Tina's Chic Corner

Tropical Banana Smoothie In A Bowl

August 17th, 2015Tina1 Comment

Alright Monday, let’s do this thing. I haven’t had a smoothie in a while. Remember when I was on a smoothie kick and I shared several smoothie recipes with you in a short period of time? At that time I probably should have temporarily rebranded Tina’s Chic Corner to be Tina’s Smoothie Corner. It’s only fair. My husband fake rebrands his Bread Corner as often as the mood suits him. 🙂 I’m bringing smoothies back. I should have taken advantage of the calorie free weekend. You know, because calories don’t count on the weekends. Instead, I decided to eat a …

Stuff I’m Into

August 14th, 2015Tina0 Comments

I had every intention of sharing a recipe with you today, but let’s just say things didn’t work out as I had planned this past weekend. I had more recipe failures than one should be allowed to experience in one weekend. I’ll take it as a learning experience. #1 Do NOT trust your memory. Even if you think you have an ingredient at home, pick it up anyway. A backup is never a waste. I live 15 minutes away from the nearest grocery store and on principle I refused to make the trip for 1 stinking can of diced tomatoes. #2 Lightened homemade ice …

Cold Sweet Potato Salad

August 12th, 2015Tina0 Comments

How many times have you said to yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that?” That’s what I said to myself when I saw this recipe. Duh… turn a classic potato salad into a sweet potato salad! Please tell me that I’m not the last person on Earth who knew about this. Please… The sweet potatoes are coated in a simple oil and vinegar dressing. I love that there is no mayo in this salad, unlike many other cold salads that you notoriously see this time of the year. I’ll eat potato salad covered in mayonnaise and even enjoy it, but I’m really …

Poach Fried Eggs

August 10th, 2015Tina7 Comments

This is my husband’s magical way of making eggs so now I hand you over to “Dave’s Egg Corner”… This isn’t an especially magical technique if we’re being honest. It’s barely even a “recipe” since you’re really just making eggs. The thing is that like so many of my recipes this is a technique driven by simplicity. I don’t like trying to flip fried eggs over because about 50% of the time I end up breaking the yolks. I don’t like making poached eggs because they tend to be watery and weird. I don’t like how scrambled eggs require stirring …

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

August 7th, 2015Tina18 Comments

I’m going to try not to obsess over these chocolate chip cookie bars. Well, it’s a plan anyway. I made these chocolate chip cookie bars for my best friend’s son’s 1st birthday party last weekend. I was crazy about them from the moment they came out of the oven. I was so anxious to cut into them. I must have asked my husband at least ten times if they were cool enough to dive into (and still be pretty enough to photograph). Seriously, all bets are off if I’m just making a batch for us… they just need to be cool enough …