I love this chocolate-y, peanut butter-y recipe because it is an easy one to pretend is healthy. Let me convince you. It has peanut butter, rice krispies, and peanuts. And wheat germ and/or oats and/or coconut. And if you use dark chocolate it’s good for your heart and your happiness. Really, all I had to […]
Archives for February 2011
Twice Faked Potatoes
I always have trouble with twice-baked potatoes. Usually I am too impatient on the first bake, or decide too late in the day that I want to make them for supper, so I try to scoop potatoes out of shells that are either too hot to handle or not quite baked enough and still determined […]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
This past weekend we celebrated, in true large-family style, the birthdays of my oldest nephew on my side of the family (4 already!!) and my dear hubby (age top secret ;)). I love these family dinners with two of my four sisters, especially after a couple years living away from them, even if we do […]
I have a dream…
I think if I was getting married again I would do a couple things differently. No, I wouldn’t change the guy (Hi Carl!). And I wouldn’t change the minister (Hi Dad!) But the gift situation. Don’t get me wrong, we got some fabulous gifts and I loved everything, and I plan to use my toaster […]
Sleep Deprivation
It’s been a crazy couple weeks…first I was sicker than I’ve ever been since having kids, then little Gemma got her first real flu, then last night sweet K-fer was up for 3 hours happy as a clam due to my forgetting to inform him that it was nighttime. I also don’t think Gemma has […]
Best Ever Berry Muffins
I love muffins. I am considering buying a toaster oven JUST to reheat muffins, since the microwave isn’t quite cutting it for me. The last place I worked at had a toaster oven, and reheating muffins in there restored them in seconds to their perfect, warm, crisp-topped, soft-bottomed fresh-out-of-the-oven deliciousness that I love so much. […]
Milk Chocolate Cookies
These are super simple, chewy, stay-soft cookies. I love chewy cookies. I know you crunchy cookie lovers are out there, and I must say, I will never understand you! If I can hear a cracking sound when I bend my cookie it is not the cookie for me. Around here, we go through cookies like water, which […]
Lurker Love
Blogs are a funny thing. People want you to read their blog. You want to read their blog. But you don’t want to comment because you don’t want them to KNOW you read their blog. What is going on?? Why are we blog-shy? Why do I run into someone I know everything about and then […]
Couch configurations
I need help. Not mental help. I don’t think. Well, I do think. I don’t think I need mental help. Yet. Anyways. Since moving back to BC we bought a very comfy sectional, something we always wanted and a big improvement in looks from inherited green and cream plaid, but I’m just not sure which […]
First Date Squares
This is the first time I’ve made date squares, after a long love affair with them on baking platters at weddings, paint conferences, and other gatherings where you can find me loitering at the dessert table. Why I waited this long to make them is beyond me, as is why my first baking post is […]