My Best Banana Bread Ever

I believe that this banana bread will knock your socks off while also surprising you. It is made with less sugar than the average banana bread bear and uses white whole wheat flour. I adapted this banana bread recipe from the Neiman Marcus "Pure and Simple" banana bread recipe from when women used to wear girdles and panty hose every day. For most recipes I don't really specify ingredients much, but since baking is mostly a science, I recommend that you follow my recipe as closely as possible. Ingredients 4 ripe bananas (if 3 bananas, up the sugar to 3/4 [...]

By |2018-10-02T18:32:04-04:00March 18th, 2015|
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30 Second Chocolate Love Dust a.k.a DIRT

I have decided, after publishing this video, that I am going to change the name of this lovely dust to.... DIRT... I think it will sound very diner-esque when I offer my guests DIRT for their waffles. I discovered Chocolate love dust at the Villagio Inn and Spa in Yountville / Napa, California. I happened to get married at the Villagio, but for years before that, my husband and I would take advantage of last minute deals and drive an hour to Napa to escape. What I most looked forward to was the breakfast that comes with the room. This [...]

By |2018-10-02T18:32:44-04:00February 13th, 2015|
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Moroccan Sex Wings – NC17

I was craving Moroccan flavors, but have no idea how to make Moroccan food. I do, however, know that Cumin and Cinnamon are often found in Moroccan food so I Googled "Cumin, Cinnamon, Moroccan Spice Blends" and came up with Ras el hanout, which is sort of like North Africa's curry, everyone has their own version of Ras el hanout. It turned out that I had everything in my pantry except for coriander and allspice, but I went for it anyway, the only catch was that every dish that contained Ras el hanout, was pretty complicated, so I slapped it [...]

By |2018-10-02T18:33:57-04:00February 5th, 2015|
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Baked Parmesan Chicken Bites

I have a love/hate relationship with chicken nuggets. I hate that America stuffs their children with terrible mystery nuggets and I love to eat these mystery nuggets or their close cousin the finger of chicken. Who knew chickens had nuggets and fingers? I have solved this love/hate problem by coming up with a way to make a wholesome chicken nugget that tastes like you are going to hell or at least Jenny Craig, but is actually not that bad for you. Baked Parmesan Chicken Bites 6-8 chicken tenders cut into 3-4 chunks (Trader Joe's sells a pack of frozen/glazed tenders [...]

By |2018-10-02T18:34:35-04:00January 15th, 2015|
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Apricot Dijon Laquered Chicken Thighs

I realize that I haven't posted on my blog for a bit, but I have been posting new videos to my YouTube Channel weekly. Please click here to view the recipes you have missed! I am going to write the full recipe in the description of each video. Please subscribe so you don't miss any! I needed an idea for how to use apricot preserves with Dijon and chicken and found a recipe from Martha Stewart called Apricot and Dijon glazed chicken thighs... the only thing is, it required too much work and contained a whole jar of apricot preserves [...]

By |2018-10-02T18:35:35-04:00January 8th, 2015|
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