Homemade Chocolate Syrup

Here’s a perfect recipe for gooey, rich chocolate syrup (without preservatives and other chemicals). This is so thick and chocolatey!  This chocolate syrup is great for making chocolate milk, topping ice cream, drizzling over Puffy German Pancakes, adding to brownie batter, or (my favorite) adding to my iced coffee! Homemade Chocolate Syrup 3/4 C Water […]

Raw Strawberry Mango Avocado Salad

This sweet, summery salad is juicy and so flavorful – just delicious on top of some baby spinach. My good friend tried an intriguing diet this summer.  She saw the documentary, “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead” about a man on a mission to lose a considerable amount of weight to reverse his obesity-related symptoms. He […]

Easier Way to Seed an Avocado

The avocado seed can be such a pain to remove.  Then, once it’s out, I feel bad for just throwing it away.  I recently found an easy seed removal technique AND a way to preserve it – even how to use it in my decor as a house plant.   For the longest time, I’ve […]

Everything Smurfy

Smurfs are back!  It’s so exciting to share them with my kiddos.  Many a Saturday morning was spent singing “la LA la la la la LA la la la la” Smurf stuff is popping up everywhere.  Check out what I found…   Smurf Bento.  Do I see blue rice?  Love it! source Homemade Papa Smurf […]

Puffy Sopapillas

One lone sheet of puff pastry was hanging out in the freezer.  After making the apricot pinwheels, I thought this time I’d make something savory.   Nah… sweet wins again.   This time I made a puff pastry version of sopapillas.  (from Pepperidge Farm) Preheat the oven to 400. (Yes, I started making treats at […]

Apricot Pinwheels

I’ve had this ‘thing’ for apricots lately.   Sweet with a little zip.   So, I bought a jar of apricot preserves and thought of making something sweet.   After some searching, I found this very easy, yet delicious recipe from Pepperidge Farm.   It only calls for four ingredients and ends up tasting/looking like […]