Soups & Salads

Three Dressings – Jar Dressings

I eat salads all the time, so much so that I sometimes I found myself saying, “I’m sick of salads.”  Then I find a new recipe for a great dressing ...

Sweet Sweets

Blueberry Tea Cake

Dress Rehearsal   I have Ugly Cake Syndrome. (I made that name up.) All the personal and online cake decorating classes I have taken have not helped me one bit. ...

Comforting

Fettuccine with Garlic and Tomatoes

Perhaps what is comforting to me may not be comforting to you, but how can you not find comfort from a dish that transports you back to the place you ...

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April 23, 2013 | 5 Comments

Homemade Oreos

I love Oreo cookies. I love them so much I stopped buying them. If I buy them, there’s a very good chance I’m eating 99% of the contents of the package. But today I bent my rules, and gave in. No, I didn’t buy them. I baked homemade Oreos. If you are like me, you [...]

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April 17, 2013 | 8 Comments

Feta Cheese Squares

We are still celebrating spring, and we’re trying to do as much as we can outside before our 80° F weather leaves us. If anyone ever tells you that not much happens in the desert, don’t believe it. Here are some pictures to prove otherwise.   Also here’s a happy treat for you to try [...]

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April 11, 2013 | Comments Off

Barraquito

When I think of Tenerife, I should think about the weather or the friendly people and of course, the ocean. But no, the only thing I can think of is this coffee. You may be wondering, what exactly is a barraquito? Well it is a super sweet coffee drink from Tenerife, Canary Islands. It seems [...]

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April 4, 2013 | 4 Comments

Sweet Biscuits with Dried Wild Blueberries

After a long weekend filled with one too many slices of tall chocolate cake, we decided to go on a self-imposed, low sugar diet. For the past week, there has been very little sugar in our lives, and I tell you, the sugar withdrawal (if there is such a thing) is getting to me. I’m [...]

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March 29, 2013 | 5 Comments

White Chocolate-Dipped Breadsticks

We are celebrating Spring… we are celebrating Easter.   We took a tasty, perfect bag of breadsticks and made them super happy with white chocolate, pink sprinkles and white sugar pearls.   So simple to make, it us took about 15 minutes.  Super festive and all you’ll need is to change around the colors of [...]

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March 26, 2013 | 5 Comments

Caramel Chocolate Matzoh Crunch

The Sweet Side of Matzoh   Here’s recipes that can be prepared any time of the year. Deciding to make them was a quite simple. You see, it seemed like everywhere I looked in the store I could see packages of matzo crackers staring at me. And I had two different recipes from last year [...]

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March 18, 2013 | 5 Comments

Cream Scones with Chocolate

  Sundays should be a day to sleep in…and wake up super late. It’s the day we do what we normally don’t or can’t do during a busy week. But most importantly, Sundays should be the day of not counting calories. So yesterday we baked these scones. They were made with butter, cream, some sugar, [...]

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March 12, 2013 | 3 Comments

Flaxseed & Fig Crackers

It’s amazing what words can do. For example, consider such words as reserved, aged, vintage, or antique. Imagine now that you are about to buy a vintage pair of jeans or an antique piece of furniture, but instead of calling them vintage or antique, they are called old. That changes everything.  Right? Now, you may [...]

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March 7, 2013 | 5 Comments

Fresh Ricotta Pastries – Soffioni di Ricotta

Today the temperature was 75 degrees…another perfect Spring day here in Arizona, even though it’s not Spring quite yet. Not that we need an excuse, but to celebrate the wonderful weather we’ve been having lately, we’ve baked some fresh ricotta pastries. This is a quick, tiny and beautiful dessert that can be served any time [...]

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March 4, 2013 | 0 Comments

Quiet Time

Quiet time. I’m not a doctor or therapist, and I don’t have any particular background that qualifies me to say this–other than my own experience–but I highly recommend fifteen to thirty minutes of quiet time every day. My quiet time started a long time ago in my other life as a super busy and successful career [...]

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