My recipes don’t always turn out as planned.  A few weeks ago, I made an awesome Strawberry-Basil Sorbet for a freelance job and was on a total ice cream/sorbet kick.  Now I don’t have one of those fancy ice-cream makers, and this makes creating homemade ice cream a bit difficult.  So I was having a [...]

For the last week I have been creating every kind of smoothie recipe imaginable for a freelance job.  From the familiar to the unusual, my body was officially detoxed after tasting and testing so many smoothies. Cucumber-Kale, Blackberry-Flax, Mango-Cilantro, the list went on and on!  Getting this job writing smoothie recipes was the best “diet” [...]

I always buy bananas with the best of intentions – I have these grandiose plans of trying out multiple smoothie recipes and munching on peanut butter and banana sandwiches each morning.  Unfortunately, I often forget I have those bananas in my cupboard and before I know it they are developing those black spots all over [...]

With Easter right around the corner, many of us are digging out the egg-coloring kits and easter baskets all while thinking “I sure hope my hard boiled eggs will peel well this year!” I can’t even count the number of times I’ve gone to peel my beautiful Easter eggs only to have a shell that [...]

When I was a little girl, my dad used to make my brothers and I the neatest pancakes on our birthdays.  He would carefully spoon the batter on the griddle to form the number we were turning that year.  It was pretty cute and he got quite good at it over the years!  Pancakes always [...]

Just in time for your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, I have the perfect little treat to delight your friends and family.  These little gems are my Irish Cream Cupcakes.  Spiked with some Bailey’s Irish Cream, these cupcakes are super simple to make and even more fun to eat : ) Adding a dash of Irish [...]

Valentine’s Day… The number of people who relish this holiday is almost equal to those who just despise it.  I am pretty much indifferent when it comes to February 14, but I know many people who just go nuts for this day.  The chocolates, the flowers, the teddy bears…It has all gotten a little bit [...]

Carrot Cake is a dessert I always considered to be very “American” – along with staples such as apple pie or chocolate chip cookies, a moist carrot cake with cream cheese frosting seemed to be something served on most American tables throughout the years.  After doing a little digging though, I came to learn that [...]

After the bitter cold has turned your nose and cheeks a bright red and all feeling has left your fingers, nothing warms your body like a cup of steamy hot chocolate. We’ve all grown up with this famous drink, but where did it come from? Who was clever enough to make this dreamy drink? The [...]

Here we are at the end of another year on .  My year was chock full of its ups and downs, triumphs and heartbreaks – yet here I am, stronger and smarter than I was just 12 months ago.  Instead of a fancy cocktail picture or a winning appetizer for your holiday party, I thought [...]