Recipes

Upgrade store-bought brownie mix by making these decadent Pumpkin Brownies. It’s like Brownies and Pumpkin Cheesecake had a baby. Super easy and super fast, these are perfect for Fall baking. Boxed Mix vs Homemade Brownies Part brownie, part pumpkin, swirled together to create these amazing pumpkin brownies. You can either take a store-bought shortcut (like I did) and use boxed brownie mix or you are always welcome to make brownies from scratch. A boxed mix is faster whereas homemade would be more chocolatey and fudgier. If you’re going the store-bought route you’re going to need other ingredients like eggs, oil,...

ALDI Finds for the week of 10/27/21 include sweet potato crust pizza, cute mini baking pans, little gnomes, mini scones, and so much more! Only one new pizza this week? Well, I guess technically two: Mama Cozzi’s sweet potato crust or cauliflower crust pizza, $5.49 in the freezer section. Note, though, that you’ll probably want to buy this pizza for the sweet potato taste, rather than with the thought of sneaking in hidden veggies. (The front of the box even states that one serving doesn’t provide the USDA-recommended 1/2 cup per serving of vegetables.) Just one pizza this week is...

Stay Healthy!  Hello Fall. You look beautiful. The long walks with Lucy have started up again and with the daylight hours getting shorter, I think it’s more important than ever to get her outside and worn out before dark. She’s kind of like a toddler that way. You need to wear her out or they get a little crazy in the evenings.  Weigh What I Weighed When We Got Married  {128 pounds} Weigh-ins are the first Sunday of each month. My October 3rd weigh in was 131.5 My September 5th weigh in was 131.4 My August 1st weight in was...

Today it’s all about 7 ways to cook when you lose power. Yes, we will all lose power at some time or another. It may be a day, three days, three weeks, or three months. You may know September of every year is National Preparedness Month. But this year I was packing up my home to move north closer to family and friends so I didn’t have time to write a post on this preparedness holiday so to speak. I’m actually updating one from September 2017. Here’s the deal, there may some items today you can use and some you...

Struggling to think of what to create with white chocolate? Don’t worry we got you covered. We compiled 20 white chocolate recipes with step-by-step instructions for you. Are you love white chocolate? I don’t like to eat white chocolate on its own, but it sure is good in all sorts of dessert recipes! More Recipe Round-ups: I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t love to cook, but I do love gathering around the table and talking about our day. To help with meal planning, I go to recipe round-ups where I can get a lot of recipe ideas...