I made the mistake of making these bars the weekend of Halloween, inbetween trick or treat nights. In my town, the kids trick or treat twice (once in a city celebration where the local businesses open their doors to trick-or-treaters and once in the more conventional house to house setting), so the kids already had…
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
Things continue to move at a frazzled pace–which is why you will see a few pound cakes before you see any cookies again. Not that cookies are hard, but nothing takes less time than whipping up a loaf, bundt or tube cake–except maybe brownies. But I digress. The point is that we continue to hurdle…
Thai Chicken Satay
This recipe ruined me for all other satay. Which is kind of a shame really because it is certainly more labor intensive than other satay. But it is oh so worth it. Because of the labor involved, I recommend doubling the paste recipe and freezing the remainder, so that the next time you want satay…
Salty Ancho Peanut Butter Cookies
I got the idea for these cookies from the Rogue Bakery, a homemade, home-delivered cookie bakery in Columbus and Cleveland. I actually have not tried their spicy peanut butter cookies, but when I heard the owner/baker say ancho and peanut butter in the same tweet, I was instantly intrigued. (For what it’s worth, I have…
Thai Influenced Stir Fried Pork & Vegetables With Kaffir Peanut Sauce
To think that 3 years ago this week the Cleveland Indians’ home opener was canceled for snow–as were the subsequent 3 games. Not this opening day– the Midwest is experiencing shockingly wonderful early April weather. The last week has seen more hot days than we had in all of July last year (I exaggerate but…
M&M Peanut Butter Shortbread Bars
One of the things about having a food blog, is that your blogging skills improve over time. Especially your photography (who knew you were not ‘sposed to use a flash? I sure did not!). So even though I have shared this recipe before, I am going to share it again, because many fo you were…
Salty Sweet Peanut Butter Granola With Chocolate Chips
There is a refrigerator–a little small, maybe 21 cubic feet?, bottom freezer drawer–sitting in my front hallway right now. My parents are re-doing their kitchen, and I got the prize of the fridge! I have been dying for a second fridge in the basement for a while now. Right now, in the winter, overflow goes…
A New Look For Sweet & Salty Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
What is it about kids that brings out the over the top in us? Indeed, might I say, garish in us? I would not normally put 1 cup of peanut butter chips, 1 cup of chocolate chips, 1 bag of baking M&Ms and 1 bag of baking peanut butter cups into a double batch of my Sweet…
Pomegranate Chickpea Curry
I have a meal to share but currently I am too lethargic to type much. This is a silly picture to share probably, but 4 burners with gorgeous stainless steel pots bubbling away (and room for all 4, despite 3 being pretty big) made me quite happy.First of all I am really, really full. Stuff…