Tag: dessert

  • Maple Pecan Coconut Ice Cream

    I did something really exciting on Saturday: my first double-digit run! 10 miles 🙂  Making progress on my half-marathon training!  It was all gorgeous and spring-like out in the morning too, such a perfect day for a long run. 

  • Apricot Macadamia Oatmeal Cookies

      Happy Friday!!! I am definitely looking forward to a pretty calm relaxing weekend (well, I’m trying to make it calm and relaxing, but we’ll see what actually happens!) to recoup from last weekend. I already mentioned the mass birthday celebrations from last weekend, but I did not mention cookies!!!  On Sunday, I went to…

  • Lemony Deep Dish Fruit Pizza

    A dessert pizza!  A soft delicious doughy crust with a secret ingredient.  Lemon curd sauce.  Sweet fruit toppings. Oh my gosh. I served this to many friends/family.  They were surprised to find that it was (1) homemade (2) vegan (3) healthy (4) full of garbanzo beans!!!  Muahahahaha.  I can trick people with my food 🙂…

  • Vanilla Bean Cardamom Tapioca Pudding

    I’m finishing what turned out to be a week of kind-of indulgences (“kind-of” because they’re all actually pretty nutritious.  Isn’t that happy?) with a treat! You know what is a crazy easy, not-too-guilty dessert?  Tapioca pudding.  I hope I am not the only one who likes this strange gelatinous bubbly pudding.

  • S’mores Brownies + Baby Shower

    It’s baby shower time!  I told y’all that my niece Molly was born last week, but I think I left out that she was over a month early.  So we just had the baby shower.  🙂 I was in charge of food.  Der. So what do you make for a camping-themed baby shower?  Ummmm s’mores. …

  • Sweet Almond Dark Hot Chocolate

    Happy first day of a long holiday weekend!  At least I hope it is for all of you.  If not, please feel free to drown your sorrows in a gigantic mug of this awesome cocoa.  Kahlua goes well with it if necessary. A decadent holiday treat.  In a mug.  Cozy and comforting and sweet. 

  • Thanksgiving Special: 3 Holiday Recipes!

    I’ve got a monster post for y’all today!  Three Thanksgiving recipes.  A bunch of other exciting things first!  I had an excellent weekend healing-wise.  I woke up Saturday to a much-improved finger.  Until Saturday, my poor injured finger hurt and throbbed if I spent more than about 20-30 minutes without it elevated.  I can now…

  • Pumpkin Pie Spiced Ice Cream

      Happy First Day of Fall!!!!!!   Um, this is my favorite time of year.  And I have been in Southern California for the past four years, and have sadly missed my Nor-Cal falls.  I just think it’s a happy, peaceful, beautiful, cozy time, and I am so excited.   Except really, in Sacramento, it’s…

  • Circus Animal Cookies Ice Cream

    That’s right.  Ice cream that tastes like those frosted Mother’s Circus Animal cookies.   This is a restaurant remake from the same wonderful yogurt place, 21 Choices, that inspired my very first post, Blueberry Muffin Ice Cream!  While I love the blueberry muffin flavor and made it early because they had it so infrequently, it…

  • Roasted Strawberry Shortcake w/ Tarragon Biscuits

        Yes, roasted strawberries!    If you have never tried roasting strawberries, you. should. do. it.  Roasted strawberries are indescribable. Seriously.   But since this is a food blog, I should probably try, eh?  Roasted strawberries are like eating hot sweet sticky fresh strawberry jam.  How was that?  Sound alright?