Food & Drink

Chocolate Brownie Recipe

by beth February 21, 2012

For Mike’s birth­day the kids and I made him brown­ies. We didn’t do a cake because his Mom was mak­ing him a Ger­man Choco­late Cake {a heav­enly cake} for a fam­ily din­ner on Sun­day. Instead we went with another favorite dessert of his, rich, chewy choco­latey brown­ies. And, oh how these are some rich, chewy […]

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Tamale Pie

by beth February 2, 2012

Mike wanted to try some­thing new and enter the Tamale Pie. It is really a Tex-Mex take on a Shepherd’s Pie ver­sus a true tamale if you ask me. But it was pretty darn good not too spicy and not too com­pli­cated to throw together. My old­est couldn’t get enough of it. And that is […]

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

by beth January 10, 2012

My old­est {yet again} con­vinced me to make him muffins. Not any old muffins but Peanut But­ter Choco­late Chip Muffins. What can I say I am a sucker for his meth­ods of per­sua­sion which include not only beg­ging but also hav­ing D-man beg as well.  Together they are a deadly combo of cute­ness. A team […]

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Some Cookies

by beth December 23, 2011

The kids wanted to make some Christ­mas cook­ies.  And of course I said yes. Why?  Because I am insane.  That is why. But aren’t they cute? Nut­ter But­ter San­tas & Rein­deers.  With the top­pings that sur­vived hun­gry lit­tle ones who kept try­ing to sneak M&Ms when they thought I wasn’t look­ing.  I think D-man ate about a pound […]

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