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There is just something about a delicious & hearty breakfast on a Crisp Fall Morning that just makes you ready for the day. Pair that up with a delicious cup of (Pumpkin Spice) Coffee and maybe even some Apple Butter on top for good measure …
We enjoy Pizza around here! Pizza was the first food my Handsome and Talented Photographer Fiance cooked for me, so for our first Christmas/Chanukah together I bought him a Pizza Tour. To celebrate his new job I took him to our favorite Wood-Fired Brick Oven …
HAPPY FALL! I know that fall technically started a few days ago, but I have been wanting to make some delicious (natural) flavored creamer for a while. So today, in honor of National Coffee Day, I share with you a super easy homemade (fall) creamer recipe.
Now, this version is a Pumpkin Spice flavor, but as long as you stick with a basic “recipe” of half & half and condensed milk “base” you can make whatever flavors you want – this is a delicious homemade way to get the flavors you want without the chemicals (She Knows has some great “recipes starters” for other flavors for you).
Healthy Food does not have to taste bad or boring! My Future Brother-In-Law has a thing for Snickerdoodles. The problem with snickerdoodles though is that they are not really healthy. Now, I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with un-healthy foods here and there, …
We are still getting corn from our awesome local farm’s CSA. All year we seem to have been getting between one and dozen ears of corn a week. Much of this corn I have been sharing with my neighbors and my parents. Much of the …
We like things spicy around here. So last year when Rich decided that he wanted to grow habaneros, I supported him. Well, who knew that two little plants would produce so many peppers. I think that all year we used about 25 habaneros (and that is including recipes which used lots of them, like hot sauce, infusing vodka, and pepper flakes). I don’t know how people stand spicier peppers. So, long story short: we basically swore off super spicy peppers and decided to stick with the perfect pepper instead: Jalapenos.
A Jalapeno Pepper is just spicy enough. You get plenty of kick, but not too bad that you will burn your nose just chopping them or ruin a dinner by adding it to dinner! We still have more Jalapenos than we really can use without adding them to everything I cook (so the friends who I am sharing with aren’t complaining)!
One of the most popular jalapeno dishes around here has been Jalapeno Poppers. Now these are not your unhealthy deep-fried poppers, no – these are pretty healthy (low fat cream cheese & cheese, if you want to think “healthy” it is actually a well balanced snack: you have your dairy and your vegetable)! Even my mom and Rich’s mom, who both do not like super-spicy foods, enjoyed these. As Rich said “you need to add the heat [from baking them] to take away the heat [spicy-ness]”.
