My husband is a big time fan of pizza, especially homemade pizza. Me, on the other hand, I can go a long time without eating pizza. When I do eat a pizza I want the crust to be on the thinner side on the bottom and have a super bubbly and chewy crust. A few nights ago we made a pizza with a crust that was absolutely amazing. I played around with dough – this one that works amazingly with…
Oatmeal cookies are one of my MOST favorite cookies ever and these are a serious winner in my book. Combine a thick oatmeal cooking with a yummy chocolatey filling and Yum Yum Bars are what you get! My friend, Lethicia, shared these with me last fall and I have made them several times since, twice in the first two weeks after she brought me a plate of them. HA! Apparently they are a thing and have been for a while,…
One of my most favorite foods ever, in the history of food are chicken taquitos… but not those gross ones made with paste from the freezer section of your fave grocery store. A good, homemade, shredded chicken taquito that has been fried perfectly golden. For weeks I’ve been telling the mister “I want to make taquitos.” And for weeks we’ve either been too busy or too tired. Today I was both, but dang it I wanted taquitos. They were supposed…
Croutons are kryptonite to me. For real. I can not resist a good, garlicky, buttery, sometimes cheesy crouton… but I don’t always love the icky stuff (preservatives, artificial flavors, etc) in commercially bought croutons so sometimes I make my own. Last week my Utah besties came to visit. We saw Ed Sheeran (absolutely amaaaaaaazing) in concert at Mile High Stadium (Empower Field at Mile High), wandered and explored and ate entirely too much good food. On Sunday we had a…
I was never a huge lover of brownies… … until I found a recipe online many years ago that was really yummy. I made it the first time as written. And then I tweaked it for high altitude… and then I tweaked it some more, made more adjustments and added my favorite black cocoa powder and then added a peanut butter swirl. Holy moly, my new favorite brownie recipe was born. This is the easiest brownie recipe! The most difficult…
Sometimes in your life you meet an amazing person online… I have met many amazing people, through creative interests and foodie interests. I met Carla several years ago in a foodie group and we just really clicked as friends. She is both crafty and a foodie. Over the years we have traded recipes back and forth as we shared our excitement of yummy food. A month or so ago she shared the recipe for her dad’s Mexican steak – Papa’s…
Because I loved the Lemon Biscotti so much I had to follow up with my favorite flavor, Orange Amaretto… Original post from my virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange in my facebook foodie group can be found here. I drizzled some in an Amaretto flavored glaze and dark chocolate to go to a few neighbors and dipped a few in plain chocolate for Brent and I. They will be so yummy dunked in hot cocoa. The next time I make these I…
I made biscotti this morning as part of a challenge for another group I am in. These are fantastic and super easy! This is my first time baking biscotti at home. I don’t usually love them from the store because they are SO HARD, like crack your teeth hard. But these were crisp, yet tender and sooo good. Even the hubs, who really doesn’t like biscotti, actually enjoyed them… and then asked if they were easy enough to make to…
It has been a rough summer here at our house. Brent was unemployed for three months (the company who hired him last fall was somewhat not so great) but just started working again a little over two weeks ago. In July Sadie started having some health issues, which we treated and thought were resolved… until a week ago when we ended up in the vet ER and found out she had a broken right humerus. Last Tuesday she had surgery…
I just downloaded the Blogger app… hoping that this will help me want to blog again. Test test test