Tonight Ryan and I sat side by side on the couch with my laptop propped up on his lap. Our mission: Find a dessert to make for Thanksgiving. I told Ryan is was his job to select the dessert this year. He tossed around several ideas, including chocolate pecan pie and Paula Deen’s pumpkin gooey…
Thanksgiving Cookie Cake Pie

It’s no cherpumple, but the dessert I made for my office’s annual Thanksgiving potluck was a bit of an undertaking… but a fun one! 😀 After posting about the cherpumple on my blog, blog reader Stephanie commented to tell me about another creation that was much less involved than the three-layer cake pie, but still…
Kix for the College Kid in Me

Growing up, I wasn’t much of a cereal girl. Rather than pour myself a bowl Froot Loops, I opted for packets of instant oatmeal, cinnamon toast, Eggo waffles or a Toaster Struedel on most mornings. When I entered college, I discovered the beauty that is cold cereal. It was my go-to snack and would become…
Growing Dumplings
Apparently dumplings grow when you place them in a bubbling bowl of chicken soup! After preparing a pot of chicken soup, I plopped several tablespoon-sized dumplings into the pot to simmer and cook. Within minutes the dumplings nearly tripled in size. More doughy goodness is fine by me! To make the soup, I combined the…
PB & PPB Sandwich

PB & PPB sandwich? Huh? That would be a peanut butter and pecan pumpkin butter sandwich, of course. Starring… Git in mah belly! This morning, after taking an oh-so-schweaty BodyPump class, I inhaled a pb and ppb sandwich along with a small slice of red velvet pound cake that I purchased at the farmers’ market…
