One Small Recipe…One Giant Cookie A Bit of History: I was fortunate enough to be in Washington D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. We were able to sit on the National Mall and watch a very moving video about the space program projected on the Washington Monument. At the…
A Recipe for Fig, Hazelnut, & Chocolate Chip Biscotti with Orange Zest I always tell the kids, let’s go to the corner and walk the dog twice around the lake. Once I read about the history of biscotti, I kept coming back to my mantra about the corner and twice around and it became a…
A Recipe for Fluffy Oven Baked Black & White Pancakes Whenever we venture into a bakery to peruse the cookie selections we almost always leave with chocolate chip, a lemon variety, and black and white cookies. Black and white cookies with their beautiful symmetry not only look amazing, but their soft cake-like texture tastes fabulous…
A Recipe for Honey Nut Ice Cream with a Quick Dry Chocolate Sauce My family calls me the memory bank because I typically can quickly recall random details from the past. Today’s recipe is inspired by two special childhood memories involving food. The first is cereal. As a kid, I loved to eat cereal for…
A Recipe for Campfire S’ Mores Pie & Parfait The Star Wars saga always strives for balance within the force. What better way to balance the “Light Side” Strawberry Ice Cream Pie than with rich dark chocolate? My girls and I had fun using our graham cracker pie crust recipe, our favorite dark chocolate pudding,…
A Recipe for Strawberry Vanilla Ice Cream Pie with Graham Cracker Crust In the spirit of May 4th, happy Star Wars Day! On this day, Star Wars fans tend to celebrate a grassroots holiday with the phrase May the Fourth Be With You. The phrase was first issued publicly on May 4th, 1979 in an…
Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream No Churn & Plant-Based Ice Cream A Bit of History It is really a toss up in my house who loves peanut butter more: me or our dog Chip. We both have developed super sonic hearing when it comes to the beautiful sound of the peanut butter jar opening….
One-Bowl Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars with a little bit of everything and limitless possibilities! A Bit of History: There is something about the smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies that is so comforting. Whenever I would drive home from college, my mom would always have a batch waiting. It was a good thing…
Easy Chocolate Hummus I have to admit when I first came across chocolate hummus at the store, I thought it sounded revolting. I decided to purchase it anyway because; hey it’s chocolate how bad could it be? Thankfully, my willingness to try a new product paid off and I loved it. There are lots of…
— A Recipe for a Trio of Plant-Based No Churn Chocolate Ice Cream. It’s Valentine’s Day week, otherwise known as a tribute to chocolate week in my mind. I started wondering why Valentine’s Day is associated with chocolate and discovered many interesting facts in this article from the Smithsonian Magazine. A grand slam of marketing…