Can we talk about Fifty Shades of Gray for a minute? I just read the first book. I have some opinions. (What? No way, right?) Let’s play book club.
We can talk delicious Almond Joy No Bake Cookies in a minute.
Blueberry Frozen Yogurt Pops
Happy 4th! A quick recipe for you today. A perfect summer day recipe. It will take 4 or 5 hours to freeze so if you read this real fast this morning and then get in the kitchen and get busy you can be eating them for dessert later.
I do love blueberries!
Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Happy fourth of July week. Because the holiday falls on a Wednesday it does nothing more than break up my week in an odd way. It’s always nicer for it to be on a Monday or Friday. Built in 3 day weekend.
Cupcakes are fun for a holiday and these could be dressed up with red, white and blue wrappers or sprinkles to make them festive. Clearly I made these a few weeks back, as my yard appears green and lush. Right now it is mostly brown and crispy due to a large lack of rain.
Mint Chocolate Cream Cookies
Life is full of disappointments. I promise these cookies are not one of them.
These flew off the plate. One little girl I know pretty much ate her weight in these cookies. Thank goodness she doesn’t weigh much!
Blueberry Pie Cake
Flip flops and high heels. The yin and the yang of womens shoes. And my two favorite types of footwear. I mostly just want to be barefoot which means flip flops are for me. However, I am really short horizontally challenged so the higher the heels the more like a big kid I can feel.
Of course, sometimes shoes are an acquired taste. I wasn’t always toddling around on 4 inch heels or gripping the thong of a flip flop between my toes. It wasn’t until after college that I really embraced my love of the high heel and as I’ve gotten older they’ve gotten taller. And flip flops. . .well they grew on me like a fungus. I used to hate the feel of that thing between my toes. However, once I embraced the flip flop I realized how awesome they are. They used to be about the only shoes I wore all year round when I lived in a warm climate. Alas, living back in the Great White North means I only have a small window for flip flops.
Foods some times take me awhile to acquire a taste for, too. Generally I am not a picky eater but there are a few things that I had to learn to love. Blueberries being one of them. I love most berries (not strawberries) but blueberries were always the most boring berry to me.
Orange Pineapple Cake with Orange Marmalade Buttercream
Today is my awesome husband’s birthday! Happy birthday, Sweetie! I am a fortunate girl to have found such a caring, funny, thoughtful, hard-working, honest, AMAZING husband. He’s an all around fantastic dude and I love him more than he could ever know.
But. . . he is also sick and twisted. (Which, in all honesty, amuses me to no end!) His birthday request? A pinata. Ok, easy enough. More specifically a baby seal pinata. To club. Yes, a baby seal to club. See? Sick! Twisted! HILARIOUS!
Caramel Filled Chocolate Cream Cookies
These are currently one of my favorite cookies. I first saw this brilliant idea on a brilliant blog that I enjoy, Picky Palate which is written by Jenny Flake. She just wrote her first cookbook and I can’t wait to get a look at it!
This is my riff on her idea. The original on her site is awesome. I’ve made them numerous times!
Rhubarb Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze
Rhubarb is in season. I’m envious of people with a patch of rhubarb growing in their yards. I have none.
I occasionally can glean some from a family acquaintance or relation. Or, I can buy it at the grocery store. $2.49 a pound! That hurts a little. Especially since my mom used to grow a patch when we were kids and never payed for a stalk of rhubarb in her life probably.
Mini Snickers Pies
A month ago I got a cute little Wilton mini pie pan. On clearance, of course. If you know me, you know I refuse to spend money on that sort of thing unless there is a good reason or a good clearance.
I realize that this sort of pan will not be used enough to blink at. I’m hopeful that I will find lots of reasons to use it and it will be fabulous. BUT, I am realistic enough to know that it will probably become one more kitchen gadget that I don’t have room for and it will live in the basement. It will end up a waste of money. And possibly a Goodwill donation two years from now.
Middle Eastern Inspired Date Crescents
Every Spring there is a Middle Eastern food fair at a little church close to my house. I started going to this food fair with my mom and dad while I was in college. I think it was the beginning of my never ending love affair with Middle Eastern food. I could eat hummus on a piece of old leather with no problem!
The food fair includes delicious savory treats like chicken schwarma and falafel. But often the real highlight of the fair are the tables of sweet treats that all the cute little Middle Eastern church ladies must spend weeks making!
My dad and I just went to the food fair last week. It was so good I ate until I felt like I would POP! Hummus, schwarma, baklava, anise cookies. Mmmmmmm. . . .
Sugar Coated Sarah 