This easy week night pasta and sauce came about as a ‘I am tired and not looking to follow a recipe and want dinner on the table in 30 minutes meal.’
It became immediately known as ‘Quinton’s Pasta!’ In part because he alone had 5 helpings and because everyone, especially said 2 year old nephew, proclaimed it was great. And furthermore I really needed to repeat making it, but also write the recipe down for others to follow. So, who am I to argue, I did just that and here it is!
Cheesecake is delicious! There is nothing to argue there. But it can be finicky and require a great deal of cream cheese in many recipes. So these are technically more of a cheesecake bar with a shortbread base and fresh berry swirl. And they are completely, deliciously awesome!
Strawberry cupcakes are a really great idea. I mean who wouldn’t want a strawberry cupcake? My strawberry cake has been such a hit for years, I thought it was about time to adapt it into cupcakes!
These individual skillet brownies are one of my new go-to must have chocolate recipes. They come together so quickly with pantry staples and only take 22 minutes to bake. They are also unbelievably good when eaten warm right out of the oven, straight from the skillet.
These chocolate peanut butter oat bars are incredibly crave-able! Something about the texture of the combined sweet and salty chocolate and peanut butter combo with the chewy, granola bar like crust. Hard to walk by the fridge and not want a piece. I have even been known to whip up back to back batches when the first one runs out, because I am not ready to no longer have them waiting when I open the fridge.
With roasted pineapple and apple pie I accidentally created another delicious pie recipe from using what I had on hand. It was a bit of an experiment on pairing apple and pineapple together. I figured that apple often accompanies most fruit and berries well and accents not overpowers. Also they both have the word ‘apple’ in them. So there’s that.
In my opinion these make for a rather perfect chocolate sugar cookie. Also if you hate waiting for your cookies – like me -they do not have to be chilled.
Magnolia syrup is made from the beautiful, but quickly discarded petals of the magnolia flower and tastes like a ginger infused simple syrup. With only three ingredients it is super easy and quick to make. And requires surprisingly few petals to make a small batch.
There is nothing quite like the feeling of getting something from nothing or at least having less waste to compost. I always feel like the peels and cores can amount to a fair amount. So I was pretty pleased when I was able to successfully make a delicious apple jelly from nothing but the peels, cores and seeds (often leftover from making apple butter).
