Summer is in full swing in Columbus, Ohio, and I am in the mood for something fresh! I am in the mood to make dinner without turning on the stove or the oven! This meal can go two ways. You can stuff the salad in a pita pocket or you can eat the salad as…
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Sun Dried Tomato and Fresh Basil Bruschetta
Summer is coming!!!!!!!!!!!! My husband and I just planted out garden and we are super excited! We only have a tiny little amount of space on our back patio, so we filled it with herbs, a bunch of varieties of peppers, and a couple strawberry plants. Last year we had planted a bunch of tomatoes,…
Zucchini and Mushroom Vegetarian Lasagna
What do you do when your husband is showing signs of becoming a herbivore? He is not a full-blown vegetarian, but he wants to eat mainly a plant based diet. Its not that he wants to protect the cows and its not that vegetarianism kind of a fad, he just really loves veggies and legumes…
Save the Season: Freezing Summer
I associate different feelings and moods with different seasons. In the Fall I feel an overall feeling of contentment and coziness. In the winter I mostly just feel cold. In the spring I feel hopeful and fresh. In the summer I feel energetic, excited, committed to eating better and exercising, and completely optimistic. I don’t…
Cinnamon Bun Doughnut Ice Cream (Easy! No Machine Needed!!!)
So, this thing keeps happening over and over and over. I find a really great recipe or idea, and right as I am about to post it, one of my favorite food blogs, Our Best Bites, publishes a post of the exact same thing. Sometimes right while I am typing up a post, they will…
Fried Green Tomatoes
We have a trillion tomatoes on our in our tiny little garden. They are all green. Every time one starts to turn red, the little chipmunk who lives under our air conditioning unit, takes a big bite out of the tomato. I decided to make use of some of those big fat green tomatoes that…
Three-Cheese Baked Macaroni and Cheese with Kielbasa Sausage
Macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food for me. I love it. I absolutely love it. Not the cheap blue-box kind, but the hearty homemade baked kind. Usually a good baked macaroni and cheese calls for a cheese sauce made from a white sauce roux (butter, flour, milk). This recipe that Brown Eyed Baker…
Homemade Cotton Candy
I made homemade cotton candy!!! It’s pretty exciting. I am finding out that you can make lots of stuff homemade. Like gummy bears, fudge-sicles, hamburger buns, kettle corn, Butter Beer and doughnuts. As soon as I saw a recipe for homemade candy floss, I knew that I just had to make it. I love cotton…
Fudge Popsicles
It is my day off. What does that mean? I’m watching food network on Hulu on my laptop (and maybe the latest episode of the Bachelorette???). I know I should get some cleaning done, but I’m going to take it easy until just before my husband gets home and then I am going to clean…
Kiwifruit Ice Cream
I recently learned that it isn’t good to refer to that brown fuzzy fruit with a green inside as a Kiwi, because a Kiwi is a person from New Zealand. It is also a flightless bird that inhabits the island of New Zealand. So today I give you Kiwifruit ice cream, not Kiwi ice cream….