Easy Homemade Toffee Recipe I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love toffee, and this hard toffee is irresistible, addictive, and it melts in your mouth, hence the recipe title. The homemade toffee is easy but with any kind of candy-making, being precise while you’re making it is essential to a successful result. It’s perfect for the holiday season to give at cookie exchanges, as a hostess gift, or to set it out at parties you’re hosting....

comment icon 21 more comments About 20 minutes passed. I turned around and found my little late friend standing right next to me. He looked at me and said (so sweetly that you might melt), “Mrs. Ostrom? …. I need some help.” I asked him what exactly he needed help with, and he thought for a minute. “I can’t see. It’s too blurry.” This little guy wears glasses, but at this particular time, he wasn’t actually wearing the glasses....

Homemade Crunchwraps … Using Thanksgiving Leftovers! Thanksgiving leftovers are delicious for the first day or two, but after that point I’m looking for other ways to repurpose or freeze them because I just. can’t. eat. another. bite. If you’re someone who loves nibbling on the leftovers from your Thanksgiving feast for days afterwards, good for you. But if you’re like me and quickly tap out on eating leftovers nuked in the microwave, this Thanksgiving Crunchwrap recipe is going to be your new best friend this holiday season....

If you love chocolate and brownies, this is the brownie roundup to save that beats all. While boxes of brownie mix will suffice in a pinch, there’s nothing like scratch homemade brownies. If you’ve never made scratch brownies and are a little wary, I promise you all of these homemade brownie recipes are fast, easy, you don’t need to use a mixer, and most are made in one bowl – unless you’re adding things like a layer or peanut butter or cream cheese....

Averie Cooks wouldn’t exist without readers, and I am so very, very thankful and grateful for you. Whether you read my posts in stealth or you leave comments, I am appreciative. Thank you for your pins, tweets, shares, and for your support and loyalty. It makes my day when I wake up to your comments saying you’ve tried a recipe, you loved it, it made you look like a star among your family, friends, and co-workers, and that you’re head-over-heels with what you made....

I cheated. And I don’t feel one bit bad about doing it. I’m talking about cheating on my old faithful brownie recipe. It’s a fabulous recipe for fudgy brownies and has served me well since 2009, and I’ve had it on my blog since 2011. Every brownie recipe in my cookbook uses it as the base. The batter comes together in minutes by melting chocolate and butter together in the microwave, whisking in sugars, eggs, and flour....

comment icon 88 more comments Co-zy! Co-zy! Co-zy! It’s October – like, hold the phone – IT’S OCTOBER!!! – and cozy is the name of the game right now. And when cozy is the name of the game and healthy is trying hard to be somewhere in the mix, breakfast porridge becomes everything. So, uhhh, I realize we’ve got some Goldilocks vibes going on here. Really – “porridge?” More important question: when are you, judger of porridge recipe name, going to eat this coconut breakfasty bliss?...

Tropical Alcoholic Punch Recipe With warmer around the corner, nothing beats a glass of cool and refreshing punch. This goes down so easily. It’s sweet, citrusy, and has a tropical vibe. You can make the punch as either alcoholic or not depending on your needs. Simply omit the alcohol if you don’t want your punch to pack a punch. For the base of the punch, I used Country Time Lemonade Starter Liquid Drink Mix and Kool-Aid Tropical Punch Liquid Drink Mix, combined with water....

From Yesterday… Thanks to everyone who gave me info about the Heart Rate Monitorsyou have. As I mentioned, I had to return my Garmin because the chest strap just wasn’t fitting me properly and there was no way I was going to keep something that wasn’t perfectfor that kind of money. It sounds like tons of you have and really like the Polar F6 and many of you have the Polar F4....

Note the Bullet and the Blend-Tec are Getting Packed. The Vita I will keep with me. Shotgun, front seat; I would never relegate my lover to a moving truck. Mama Pea and I both have our lovers favorite appliance. If you missed my not-so-subtle review post of the Blend-Tec vs. the Vita, Click Here. So you can see where all my disposable income has gone the past few years and what I did with all my “spare time” this weekend…haha!...

