Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars If you are looking for a quick and easy recipe, then this Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars may be what you are looking for. For most, all these ingredients are already in your pantry, and if not, it is a simple shopping list to grab the missing ingredients. I love this recipe because it combines the perfect combo of ...
Dessert Recipes
10 Tips to Skinnier Desserts + Strawberry Poke Cake Using 7UP TEN
Living in Vegas our warm weather clothes period is longer than most folks across the nation. For some reason when spring hits I start thinking about that cute skirt or shorts for summer. Then, I will remember that it is __ sizes smaller than what I am now {not filling in that blank}. Spring is here and you know what that means... summer is ...
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
It’s Chocolate Covered Anything Day and OH MY! Last night my mind was wondering through my pantry trying to think about anything and everything I can cover in chocolate! I had visions of making the kids think I am crazy with homemade waffles dipped in chocolate, create some chocolate covered crepes, and then dip whatever I can find in the fruit ...
Vodka Pie Crust Recipe
Vodka Pie Crust Recently a few of our local grocery stores had an amazing sale on select spirits. Shoppers hit the stores to stock their shelves with wine, rum, Irish cream, and vodka. Personally, I have been buying the vodka to use for cooking since it was such an awesome price. {Okay... okay... confession time --- I do like a martini every ...
Chocolate Chess Pie
Chocolate Chess Pie Repeat after me... Chocolate Chess Pie is impossible to photograph! Chocolate Chess Pie is impossible to photograph! Chocolate Chess Pie is impossible to photograph! My grandmother used to make me Chocolate Chess Pies for the holidays when I was little. I love pie, I love chocolate pie and I… um… love ...
Slow Cooker Applesauce
Slow Cooker Applesauce I am not sure why I haven't tried to make homemade applesauce at home. Bob has a few stories of how his family and neighbors would make homemade applesauce to can with their neighbors over a span of several days. They used to go to the orchards to pick their apples and then make a procession line with each person assigned a ...
Blueberry Dump Cake | For Camping or Home
Blueberry Dump Cake My girlfriend Renee has an obsession... with dump cakes. Whenever we go camping she makes 2 - 3 dump cake variations while we are out in the rough. A dump cake is a type of cobbler that you "dump" the ingredients in a baking dish {or dutch oven} and voila... CAKE! You just open each ingredient and "dump" it in the dish. Are ...
OREO Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
OREO Cookies and Cream Cupcakes I love OREO cookies and I sure do love cupcakes and if you put the two together... it's just a sweet love fest! All these ingredients I had in my stockpile and they were either heavily discounted or free. If you are not used to my shopping habits, let me give you a few tips how I made these uber cheap! Cake ...
Ranger Cookies | Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe… EVER!
Ranger Cookies I will often go to restaurants and taste something I really love and then try to replicate it at home experimenting with the perfect recipe. Or, I will take several recipes I find in magazines or cookbooks and tweak them to my liking to make them "my own." When I first stumbled across this ranger cookie recipe, I know I had found ...
Slutty Brownie Recipe {aka My Slutty Valentine Brownies}
There are so many ways to make slutty brownies - combinations of tasty ingredients seem endless. Today my girlfriend and I played in the kitchen to come up with something a little different than the norm. The results were not exactly what I wanted, but MAN did they turn out tasty! {In my mind I wanted DISTINCT layers of Valentine's Day colors ...
Grilled Peaches with Butter Rum Sauce
Grilled Peaches with Butter Rum Sauce Words and photos do not do this Grilled Peaches recipe justice ---- you cannot image the flavors that come together. Last week peaches were on sale for $.50 per pound and I price matched several the size of a baseball and asked Bob to find a recipe equal to their beauty. Of course, when given the ...
Italian Walnut Raisin Cookies
Italian Walnut Raisin Cookies This is one of my favorite raisin cookie recipes that I have for many many years and modified it from the original that was in an Epicurious magazine in the mid-1990s. I used to bake these cookies when we lived in Turkey so I've been making them since then. YIKES... man that sounds like a long time ago. It's not a ...