I eat peanut butter sandwiches at least three or four days a week. I do like to vary them up slightly each day. I have several varieties of Peanut Butter & Co. butters, and sometimes I add some banana or a sprinkling of cinnamon, but even with these changes I recently got tired of my commonplace peanut butter sandwich, and decided to switch my...

These peanut butter and oatmeal dog treats are super easy to make— there are only four ingredients, one of which is water— and Bonnie gobbles them up. They are basically a combination of two of mankind's favorite cookies— oatmeal and peanut butter (no chocolate chips for puppies) minus all of the sugar and bad stuff. So these are actually...

Even as my taste buds have matured, I'm still not much of a salad person. I'll eat one if I have to, but rarely will I crave a salad. However I have found that nuts (and cheese) make the salad eating experience much more pleasant. If you can ensure that you have a nut (particularly a candied nut) in each bite to disguise the lettuce, salad...

I've gotten pretty lucky since I started baking regularly that I haven't had too many failures, much less compete failures in the kitchen. That all changed on Valentine's Day when I attempted to make red velvet whoopie pies. I'd been looking forward to making these ever since Dustin bought me a whoopie pie pan for Christmas, and since red velvet...

Happy Valentine's Day! Part of Dustin's Valentine's Day gift was supposed to be what I thought would be a cute and thoughtful take on the Valentine's classic, chocolate covered strawberries. I pulled the stems, cut the strawberries in half and cut the tops to have two bumps, turning the strawberry halves into hearts. I thought it would be...

What's better than a quiet evening, sitting on the couch watching a fun movie with your family and eating popcorn? All of that except make the popcorn caramel corn. But instead of going through the process of making my own caramel syrup, I used the jar of fleur de sel caramel sauce from Trader Joe's we had sitting in the fridge, thus making...

I have been wanting to make this forever but have been waiting for the perfect occasion. We wanted to have our own little holiday celebration together with Bonnie before we head back to Texas (and Santa Fe) to visit family, and doughnut bread pudding sounded like the perfect breakfast to serve on our faux-Christmas morning where we exchanged our...

Let's face it. Over the next few weeks we will be stuffing our faces with lots of holiday cookies. I thought Bonnie should be able to join in on the Christmas fun, so I decided to bake her some puppy gingerbread cookies as yummy treats for her to snack on while we indulge. Plus she's supposed to be having a playdate with one of her friends, so I...

Yes, I enjoy baking treats for my dog. Yes, I know she is spoiled. But in my defense, baking for my dog is good for me because I get the joy of baking without being tempted to eat ay too much. And she loves the treats I make her (well she likes any food really), which makes her love me more. It's really a win-win. Dustin laughed at me when I...

Happy Halloween! Inspired by this post, Dustin and I decided to make a Halloween bark from some of America's favorite candy bars and the most ubiquitous Halloween treat around, candy corn, to take to a party. I never really thought about making any kind of bark besides the Christmastime goody, peppermint bark, but now that I think about it, it...