Author: Tina

Baja Grain Bowls

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Meet my new favorite lunch. Making this dish is a little more effort than I usually put in for lunch, but trust me when I say it’s worth it. It’s absolutely delicious. The combo of ingredients, the dressing, all of it together is one of the tastiest things I’ve ever had. My husband doesn’t like quinoa and doesn’t go out of his way to eat avocado, but said smelling this got him hungry when I was cooking this up. (No, he didn’t try it, but that’s okay because it meant more for me.) Let’s talk cilantro. I don’t love it …

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Hearts of Palm and Feta Salad

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How do you do this again? I mean blogging because it’s been a while. I took an unintentional hiatus from blogging. My last post was in February which was in the middle of winter. Hello, winter blues. It was nothing unusual or serious. Add being in the middle of a pandemic. Then add a busy work schedule. For those of you who don’t know, I’m a full time attorney. Plus I had a bad case of the “what the freak do I make?” My husband usually calls this my food mood, when I’m not in the mood for much aside …

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Chocolate Lava Cakes

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8 years and 781 posts later… Today is my blog’s 8th anniversary. Wow, just wow. Somewhere along the way I realized that I marked each blog-iversary with a recipe that has chocolate in it… coffee chocolate chip cookie bars, chocolate chip doughnuts, single serving whole wheat chocolate chip cookie, chocolate cupcakes for two, banana bread doughnuts with chocolate glaze, warm chocolate fudge cakes, then chocolate chip black and white cookies. I am continuing that tradition to share what may be the chocolatiest dessert that I’ve ever made, these chocolate lava cakes. I’ve always wanted to make lava cakes but I …

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Sugar Cookie Icing (Redux)

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Today is all about love, cookies, and icing. I wanted to pay homage to this icing recipe, my first recipe blog post ever. Maybe it’s nostalgia talking, but it’s worth highlighting again because it’s still my favorite sugar cookie icing recipe. It’s tasty, pretty, and it hardens perfectly. It’s all the things that one looks for in a great sugar cookie icing recipe. This icing is also easy to use. I just spread it on with a butter knife and as it settles it magically smooths out all of my imperfect lines. If you’ve been following my blog for a …

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Little Banana Bread

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I’ve been in a food rut lately, but this little banana bread brought me out of it. By now I’m sure most of us have baked some kind of banana bread, but have you made a little itty bitty one? I could not resist trying it when I found this recipe. It’s so cute. I included a butter knife in the photos so you can get a sense of the scale of the actual size of it. To make this mini-treat requires a bit of tiny additional hardware. So you either need to own or buy a 5.5 x 3 …

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