Muffins are a good excuse to have cake for breakfast. Let’s face it, muffins are really like cupcakes without frosting. I’d like to think that these muffins are a tad healthier than cupcakes since I’ve filled them with fruit, but in truth a lot of good cakes have fruit in them too. Since fruit is healthy I hereby deem that muffins are healthy for breakfast. Okay, probably not, but they sure are tasty. 😉 Muffins, being pre-portioned, are a great thing to bring for a crowd to eat. No need for silverware to eat them with or cutting tools for …
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Cucumber Quinoa Spinach Salad and Lake George Vacation
Salads are a great way to recover from a food coma. Last weekend was our annual vacation to Lake George, NY with my family. My family and I used to go when I was kid and now we’ve made it a tradition to go once a year as adults with everyone’s families. We eat, swim (or in my case lay out by the pool), shop, and eat some more. It is great to get away from reality and relax. No agenda. No calorie counting. Every year I bring a variety of homemade goodies, which always includes cookies of some sort like these …
Chocolate Macadamia White Chip Cookies
When your husband volunteers to bake cookies you take him up on the offer. I love making cookies and it’s probably my favorite food to make. I mean it’s cookies, hello? Anyway, I didn’t mind at all when my husband said he’d like to whip up a batch (or two, hint hint). If you’re familiar with my blog then you know that he’s not a stranger to the kitchen. His specialty is making bread. He’s made every yeast bread recipe on Tina’s Chic Corner (i.e. Dave’s Bread Corner). That’s convenient since he enjoys making it and I’m afraid to. Forgive me for there being …
Margherita Naan Pizza
Can every night be pizza night? I’m totally serious. I’m the kind of girl who can’t repeat a meal more than two or three times in a row because I get sick of things easily. Pizza however is a different ball game. I could eat pizza every day for, oh I don’t know, is forever too long? (That’s goes for bagels too.) A few months ago I used store-bought Naan in an attempt to satisfy a pizza craving because it was the only bread that I had in the house and it sort of looks like pizza before you’ve done …
Mexican Corn and Quinoa Salad
Yesterday’s lunch is today’s post. In fact, since my husband doesn’t like quinoa, the leftovers were today’s lunch too. I was so excited with anticipation and couldn’t wait for lunch time to roll around. This salad is that awesome. I’ve heard of Mexican corn but I never knew exactly what it was until I saw this recipe and got curious enough to look it up. Mexican (street) corn, also known as elote, is a corn on the cob most commonly served with salt, chili powder, butter, cheese, lemon or lime juice, mayonnaise, and sour cream. Wow, I’ve been missing out because that sounds fabulous. …