What is Baked Alaska? Baked Alaska has three main components: cake, ice cream, and meringue. There is no truly right or wrong way to make a baked Alaska, but this is my favorite version. It’s so good that our youngest daughter, Rose, has started requesting baked Alaska for her birthday cake! The dessert is assembled by placing your ice cream into a large bowl lined with plastic wrap and freezing it until it’s nice and firm to create a dome shape....
Graham Canyon Ice Cream If you ever find yourself in Utah, make an extra trip down to Provo and go to the BYU Creamery on Ninth. It’s an institution with it’s legendary ice cream flavors that are served in generous portions. Not only did I do my undergraduate education at BYU, but I stayed for three more years of law school and loved every minute of it. The BYU Creamery on Ninth just happened to be right across from the law building, so we made plenty of visits to grab a treat when studying got to be too much....
This recipe was sponsored by Nature’s Greens. This homemade kale soda bread is soft and tender on the inside with a beautiful green hue that’s 100% natural and from the kale! It’s super simple to make, and a great first foray into bread baking as it’s really hard to mess up! It’s also really quick as far as bread making goes, hence the designation of “quick bread,” haha. And while this savory bread uses enough kale to dye the dough a vibrant green, it doesn’t have a strong flavor in the final loaf....
The lovely gravy boat pictured above belonged to my husband’s Grandma Nash. When I went to take pictures for this post, I remembered I don’t actually have a pretty gravy boat myself. So we called Paul’s aunt, who lives just a few streets over from us, and asked if she had one we could borrow. She had three to choose from, but when she mentioned that this one had been her mom’s, I knew there was no other real choice....
Kids Birthday Cake Recipes I love to have food traditions and to make the same recipes for events year after year so they become part of our family story. That means we make some of the recipes in this list a lot, and others for just special occasions. Whether you’re looking for a first birthday smash cake, cupcakes for a party, a layer cake to share, lower-sugar cake, chocolate, or something else all together, this post has all the options you need....
Healthy Grocery List I share quite a bit of behind the scenes of how I feed my family over on Instagram and I decided to put together a version of my shopping list since I had a few requests. This free download is the way that I organize my food planning. Now, clearly, there are hundreds of apps that do this sort of thing, but for me, I actually don’t like to walk around a store looking at my phone....
Bonus point – There are very few tasty things healthier than this Mediterrnean style fish! Why not? It’s a keto dream, low carb, gluten free… chow down and over indulge without a teeny weeny bit of guilt! What is the Mediterranean Diet? When you think the word “Mediterranean” what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Blue azure waters, crispy clean air, vineyards, red wine… That’s how my thought train goes, and then stops at their food....
Have you heard? Roasted cauliflower is the new Brussels sprouts! Well, I just made that up and there’s certainly enough room in my heart (and stomach) for both, but I’m definitely going through a big cauliflower phase right now (aka my entire life). Recently I was craving some mustard roasted veggies but there were no Brussels sprouts in the fridge (THE HORROR!), and so I made the easy swap for cauliflower....
Once you make your own homemade clam chowder, you’ll never bother ordering it in restaurants, because yours is better! Soup season is in full swing. We’ve been brining you a lot lately, from the 15 minute easy Wonton Soup, to low and slow simmered Hungarian Goulash, to the outrageously tasty Puerto Rican shrimp soup, Asopao de Camarones. This time we’re bringing you something a little more close to home, something you’ve all had before in restaurants, or (gasp!...
Whether your family prefers tomato-based pasta dishes, spaghetti, plain mixtures or more complex ones, these one pan pasta recipes have you covered for easy weeknight family dinners. These recipes are so easy that most of them simply require putting everything into a pan, simmering it away, and giving it a stir or two. Below you’ll find one-pot pasta recipes that include chicken broth, red peppers, spinach, fresh basil, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and more fresh ingredients....
One of our all-time favorite treats is to whip up a batch of puppy chow (aka Chex mix muddy buddies). So it just makes sense to turn our favorite snack mix into a cookie featuring that same peanut butter and chocolate flavor with the extra sweetness of powdered sugar and crunch from the Chex cereal! My Muddy Buddy Peanut Butter Cookies recipe blends the traditional Muddy Buddies flavors with the comforting, homemade feel of classic peanut butter cookies....
I love all things peppermint and candy cane when it comes to the holidays! It’s probably my favorite flavor of the season. And peppermint bark milkshakes are high up on the top of my favorite treats list. This peppermint bark milkshake recipe, with its rich, creamy texture from the ice cream, bits of semisweet chocolate, and classic wintery peppermint flavor from the peppermint candy canes is better than any other peppermint shake that I have tried....
We love to make these blackberry scones every summer when we can get blackberries at their freshest, plumpest, juiciest best. We try to visit a local u-pick berry patch each year, just for the fun of picking our own blackberries right off the bushes. It’s one of our favorite activities as a family. Then we make all sorts of delicious berry treats like blackberry swirl ice cream, blackberry nectarine crumble, and homemade blackberry pie....
So, here’s the scoop on my favorite easy and quick recipe. I start by sautéing some chicken until it’s nice and tender. Then, I add in some hearty pasta and those juicy cherry tomatoes. They bring such a delightful sweetness to the dish, especially when paired with the fragrant basil. It’s a combo that’s hard to beat! You just can’t go wrong with a pasta dinner. Whether it’s something light such as Pasta Piselli or rich hearty like Pastalaya, pasta is always a hit....
Rice Noodle Salad My new cookbook, Dinnertime SOS, is a collection of fast and yummy dinners to share with the family, and this salad is one of our favorites from the book. It is so easy to customize for everyone at the table, requires very little prep work, and is just so delicious. The recipe will give you an idea of the style of the others in the cookbook, and I’m delighted to share it with you today....
Red, White, and Blueberry Cream Pie Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Who’s got big plans for the long holiday weekend? We’ve got dance recitals, weeding, and house remodeling projects on the agenda. And of course, have a cookout with friends! We love entertaining and back in March my friend Melanie showed up with this red, white, and blueberry cream pie to our Pi Day pie party. I immediately started hassling her to share the recipe with me because it was my favorite pie of the night....
I eat a lot more mac and cheese style dishes now that I’m vegan. Which is odd, because I did really love cheesy pasta in my pre-gan days. It’s possible I eat it more frequently now because it comes with a lot less calorie-guilt. Or perhaps because my vegan versions are so pantry friendly. Maybe it’s because there are never ending variations of vegan cheesy pastas, so a regular dinner can still feed my love of experimenting....
One of the highlights of a trip to San Francisco for lots of people is to enjoy fresh seafood at one of the many great restaurants in the city. We live in the Bay Area and I try to get into the city often for date night with my husband who works in San Francisco or to take our girls to meet up with him for lunch sometimes when they aren’t in school....
They say that chicken soup is for the soul, but I think it’s really apple desserts. They never fail to make me feel better about everything! Some of our other favorites are a Classic Apple Pie, Apfelstrudel (made the traditional way!), and Irish Apple Cake with Warm Vanilla Custard Sauce. I made these baked apples for dessert the other night and literally caught both my husband and youngest daughter licking their plates clean....
Sweet Potato Hash I love a good sheet pan meal—especially when I can be doing other things while it roasts away in the oven. This hash is perfect for weeknight meals and can be customized for your family. You can keep it simple, serve it topped with fried or hard cooked eggs, mix it up or deconstruct it. Not one of my kids likes every single element of this meal, but when I serve it with a range of toppings (like anything you’d put onto a taco), everyone can find plenty of foods that they like....
