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Chocolate chip toffee dessert bars on a bamboo cutting board with the recipe card.

Chocolate Chip Toffee Dessert Bars

If you’re looking for a new addition to your holiday baking, you’ve come to the right place. These chocolate chip toffee dessert bars will make everyone feel like they’re on the nice list! This layered bar has it all – a buttery crust that does double duty as a topping, chocolate chips, pecans, toffee bits, and that most magical of baking ingredients, sweetened condensed milk. As they bake, these bars bubble and brown into heavenly goodness. (P.S. – If you’re reading this in the summer, you should totally make these bars now to practice for the holidays.) Chocolate Chip Toffee Dessert… Read More

The cooked white quinoa in a yellow bowl on a patterened napkin.

How to Boil Quinoa Like Pasta

If you think making fluffy, tender, perfectly cooked quinoa is impossible, learn how to boil quinoa like pasta! It’s a super simple technique that you’ll use over and over. How to Boil Quinoa Like Pasta My friend Steph asked me the other day if I’d ever tried boiling quinoa. I’d heard of it, but hadn’t tried the technique, so it got my wheels turning. I usually make my quinoa like rice, simmering two parts liquid, to one part quinoa until the water is absorbed. But I’m always up for learning something new, so I thought I’d give it a try…. Read More

Four completed protein box lunches with quinoa and chicken.

Protein Box Lunches with Chicken and Quinoa

Protein box lunches with chicken and quinoa will be your new weekday lunch life savers. The quinoa and chicken pack a punch of protein that will keep you energized, the arugula and veggies will fill you up, and a little cheese will make you happy. Protein Box Lunches with Chicken and Quinoa Protein box lunches are my weekday lunch game changers! A little easy meal planning means I can reach in the fridge and grab one on my way to work to enjoy as my cubicle lunch. If you haven’t had one before, protein boxes are healthy combinations of food, heavy on the protein,… Read More

Sliced heirloom tomatoes, fresh mozzarella drizzled with balsamic glaze. On a bed of arugula in a square white dish.

Heirloom Tomato Salad with Arugula and Balsamic Glaze

This heirloom tomato salad with arugula and balsamic glaze is the ultimate summer recipe. You can use your home grown tomatoes, or buy a few of the flavorful heirloom varieties (#worthit). Fresh mozzarella goes perfectly in this caprese”esque” salad, as does the light lemon dressing on the arugula. Fast, healthy, delicious and beautiful! Heirloom Tomato Salad with Arugula and Balsamic Glaze The heat is on! Summer’s in full swing, and I don’t know about you, but I’m craving lighter, fresher, super flavorful food. Salads are such a great way to eat when it’s hot out. No need to turn on… Read More

Two charred, pan roasted jalapeno peppers in a dry saute pan.

How to Pan Roast Peppers

Learning how to pan roast peppers will change your salsas, your burgers, your breakfasts and more, for the better. Jalapenos, poblanos, serranos & sweet bell peppers – roast them all! Roasting fresh peppers brings out the best of their personality and adds a nice smoky, charred flavor. How to Pan Roast Peppers It’s kind of fun to have a cooking technique where your goal is to burn your food. Takes the pressure off! Roasted peppers have a delicious smoky, charred flavor that goes perfectly with their natural sweetness. That charred flavor gives a boost to lots of dishes like salsa, sweet potato hash, pastas,… Read More

Awesome Tools & Plugins for Food Blogging - blog post image with a bowl of tomatoes in the background.

Awesome Tools and Plugins for Food Blogging

These are a Few of My Favorite Things I am not a techie person. So when I was setting up my blog it was important for me to find awesome tools and plugins for food blogging that were easy to figure out. I also didn’t want to use anything that would take a lot of time away from what I really wanted to do, which was write blog posts! The most important things for me were, and are, continuously learning, creating beautiful images and writing easy to follow recipes. All of these are a work in progress, and always will be, which is part… Read More

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