Uncategorized

Dessert, Uncategorized

Tagalong Trifle (or Peanut Butter Patty Parfait)

It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season! Please support your local Girl Scouts. Find where to buy your Girl Scout cookies, by clicking here: https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/How-to-Buy.html. Once you have your cookies, you can eat straight out of the box, or learn how to make them even better! This dessert combines fluffy peanut butter mousse with Tagalong crumbs.

View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

Uncategorized

Roast beef with creamy horseradish sauce

Don’t be a grinch! Make your holidays merry and bright with a kick of horseradish over your roast beast feast. Prepping the night before gives you more time to open presents in the morning.

Appetizer, Dinner, Side Dish, Uncategorized

Spinach-Artichoke Dip Stuffed Bread

Everyone loves spinach and artichoke dip. How do you improve this classic? Add everyone’s favorite crescent dough bread! This is the perfect Christmas treat because you can make it into a Christmas tree! See note below. This year, I didn’t form a tree, but if you would like to do so, read the note.

Uncategorized

Banana-Cranberry Muffins

Cranberries are a perfect for the holiday season. I spiced up plain banana muffins with cranberries, maple syrup, and cinnamon. It’s a great festive breakfast on the go. If you would like to learn about my next post, sign up below.

View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

Uncategorized

Gingerbread Truffles

It’s the holiday season! Time for making cookies. Time for enjoying time with family. Time for thinking up new ways to use the Gingerbread Oreos that were otherwise not being eaten. Don’t let my plate fool you – there’s absolutely no baking (by you) in making these truffles. Combining the flavor of gingerbread with cream […]

View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

Uncategorized

Broccoli Crumble

What a month! It was a blur of briefs, hearings, and 2 published decisions. I could not catch my breath! So for my first post in a while, here’s an easy side dish for any night where you need a quick veggie. I turned plain broccoli into a cheesy, breaded delight – without actually going […]

View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

Uncategorized

Stuffed Acorn Squash

With only a few more days before Thanksgiving, try out this delicious recipe that combines stuffing and acorn squash into a personal feast! You also cannot tell that my stuffing was made healthier with secret substitutions like minimizing oils and butter. Adding tart, fresh cranberries gives it that special Thanksgiving Day flavor! This also is […]

View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

Condiment, Salad, Side Dish, Uncategorized

Canned Jalapeno Peppers

As a little girl, my Yiayia loved her tomato plants. We would have so many tomatoes, that the only thing to do was to can them. I tried to follow in her footsteps with growing tomatoes, but my squirrels love them. So I’m left with the only thing the squirrels hate – jalapenos! But apparently, […]

Dinner, Side Dish, Uncategorized

Escarole and Beans

I knew going into this week due to briefing deadlines that I would have zero time to cook. So Sunday was spent preparing the week’s meals helping me to just reheat on a busy night. Take tonight – in addition to filing a large brief, I had 3 Zoom meetings all after 5 PM, so […]

Dinner, Uncategorized

Peachy Pork Chops

Fresh peaches and a honey-balsamic reduction provide a tasty way to transform the other white meat into a mouth-watering dinner.