These easy-to-make bars come together quickly and are a favorite grab n’ go snack around here. There’s something about the simple combination of peanut butter, butter, honey and oats, studded with dried cranberries and topped with a drizzle of chocolate and a sprinkling of flaky sea salt that is just…
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chocolate cherry almond biscotti
These chocolate cherry almond biscotti were good enough to pull me out of sluggish apathy this morning and finally revive a blog wallowing in abandonment for three years. Well, abandoned by us as bloggers, but not as bakers. We continue to reference this blog for our favorite shared recipes on…
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brown sugar banana bread
This banana bread is simple, moist, deeply flavored, delicious…and made in one bowl! It’s a recipe I have memorized because we make it once a week. We eat one loaf for snack and the other for breakfast the next day. Below is the brown sugar riff — a recent favorite…
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chocolate, peanut butter & fig energy balls
So as a mom of two with a third on the way I got to this point of being fed up with buying granola bars. Sure, they are convenient. But do they have any real nutritional value? Not to mention the packaging waste, and the often unnecessary added sugars. As…
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“anything you choose” muffins
Ok, so Joy of Cooking just calls these Basic Muffins with Milk, but since you can use whole milk or non-fat, or cream, or sour cream or yogurt or buttermilk, or add any kind of fruit – dried or fresh – or nuts or spices or any variation thereof, I…