Sometimes, you just need a cookie. It helps that these are refined sugar free, flour free and ready in minutes! Ever have one of those days that you just can't seem to get anything done? Like, you have a list a mile long but don't seem to make any progress on it. This was me...
Plain old pinhead oatmeal cookies don't get the credit they deserve. They are passed over for their better looking cousin, chocolate chip and their brother, oatmeal raisin gets all the attention. I think this needs to change. Why don't we look past all the glitter and glitz that these other cookies possess and look at...
Every year, just after Thanksgiving, we look forward to cranberry bliss bars showing up at Starbucks. They are one of Aaron's favorites, loaded with cranberries, white chocolate, candied ginger, and cream cheese frosting. When I first started my previous blog (in 2009), I tried to make these as one of my first recipes. I encourage...
I had such high hopes for this Halloween. I was planning to make multiple festive cookies, a savory dish, and a few fun cocktails. I had big decorations planned and a great and easy costume. But, I am not sure what happened and now Halloween is tomorrow and the only fun treat I made was...
This past week, we decided to bail out of an East coast surf contest that Sawyer was supposed to compete in to just stay home and get some house projects crossed off our list. Sawyer wasn't too bummed because there actually ended up being a little surf on our coast so he did get a...
It's kind of funny to me that I have re-started my website, with the intentions of posting about healthier eats from our Surfer's Kitchen, yet, I continually keep posting about cookies, brownies and other delicious desserts. Well, please forgive me. I love dessert and I especially love cookies. Plus, it is the holidays and baking...
Now that Thanksgiving is over, I am ready to start baking for Christmas. I love Christmas and start thinking, planning and scheming about it in the summer. I'm not a huge fan of the shopping aspect, although I do like that too. I just really get into the whole season. I love the excuse...
Happy Halloween! Any special plans for the day? We are going trick-or-treating tonight with some friends. Nova will be Wonder Woman and Sawyer is going as the Wall from Stranger Things. I was planning to be the Mom from the Stranger Things but wasn't able to find the correct phone to complete the costume. I...
Yesterday, was such a lazy day, a chocolate chip cookie baking kind of day. I worked on a website I am building for a local business, I worked meal planning and recipe testing and then sat around and watched as the kids did homework at a snails pace. Aaron was out doing paddleboard tours all day...
My mom is visiting. It's great. She does our laundry, loves working in the yard, and when I ask her to bake cookies, she does. The unfortunate part is that she is not a very good cook. She just doesn't like it at all and gets in the kitchen and immediately doesn't want to...
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies I was going back through some old recipes and the photos from these kept catching my eye. I remember spending tons of time to get the light just right and I really like how these photos turned out. I don't think they were approved by the food blog photo sites, but that's...
I did one of those body fat tests the other day. There is a local company that comes by Crossfit box every few months and I just happened to be there when they were there. I was proud of myself for deciding to get tested. It can be intimidating! The process was kind of...
Years ago, while I was pregnant with my daughter, I decided to buy a copy of Gourmet magazine (Dec 2004) during the holidays. Something about the cookies and treats on the cover inspired me to not only purchase the magazine, but to bake every cookie recipe in it. I have pictures of me baking, about...
I was so excited to make a cookie for my Food Bloggers Cookie Swap buddies. I considered so many different cookies but finally settled on these. My family always loves the chocolate crinkle cookies that seem to pop up during the holidays and these are the same...with a little surprise in the middle. The surprise...
I had a request from the Bean for homemade Nutter Butters and did my best to try to make them for him. Unfortunately, every time I baked the cookies in the peanut shape they would expand and grown and turn into giant misshapen beans. I finally gave up and made traditional round peanut butter...
Ahh....chocolate chip cookies--one of my most favorite things. I made vegan chocolate chip cookie bars for my students this week. We are talking about food diversity and the fact that a vegan diet is considered one of the best things a person can do for the health of the planet as well as their own...
Soft frosted sugar cookies in celebration of fall!