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Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips & Chocolate Sauce

February 3, 2011 By 6 Comments
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If you haven't already guessed, I love sweets. A lot. Sure, I like me a bag of chips now and again, but usually when I go for a snack it's got sugar in it. So my sweet tooth was feeling left out of the Super Bowl Snack planning. Chips and dip are a staple for any party, especially one involving football. I don't know the statistics, but I have a feeling that the Super Bowl is like Black Friday for the chip companies. I have no idea why this recipe popped into my head yesterday. Maybe it's because I love chocolate or because my daughter had cinnamon toast for breakfast. I'm not sure, but you'll be glad it did. Cinnamon sugar tortilla chips with a chocolate dipping sauce. Amazing right? Perfect party food for those of us who hit … {continue reading}

Super Bowl Snacks II (Green Bay Grilled Cheese)

February 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In honor of all things fair and equal, I figured I should come up with a Super Bowl snack for Green Bay.  The first thing that came to mind was, of course, those cheese-head hats they wear. Google "food traditions" and "Green Bay" and you quickly discover they like a few things a lot in Wisconsin: beer, brats, and cheese. I immediately thought of a grilled cheese sandwich. They're easy, delicious, versatile, and they make great party food.Now, my daughter would prefer just cheese and bread, but I wanted to mix it up a little. While making sausages with peppers and onions for dinner the other night it popped into my head: grilled cheese with peppers and onions. Salty from the cheese, sweet from the peppers and onions. I also decided to add … {continue reading}

Super Bowl Snacks I (Pittsburgh Pierogies)

January 31, 2011 By 1 Comment

hIn case you hadn't heard, the Super Bowl is next weekend. (Wink, wink)  Pittsburgh vs. Green Bay.  Not sure who I'm rooting for, since I live in Northern California and none of my teams are represented. I think the Super Bowl has become a sort of Thanksgiving, in a way. Greasy, delicious appetizers take the place of the turkey and stuffing, wine becomes beer, and instead of gathering around the dining room table we gather around the TV (as I'm sure many men would prefer to do on Thanksgiving anyway, to watch the Cowboys and the Lions). I know that favorite Super Bowl fare includes nachos, wings, chips and guacamole, and pizza. Here is something new to add to that list: pierogies. Why? Because they are darn awesome, that's why.Pierogies … {continue reading}

Sprinkle Pancakes

January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A few years ago I was at a party talking to a bunch of moms about what our kids eat for breakfast. I don't remember my contribution to the conversation, but I must have complained about how much sugar is in syrup and how much syrup my daughter would use (this was before she used a fork regularly, so we let her dip. You can figure how that would go.) During the course of our conversation, someone mentioned putting sprinkles in their pancakes, thus making them "special" so they "wouldn't need syrup". Genius, I tell you. I went home and tried it the next day, and it worked. This was when Jordan was a young 3, so she just went along with it for over a year. We went syrup free until she discovered she could ask for it, but by then she was … {continue reading}

Chocolate Cake (A Test for Taste)

January 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Here is a picture of the birthday cake I made for my daughter last year.I was rather proud of myself - I'd never made a tiered cake before. And it was all from scratch: chocolate cake layered with chocolate fudge and a vanilla buttercream frosting. My daughter had begged me for a chocolate cake and I delivered. And then she tasted it. And she didn't like it. All she ate was the pink frosting. It turns out that she doesn't like dark chocolate (at ALL) and I didn't know that the recipe I'd used would be so richly strong. She felt bad about it, but I can't blame her. Dark chocolate is definitely one of those tastes you either like or you don't. (The adults enjoyed it, and at least she loved the vanilla frosting, which is her favorite part of a … {continue reading}

Brownie Peanut Butter Surprise

January 21, 2011 By 9 Comments

Remember last week when I posted about these awesome Peanut Butter Cookies? Well, it being January, there was another birthday I needed to bake for and I needed something easy to ship. I saw a recipe for Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownies on a blog I read, but I knew I couldn't do that because those need to be refrigerated. Just seeing the photos on that post made me want peanut butter brownies, STAT. I had a brainstorm - why not make those so-simple peanut butter cookies and put them inside a brownie? (I've also been intrigued by putting stuff inside brownies ever since I made these babies.)So I did. And Oh. My. God. I'm glad had to mail some of them and I was able to give the rest away (except for the few I had to test out to make sure … {continue reading}

Oatmeal Cookie Truffles

January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In our family, January and February are on birthday overload. There are seven of them during the two months. Since all but one of them live far away, we do lots of shipping in these months. Regardless if a gift is being given, I like to send a birthday treat to each person for their special day. I can't very well send a cake in a box, so I'm always trying to find new recipes that are good for shipping. Cookies travel well, but after the holidays I was tired of making cookies.The first birthday girl is my niece, and she told me once she loves Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. I've made them for her several times and I wanted to find something new. Over Christmas two different blogs I read posted recipes for Chocolate Chip Cookie Truffles, … {continue reading}

Peanut Butter Cookies

January 12, 2011 By 2 Comments

I love peanut butter cookies. I remember my mom making them for me as a child, squishing them down with a fork. I love them at Christmas, when you squish a Hershey's Kiss on top. This recipe is my favorite for peanut butter cookies. And they are so easy! There are only three ingredients: 1 egg, 1 cup of sugar, and 1 cup of peanut butter.  When I first saw this recipe I didn't believe it could be true. No flour? No baking powder? But it's amazing - it really works. And it produces a very moist and delicious cookie. The peanut butter is a super star in these cookies - the flavor is very strong without all those other ingredients to cloud the taste. And you can mix them up a little; add mini chocolate chips before baking or dip in melted … {continue reading}

A Few Things that Hello Kitty Taught Me

January 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  This past weekend I made a birthday cake for a friend of mine. She had asked if I would make the cake for her daughter's party and (of course) I said yes. Then came a week of wondering, "will it look okay? will it taste good?"  I spend a lot of time going through my favorite blogs, printing recipes, and comparing them. I bought a bigger pan (11x15) so we'd have enough cake. I had never made a cake for someone besides close family before, and I wanted it to be perfect. Here are a few things that I learned from making this cake:1. An 11x15 pan makes a lot of cake. Double a regular recipe. And when you make two of them to make a layer cake, it is very big. And very heavy.2.  That you should always buy two of the same sized pan, so you … {continue reading}

BBQ Chicken Soup

January 6, 2011 By 2 Comments

Happy New Year! I can't believe we're already a week into 2011.Speaking of time flying, I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted. I was looking forward to my daughter's two weeks off of school (and my husband's week of vacation) figuring I'd get all sorts of writing done so I'd have weeks worth of posts ready to go.Um, that's not how it went. As you can see by the two-plus week lag since my last post.In my house, January means removing the "feed bag" and trying to be more healthy. For me that means not eating liberally while I bake. For my husband, that means counting points on Weight Watchers. So, now when I make dinner I play a game of "weight watcherizing" my recipes. Which means, taking the recipes I like to eat and trying … {continue reading}

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