There is HEALTH squished into these muffins. Since it’s January and I know you guys want healthy things in your lives. I want healthy things in my life, too. But also chocolate. It’s a balancing act. Muffins help me walk the line. Feels like a cupcake. Fills like oatmeal. Annnd there’s fruit. It’s good …
Carrot Cake Truffles… also known as How to Make Carrot Cake a Finger Food. But these perfect little balls of carrot cake and cream cheese frosting were, for me, kind of bittersweet. For those of you that know me, you know that I am basically not capable of sitting down and watching TV, but the …
So here’s the deal: Usually I turn my nose up at any and all baked goods recipes that advertise things like “flourless” or “gluten-free”. Or heaven forbid we make cookies sans the butter. There’s a time and place for healthy foods and in my book, cookies are not it. I should go ahead and insert …
This post is actually all about celebration. Today my baby sister graduated college. I could not be more proud of her. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!! So my whole family got together, and hollered EXTRA loudly at her Commencement Ceremony. We hugged her EXTRA tight at the following reception. We toasted her with EXTRA good champagne afterwards while we …
Someone needs to get these cookies out of my face. Seriously. They are like chewy little gingery orange bites of addictive… I mean they basically taste just. like. Christmas. I love them. And I can’t seem to keep myself away from the cookies. I don’t feel much like eating here lately. Just snacking. And …
This past Friday marked the first of several Christmas parties we will be attending this month. The upcoming events are all with family and I am sooooooo the most excited about our Christmas Eve plans with my brothers and sisters. Those plans involve some serious cookie decorating, funny Christmas movies, and take out food while …
So If you’ve followed Sugar Dish Me for any time at all you know that I rely heavily on coffee. It is my favorite treat. I like it even more than chocolate (because, um, you can actually put chocolate IN coffee… no decision required, really). First thing in the morning, or when I need a …
I honestly DO NOT KNOW how we got to the weekend. It was Tuesday, and it felt like it took soooooooo looooong to get to Tuesday, and then I blinked and it was Friday night. Speaking of Friday night– my kid has plans. I just dropped him off at a boy/girl birthday party… with a …
This sandwich is like winning the lottery. Do you all play the lottery? Because tomorrow the drawing is gonna be something like $425 million, and holy moly wouldn’t that solve a lot of problems? I’m a tentative lottery ticket buyer. The five-dollar-gambler. That’s me. If the incentive is high enough we drive to the nearest …
We can add Applebee’s to the list of restaurants in which I paid my service industry dues. I worked in the kitchen, I waited tables, I poured a lot of draft beer into tall frosty glasses. I can give you some serious inside information on this nationwide chain restaurant. In case you care, they make …