Tag: brown sugar

  • Brown Sugar & Spice Roasted Sweet Potatoes

    Quickie post with my sweet potato recipe from my friends Thanksgiving.  Simple and yummy! I really wanted to make sage-spiced sweet potato rounds, but couldn’t find ground sage! So frustrating.  So at the last minute, I just threw a few things in a bowl and tossed the potatoes up.  Turned out wonderful. 

  • Squash & Brussels Sprouts Pasta Salad w/ Brown Sugar Balsamic Vinaigrette

    Long title, I know!  But I just couldn’t imagine leaving anything out, every ingredient is a selling point with this dish.  Roasted veggies, pasta, and a sweet-and-tangy vinaigrette = my new winning dish.   Plus candied pecans!  But enough was enough in the title 🙂 Just a quickie post for you today, jumping straight to the…

  • Orange Whiskey Brown Sugar Cake

    I put whiskey in a cake.   A really really nommy cake. If you’ve been reading for awhile, you may have noticed that I enjoy a boozy birthday cake.  This past birthday I drenched a blueberry cake in Frangelico.  The year before I drenched an almond cake in amaretto.  I thought I’d keep with my boozy…

  • Brown Sugar Crusted Grapefruit

    This is not a recipe at all, but just an easy wonderful secret to finding grapefruit irresistible — adding sugar, of course!  When I was growing up, this was the only way I would even touch a grapefruit.  My dad would take a half a grapefruit and pack brown sugar on top.  Then he’d broil…