Making caramel apples has never been so fun or easy! Thank you to Harry & David for helping me to share this recipe with you. You guys know me…I’m all about the healthy recipes. Even when the most candy-laden holiday of the year rolls around, I make a valiant attempt at keeping things light, like…
Caramel & Sea Salt Pear Pancake Recipe
There’s something about burning calories that makes good food taste great. Runner’s World Magazine recently published an article on pancakes, touting them as one of the most-craved foods following a long run. Pancakes, breakfast burritos, bacon, homefries…it all sounds pretty darn good to me after exerting any sort of energy. But okay, let’s stick with…
Light(er) No-Bake Cookies Recipe with Dulce de Leche, Sea Salt & Oatmeal
Before we move onto these no-bake cookies (did I mention there’s dulce de leche – caramel! – involved?), I have to tell you that we are very excited to be announcing our new challenge over at the Red Faced Runners site. The first challenge was a big success (see many red-faced pictures here) and we…
Caramel Apple Ice Cream Sundae Recipe
Remember those pictures I posted about ten days ago? The ones where snow was falling in our backyard? Well, we’re back in shorts because the temperatures shot back up to the 70s. One side of me wants to dive into comfort dishes – soups, stews and apple and pumpkin desserts epitomize autumn. The other side…
Apple Upside-Down Biscuits Recipe
A couple of weeks ago, I introduced you to Pam Anderson (no, not that one) and her new cookbook, Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers. I followed her Spicy Coconut Shrimp Stew recipe to a T and it quickly became one of our favorite dishes for both weeknight meals and entertaining. When…
Chocolate & Dulce de Leche Birthday Cake Recipe
Last year at this time, my husband was making the transition from carefree young man to responsible adult. Okay, he actually made that switch years ago (a wife and two kids will do that to you), but once you turn forty, there is really no way to deny that you are no longer a beach…
Dulce de Leche & Chocolate Waffle Cone Ice Cream Recipe
For most, Father’s Day is often filled with barbecues, making the most of the sunny weather to grill everything from big slabs of flank steak to hamburger sliders and kebabs. For our family, it means a day of food inspired by Mexican flavors. The day always starts with my husband’s favorite breakfast, Breakfast Burritos and…
Vietnamese Caramel Ginger Chicken (Ga Kho) Recipe
If you are like me, you have probably been seduced by popular Vietnamese foods, such as phở and banh mi. The flavors, delicate in the case of the traditional noodle soup (phở) and robust in the instance of the roasted or grilled pork sandwich (banh mi), are always pleasing but rather elusive. During one of…
Sea Salt Caramels Recipe
I would like to say that I am not easily swayed by trends. However, my past history, particularly that of my more youthful years, says otherwise. Rainbow jeans, rugby pants, knickers (seriously), anything mauve, jelly shoes, Madonna bracelets, feathered bangs, Duran Duran (the shy Roger Taylor was my favorite)…The 80s was not one of my…
Pine Nut, Caramel & Sea Salt Shortbread Bars Recipe
There is something about the combination of butter and brown sugar that makes me swoon. The smell of cookies baking, the taste of golden caramel, the popping of the buttons on my jeans. When Barbara of Barbara Bakes brought her Pecan Squares to our recent blogger brunch, I was immediately drawn to the rich caramel…