If this particular list looks a bit heavy on the snack-y type recipes, you might correctly surmise that I was doing a lot of these while Bart was in the middle of busy season and I had many many nights home alone while small children slept. The peanut butter pretzel truffles are rather hard to explain away as non-desserts, but the cookie dough blizzard and truffle squares? Legitimately non-desserts. At least in my book.
1. Sun-Dried Tomato and Spinach Omelet: I have spent most of my life disliking eggs, but the older I get, the more I seem to like them. And this was the best omelet I’ve ever had. Even Ella, who also is not much of an egg eater, scarfed down the tiny square I gave her and asked for me. I gave her a little more, but it was a sacrifice on my part. I was wary of the balsamic drizzle on top, but I put my faith in Natalie, and it was not a mistake.
2. Strawberry Balsamic and Bacon Pizza: We had people over for dinner so I needed to make two pizzas instead of the usual one, which gave me an excuse to make one of those pizzas a weird one. And whoa, this pizza was insanely good. The sauce is a balsamic reduction mixed with strawberry jam – I could have eaten it plain. Bart, who tends to worry about these kinds of unusual combinations, gave it high marks.
3. Pretzel and Peanut Butter Truffles: I do not care for pretzels plain very much, but put them in a recipe and I’m hard pressed to resist. I just dipped the tops of these in chocolate so they were much less cute, but also much easier. And you know me. . . I like easy.
4. Nutty Cinnamon Chocolate Truffle Squares: I made these about five times in the last month (although after the
first time, I stopped doing the bottom layer of chocolate because it was
too sweet for me and also it kept cracking off. Easier and better to
just do a top chocolate layer. I use cashews instead of pecans, and I
try not to eat the whole pan myself.
5. Roasted Pear and Chocolate Chunk Scones: Another scone recipe. Seriously, these are the best scones ever. (Also, have you noticed I like chocolate?).
6. No-Bake Dairy & Sugar-free Cookie Dough Blizzard: For many moons, we’ve been using our frozen bananas to make that two-ingredient “ice cream” but this is now my preferred method for using up the frozen bananas (let’s not lie – I overbuy bananas just so I never run out of frozen ones). I use vanilla almond milk and instead of bothering with making double layer cookie balls, I just throw together a quick batch of these, roll them into tiny balls, and freeze them for about five minutes.
I read over this list and feel like I am very lazy about any fussy steps in a recipe. Happily, that laziness seems to result in eating less chocolate. So maybe laziness is a quality I should continue to cultivate.
P.S. Here are previous recipes I’ve tried and loved.
Stephanie says
Your site looks great! I love your photo.
The other day I went into the freezer to grab a banana and I realized that someone had eaten MY frozen bananas. It was a sad day.
Creole Wisdom says
That pizza sounds good. I would love to throw strawberries on one 🙂
Love the new blog banner and photo!!!!
becomingbrown says
I made that blizzard when I got home from swimming tonight. It hits the spot.
Lindsey C says
OH I'm glad you liked the strawberry bacon pizza! I made it about a year ago and Blakely LOVED it but I was on the fence. Maybe I should give it a go again. But that won't be happening until I make those pretzel truffles and cookie dough shake. That needs to happen ASAP!
Also I love your new look!
Meghan says
The pizza sounds amazing… I'll have to try that.
Meghan says
BTW your food photography is really quite nice. I'd like to get into doing that.