Here's a twist on pizza. It mostly uses the same ingredients, but my kids love pulling off the bits of pizza bread for dinner. It's so fun! This is a great recipe to make on a lazy Sunday afternoon when time is of no consequence. And shenanigans overtake your kitchen. Ingredients 2 packages of pre-made… Continue reading Pepperoni Pull-Apart Bread
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Quinoa and Wolfberry Salad
Cook with your essential oils! For lunch I made quinoa with wolfberries and walnuts mixed with a white vinaigrette. Young Living's Vitality Oils are great to use in the kitchen. Wolfberries are the key ingredient in the super antioxidant and immune boosting Ningxia Red drink. You can buy the dried variety of the berries to… Continue reading Quinoa and Wolfberry Salad
A Belated St. Paddy’s Is Better Than None!
Every March, we host a St. Patrick's Day party, complete with an Irish menu and a beer pong tournament in our barn. Oh yes we do! It's so much fun! It's something to look forward to towards the end of winter here in New Hampshire. Yes, the sun is stronger and the days seem brighter,… Continue reading A Belated St. Paddy’s Is Better Than None!
Springtime Cookie Bars
These cookie bars are a bright, sunshiny dessert to help move your taste buds into spring. After the warm and spicy notes of wintertime comforting sweet treats, this one evokes the feelings of warmer days ahead. Adding Vitality Essential Oils is an easy way to change up recipes. This version of the cookie bar has… Continue reading Springtime Cookie Bars
Italian Wedding Soup…But No One’s Getting Hitched
This meatball soup is a family recipe that came down from my paternal grandfather's side of the family. Growing up, my family dropped the word "wedding" and simply referred to this dish as "Italian Soup." My grandmother always made it usually around Christmas time, as did my mom. Grandmom stored batches of it in the… Continue reading Italian Wedding Soup…But No One’s Getting Hitched
Boldly Going….with Banana Muffins
I tried a new spice combination in these Banana Nut Muffins: cardamom and clove. I have not used cardamom previously, but had purchased a bottle of the vitality oil to use for some holiday diffusor blends. But what exactly is cardamom? I couldn't have told ya until today! Cardamom is commonly used in Indian, Middle… Continue reading Boldly Going….with Banana Muffins
Complete with Cranberry Sauce
I found this recipe in my Grandmom's collection. The recipe card was in her handwriting. We always had similar cranberry sauce like this on the table. She claimed she never made a cranberry sauce with brandy. So we had a good laugh over this as I thought I had found a family heirloom recipe. Now… Continue reading Complete with Cranberry Sauce
Zucchini Cake (Zucchini Recipe #263)
The annual zucchini bounty makes even the novice gardener boast the greenest of thumbs. Sunflowers and zucchini are my two staples that are planted every growing season because I know that I will have a full harvest. My tomatoes have been invaded by horn worms 2 out of the last 3 years. My peppers have… Continue reading Zucchini Cake (Zucchini Recipe #263)
Magnificent Mango Cake
Because I have lived most of my life in the Northeast, mangos have an exotic fruit connotation in my mind. One of my friends at Penn State was from Hawaii. (What a change in weather climates!) She described how her family had a mango tree in their backyard. This was mind blowing for me as… Continue reading Magnificent Mango Cake
Irish Soda Bread
Several years rolling now, I have hosted a St. Patrick's Day party at my home. One of the usual attendees was absent this year, and she was the one who always brought the soda bread. While my local supermarket has a wonderful bakery, I decided to make the bread myself. I knew it wasn't a… Continue reading Irish Soda Bread
The Pink Lily Pad and Two Tadpoles 