How do you like your sweet potatoes? If you are like me, you like them smothered in butter, brown sugar, and marshmallows. Now, sweet potatoes are full of nutrients, but you can hardly call them healthy smothered in sugar and butter. Save the sugar and butter for dessert. Here are three ways to prepare roasted…
Couscous with Carrots, Chickpeas, and Herbs
Lately my husband and I have been trying to become more healthy. We have been trying to eat more vegetables, less fatty foods, and I only make dessert for daring bakers once a month and for any other special occasions or parties. We also bought a Gazelle. It is a pretty low cost exercise contraption…
Homemade Gummies
I LOVE gummy bears. I think I might be addicted to them. My mother in-law gave me a 6 pound bag of them for Christmas and they were gone weeks ago. I did share ( a little bit). The only way I can choke down vitamins is if I buy them in gummy bear form….
Poppy Seed Crackers
There is this show called Eureka that my husband and I have been watching lately. It is about this town in Oregon called Eureka that was founded to house the smartest minds in America. They are constantly making new scientific discoveries and creating new inventions. Everything is always going wrong and they are always…
Parmesan Risotto
Risotto is creamy delicious rice that can make any meal seem fancy. I love to watch this show on Food Network called Chopped. It is a show where four chefs are given a basket of interesting ingredients and they have a half and hour to make either an appetizer, main course, or dessert for a…
Valentines Day Conversation Heart Sugar Cookies (and my broken heart)
I decided something this year. I don’t mesh well with Valentines Day. I love holidays and I love being festive, but I have problems every Valentine’s Day. Its not that I hate the holiday because it reminds me of how lonely I really am (because I am not lonely and I have been happily married…
Lemon Meringue Pie Ice Cream
The other day I went out for some ice cream with my aunt. We went to a Farr’s creamery. They had tons of different flavors of fresh made ice cream. I chose the Lemon Meringue Pie ice cream. I wouldn’t normally choose that flavor because I don’t really like lemon meringue pie itself, but for…
Enchilada Soup
I grew up in the frozen tundra of Sugar City, Idaho. It is COLD there. It is FREEZING! It wouldn’t be so bad, except that the wind is bitter and is almost always blowing. Even just a half hour away is so much warmer. The other day when I was visiting, it was one of…
Applesauce Muffins
When I think of muffins, I think of my two younger brothers. I first think of Joe who loves any kind of breakfast food. He makes himself German pancakes for lunch, has a “cereal snack” three times a day, and he can eat more muffins than anyone I know. He is 15, 6’3” or 4”, …
Cream Cheese and Chive Biscuits
I am usually pretty good at cooking. I can usually get something to taste pretty yummy. However, there is one type of food that I have messed up more than any other food: Biscuits. I don’t know why, either. I have made so many yucky biscuits, and I don’t really know what I do wrong….
