July 2019 – Tina's Chic Corner

Crustless Zucchini Pie

July 24th, 2019Tina1 Comment

For the record, my husband says that this is not a pie because it doesn’t have a crust. Pies must have a crust. This is sort of like a quiche. However, quiches are mostly made of eggs and this “pie” only has two eggs in it. I’ve made a variety of quiches and this one is lighter than any others. Call this whatever you like. I’ve been calling it “the zucchini thing.” It’s a technical term. Hey, whatever works, right? My husband knows what I’m talking about and he doesn’t get to complain about me calling it a pie. I’ve …

Vanilla Cake with Whipped Buttercream Frosting

July 10th, 2019Tina4 Comments

This is the kind of dessert that people sneak bites of before it’s dessert time. True story. I don’t bake cakes often, especially multiple layer cakes. Maybe it’s because I dread handling two or more cakes that inevitably don’t look symmetrical and I can’t frost cakes to save my life. Or perhaps it’s because I don’t have many occasions that call for a cake and I don’t want to make a whole cake for just me and my husband. Let’s go with the latter reason. 😉 Now a one layer cake, that I can do. After all, it’s almost like …

Caprese Chicken and Quinoa

July 3rd, 2019Tina2 Comments

How is it July already?! It seems like just yesterday I was watching Christmas movies. Oh wait, that’s because I was. The Hallmark channel is celebrating Christmas in July with round-the-clock Christmas movies. I’m in heaven! I even told my husband that I wanted to bring up our 2 foot tall pre-lit Christmas tree for the month. I got vetoed. All this Christmas talk has me craving cookies now (although in fairness, when am I not craving cookies?). Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, depending on how you look at it), I don’t have a cookie recipe for you today if that …