Author: Naomi

Double Down Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Double Down Chocolate Chunk Cookies ~ These wickedly addictive double chocolate chip cookies will have you hovering around the cookie jar like a bee to honey.

Double Down Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Double Down Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Tender and chewy these cookies are a mid-point between a crisp cookie and a soft brownie.  Not only are these awesome-ly (uh, yes, a real word in my kitchen) good they smell delish while baking. In fact, so much so, I was able to bribe my little guy into quiet submission for the 12 minutes they took to bake.

Call me terrible, I call it efficient. Twelve minutes was all I needed to throw the dishes into the dishwasher and get out the glasses of milk and napkins for the taste testing.

Verdict: My family LURVED these bad boys(or girls, if you are going to get PC on me) and so did I. I love the taste, texture, and most of all I love that these Double Down Chocolate Chunk Cookies are the kind of cookie that can rival any top notch bakery. Continue reading Double Down Chocolate Chunk Cookies

SoNo’s No-Bake Cheesecake

SoNo’s No-Bake Cheesecake ~ A no bake version that easily parallels its oven counterpart in texture. Throw in the fact that this is a John Baracelli recipe and with his talent for subtle flavoring and his use of gelatin to help set this cheesecake, you may never want to see a waterbath for cheesecake again.

No-Bake Cheesecalke
SoNo's Cheesecake
I’m on a guest post run, my second in two weeks and I love it. This one is for Kid Diva. I met her on Twitter and we quickly surmised that we must have been sisters separated at birth. Although I’m still wondering how she got all the rad genes and I ended up a nerd in Southern California.

Her blog The Sugar Bar is one of my favorites. Want to see some of England’s best neighborhood restaurants-check it. The pictures of the dishes will have your mouth watering so wipe it up and get ready for the other part of her blog where she features her own deliciously creative recipes that will have you inspired and running for your kitchen.

Aside from her rock’n blogging skills, you’ll see she is very well loved on Twitter-deservingly so. Gone for a day and we Tweepers are missing our sunshine. For those not in the know, follow her on Twitter at @sugarbardiva and get skinned with some coolness.

In sticking with the theme of her life right now as a busy student, I chose a no-bake recipe that if Kid Diva can find time to make so can you.

Hit the jump for her blog and for the recipe. http://www.sugarbar.org/

Roasted Summer Vegetables

Roasted Summer Vegetables ~ Keeping summer vegetables simple with a quick roast of squash and zucchini for a fast and healthy weekday side dish.

Roasted Squash and Zucchini
Roasted Summer Vegetables

I know I’m not alone in this, but hot summer days make me lazy, traffic makes me cranky and complicated dinners on weekdays make me crazy. Given all that, I try to keep things simple Monday through Friday.

My favorite weekday meal: Grilled Chicken with Roasted Vegetables.

I love it even more because Matt does all the grilling and he is a master at it, while I have the one simple task of doing the vegetables.

Sorry no pics of the chicken, his philosophy, respect the food first. That means food is eaten while hot and not after I have spent 30 minutes toiling around with the composition and lighting.  Yeah, I know-I’m slow, but I’m also a novice with this photography thing.

Staying mindful of the theme for simplicity in this post I am keeping this one short.trans Roasted Summer Vegetables Continue reading Roasted Summer Vegetables

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