I am student teaching right now and I have the best cooperating teachers! In speech class we are doing sales speeches right now and one girl presented her Kitchen Aid and brought the class pumpkin cookies that she had made in it. My cooperating teacher saved the recipe for me and I went home and…
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
I am not ready to give up Pumpkin season quite yet. Expect pumpkin recipes through November and maybe even into December! I love pumpkin! My mom even used to call me Pumpkin when I was little! These beauties filled with a yummy cream cheese filling and if you like pumpkin, you wont be disappointed. I…
Cinnamon Toast Crunch Pear Cheesecake Bars
I was feeling creative the other day. When I saw a box of cinnamon toast crunch on sale at the store, I thought “that cereal would be yummy crushed and used as a crust.” So I bought them and started experimenting. The cinnamon toast crunch crust turned out great! And the flavor of the pears…
Green Tomatillo Salsa (Going Green!!)
Is it just me, or is everybody really hung up on “going green?” I decided to do my part on the “green” movement, and so I extrapolated the concept onto salsa. Ok ok. It’s not a new idea, but neither is recycling or conserving energy:) So, here it is… Ingredients: 3/4 lbs. tomatillo, peeled, washed…
Apple Crumb Pie
I like pie, but I don’t really like traditional pie crust. It is too heavy for me. I found this recipe for apple pie with an almond crumb crust. It is much lighter and it tastes delicious and crumbly. I made it for my family and my grandparents and they all loved it. My little…
October’s Daring Bakers: GO NUTS FOR DOUGHNUTS!!!
This month I joined a cook-a-long group called The Daring Kitchen. It has been so much fun!!! I am signed up as both a “Daring Baker” and a “Daring Cook.” Once a month everyone who is a member gets a new challenge to cook something that is unique, interesting, or challenging. Only the members can…
Masoor Daal
Another Indian recipe! Hooray! This soup is great. It is hearty, healthy, and easy to make. Daal is an Indian lentil soup. A lentil is a legume similar to a bean, but they are smaller and don’t take as long to cook. They are more like a split pea. They come in different varieties and…
Pumpkin Scones
I LOVE PUMPKIN!!! I absolutely love cooking with pumpkin. I love it in this, this, and this. I have many more pumpkin recipes coming your way this fall. This recipe is supposedly a replica of Starbuck’s pumpkin scone. I would buy one of these! It is the perfect breakfast for a fall Saturday morning. I…
Italian Sausage Crockpot Soup
Yup, another soup recipe! I am just really loving soup right now. And this one is pretty easy. It is in a crock pot so you can just leave it. The thing I love about crockpot meals is that they fill your whole house up with yummy smells of yummy food. My family came and…
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
I have seen whoopie pies all over the foodie blogosphere for sometime now. I’ve seen them in chocolate, red velvet, and S’mores flavors, but it was the pumpkin flavor that sold me. What is a whoopie pie, you might ask? Wikipedia says that it is a “baked good made of two round mound-shaped pieces of…
