I'm most definitely not a morning person. Fortunately my schedule as a grad student changes and I only have a couple of what I consider to be early mornings. When you do have to leave the house pre 8 AM, these muffins are the best way to convince yourself to get out of bed. Peanut butter stuffed in the middle of a chocolate muffin— it's like...

The food in this post is from a long time ago. Like really a long time ago. Like more than a year ago— circa July 2012. I found it at the bottom of the WordPress drafts folder thinking I would delete it since it had been so long and there would be no way we'd be able to find the pictures. But to my surprise I had already put pictures into the...

It should come as no surprise that I love my Dahlia Bakery Cookbook. Apparently these peanut butter on peanut butter sandwich cookies (basically a soft and much larger version of a store-bought Nutter Butter cookie) named Nora Ephron cookies after the late rom-com director tasted one while filming Sleepless in Seattle and declared them to be her...

After all of the cookie madness of the past few days here is some cookie dough love. The only thing possibly better than a cookie is cookie dough. Peanut butter cookies aren't my favorite, but I've already made regular chocolate chip cookie dough truffles, so I thought these would be a fun change, especially with a little white chocolate and...

Why eat a boring peanut butter sandwich for lunch when you can instead drink a peanut butter sandwich in cool liquid form? That sounds a tad gross now that I think of it. That question makes it sound like I put a sandwich in the blender with some ice cubes. Not the case. It's a riff off my healthy milkshake that uses a standard base of Greek...

Right after the 4th, both Dustin and I got sick. I told him the benefit of him having to take a sick day is getting to eat freshly baked treats, straight out of the oven. I didn't want to do too much baking since I didn't feel stellar either, plus I couldn't make desserts for other people since I still might be contagious. The absolute last...

I made homemade peanut butter for the first time! The only thing better than homemade peanut butter? Homemade honey roasted peanut butter! I don't think making basic peanut butter qualifies as a recipe post because it is super easy. Toss a 16-ounce jar of peanuts with about a tablespoon of peanut oil (or a flavorless oil like canola) into a...

I first saw this skinny peanut butter pie on Skinny Taste awhile back, filed a mental note that I should try it sometime, and proceeded to forget about it as peanut butter pie was replaced with some other equally delicious recipe I wanted to try. It wasn't until I saw this amped-up version on Sally's Baking Addiction that I remembered that pie...

I have to admit that towards the end of summer we got a little lazy going to the grocery every week. We took several weekend trips (Vancouver & Olympic National Park) and have been planning lots of nights (like weekly pub trivia) with our friends where we end up eating out. I don't plan too many of my lunches during the day. I usually end up...

I admit I've been scared to try putting greens into my smoothie. I read that you can't taste them at all, but I still the thought of spinach in my smoothie freaked me out a bit. I finally chose to take the plunge and give it a try though. I decided I wanted to make a strawberry and banana smoothie with a Greek yogurt and almond milk base. I also...