Mixing two childhood favorites, Fruit Loops Rice Krispie Treats bring all the nostalgia of a classic Rice Krispie Treat with a burst of fruity flavors. I made Fruit Loops Rice Krispie Treats specifically for <3M. He has a love for Fruit Loops, which I typically discourage since it’s like eating a big bowl of sugar for breakfast. Don’t get me wrong, we do have them in the house and he knows they aren’t the best way to start your day so he enjoys his Fruit Loops a few times a month as a breakfast treat. And somehow, our friends know I discourage Mayank’s love for Fruit Loops, they often gift ..read more

Crispy gluten-free baked buffalo cauliflower makes an easy snack, dinner, or appetizer to share with guests. <3M and I love the buffalo cauliflower that’s served at the Alamo Drafthouse.  It’s the ‘healthy’ vegetarian appetizer we can easily agree upon.  I love the spice, the crispy florets, and the creamy blue cheese-ranch dressing they serve with it. Knowing how much we both love the dish, I had toyed with the idea of making it at home myself but it wasn’t until a pregnant friend asked if I had a recipe for it that I really decided to research a method for making crispy gluten ..read more

With a crumbly crust, creamy coconut-lemon curd, and swirls of blueberry compote, this Coconut Blueberry Lemon Tart is fit for Spring baking. Oh hi.  I haven’t blogged here since November (ah!). I could make an excuse saying life got in the way but really, I just lost motivation. But I’m back, at least for now, with this Coconut Lemon Blueberry Tart that is both gluten-free and dairy-free — though if that’s not your thing, you can definitely make this gluten-full and dairy-full. Blueberry lemon is my absolute favorite flavor combination. It was the flavor of my birthday cake last year, i ..read more

Everything Thanksgiving Bars are layers of T-Day favorites with a graham cracker crust, pumpkin pie filling, cranberry sauce, glazed pecans, and toasted marshmallows. I’m not much for Thanksgiving but I do enjoy the dessert table. However, when I searched the internet for a Thanksgiving dessert that combined all the Thanksgiving flavors, I could only find pie recipes that split a single pie into quadrants, similar to this.  Which wasn’t at all what I was looking for. And since I couldn’t find a recipe to meet my needs, I decided to make one that did, combining my favorite sweet parts abo ..read more

The Dirty Chai Old Fashioned combines chai flavors with Devils River Whiskey’s Coffee Bourbon for a sophisticated, boozy coffee-chai cocktail. Devils River Whiskey provided me with complimentary bourbon in exchange for a recipe creation but all thoughts, opinions, and images are my own. I’m not a bourbon drinker but I seem to always concoct bourbon-based cocktails and this Dirty Chai Od Fashioned combines my love for coffee and chai with Devils River Whiskey’s Coffee Bourbon. Dirty Chai Basics If you aren’t familiar with a Dirty Chai, it’s a coffeehouse drink that’s made by mixing steeped cha ..read more

Biscoff Cookie Butter Muddy Buddies reinvent this classic treat with white chocolate, cookie butter, and Biscoff cookie pieces. I created these Biscoff Cookie Butter Muddy Buddies specifically for <3M. He loves Trader Joe’s speculoos cookie butter spread. In fact, on that rare occasion when we don’t have any dessert in the house, he’ll have a little spoonful of cookie butter as a sweet treat after dinner. (And to be honest, I sometimes do the same!) Love Biscoff cookies and cookie butter? Try my Biscoff Cookie Butter Pie And while I love peanut butter and would have been completely conten ..read more

Grilled Vegetable Pasta Salad with Feta Herb Vinaigrette that’s easy to customize and can satisfy a crowd. I’m not usually one for pasta salad.  You know the kind, the pasta salad you find at potluck dinners or family picnics with cooked penne coated in store-bought Italian dressing with salami, olives, and chunks of cheese mixed in. Just yuck. Totally not my style. But THIS Grilled Vegetable Pasta Salad with Feta Herb Vinaigrette is 100% my style.  It’s flavorful, full of charred, grilled vegetables and tossed with a tangy feta dressing and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar to finish ..read more

Pub Cheese, beer Cheese, whatever you want to call it.  It’s delicious and can be ready to eat in less than 15-minutes. This pub cheese recipe is an output of an Oktoberfest celebration where beer, cheese, and all things salty are meant to be consumed. And it all started because I’m a huge pumpkin beer fan.  I love tasting allllll the pumpkin beers and luckily my neighbors agreed to host a social distance Oktoberfest celebration this past weekend where we sampled 20 different Oktoberfest beers and pumpkin ales (it was the best!). To complement the beer we had some traditional Oktobe ..read more

A body image post is different than my normal content but my body image story is something I’m now ready to share. Whether that be to help others or to simply document my thoughts for me, I’m not sure. Be kind with your comments. I had an eating disorder in college known as orthorexia. At the time, it wasn’t officially acknowledged in the medical world but it’s something that is more commonly talked about and diagnosed now than it was 10-12 years ago. Orthorexia, in my case, was an obsession with healthy foods.  Basically, I had a mental good and bad list of foods and could only eat the ..read more

Mixing two childhood favorites, Fruit Loops Rice Krispie Treats bring all the nostalgia of a classic Rice Krispie Treat with a burst of fruity flavors. I made Fruit Loops Rice Krispie Treats specifically for <3M. He has a love for Fruit Loops, which I typically discourage since it’s like eating a big bowl of sugar for breakfast. Don’t get me wrong, we do have them in the house and he knows they aren’t the best way to start your day so he enjoys his Fruit Loops a few times a month as a breakfast treat. And somehow, our friends know I discourage Mayank’s love for Fruit Loops, they often gift ..read more