Category: Recipes

  • Appetizing…

    I know you’re starved by now since all we gave you yesterday was a drink. But what a fabulous drink it was! Kristi came through with a Minty Peach Iced Tea. Perfect for this warm weather we’ve been having here in North Carolina! Today, Renee over at Living, Laughing, and Loving is making an appetizer…

  • Encouraging My Addiction

    Encouraging My Addiction

    Wait. You have an addiction? Why yes. I first wrote about it here when I shared the recipe for Greek Chicken Nachos. In that post, I confessed my {recently discovered} love for chickpeas. I also mentioned that I had not yet found a hummus recipe that was up to par with the one I loved at…

  • Smooooooth

    Smooooooth

    I’ve always been a fan of cold drinks. Ice cold chocolate milk Frozen lemonade Frappuccinos (usually mocha flavored) Milkshakes (chocolate malt? oh yes.) Pretty much everything in that list is high in calories and fat. Except possibly the frozen lemonade…depending how you make it. Well, one day smoothie were introduced into my life. Stopthebus…a frozen…

  • Grandma’s Best

    Grandma’s Best

    My Grandma always had some of the best food. Of course, there were always Oreos in the pig-shaped cookie jar, peppermint patties in the candy jar, and ice cream bars in the freezer. Sometimes there were ice cream bars in the shape of Mickey Mouse. And we could drink Orange soda and eat barbecue chips…

  • Greek Chicken Nachos

    Greek Chicken Nachos

    I’ve been on a chickpea kick lately. Just ask my husband. He’s been subjected to all sorts of variations of chickpea recipes in the past few months. It all started with some hummus I ordered at Zoe’s Kitchen. “Yum” only begins to describe it. I was pregnant at the time and thought about that hummus…