Apple pie bars – cinnamon flavored bars with a buttery crust, apple slices, custard and streusel topping An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And peaches seem to be keeping me away 🙂 I have no idea where this week went. Between traveling and dealing with some blog issues, this week came and went…
Lemon Sugar Cookies
Another summer treat. I’ll hang onto summer as long as I can. Abundant fresh fruit. Light desserts. Tell me you don’t like summer! And since I love you so much I didn’t want to let you wait forever for this lemon sugar cookies recipe I mentioned in my last post. I don’t have lots of…
Homemade Healthy Snack Bars
I had a hard time deciding what to name these bars. Oat bars? Granola bars? Hemp seed bars? Chia seed bars? Dried fruit bars? Seed bars? Energy Bars? Gluten free bars? Vegan Bars? Or just Oat Hemp Chia Seed Fruit Gluten-free Vegan Energy bars? That would have been too long, right? Ever since I shared…
Chickpea Flour Bread
I don’t own a bread machine and don’t see myself using one anytime soon. I think adding everything to a bread machine takes the fun away from seeing how your bread comes to life, starting with the proofing of the yeast, letting it rise, shaping it and finally waiting for the loaf to be baked…
Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies
Easy, melt in your mouth peanut butter cookies taken to a whole new level by adding some Nutella to the cookie dough Food trends, just like fashion, come and go. Or they are seasonal. Other food trends never go out of style. Like peanut butter. Or Nutella. Or the best melt in your mouth cookie….
Blueberry Banana Tart
It’s funny how the same meaning can be said using different words. My friend Kita thinks it’s as easy as a cake. I know it’s as easy as a pie. Hubby says easy as abc. In Romanian we say easy as (saying) good afternoon. No matter how you say it, today I’ll say it’s as easy…
Low-fat banana brownies
I hated when we were left without power. I wasn’t worried I had no AC and outside there were over 100 degrees, my first thought was : my phone is not charged! and so is my Ipad and laptop. I can’t get online 🙁 I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but that’s the truth….
Pull apart cheese herb bread
My bread is filled with a combo between cheddar cheese, fresh dill and parsley, but just like stuffed pasta, you can use whatever combo you like, may it be cheese, herbs, meat or vegetables. For this bread I used a regular bread dough, nothing fancy, just flour, yeast, and milk. Of course you can use…
Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
There were times I was wondering why some people leave the comfort of their houses to write or read in a coffee shop. You see them everywhere. In Starbucks, in the small coffee shops just around the corner. I never understood what pushes a person to do that. Until I become one of them. I’m…
Greek salad rolls
It’s been a week now since the first day of summer and the heat wave is hitting us with all its power. This weekend are supposed to be 102F. Boy, that’s hot! Between painting and dealing with the heat, being in the kitchen, cooking up a storm wasn’t exactly on my list. Light salads were…
Tiramisu brownies
All the delicious flavors of Tiramisu swirled with a rich chocolate brownie to make these hard to resist Tiramisu Brownies Ever since I saw the movie “The Holiday” I’m wondering if there are actually places that let you swap the house for a few days to a week. I love day-dreaming there are places like…
Chocolate fudge roasted strawberry cookie bars
Chocolate fudge roasted strawberry cookie bars – shortbread cookie topped with rich chocolate fudge, tangy strawberry jam and tart roasted strawberries. I’m fortunate enough to live in an area where the strawberry patches are still open. For almost mid June that’s a really good thing. I picked almost 8 lbs the other day and I…