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Tropical Frosted Coconut Lime Bars If you feel like sending your taste buds on a tropical vacation, you can. Just make these better-than-Starbucks lime frosted coconut bars. (And they’re perfect for Cinco de Mayo, too!) I glazed the bars with a simple confectioners’ sugar and lime juice glaze, and then topped with coconut. The glaze seeps into the bars and makes them even moister. The extra bit of lime juice in the glaze really boosts the overall lime flavor, which is pleasantly bold and tart....

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comment icon 74 more comments These are gooooood. Like, chocolate-on-caramel, ate-5-before-dinner, don’t-need-no-Valentine sort of good. Not like I’m thinking about Valentine’s Day or anything. My mind is continuously replaying what it was like to slurp up the warm, creamy, dulce de leche filling straight out of the pan. Burned tongue? Totally over it. I promise I’m not really thinking about Vee-day. But since I brought it up again, let’s have a word....

Mini Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips Mini muffins are just so poppable. I really believe muffins taste better when they’re in mini form. And of course the calories don’t count then either. That’s what I tell myself when I’m reaching for the fourth muffin in two minutes. This is an easy, no mixer base recipe that I tweaked very slightly. It’s been a favorite of mine over the years because the results always taste fabulous....

Layered Mint Oreo Bars Recipe I almost didn’t make these Oreo bars. They only came about because of multiple caketastrophes last week. I was trialing a chocolate-mint loaf cake and it kept failing. It tasted great, but it wasn’t pretty. I almost made cupcakes, but was already inundated with cake, nor did I want to pipe frosting. So, I made layered bars. Pans of bars are nearly foolproof, and aside from a 10-minute baking session to set the crust, they’re nearly no-bake and come together in under a half hour....

Easy Mixed Berry Bars I love crumble or streusel toppings and the bigger the crumbles, the happier I am. It’s even better when the crust and crumble topping are one and the same. One less step, and one less bowl to wash, and a big timesaver and that’s the case here. This an easy, no-mixer mixed berry dessert recipe that takes just minutes to make. I merged three of my favorite berry bars into one to create these bars: Blueberry Pie Bars, Strawberry Lemonade Bars, and Blueberry Oatmeal Crumble Bars....

This zucchini and blueberry bread recipe is an easy, no mixer quick bread that’s perfectly sweet but not overly sweet. There are juicy blueberries in every bite, and as a bonus it makes your house smell wonderfully delicious. Since you’re getting extra veggies by way of the zucchini and antioxidants from the blueberries, you can feel great about having a second or third slice. At least that’s what I told myself as I was going to town on this soft, springy bread…...

comment icon 139 more comments I’m talking to the coconut bites, actually. These are my sweetest, most wonderful friends, especially when trying to cut back on the refined sugar sweets and still trying to LOVE LIFE. ♡ But I’m also talking to you, because you’re my sweet friends who love these sweet little coconut bite friends, as evidenced by this post and how much engagement it’s seen over the years....

But mostly, I’ve just been rebelling lately. It’s the end of the year, the weather is getting nicer, my students are getting less-nicer, I’m feeling the itch for summer. And apparently this is affecting my behavior. For example, I really shouldn’t have (tried to) spontaneously paint the baseboard in our house all by myself. With no experience or paint remover. Gulp. I shouldn’t have made fun of Bjork for reading the Keurig instructional manual before bed....

Scott and I got married in Las Vegas and each year for our first few anniversaries, we’d go to Vegas to celebrate. A meal at Michael Mina is a must-do if you’re in Vegas. It’s fancy, it’s fabulous, and they have phenomenal food, including amazing Chilean sea bass. I wanted to recreate something a little bit fancy at home because weekend trips to the Bellagio with a five year old in tow aren’t happening any decade time soon....

Our first ever Tasty Food Photography workshop has come and gone in about three little winks of an eye. On Friday night, as I was “getting ready for bed” aka nervously running through all possible scenarios and details and mishaps and re-listing all the last minute additions to the weekend and doing everything EXCEPT sleeping, I had this thought: Sunday is going to come, and I’m going to find myself having a burger and fries with Bjork, talking about how crazy-fun the weekend was....

Thanks for the props yesterday on the roasted veggies, the acai smoothie action, and of course, the raw vegan cheesecake. Guess which one I like best? Should be pretty easy to deduce. Ahem. Today’s little recipe delight is somethin’ that I whipped up straight from my own head, entirely. No books to help with this one. I had about 1/4 c of PB in the bottom of my jar and wondered what I was going to do with it?...

Annnnnd we are back on track! comment icon 158 more comments Er, okay, getting there, at least. With the help of this friendly little peanut noodle salad and its packed-in veggies, protein, healthy fats, and major flavor, I am doing some post-girls’-trip resetting to get back to the norm of solid healthy eating. And by “norm”, I mean the first time in a few months thanks to all that first trimester craziness....

One-Skillet Italian Sausage, Peppers & Onions I’m all about easy, one-skillet dinners that are ready in 30 minutes. My family is all about flavor and just cares about how something tastes. We were all happy with this dish and the big flavors. Juicy sausage, sweet Vidalia onions, a hint of garlic, crisp-tender bell peppers, and tender rice. Rather than yet another chicken and rice dish, I swapped out the chicken and instead used Johnsonville Fresh Italian Hot Sausage Links....

Garlic Butter Shrimp Scampi Recipe If you think lemon garlic shrimp scampi can only be enjoyed at a fancy restaurant, think again. Shrimp scampi is one of the easiest meals to make and is a fairly inexpensive option when cooking for friends and family. It’s ready in less than 10 minutes and tastes like a million bucks. Since the buttery sauce is infused with garlic, lemon juice, and the essence of white wine, you are going to want to slurp it up by the spoonful....

In honor of rainbow flags flying, here are my rainbow-colored recipes for a very rainbow flag-flying kind of weekend. Red Stovetop Hot Pepper Jelly Strawberries and Cream Smoothie (vegan, GF) Raw Taco Nut “Meat” (vegan, GF) – One of the best raw vegan recipes in my entire archives and it takes 30 seconds to make. Use it in wraps, over salads, or eat by itself. 30 seconds later Orange Barbeque Tofu with Pineapple and Mango (vegan, GF)...

I want to thank you all soooo much for the comments and feedback you gave regarding why you blog, what prompted you to start your blog, after I revealed some of my reasons for why I blog and why I started my blog in yesterday’s post, and that I could care less about the food half the time, well, it was awesome to read your comments! Thank you for everything you had to say!...

comment icon 9 more comments Like this Roasted Sweet Potato Salad. I’m going to say it’s my best idea all week! A fresh, sweet, and mildly spicy potato salad that’s also vegan?! Yes, please! Runner up for best idea of the week would be evacuating my classroom yesterday afternoon and moving 24 fourth graders, 24 water bottles and 1 large fan into the computer lab for an impromptu Read Aloud....

I LOVE to serve salsa roja with carnitas, chimichangas, and especially homemade pupusas. I fill my pupusas with rice and beans and top them with this easy curtido recipe and salsa roja! Blend. tomato, onion, jalapeño, salt, garlic and water. Boil. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add salsa to the pan and stir in chicken bouillon. Bring mixture to a low boil and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes, or until a lot of the liquid has been reduced....

Slice-and-bake cookies bring back memories of refrigerated cookie dough in a tube. And of slicing off hunks of dough and baking it as an after school snack growing up. Only about half the dough in those tubes got baked into cookies. The other half was eaten as-is. I lived. These cookies are a version on that them, except healthier. They’re made with hearty whole-rolled oats and wholesome whole wheat flour....