Category: Recipes

Light Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Another chocolate chip cookie recipe?  Yes, I’ve gone there (and I’m sure this won’t be the last time).   Would you believe that this is a healthier version though? A few weeks ago, I challenged myself to learn more about healthy baking and to try healthier dessert recipes (a personal goal for improvement, so to speak).  That might mean one new recipe or 100, only time will tell.  I still must remain true to myself and let’s face it…  I’ll be where the chocolate is.     😉  I began racking my brain to try to come up with a new …

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Chicken Quesadilla Pie

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A couple of weeks ago my husband randomly met me at my kick boxing class on his way home from work… just to give me a kiss!  Crazy sweet, right?!  For no rhyme or reason, the other day he surprised me with two cookbooks because he noticed that I had been eyeing a brand that doesn’t post recipes online.  Then last night he surprised me with Mexican take-out for dinner.  These sweet gestures make me feel special and I love the little things he does for me.  Geesh, I’m so mushy today.  Maybe it’s because the most romantic day of the year …

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Eggplant Quinoa Parmesan

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Have you ever imagined something and it came out exactly how you thought it would be? Perhaps it’s the perfect wedding day that you actually got to have, after imagining it since you were 10 years old.  Or maybe it’s the weight lifted off your shoulders that you hoped for, after finishing three long years of law school. Today a dream came true when I finally made a recipe that I’d been thinking about for months. And you know what?  It came out just as tasty as I envisioned it would.  Sure, not all dreams are the same size, but …

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Dipped Blondies

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I bought a bag of Valentine’s Day colored M&Ms the other day.  How should I have fun with them?  (Aside from eating them by the handful.)  Well, chocolate is best friends with peanut butter so let’s have a party with the two flavors! I made these super thick and chewy peanut butter blondies and coated them with chocolate and M&Ms. Peanut Butter Chocolate Dipped Blondies Recipe (Makes 16 bars) Ingredients: 2/3 cup butter (roughly 1 stick and 3 tablespoons) 1 cup dark brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 and 3/4 cups all-purpose …

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Black And White Cookies

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Black and white cookies.  It sounds like a name that a kid would give a cookie, but many of us know that the reference is to those iconic cookies that orginated from New York bakeries.  My entire family LOVES them.  I mean really loves them.  What better to celebrate my love for them this time of the year but to bake them these cookies.  They are a labor of love (you’ll see why), but my family is worth it.     🙂 These large cake-like cookies are coated with a thick layer of sweet frosting, half vanilla and half chocolate. Black …

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