Do you have a cooking and/or baking bucket list? I have an ongoing list in my head…I think I need to write one up soon. But making caramel sauce was on it for a long time. I…
Easy Strawberries and Cream Scones with White Chocolate Drizzle Recipe
You guyssssss…I know so annoying but I’m so excited because this recipe took me a ridiculous number of tries to get right. And when I did, I kind of freaked out. So did my friend, Nina. 🙂…
Easy Brown Butter Milk Chocolate Toffee Almond Cookies Recipe
It’s that time of year again and I’m SO EXCITED to share with you this recipe! It’s a cookie that I have been wanting to try my hand out creating a recipe for after I had a…
Easy Double Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream Recipe
I have a thing for cupcakes. Maybe because they are small? And salted caramel. Well because it’s caramel and butter is involved. I have a good friend, Carrie, who tells me all the time she doesn’t like…
Easy Peanut Butter S'mores Cookie Bars Recipe
Today, I’m sharing with you a recipe from my friend, Joan’s blog Chocolate, Chocolate and More, her s’mores cookie bars. Last week, Joan passed away in her sleep. I can’t believe I’m even typing those words. It’s…
Easy Pink Raspberry Buttercream & 10,000 Cupcakes Recipe
I love cupcakes…so when KitchenAid asked me to participate in their 10,000 cupcakes campaign…to bring awareness to breast cancer during the month of October and to raise funds for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, I said…
Easy Swiss & Cheddar Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Recipe
Often, when I travel, I’m inspired by the food I’m seeing and the food I’m enjoying…I have a really long note in my Evernote app called Recipe Ideas. It’s so long, I had to split it off…
Easy One-Pot Pasta with Mushrooms and Asparagus Recipe
Happy Labor Day, y’all! I just wanted to pop in and share with you some really fun news…someone I love and respect so much, Ree Drummond from The Pioneer Woman, recently relaunched her site (it’s beautiful!) and…
Easy Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream (Made with Almond Milk!) Recipe
I was out of town for a week and came home yesterday! My first flight of the day was at 5:30am…since it was so early, I didn’t get much sleep. Honestly, when I have such an early…
Yogurt Parfait Chocolate Chip Granola Cups
A little while back Princess Cruises invited us on an Alaskan Cruise. What an experience it was. I remember the first excursion I went on, I kept commenting to our tour guide that everything looked like a…
Easy Avocado Toast with Smoked Salmon & Kale Recipe
Hello, smoked salmon. I love you. Usually, I’m eating it on a bagel with cream cheese. But this…this takes it to another level.
Easy Three Cheese Mac & Cheese(Made with Almond Milk!) Recipe
So I started seeing a new primary care doctor recently and she thinks I’m lactose intolerant to a certain degree. I’m honestly not surprised about this revelation because like 90% of Asians are lactose intolerant. My older…
Easy Peanut Butter Cookie Pie Bars Recipe
So I recently hosted bunko at my house. I’m in a Bunko group with eleven other ladies, we all take turns and host a different month. The hostess makes an entree and a few other dishes and…
Classic Cheesecake Recipe & 5 Things I Loved About Our Alaskan Cruise
Recently, we were invited by Princess Cruises on an Alaskan Cruise and I’m so excited to share with you, our adventures! We had a blast, it was our first cruise. We met some wonderful people, saw some…
Easy Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
This post was originally published on February 12, 2011 and was updated recently with photos and updated text. We love this recipe and make it at least once a month…it’s a tried and true & very tasty…
Easy Funfetti Gooey Butter Shortbread Bars Recipe
Hi friends…it’s been a little quiet in this space. If you follow me on instagram, you know I have been traveling a lot. But I realized something over the last couple of weeks and even more so…
Roasted Cauliflower Toast with Goat Cheese & Prosciutto and Trip to the Pioneer Woman Ranch in Oklahoma
Brace yourselves, this is going to be a long post. I have so many photos to share…and this toast… I recently traveled to Oklahoma and stayed at Ree’s Ranch — the Drummond Family Ranch for food, fun…
Easy French Toast Sticks with Maple Butter Dipping Sauce Recipe
You know me, I’m all about butter…that’s why I’m so happy to be on the Land O’Lakes Kitchen Conversations panel, for the third year! Yay! The first time I had French toast? My older sister, Quyen, made…
Easy Shrimp & Bacon Fried Rice Recipe
When we first moved to the area where we live now, the first time I ordered Chinese take-out the fried rice was made with yellow rice. I experienced this at a couple of other take-out places and…
Coconut Tres Leches Cake
I love cake as much as the next person. But I never thought I could love a cake as much as this one. Last month, I was invited to the Epcot® International Flower & Garden Festival at Walt…
Easy Pan-Seared Scallops with a Gruyère Cheese Sauce Recipe
Can you believe this is the first time I have ever cooked scallops? I feel like this is the time I first made mussels at home…it’s so easy…and not sure why it took me so long to…
Easy Brown Butter Pasta with Asparagus & Bacon Recipe
I’m so excited to be partnering with Land O Lakes for the third year in a row, as a Kitchen Conversations panelist. And even more excited to share with you their annual Pin a Meal. Give a…
Easy Baked Cauliflower Macaroni & Cheese Recipe
Macaroni and cheese is my favorite…absolute favorite. And cauliflower, probably one of my favorite vegetables. I’m completely obsessed and love to eat it raw. So when Horizon® approached me to make a recipe with their mac &…
Beef Stroganoff with Buttered Noodles
I have a story to tell you about buttered noodles. I’m obsessed with them. When I was in high school, I actually worked at an assisted living facility and I worked in the dining hall. Every Sunday,…
