One of my biggest pet peeves is wasting food. Whether we are talking meal leftovers, cooking/baking scraps or veggie stems and leaves, I hate throwing away food. Of course there are times when food spoils or you have some sort of scrap or leftover that you just can’t use. But aside from those moment, I…
Steel-Cut Oats in the Crockpot
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. Hands down! I love everything about it. The fact that it is paired with coffee. YES!!! It’s an excuse to eat sweet treats in the morning. Double YES!!! There is something so comforting about making breakfast for my family and enjoying it together on a lazy weekend…
Pumpkin Oat Muffins
I love baked goods! It’s kind of my kryptonite, especially for breakfast. But sometimes when I am craving a sweet treat that isn’t terrible for me, I make Pumpkin Oat Muffins. They are super easy, fast and not terrible for you. The best of all worlds! They save wonderfully frozen, are perfect for a snack or…
Almond Orange Biscotti – American version
As promised, here is the American version of this glorious biscotti cookie. This recipe differs from the Italian version as it contains butter. Also as a fun variation, I added orange flavor with zest and orange liqueur. Almond Orange Biscotti recipe – American version Adapted from: SeriousEats almond biscotti and SmittenKitchen’s Almond Biscotti. Yields: roughly…
Italian Almond Biscotti
How many of you are coffee drinkers? I’m guessing a lot of you. So whats even better than enjoying a perfectly brewed cup of coffee? Pairing it with crunchy biscotti. I personally have been drinking coffee semi-consistently since college mainly to help me stay awake while I studied and also to pair with whatever cookie or…
Cheesy Chicken and Spinach Quinoa Bake
One of my favorite kitchen challenges, is coming up with recipes using what I have left in the fridge by the end of the week. NERD Alert! I know. I think of it as my own personal weekly episode of Food Network’s Chopped. I have to use what is in my fridge and make dinner…
Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese Sticks
Game night!!! When these 2 words are uttered in my house, someone I know gets way too excited! His name rhymes with Tason. And let me clarify we are not talking video games or social silly games like Apples to Apples or Catchphrase, we are talking strategy board games. The hubs grew up playing games. From…
13 Tips and activities to get you through dark winter days
Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope you are surviving this wet grey weather. When I first moved to the Midwest from Texas, the dark fall and winter days were a complete shock to me. Waking up in the dark and then coming home to darkness was something I needed to get use to. So over the years I started doing…
Hubs Birthday Weekend Extravaganza!
Morning everyone, Hope you had a great weekend! If you were in the Minneapolis, it was BEAUTIFUL! Crazy to have 50+ degree temps in mid-November but I’ll take it! The hubs, little poppy seed and I had a lot of celebrating to do over the last few days. It was hub’s bday so there were…
Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies a la SmittenKitchen
Chocolate and salt. Complete opposites that were meant to be together. Sounds strange both these two ingredients although opposite, complement and help showcase one another. When I get a craving for salt and chocolate, I will normally sneak in a Dark Chocolate and Salt square from my ever-present dark chocolate bar that quietly sits in…