I remember being in junior high and making raw “cookie” dough for an after school snack. I would take eggs, flour, sugar and a little vanilla extract and mix it all together, then eat it with a big spoon. Raw. Sometimes if we had chocolate chips in the house I would add those. My brothers …
Breakfast
There’s two camps to breakfast pastries, those who love pop tarts and those who love toaster strudels. One is a dense pie-like crust with frosting while the other is of a flaky texture with an icing drizzle. So why can’t a girl have both, at the same time? Why do I have to choose? I …
On a recent trip to a restaurant at Walt Disney World, I ate a blueberry pastry that was part muffin, part cupcake. I even asked the Chef what he called it and it was just a blueberry mini cake to him. So what does one call a muffin/cupcake? A Mupcake? A Cuffin? I guess it’s …
Most of my recipes do not reinvent the wheel (I said most!) One of my favorite culinary “projects” is trying to recreate some of the foods I eat dining out. Especially when Mr. Beet and I travel. But today I bring you a recipe of a local dish I had here in Orlando. The East …
Why not Ackee Scramble? Because sometimes you want something different than eggs. What is Jamaican Ackee? I first learned about using the fruit ackee while studying for my Forks Over Knives certification– ackee is actually the national fruit of Jamaica. Ackee is very common in Jamaican cuisine and is especially popular when paired with salted …
I took a week off from the blog. I took a week off of everything. The writing, the cooking, the cleaning….everything. It was blissful…for a little while. Then I got ansy and found myself flipping through recipes, making grocery lists and making a mess in the kitchen. Mr. Beet doesn’t mind as he gets to …
Back in August, I attended the BlogHer conference in Los Angeles. I had the opportunity to connect with many other bloggers and brands, one of those brands being Foodstirs. Foodstirs is a line of organic, non-GMO and fairly traded baking mixes, founded in 2014 by Moms Galit Laibow, Gia Russo, and actress, Sarah Michelle Gellar. …
Make these Pumpkin Spice Latte Bites anytime you need a fix. Why wait for the fall? These are no bake with only seven ingredients! So I find that there are two kinds of people in the world – those that spend the Fall planning their lives around Pumpkin Spice anything, and those who don’t have …
In recent years breakfast has become more than eggs and bacon or pancakes and syrup. There has been an influx of new meals like smoothie bowls and avocado toast. some restaurants have even begun to offer avocado toast as an entrée, usually served with an egg or a bowl of yogurt. I usually try to …
When someone hears my blog name for the first time, there is often a comment about how much they love beets. Sometimes followed by “wow- you must cook with beets all the time” which is not true. I really do not cook with beets that often. I feel like that needs to change. Maybe I …