{recipe} Green Smoothie AKA Alien Green Goo

Do your kids absolutely love and will try every kind of vegetable imaginable? Congratulations! You have weird kids. My kids are not huge vegetable fans. They like corn, peas, and carrots — you know: the three basics. Beyond that, it’s an uphill battle to try to get them to eat other veggies. Enter the Alien [...]

{recipe} Chocolate-Coated Peanut Butter Crunch Sandwich Cookies

  My mother has definitely been my inspiration in the kitchen. Growing up in a Filipino household, food played a very important part of my life from day one. I have many memories of tons of friends and family coming over for various parties and having huge food spreads, with everyone walking through the door [...]

{recipe} Brie, Almond, Honey Tartlets

Looking for an easy and delicious appetizer for your New Year’s Eve fete? I created these Brie, Almond, Honey Tartlets first when searching for a snack and simply combining ingredients I loved. Now I make these for when we entertain as well as for simple nighttime snacking. NO-MEASURE INGREDIENTS 1 or 2 Pillsbury pie crusts [...]

{recipe} Chewy Moist Chocolatey Brownies

I’m not a huge brownie fan. They are usually so dry. However, my husband and my kids love brownies, so I’ve played around & created this recipe. It’s more like a cross between a chocolate lava cake (because of the gooey chocolatey center), a brownie and a chocolate bar. Thanks to the amount of semi-sweet [...]

{recipe} Chewy Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’ve made a lot of cookies in my day. Shortbreads, bars, macarons, biscottis – you name it, I’ve made it. I always come back to the classics, though, and there are few cookies that, in my mind, can beat a good ol’ batch of chocolate chip. If you’re looking for an awesome batch of chocolate [...]

{review} Breyers YoCrunch Fruit Parfaits

My family loves yogurt. The kids could eat it up at every meal. Can I make my own yogurt? Sure. Do I have time to make every single thing from scratch? Heck no. The problem is that once I learned more about high fructrose corn syrup (HFCS), the more I wanted to be sure I [...]

National Pie Day: Coffee Lovers Ice Cream Pie

It’s National Pie Day! I love pies! You’ve probably already heard the food buzz that cupcakes are on their way out this year (although they will always be IN in my heart — and belly!) and that pies are the new hot food craze for 2011. I’m down with that. I love pie. Apple pie, [...]

Breakfast Cheddar Biscuits

I hadn’t made biscuits in a long time, but today my son is home sick. The poor kid has a high fever and is so lethargic. It’s impossible for me to concentrate on work even in short spurts while my child is ill, so I took the day off from work projects and snuggled my [...]

Gingerbread Cupcakes with Mocha Buttercream Frosting

For our Christmas Eve dinner, I was just about to make some Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough cupcakes, when I decided at the last minute that I needed to make something more infused with holiday spirit — and holiday flavors.  So I grabbed some extra ingredients and whipped up a batch of gingerbread cupcakes instead. They [...]

One Shopping Trip=Homemade Dinners for One Month

More than the idea that lack of money is holding people back from fresh, healthier foods, I believe it’s actually the lack of time that does us in. Even with my family’s crazy schedule, we try to have a homemade dinner together at the table every single night. It doesn’t always happen, and that’s ok, [...]