Recipes, food, travel, and family
Everything my world finds yummy! We attempt to be healthy. I love my taste buds!
Painless Eggplant Parmesan Eggplant is wonderful! I love when it’s in season at farmers market! I tend to make my own red meat sauce and when I do I have lots of extra. Painless Eggplant Parmesan is an easy way to use up some of that sauce and not have so much meat or […]
Peach Melba Cocktail or Mocktail I love to create new cocktail recipes. I also love to be able to have a kid version or non-alcoholic beverage one called a mocktail. This allows my children to enjoy a virgin version of my same yummy drink. My Peach Melba Cocktail can also be made into a Cocktail. Just […]
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Peach Melba Smoothie Recipe As many of my followers on Facebook know I tend to share recipes to “celebrate” silly food holidays. National Peach Melba day is on January 13th so I got to work creating some new twists to the classic ice cream treat. For those that don’t know Peach Melba is poached peaches […]
Peppermint Buttercream Icing I created this recipe for peppermint buttercream icing to go on my moms mayo cake. Let me just say it was perfect! We devoured it so quickly that you would of thought we were all starved and hadn’t just ate a large dinner just over an hour ago. There is a great […]
Mediterranean Cobb Salad Recipe with Pomegranate Vinaigrette ***Update: This recipe won 2nd place in Cookmore’s Healthy New Year contest HERE *** I was invited to Vanity Fair Social Club for Art Basel Miami a few weeks ago. At a party I attended I met a man from Israel. He was interested in my cooking and […]
How to make the BEST Soft Cookies I am known for my cookies. Everyone wants to be added my list of baked Christmas gift list. I am not boasting, I know they are good because I have been offered cash to open a bakery with my cookies and Christmas goodies. You can check out my […]
Roasted Mediterranean Chick Pea’s Recipe I was recently in Miami for an event and met a man from Israel. We talked about food of course and he asked if I made any mediterranean dishes. I of course hadn’t really made any unless you count hummus. So I came home and scoured the internet for mediterranean/Israeli […]
Mint Brownie Crackle Cookie #Recipe Baking so many days in a row gets a little old. I tire of making the same cookies every year. I have created these in a similar recipe but it is all chocolate. You can get it HERE. This year I had a bag of Hersheys mint chocolate chips that […]
Toffee & Cashew Blondies Recipe I love toffee. Every year around Thanksgiving I purchase huge amounts of chocolate chips of all kinds. I also pick up a bag of the toffee chips too. I usually put them in an oatmeal cookie and those are pretty good. This year I decided to make a new one […]
Strawberry Paradise Cocktail Mocktail #Recipe *This can be made with or without alcohol* I came up with this recipe standing in the produce section of Publix staring at juice. I saw a bottle of banana nectar. I knew that I had to make a drink with that! So my daughter and I started naming different […]
Pumpkin and Cheesecake Crescent Rolls These are soooo good. Its hard to wait for them to cool. My daughter and I both burned our tongues from not waiting. This makes too much pie and cheese cake filling for the crescent rolls but you can bake up the rest in a round cake pan greased well. […]
