of what certain holidays stand for, including Thanksgiving and Christmas, both of which I grew up celebrating with my family despite my reservations.  That aside, I do appreciate paid days off work and quality time spent with family who I don’t get to … Read more…

Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake Recipe

Over the past few years I’ve been honing my baking skills, and subsequently it’s become tradition for me to bake a celebratory dessert when MC and I are travelling to see our families for [insert special occasion of choice here].  Seriously, I’ve pretty much got a dessert up my sleeve for all major holidays at this point.  Most recently we visited for Father’s Day, which always falls within a week of my Dad’s birthday.  When … Read more…

Gluten-Free Blackberry Peach Cobbler Recipe

Simple, unassuming, homemade fresh fruit cobblers are one of my all-time favorite desserts — quick and easy to assemble, and I generally have most of the ingredients on hand.  I recently had a dinner date with a friend and her family, and we decided on chili and hoecakes for the main course.  It’s become tradition for me to do the dessert, and cobbler sprung to mind as the perfect complement to our meal so I … Read more…

Indian Spiced Black-Eyed Peas Recipe

We’ve recently discovered Jenny Lewis (seriously, how have we never listened to her before?) and the old school country music influence that comes through in her songs has put me in the mood for some southern cooking.  Either that or we’ve simply been eating a bit too much junk lately and I was craving something nutritious (probably the latter, but whatever, Jenny Lewis, southern food, makes sense to me!).  I went with this tried and … Read more…

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe

One of my best friends, the lovely and notorious Frankie, had a birthday last weekend and requested a cheesecake when I asked her what kind of special dessert she would like for the occasion.  Once in a blue moon I get to experiment with different types of dessert recipes, but the vast majority of the time that I offer to make a dessert for someone, cheesecake it is!  I also like to give the person … Read more…

Layered Mocha Cheesecake Recipe (with gluten-free option)

  We’re a bit behind with the blog this week, so sorry about that, but it’s for a good reason!  Let me explain.  We were busy hot tubbing it up at a cabin retreat last weekend.  Haha!  We spent most of our time eating delicious food, lounging in the hot tub, and of course drinking beer and socializing around the fire pit–the fire pit that we dug and then filled back in ourselves because there … Read more…

Vanilla Cardamom Avocado Smoothie Recipe

Oh you guys.  We made this luscious Vanilla Cardamom Avocado Smoothie earlier this week when temps were in the 70s(!) with the intention of sharing a recipe to celebrate the warm weather we were having.  It was wonderfully, convincingly spring-like all week, only for the temps to drastically drop last night and leave us with a dusting of snow and 20 degree temperatures this morning. Thanks a lot weather, you trickster you.  Luckily it’s supposed to … Read more…

Pickled Onions Recipe

One of my favorite take-out salads on nights when I don’t have time to cook and am looking for a healthy option comes from a tacqueria around the corner from my house.  I know salad from a tacqueria sounds funny and you may think I’m crazy for not ordering tacos, but it really is that good.  They start with fresh field greens and your choice of protein, then top with an assortment of ingredients including … Read more…