Super Gooey Peanut Butter Brownies

Sometimes, there just aren’t adequate words to describe something. I could tell you that these brownies are the chewiest, gooiest brownies you will ever eat, but that wouldn’t do them justice.  I could tell you that people gasp when they see them (they are that decadent) and that they will be devoured…

Chocolate Fluffernutter Sandwich Treats

As the summer progresses, I find myself wishing my kids were a bit more self sufficient. I may be doing too much for them and I have decided to try and incorporate more age appropriate chores into their routine.  As you can probably imagine, they are thrilled.  Is anyone else struggling with…

Honey Peanut Cereal Bars

I have kids. Ere go, I have purchased an alarming number of boxes of little ‘0’ cereal made of oats, such as Cheerios or something similar.  Cereal that shows up in my couch cushions, on the bottom of my purse, and in my laundry.  This kind of cereal is always around so…

Gluten-Free Honey Oat Protein Bites

About a year ago, when I still lived in central Illinois, I was given this recipe from a friend and fellow Mommy.  She was on a mission to get more fit and make some long lasting, healthy changes in her life.  One of her discoveries was this recipe that she got off…

Super Quick Peanut Butter Cookies-GF & DF

Peanut butter is a funny thing. You can turn it into a savory sauce for noodles, no-bake confections for the holidays, or the ever classic favorite, straight up peanut butter cookies.  Speaking of cookies, peanut butter needs little in the way of help to bake up as such.  The following recipe is…

Rocky Road Crispy Bars

In some ways, I can’t even believe I am posting this…. This recipe was born strictly out of my need to eat something sweet and chewy.  There is no grand idea or occasion, just me making bars four times this week in an effort to put together something that sounded good in…

Peanut Butter W/Honey, Cinnamon, & Cocoa: Back To School Post #1

Hi everyone! I know I have been kind of missing the last week or so and I have a good excuse.  Its summer!  I have been immersed in home improvement projects, little red wagon walks around the neighborhood, bike rides, picnics, and appointments!  I am also in the middle of trying to…

Peanut Noodles

When it comes right down to it, the fact that this dish has a no-cook sauce and that I can make it entirely in the blender…well…that is really what drew me to it originally.  After I made it once, it was the flavor that drew me in.  The second time I made…

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies: 4 Batches = Perfection

Mmm.  This picture makes me so happy… As I was looking down my list of food to freeze and have on hand after baby #3 arrives, I noticed that peanut butter chocolate chip cookies were not on my list.  For shame!  How could they have been overlooked?!  So in the midst of…

Bon Bons

I still have the Roasted Shrimp Cocktail recipes from the party to share with you, but I haven’t posted a sweet recipe in nearly a week!  For shame!  This is the holiday season after all!  Not every recipe this month will be rich, indulgent, or a cookie, but…well…some of them need to be,…

Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies

Mmmm.  Peanut butter cookies.  Just saying the name makes me happy.  I really love peanut butter so the cookie version is just another way of feeding my addiction.  Although ultimately I am a purest and crunchy peanut butter on thick slices of homemade wheat bread with honey is nothing sort of stellar. Speaking of…

Keebler Cracker Bars

There are two things I am most grateful for when it comes to my mother-in-law.  One is giving birth to, and raising, the best man I ever met.  The second?  These bars. If there ever was a recipe that she is known for, this is it.  This is no ordinary bar, my friend! …

Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars

Yesterday, I was in desperate need of these bars. I don’t know why, but in the middle of researching different counter stools to go in my new kitchen, I read something that triggered the memory of these bars, and I suddenly said to myself, “I must eat these now.”  I jumped up and…

Crispy Bars

In between ripping down walls, removing sofits, cutting holes in our kitchen ceiling, rewiring said kitchen, and cleaning up the mess that all of that creates, I made rice crispy bars.  An opened bag of mini-marshmallows used to top the previously mentioned hot chocolate and an overabundance of rice crispy cereal (sale+coupon=4…

Puppy Chow

Ah! That ever present addictive snack food that so many of us remember from our childhood.  Simple ingredients, easy steps, and I think that every parent I knew as a kid made this.  Well, except mine.  Chocolaty, crunchy goodness that leaves you with powdered sugar covered fingers.  I am, of course, speaking of…