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Berries with Vanilla Sugar

May 12, 2009

Sometimes its just this simple…dice up some fresh fruit and top off with some vanilla sugar. Soooo good!! Obviously it’d be healthier to eat the fruit plain, but I love the little bit of crunch you get from the sugar and that wonderful vanilla-y sweetness! Even better when the berries are chilled before you add [...]

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Banana Chocolate Crumb Muffins

March 15, 2009

I absolutely love muffins for breakfast. They’re perfect to whip up on the weekend to keep through the week. A good muffin and a piece of fruit and I’m a happy camper in the morning! I love making banana muffins cause I’m not big on bananas even though they’re good for you, but put them [...]

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Pink Grapefruit Champagne Sorbet

January 6, 2009

I had the intention of making this for new year’s. Unfortunately, getting sick for a week totally threw off my plans. As well as my plans of updating the blog daily while I was at home on vacation for a week. Being sick was definitely not in the plans! I figure it was God’s way [...]

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Apple Spice Bars

September 30, 2008

I saw this on Katie’s blog a week ago and I just had to make them! I’ve been craving some apple baked goodness and this recipe was fabulous! The bars were particularly good still warm from the oven!

Apple Spice Bars
2 c plus 2 Tbsp all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 [...]

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Peach Mango Sorbet

June 27, 2008

Its summer time. I’ve been craving ice cream daily. I tried making a batch of frozen yogurt but the first attempt was not sweet enough and was too yogurt-y. I’ll give it a few more tries and hopefully be back with a winning Fro Yo recipe. For now though, I figured I’d stick with sorbet.

Peach [...]

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Pineapple Salsa

April 18, 2008

I’m very excited to be able to participate in this year’s wonderful blogging event, A Taste of Yellow hosted by winos and foodies. A Taste of Yellow is a blogging event supporting Livestrong Day, which is on May 13th this year. Livestrong Day, an event developed by the Lance Armstrong Foundation was created to to [...]

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Perfect Party Cake

March 30, 2008

Its daring bakers time again! Quite honestly, I’m not sure how I manged to complete this month’s edition of Daring Bakers. All month I’d been planning to make this cake Easter weekend (also my mom’s birthday). It was going to be the perfect way to take care of this challenge. Unfortunately hubby’s grandfather got very [...]

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Chocolate Banana Nut Bread

November 17, 2007

I had three ripe bananas which usually means its time to make some Banana Bread. But I was craving chocolate… so chocolate banana nut bread it was! I tweaked my banana bread recipe and the result was amazing! This is definitely my new favorite quick bread. It is so decadently wonderful. Its moist and sweet [...]

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Strawberry Peach Sorbet

October 7, 2007

Its not quite fall here in Texas, so ice cream and sorbet still sound like delicious treats. I never did get around to trying out a sorbet recipe this summer, so I figured I ought to get busy now before the weather actually does start cooling down. Now most of the recipes I found for [...]

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Chocolate Covered Strawberries

July 31, 2007

We were headed to friends’ house for dinner and I needed to whip up something for dessert. We had some leftover homemade vanilla ice cream from the weekend but I wanted something to spice up the ice cream a bit… I decided to make some chocolate covered strawberries.

They’re so easy to make (and I almost [...]

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Grilled Tequila Cinnamon Pineapple

July 30, 2007

I had a whole pineapple in the fridge that i haven’t used and its on the verge of going out so I knew I needed to eat it tonight. Decided I’d spice it up a bit and grill it to eat with some of the homemade ice cream that’s still in the fridge. I came [...]

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Summer means fresh fruit

July 14, 2007

Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know I’m still here One more week of this business trip and I’ll be home and back in my tiny kitchen cooking up a storm. I’m missing home and good old home cookin, even though you can’t be the abundance of good inexpensive Chinese food [...]

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Cinnamon Peaches

June 22, 2007

I had a couple peaches sitting on the counter that would be bad tomorrow morning if I didn’t do something with them tonight. The only thing I could think of that sounded good was cobbler, but I’m not really in the mood to do that much baking. So instead i came up with this creation, [...]

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