Category Archives: Dessert

Chocolate Nutella Pudding Pie

Have I drawn you in with the title of this post? As if pudding, or pie wasn’t enough on it’s own. Add some nutella. My obsession. I saw this pudding and I knew I had to make it. 10 minutes to make homemade pudding. Um yeah? And I still had half of a pie crust [...]

Pie. Lots of pie.

Yesterday was national pie day, so we had to celebrate. First course, mini pot pies. I used a combo of recipes. . . This one for the crust and this one for the filling. They were ridiculous. I am reminded of all the pot pies I used to eat in college (freshmen 15 anyone?) and [...]

recent eats

Holy moly, I have cooked some good things recently and have not been sharing them with you guys! Instead of writing up too many food posts, I decided to just dump them all here into one post. You guys don’t mind, right? Let’s get started. Back in July, I made some Beef Empanadas for a friend’s birthday [...]

homemade chocolate pudding

Chocolate pudding (along with nutella) is one of my soft spots. I have these memories of eating it as a child and always eating more than one bowl. My mom always made the Jell-O stove top version and would spoon it into these large frosted glass bowls. The skin on the top was my favorite [...]

May Bookclub

For May’s bookclub book, we read Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee. None of us particularly loved the book, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t up to the caliber of some of the other books we have read. It was a lot like Eat, Pray, Love in my opinion. . . and I though Eat, [...]

Coconut Mango Ice Cream

Thai Fresh is one of the many wonderful eateries in Austin that is focused on using local ingredients. In fact, part of the store is an old style grocery – selling anything from local sausages to hard to find Thai ingredients. The owner offers many cooking classes to teach people the delicious ways of Thai [...]

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Get ready for the zucchini recipes. My garden is in fully swing producing them so I’ll be cooking a lot of them! First up, zucchini bread. I had actually never made zucchini bread before – mainly because I didn’t really grow up eating zucchini. In fact, I don’t think it was until college that I [...]