Now that summer is rapidly approaching, I love thinking up new dips that will be great for BBQ’s and get togethers. We eat chips pretty much year round, and I love coming up with new dips, but I was thinking I wanted to make something light and summery! Now, even thought we eat Mexican food year round, I always associate eating Mexican and drinking margaritas during the summer, outside on a patio. Really, what’s better than that?! I am so looking forward to July when I have this baby and can drink a good ‘ole margarita again! Anyway, back to the dip! This ...
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Broccoli Cheddar Grilled Cheese
So I know I just posted a recipe for Gluten Free Buffalo Chicken Grilled Cheese last week, but what can I say….we like grilled cheese! I made this broccoli and cheddar grilled cheese a few weeks ago, and it was so good. I had some left over broccoli and cheese, from making….you guessed it, Skinny Broccoli Cheddar soup so I was thinking about what I could do with it. Then it dawned on me…add it to some bread and grill it up! Broccoli cheddar grilled cheese! Yum! I made sure to chop this broccoli up pretty well (and I used the stems too, not just the florets), because I didn’t ...
Milky Way Caramel Cheesecake Brownies
My very favorite dessert in the whole entire world is cheesecake. Growing up I used to ask for cheesecake on my birthday in place of regular cake, and my parents usually agreed. I loved those cheesecake samplers that featured 3-4 different types of cheesecakes, and always my favorite one would be the chocolate or caramel flavors. Over the last few years I’ve become more comfortable baking ‘cheesecake’, and have made everything from Skinny Key Lime Cheesecake Cupcakes to Sopapilla Cheesecake which is a spin on Mexican cheesecake. I’ve never met a cheesecake I didn’t like, and I am ...
Chipotle Ranch Dip
Most of my regular readers know that I love dips and sauces. I love how you can really turn anything into a dip. I love chips and veggies and I love dipping them. We always have some sort of sauce or dip stored on the top shelf of our fridge. Lately I have been making lots of recipes with chipotle peppers, and I love the smoky spicy taste they add. I really like the chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (found in your international aisle in a small can), as the sauce they are in is so good. I had some left over from making some homemade enchilada sauce so I thought I would ...
Vegetarian Nacho Soup
Have you ever followed a basic recipe, only to have it come out horribly? Yeah, that happens to me occasionally, and it’s always such a bummer when it does. When I saw this recipe (gone wrong), I thought it looked good and wanted to try it. It’s hard to find vegetarian soup recipes that are really hearty because typically a nacho soup would have beef or some kind of meat, right? So this veggie-only option is really great, however the recipe I followed did not come out well…it came out bad. So bad that I ended up tossing it. It just really didn’t seem salvageable. I hate hate hate ...
Super Simple Buffalo Potato Wedges
So, I really wanted to post these Buffalo Potato Wedges before the Super Bowl, because they are the perfect game-day snack, but laziness got the best of me. I am generally a very on-the go, always busy, always working, always doing something type of person, but these last couple months have really been kicking me in the butt! Everyone keeps telling me it’s being pregnant that is causing this ultra-laziness, but I can’t accept that (but maybe I have to?)! I need to do so many things, I don’t have time to lounge around for 2 hours on the weekend, I just don’t! I guess I need to realize ...