Chocoholic Solution: Triple Chocolate Cookies, GF

Eat with your Eyes. Be my guest: smell it and taste it and enjoy it.

Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of time to spend with you today, talking on and on about why I love these cookies, but I’ll be breif in saying this: they win.

My girls and I enjoyed them during our afternoon goûter . We sat outside in the shade surrounded by thousands of flowers (my father owns a plant nursery and we’re spending the summer visiting them, it’s like a mini Garden of Eden over here!) we drank some orange basil water (recipe to come soon) and satisfied our chocolate craving. It was one of those afternoons where I tell myself over and over, “Never forget this beauty, never forget the girls at this age, never forget the details of this life.” Click here to Read More

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Tawny in Cookies and Candies 6 Comments

Chicken Bryan Inspired: Goat Cheese, Basil, Sun Dried Tomatoes, and White Wine Sauce

“Hey Hun, What’s for dinner?”

“Oh, I dunno, some kind of chicken I guess…”

“Mmmm, sounds great.”

Is this exchange familiar to anyone else out there?! Chicken being the go-to dinner solution leaves us with another problem: how to change it up and keep it flavorful. However, chicken dinner can’t be complicated, because chanced are you’re like me and you prepare dinner most of the time with a crying toddler trying to push you away from the counter and a 5 year old incessantly asking you a million questions about anything that pops into her quickly moving mind.

“Mom, did Jesus make Santa Clause? Does Santa have kids, are the elves his kids? Mom, why do bee stings hurt so bad? Mom, can I have some date squares first? Mom! Mom! MOM!….. why do you look frustrated?” This was the exact dialogue endured while I made this last meal. I could only think of an answer to the last question.

One of my favorite restaurants is Carrabba’s Italian Grill, and one of the best dishes there is the Chicken Bryan. Click here to Read More

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Tawny in Dairy Free, Gluten-Free Meals, Main Dishes, Poultry 7 Comments

Butternut Sqaush Soup

Mmmm, butternut squash is so good in so many ways. One of my favorite is to roast large pieces and sprinkle with brown sugar, butter and cinnamon, but today we are going to go savory and soupy! This is a great recipe that I found on good old Foodnetwork.com which always has a great selection of good recipes.

My suggestion with this soup is to roast some extra butternut squash and set aside to munch on! It is as good as candy-especially with some brown sugar and cinnamon! Click here to Read More

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Andrea in Gluten-Free Meals, Soups 3 Comments

Oooey Gooey S’mores Ice cream Bar

Oooey Gooey S’more Ice cream Bars tastes like a chunk of heaven. My mom use to make these golden graham ice cream bars for an after school snack- on a very good day! She did the same thing with rice krispy treats- which are just as amazing and freeze well (S’more bars do not freeze too well-best to make ice cream bars and eat right away).

Sandwiching ice cream in the middle of anything makes it special and covers every element in this treat of oooey and gooey to cool and refreshing! Click here to Read More

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Andrea in Cookies and Candies, Desserts, Snacks and Healthy Treats 2 Comments

Moroccan Harissa Sauce

I’m kind of addicted to spicy food lately. Look me up over a year ago and you’d find the wimp of wimps when it came to hot and spicy food. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the heat but I could barely handle it. At Thai or Mexican restaurants when they ask your spice preference on the scale of 1-10, I would ask for mine at a 3… and that’s just because my pride wouldn’t let me ask for a 1.

But something happened last year. My mouth was transformed into a superhuman mega mouth that literally couldn’t get enough heat! I had a new super power to add to the list of mom-super-powers I already have, “Lava Mouth.” (My other Mom-super-powers? Well, as Teya believes, I have invisible eyes on the back of my head, and I can apparate.) And it wasn’t just being able to handle the heat that changed, I craved it. No, I NEEDED it! At one point, I was personally going through an entire bottle of Chalulah sauce in a single day. Phil finally had to sit me down and “slow the flow,” so to say. My bottle-of-hot-sauce-a-day-habit wasn’t economical for our family. Click here to Read More

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Tawny in Spreads and Sauces 2 Comments

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