Recipes for Bean Dips and Bleu Cheese Walnut Dip

Here’s some yummy ideas for finger foods to serve at your Super Bowl gathering this weekend, or any time you want to impress your guests with tasty appetizers! From Women’s Health. “Tipsy Beans”-serve with Tostitos White Corn Scoops

In a medium skillet, heat 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, 1 Tbsp jarred minced garlic in [...]

The Great Cooks Blogroll

I’m so happy to have been approved for the Great Cooks Blogroll, which you can see on my sidebar. Created by Jill from Simple Daily Recipes-which is brilliant, by the way-, the Great Cooks Blogroll features blogs that are 80 percent or more recipes, older than one month, with at least ten posts. If you [...]

Honey Granola Brittle

In the February issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray, you can find new ways to use granola, including using crushed granola to coat the bread for French Toast, and this yummy sounding twist on Peanut Brittle:

Honey Granola Brittle

Makes 24 Candies

Prep Time: 25 minutes (plus cooling)

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

1 [...]

Better-for-you Red Velvet Cupcakes

I found this recipe on Hungry Girl, and I haven’t made it yet, but I love cupcakes, so I’m sure I’ll make it soon!

These cupcakes are so moist, so delicious, so RED, and so completely guilt-free, that writing extra words to introduce this recipe would be a complete and total waste of everyone’s time. [...]

Get your kids eating more fruit and veggies with ProduceGuru!

This post is a reprint, it originally ran on Monday January 7th, and then disappeared in a giant database fiasco.

Everyone should be eating more fruits and vegetables, that is undisputed. Getting kids excited about eating them while they are young is a great way to help ensure that they will want to eat them [...]

Homemade Chocolate Chip Pancakes

It’s so easy to make homemade pancakes that are light and fluffy, and to make them taste extra-special, I add a pinch of sugar and a drop of vanilla to the batter. Then I sprinkle a handful of chocolate chips into the batter, which makes my son say “Mom, you’re the BEST” every time.

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Meal Plan, Jan 09-Jan 12

I’m sticking to my New Year’s resolution and making all of our meals from scratch through Saturday, with the exception of Friday night’s frozen pizza. Eventually I will tackle homemade pizza, just not this week. I planned out not just dinner, but also breakfast, lunch, and after-school snacks for the kids, because that way I [...]

Jessica Seinfeld sued for plagiarism

I just read on Babblethat Jessica Seinfeld, author of Deceptively Delicious, and her husband Jerry Seinfeld, are being sued for plagiarism by Sneaky Chef author Missy Chase Lapine.

And although I know she won’t read this, I want to tell Ms. Lapine that I am sorry that although I received her book for review [...]

My New Year’s Resolution is to Cook!

For the three of you who read this, I thought you’d be interested to know that my New Year’s Resolution is to cook dinner six nights a week! We’ve been slowly increasing the number of fast food and other “quick” meals we’ve been eating, and it’s getting really expensive. So last week while we were [...]