Best Ever Roast Cauliflower Cauliflower is pretty trendy right now. But this isn’t a trendy recipe. It’s a classic roasted cauliflower recipe. You know, the kind of recipe you actually make. Recently I’ve seen recipes for cauliflower pizza crust, cauliflower florets made to be like buffalo wings, cauliflower puree that’s a stand-in for alfredo sauce, mashed cauliflower as a sub for mashed potatoes, cauliflower breaded and baked or fried for chips, and the list goes on....

If you’re hooked on homemade jam, try my Blackberry Jam, Chia Seed Jam, Orange Marmalade, Strawberry Jam, or Raspberry Jam! How to make Peach Jam: Peel Peaches and Prep Containers: Have clean glass or plastic containers and lids ready. Use my easy method of peeling peaches, and remove the pits. And, don’t miss our free peach jam labels for gifting friends, neighbors etc (or use for a bake sale). We give freezer jam and homemade bread for teacher appreciation each year....

Except I made them as cookie bars rather than individual cookies. Bars are faster, easier, there’s no dough to chill, they’re made in one bowl, and you don’t even need a mixer. I adapted my infamous blondie base recipe. With 30+ versions and counting, it never lets me down. The bars are dense, soft, chewy, buttery, and have plenty of rich peanut butter flavor. It feels so good sinking your teeth into them....

Even though it’s Saturday, I didn’t jet off on a 3 hour yoga kind of morning like I usually do for my 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program that I’ve been working on. For new readers, I’ve been a yoga teacher since 2001 at the 200 Hour Level, but have recently been pursing the highest level of yoga certification. I needed to add 300 more hours to what I already had....

comment icon 99 more comments Reality check: I have been a bit of a Johnny Raincloud lately. On the blog, a little. (This came to my attention after I read through a few of my most recent posts and realized they were all stories about my stinky-fish-market-dirty-jeepney-oppressively-hot life in the Philippines. O, woe is me.) In real life, even more. I have been feeling sick + I long for the comforts of home + I miss my family and friends....

It may be 4 years old and beat up, but it took nearly 20,00o pictures (my iPhoto numbers don’t lie). Everything from Skylar’s babyhood and toddlerhood to Aruba trips to food pictures. I took more closeups of lettuce and chocolate with this camera than should be legal. It seems so tiny compared to my DSLR! For example… Here’s the DSLR in my new camera bag Versus… The Sony point and shoot in old pink case I found on the Best Buy clearance rack for 9....

Do you love pizza? Try my Wheat Pizza Dough, Pepperoni Pizza, Air Fryer Pizza, or Detroit-Style Pizza! Why I love Homemade Pizza Sauce: Healthy – No artificial ingredients or additives, just good, classic ingredients from your pantry. Versatile – Use on my homemade pizza crust or wheat pizza crust, or as a dip for Calzones or Stromboli. Quick – Only 10 minutes and this easy pizza sauce recipe will take your pizza to the next level....

I picked up some fresh, local papaya today I love Fresh Local Pineapple, more so than papaya, but no complaints since we ate the whole tub in 10 minutes. As I mentioned this morning, the weather wasn’t looking great and it rained and was sunny, on and off all day. So, we didn’t want to venture to the beach just in case we had to make a mad dash back inside… …We hit up the pool in our complex, instead....

Quick Dutch Baby … with Blueberries! Baking one big pancake in a skillet rather than standing at the stove flipping them one by one is like hitting the pancake jackpot. Enter: the Dutch Baby. It’s so fast and easy to make and you don’t have to stand at the stove and flip pancakes. Big bonus. The batter comes together in one bowl with a whisk, and it’s poured over melted butter and blueberries in a skillet, and baked....

