Carrot & Apple Snack Cake
My family’s original recipe for carrot cake called for carrot baby food. When I moved overseas I could not find carrot baby food so I started making the cake by […]
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Carrot Salad
When I was a young teenager I spent a lot of time with my grandparents. I had never seen my grandfather cook until the night he surprised my grandma with […]
Vanilla Slice Cake
For most of my life nearly everyone I knew made strawberry shortcake in exactly the same way. They got some strawberries, cut them up, poured a ton of sugar on […]
Blueberry “Cheesecake” Froyo
This homemade frozen yogurt fits well with our “healthy but still having some desserts” lifestyle. It doesn’t actually have any cheese in it at all, it gets its cheesecake flavor […]
Pineapple No Cherries Upside-Down Cake
When I was a kid, I had mixed feelings about the traditional pineapple upside-down cake. I mean, it’s cake, right? It’s hard for me not to like a cake, and […]
Baked Buttermilk Donuts with Strawberry Glaze & Sprinkles
These aren’t just muffins baked in a donut pan. Even though they are not a traditional fried donut, whipping the egg whites gives them a lovely light texture, and even using frozen […]
Strawberry Tart
Depending on your choice of cheese and jam, this delicious tart can be made lighter in fat and sugar but still taste like a non-diet food. The tart in the […]
Breakfast Salad
This is something I enjoy and have eaten a lot of over the years. I like to have it with well toasted whole grain seeded bread or bran muffins. It […]
Baked Cheesecake with Blueberry Sauce
I adapted this from my mother’s recipe, originally just to make a smaller version but over the years I started making it with less sugar and Philadelphia started making a […]
Fruit & Oat Muffins
These muffins make a great anytime snack or breakfast food. I like to put mine in the microwave for 15 seconds, split it, add a little butter, smash it back […]