
Wanna try a totally awesome summer salad dressing that’s fresh, fruity, and fun while also tart and tangy? Check it out…raspberry mango salad dressing!
It’s wonderful!!! This evening I enjoyed mine over a cabbage salad with pistachios and raspberries. Yummm!!!!
Tomorrow I’m gonna make a tuna salad with this dressing. I’m hardly waiting! It would … [read more]

I love slushies because they’re cold and refreshing, and they’re also a great way to cool down when you’re really hot. But let’s face it, they’re just not very nutritious, and I always hate it when all the flavoring is sucked out with my straw and I’m left with a bunch of flavorless ice. Yuck!
But … [read more]

We noticed some cedar planks for sale (for only a few dollars) at the seafood department at Whole Foods about a month ago and decided to buy one so would could try some salmon baked on it. We were curious if the cedar plank would flavor the salmon at all.
So last night we finally gave … [read more]

Last night I made Vesna’s blueberry cheesecake for a really sweet girl at work who requested this cake for her 20th birthday.
After I made the blueberry cheesecake for her, I decided to make a cheesecake for me and Kemal, but I made the crust a little different. Kemal isn’t crazy about graham cracker crusts, so … [read more]

One of Kemal’s favorite snacks (and mine too) is chocolate covered banana chips. They’re sinfully delicious and super easy to make.
Baked Banana Chips Dipped in Chocolate (Recipe Source: Spark Recipes)
They’re hard to resist, but really…why would you want to?

I was in the mood for a citrus cake but didn’t have any citrus fruit in the house. Fortunately, we had plenty of tangerine juice (Kemal’s favorite) in the refrigerator so I used some of that to make this cake which is fairly healthy as far as cakes go. There’s no butter or oil, and … [read more]

I’ve been in the mood for pears lately, and initially, I was planning to make a pear cake. But I wanted something a little lighter so I decided to make some poached pears. There are many of interesting recipes out there, and most of them involved poaching the pears in red wine. I’m sure the … [read more]