Gluten Free Zucchini Spice Muffins

My sister is staying with us for awhile.  Did I mention that before? We get her as a house guest for a few months while she finishes settling into employment here on the East Coast.  We kind of love it and while there are always adjustments with long term visitors, most of…

Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Cookies

Lets chat about chocolate, yes? It needs no introduction.  Chocolate is good and chocolate is great.  Blah blah blah.  Nothing we don’t already know.  So when you find a Ghirardelli recipe in a magazine for a double chocolate cookie, you take note and trust them.  Who better to for me to listen…

Carolina Cobb Salad

Well hello! For those of you who are noticing that this is the second salad recipe I have posted in a week, I would like to reply with, yes, I realize that too.  And I will not apologize for it, dang it!! You can never have too many fresh, flavor-filled salads in…

Roast Chicken Waldorf Salad

I will be the first one to admit that I have not always been a Waldorf salad fan. The Waldorf salads of the 70’s and 80’s usually contained WAY too much celery (not my fav), nuts (which I generally avoided unless it was in a dessert), and were often completely tasteless.  A…

Inside-Out Carrot Cake Cookies

I can’t help but smile when I think of this recipe. When my husband was in the Navy, I often volunteered to cook for our unmarried or otherwise unattached friends.  I have mentioned this before; that I used to use them as guinea pigs in the early days of my cooking career,…

Pioneer Bread

Can I just, say something…crazy? In my head, that request was stated like Princess Anna in Frozen. Ok.  Here is the crazy thing.  Are you ready? This bread tastes like history.  Like the Old West.  Like The Oregon Trail. I TOLD you it was crazy, and although I am not a woman…

Whole Wheat Banana Bread

One look through my recipe archives and you know how much I love things made with banana. It is not so much that it is my favorite flavor, but that it is just so dang easy to make.  Banana type baked goods are virtually guaranteed to come out naturally sweet, moist, and…

Brown Sugar Banana Nut Muffins

I see Banana Nut Muffins as a pretty standard type of baked good.  When I set out to create this recipe, I wanted all the great flavor but with just a tweak (just a smidgen) of an update.  So I made it heart healthy but kept the classic brown sugar taste that…

Classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookies: Back To School Post #3

Back to school recipes still comin’ atchya!  Like many of you, lunches and snacks and make-ahead meals are on my brain. So here is another one to pin, tweet, bookmark, copy, or bake  that can help with some of that! This post comes to you via Marriott hotel complimentary internet service in…

Spring Asparagus W/Raspberry Vinaigrette & Walnuts

Its spring!  And spring means asparagus! My family and I wait all year for asparagus to fill the farmer’s markets and grocery stores.  I know that nowadays we can get it imported from Peru and thus enjoy it year round, but I prefer to eat it in season from as local of…

Banana Sour Cream Pancakes & Hotel Room Service

Quite often, food reminds us of special times in our lives.  Culinary memories, if you will. My Mother-In-Law was telling me over the weekend that the smell of cinnamon rolls makes her think of her Mother.  She used to bake them in the afternoons so that they were fresh and warm for…

Fruit & Nut Rum Balls

There might be some kind of rule that says I have to post lots of Christmas cookie recipes in December but I don’t really care.  I actually have so many cookie recipes I could post here (literally dozens and dozens) that I couldn’t choose between them and decided to share this recipe…

The BEST Carrot Cake EVER!!

In the interest of mixing up the sweet and savory recipes from my Christmas dinner menu, I will save the potato gratin recipe for the next post.  So we are jumping ahead to dessert for today, and ooooooh MAN!  What a dessert it is!  Maybe not exactly the kind of holiday dessert…

Basic Granola

Hello all!  I am currently in the middle of a family vacation so this post comes to you from a hotel lobby!  Recipes may not be quite as frequent for a few weeks, but I still have a few things ready to share with you! Speaking of on the road, one of the…

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Just a quick entry to pass this recipe along.  So here it is!  I promised you a recipe for Chocolate Zucchini bread, and this gal delivers.  Yes, this tastes a lot like cake, but because it is baked in a loaf pan and very much resembles the other zucchini bread recipes you…