This recipe does not need any specialty ingredients, you probably have everything on hand already. It’s Vegan, Gluten-Free, Soy-Free, Tree-Nut Free, Seed-Free, and free from any complicated stand-mixers, Vita-Mixes, dehydrators. In fact, one bowl, a fork and a spoon is all you need. It takes 5 minutes to mix it, and 20 minutes to bake. Then you’re done and you’ve impressed yourself and your family. With very few dishes dirtied....

comment icon 210 more comments Yes, that’s right. I’d like to introduce to you a really good, really “meaty” and satisfying vegetarian chili that, in fact, does not have meat in it at all. This vegetarian chili is all the good things that I’m looking for: thick and hearty and “meaty”, like a standard chili texture beans optional – add if you like them, leave out if you don’t big, big, big happy flavor packed with a variety of veggies easy to make makes awesome leftovers meatless!...

Thanks for all the comments on yesterday’s post and glad to see there are some other medjool fans as well as vegan shoppers readin’ along. Thanks to those of you who leave comments, it really helps me stay inspired! Much love to ya! I am getting ready to meet up with a girlfriend I haven’t seen in awhile but thought I’d mention what’s been poppin’ up in herrre. Made a yummy bowl of raw overnight oatmeal: 1/3 c dry oats, 2/3 c vanilla almond milk, 1 small nanna diced into pieces, & some dried mango pieces went into hibernation in the fridge for the night....

If you love fun recipes like this, be sure to try my Bacon Wrapped Dates, Blistered Shishito Peppers, Tomato and Basil Bruschetta, and this Burrata Appetizer! Why I love this recipe: Impressive – it’s beautiful and elegant, but know one could guess how easy it was to make. Quick – Just throw the veggies in the oven while you whip the feta and you will have it done in less than 30 minutes....

Sometimes no-bake cookies feel like cheating. And if that’s how you look at it, I’m very happy to be called a cheater. With the warmer weather approaching, I wanted something sweet that didn’t involve turning on the oven. Additionally, I wanted something supremely easy and not at all fussy. These ridiculously easy little clusters fit the bill and are a 10 minute project. They combine two of my favorite ingredients, white chocolate and peanut butter....

No-Knead Whole Wheat Skillet Bread Every once in awhile, I get lucky with a recipe. The stars align and things works out better than anticipated. This cast iron skillet bread is that recipe. Recipes like this are the good karmic payback for all the caketastrophes, seized chocolate, wasted butter, and various fails that I experience. Fresh, warm, no-knead whole wheat bread in a half hour is great karma. It’s the easiest bread I’ve ever made....

It’s one of my favorite ingredients to use in baking and I try to incorporate into anything I possibly can. Here are 25 of my favorite White Chocolate Recipes: Donuts and Cupcakes Baked Peach and Nectarine Donuts with White Chocolate Drizzle and Sprinkles 3 Musketeers-Stuffed White Chocolate Cupcakes with Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Cookies 3. Mango and White Chocolate Cookies Do you like white chocolate? 4. Apricot Butterscotch White Chocolate Peanut Butter-Filled Sandwich Cookies...

comment icon 71 more comments A few weeks ago, I shared on my Instagram stories that I was doing some meal prep, and I got many responses from people asking to talk more about the recipe(s) that I was using for meal prep. So consider this your intro to a few meal prep posts that will be coming your way soon. Whee! If you ask me (which, you’re reading my blog, so, I mean, you kinda did ask me), one of the major flaws of “meal prep” aka cook your veggies and protein and portion them out in containers for the week is that IT IS SO BORING....

As I mentioned many times, it rained here most of December. And had been raining for months, previously. Most everything was flooded, most of the time. This is nothingcompared to most of the flooding on most of the roads but it just happened to be on our walking path so I snapped a couple pictures. If you want to see our walking and exercise path on a different day, with different scenes and better different weather, there’s this post, too....

comment icon 361 more comments Years ago I decided to start a dinner club. One of my friends brought these bacon-wrapped dates as an appetizer during our very first DCM –> dinner club meeting –> because sometimes life is hard and I can’t be more creative than that with a dinner club name. Come on, you guys, just GIVE ME A BREAK. We all bellied up to the peninsula in our old kitchen and she unwrapped the foil from the Bacon-Wrapped Date plate and BAM....