Holiday parties are abound and I love having some recipes in my back pocket that are easy to put together and still fun to serve. When I have parties I like there to be plenty of finger foods for guests to munch on while I prepare the main event. This recipe is super easy and keeps quite well in an air-tight container so you can prepare it up to two days ahead of time without worrying … [Read more...]
Chocolate Zucchini Bread (Healthy!)
I went to the grocery store a few days ago and you wouldn't believe the produce section. It seems to have been victim to a hostile zucchini takeover! Every nook and every cranny was crammed with zucchini after zucchini! Literally there were even some on the floor has they had spilled off the table and seemed to be advancing from the produce section to the bakery to claim that as their own as … [Read more...]
Popovers
This post is a special favor to one of my favorite readers. She asked me to make her chocolate, cherry popovers. After spending a boring afternoon at work browsing pinterest she had the idea to make chocolate, cherry popover but search after search after search lead her to... no recipes! What is worse than that!? So she asked me to make them and post a recipe so she would … [Read more...]
Raspberry Sorbet
Nothing beats the summer heat like a frosty bowl of ice cream! Apparently I am not the only one that thinks this way in Arlington though. The hot weather lead me right to the grocery store for a pint of sorbet when lo and behold... they were out. Like completely out. Like no ice cream out. WHAT?! Okay, to be fair they did have two sad pints in the back corner... but they were sugar free... … [Read more...]
Strawberry Cream Cake
I am loving all the strawberries available right now. I currently consider a meal that doesn't include strawberries to be incomplete. So when I found out it was a co-worker's birthday this week and his favorite childhood cake was strawberry I new I had to try one. This cake starts out like any other vanilla cake but instead of milk, crushed strawberries are mixed in to make a … [Read more...]