The BEST Homemade Cranberry Sauce Recipe Drinking wine and eating jam are two things I’m great at. Doing them under the guise of ‘cranberry sauce’ is the best idea I’ve had for elevating cranberry sauce from a side dish to a starring dish. I love fresh cranberry sauce, but I never make it with just cranberries. Too boring. Instead, I add pineapple and mango or work in oranges and ginger. This year, I doctored up the cranberries with cabernet sauvignon and blueberries, and this blend is my favorite ever....

comment icon 233 more comments Do you even need me to say anything else? Can I be excused? I have a ton of things to do today, like mostly make more goat cheese polenta. Also high on the list today – get back to my real life! which includes writing this post where I will go on to gush about the goat cheese polenta and tell you about my ten glorious non-internet days at the cabin and then get back to the topic at hand of POLENTA GOALS....

I did make good use of my time and took everything out of her existing dresser and it’s all sorted and waiting to be put into the new one. And the current toy and book stash is ready for the new toy organizer Here were the swimsuits she wore on her first vacation: Aruba when she was 9 months old. She learned to crawl there. And some newborn shoes and one-sies that were never even worn....

Skinny Pumpkin Pie Dip Recipe I’m the dip queen. I babysit the dip table at parties and I love dips as meals. I don’t even need dippers. Just pass me a spoon. Given my love of both dips and pumpkin, this pumpkin pie dip recipe is right up my alley. The fact that it’s on the skinny side, even better. The entire batch, according to this calculator has 217 calories total, and for 4 servings that’s just 54 calories per serving....

Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Soup Recipe If you’ve ever wondered how to recreate the Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Soup recipe, look no further than my copycat version. Dare I say, it’s even better than the restaurant version — as most homemade recipes usually are! Complete with hearty ground beef (or ground Italian sausage), onions, carrots, celery, an array of spices, and a rich broth made with a variety of canned tomato ingredients, red kidney beans, and white cannellini beans....

I recently reviewed some new Amazing Grass powder, Tropical Traditions Dishwasher powder, and more in my Powder post from Saturday. I was fortunate enough to receive a Foodzie Tasting Box in the mail, complete with all kinds of great goodies in it! Read the fine print, here My favorites so far have been the Peeled Snacks dried pineapple and the Pluff iced tea Scott loved the biscotti (I’m not a huge biscotti fan but he is) so those went straight to him and he loved them!...

Who can resist dip made with candy bars? I can’t. I am a dip queen. I can make a meal out of dips, but most of my dip recipes are savory. It’s about time to sweeten things up. The dip is made with tangy cream cheese, chopped Snickers, peanuts, and there’s melted milk chocolate and salted caramel swirled throughout. I’ve always loved Snickers and the dip is my new favorite way to eat them....

Orange Creamsicle Cookie Recipe I love Orange Julius, Orange Creamsicles, Orange PushUps — anything that’s creamy and orangey! And I love these cookies because they’re creamy, orangey, and loaded with melted white chocolate. I’m in love with how soft, moist, and tender the orange creamsicle cookies are. The cookie dough uses a splash of cream, which tenderizes the dough, and a bit of cornstarch is added to make the cookies softbatch-style....

And maybe I needed an excuse to post these adorable pictures from my friend’s baby shower. I present to you the honorary Bump. And lovely mother-to-be. She’s due on Mother’s Day; how sweet is that? And it’s a girl, in case you didn’t notice. And in honor of the girl… cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries. Just what a girl would have wanted. I really hope that, as a future pregnant woman, I have the motivation to paint my nails a coordinating color to my cute outfit....

comment icon 129 more comments One of the single greatest things about spring, in my opinion, is LEMON BREAD in all its varieties. I’ve been having a moment with the slices of lemon bread that you can get at coffee shops – you know the ones. They are at least five inches thick and they usually have a nice creamy layer of frosting over the top? YEAH, THOSE. Lemon bread is spring in breakfast/snack/dessert form....

comment icon 103 more comments If I had to guess the average time that I’ve been waking up over this beautiful time called winter break, I’d say 10am. Which pushes back my average lunchtime to 3pm and dinnertime to 9pm. And then, naturally, after a semi-lazy workout and a nice hot chocolate and a few chapters of reading in my favorite books, bedtime clocks in around 1am. Being that during my normal days, I more or less collapse into bed and read about one half of one word before I can’t stay awake any more… I sort of love this off schedule....