If there’s one thing that is frustrating to give up when you’re pregnant it’s ice cream. Am I Right? Ladies? Yeah, torture. Since avoiding excess carbs and sugar, I’ve had to get really creative to still get my sweet fix. Especially now that we’ve skipped spring in the South and headed straight for [...]
Recipes
Healthy cookies that taste great….it’s a tough challenge. The key is to balance the ingredients and use just enough of each to give them flavor, without lots of added sugar and carbs. If it’s not totally obvious, I have a sweet tooth. Deprive me of goodies completely and I’m not a happy girl – especially [...]
Eating healthy is always on our list of priorities, but it’s even more important now that I’m carrying a tiny human to feed. I’ve been following 101 Cookbooks, an inventive natural food blog for several years, but always felt the ingredients were something you had to have a Whole Foods budget or a California market [...]
Peach Blueberry Buckle
Jan 2
The only thing that can make great coffee better is an awesome baked good to go alongside it. Jason and I have been huge fans of the caramellato at Octane Coffee in Atlanta since before we moved here. Their main location is walking distance of his office and it’s a fun funky place and these [...]
People ask you also sorts of questions when you are pregnant but the recent favorite is about what I’m craving. I haven’t had too many strange midnight snacks… the weirdest was that I wanted mini marshmallows, uh….frozen. (You should totally try it, hubby liked them too). A close second to that is chocolate and anything [...]
On Sunday morning I woke up wanting real breakfast, not just some flakes in a bowl. I hunted around the kitchen and found two very over-ripe bananas. Not quite enough to make my favorite banana bread recipe, but a good start. Taking inspiration from a pumpkin cream cheese muffin I had at Starbucks, I [...]
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Jun 13
If you bake, you’ve probably shelled out a pretty penny for vanilla extract. Nothing beats that extra sweetness and flavor in a cake, frosting or cookie! At $8.99 a pop for the cheap-o corn syrup stuff or $20+ for the really good stuff, its pricey. You can be like my friend Joey and buy a [...]
Red Quinoa Cakes Recipe
May 30
Allow me to introduce my friend quinoa – a versatile, delicious and nutty grain. If y’all have already met, don’t worry, you’re about to get re-acquainted in a whole new way. If you want to mix it up at dinner, Quinoa (pronounced kee-no-ah if you’re me, or keen-wa if you’re my mom) is an excellent [...]
Who knew lemon could be better than any chocolate out there? Naysayers, you have to try this lemony combination. A buttery cupcake with flecks of lemon zest, a tart robust lemon curd studded with vanilla bean and then top it all off with a fluffy marshmallowy meringue. Win! I made these bad boys as a [...]
I had one of those nights where I felt inspired. Not by a recipe, or an ingredient but just an idea: Create meringues that look like Robin Eggs. You know, those pretty teal blue eggs with brown speckles on them? Unfortunately, by the time I thought of it, it was much too late to start [...]
