Category: Fruit

Tiny Flourless Chocolate Cake

Okay, Valentines…you’ve only got a couple of days to pull yourselves together. I have the perfect little cake to save the day! Tiny Flourless Chocolate Cake! I know, I know…flourless chocolate cake is sometimes better

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Chicken with Sweet Plantains

Chicken with Sweet Plantains. Trust me, you need to stop whatever you are doing right now and go buy plantains. This recipe comes from Melissa Clark of the New York Times and was featured in the Taste

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Chorizo & Goat Cheese Stuffed Dates

Chorizo & Goat Cheese Stuffed Dates. Behold the appetizer to end all appetizers! These little nuggets of goodness have it all going on — the sweet, the spicy, the creamy… Easy to make and even

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Caramel Apple Bars

Caramel Apple Bars are wickedly good. If I was any kind of food photographer, you’d have a photo deserving of their awesomeness rather than 3 brown squares on a plate. However, 3 brown squares on

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Apple Crisp (with Gluten Free options)

Apple Crisp! Apples and oats and cinnamony goodness! This is really the crisp broken down to its most basic form. You can make crisps with just about any fruit – rhubarb and Peach Crisp are two of

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Peach Bourbon Smash

Peach Bourbon Smash. TGIF! We’ve made it to the end of another week. Perhaps a summery cocktail is in order. Enjoy one of these babies while you can still get a peach or nectarine that

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Blueberry Frozen Yogurt

Friends, I have had a Blueberry Frozen Yogurt epiphany. I’ve made ice cream many, many times but never frozen yogurt. WHY????? It’s so good! It’s so easy! And, because it doesn’t have eggs like custard

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Key Lime Bars

Today is Idiot’s Kitchen’s 3rd Birthday so I made you some Key Lime Bars! Really. These are for you! Reach right through your computer and help yourself. I am a huge fan of the whole

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Watermelon Gazpacho

Watermelon Gazpacho! Yes, you read that correctly. Watermelon. In Gazpacho. Awesome! If this doesn’t scream SUMMER, I don’t know what does. My husband often takes his lunch to work and when he brought this out

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Rustic Peach Tart

Is there anything better than a perfectly ripe, juicy peach? While all fruits and veggies taste best in season you can still get by with broccoli or bananas that have been shipped in from other

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Banana Oat Breakfast Cookies

Banana Oat Breakfast Cookies. Breakfast Cookies For Eating ALL Day Long! These cookies come from my friend Sarah of Southwestern Quinoa fame. She was telling me about these cookies and about how they are healthy

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Strawberry Banana Muffins (or Bread)

I had a bunch of sorry looking bananas on my kitchen counter yesterday. If you live in Florida, this happens quite frequently. I’m not sure why, but fruit ripens/rots here faster than I’ve ever seen

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Banana Cream Pie

I missed Pi/Pie day on March 14. I missed Ravioli day and Chocolate Caramel day on Tuesday. At least a few weeks ago I made it (totally by accident) on time for Chili Day. Good

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Fresh Strawberry Pie

It’s strawberry season! Yes, I know it’s February. But if you live in Florida, it’s strawberry season. While everyone up north and on the east coast was digging out this past weekend, I went to

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Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry Muffins. Hello, my lovelies. My friend Patrick has been asking for a blueberry muffin recipe for ages so I thought it was high time I grant his wish and come through with the goods.

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