Tomato, Onion and Cucumber Salad

Over ripe bananas call for banana muffins!

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Wordless Wednesday…

Drop In & Decorate
Back in 2002 one of my good food blogger friends, Lydia started a wonderful program called Drop in & Decorate. It’s a simple con

Apple Pancakes for dinner…
We are still in our crazy, running all the time, trying to find some sense of balance in our lives mode.  So I am making dinners in the crockpot or else finding things that I can make ahead of time and just reheat for a quick meal between activities (BMX racing, ice skating, and karate).  I made a really good white chicken chili but ate it all without a single photo.  So will post when I make it again and you can bet I will be making it again, it was just that good. Anyway, these pancakes came about because I had some fruit that badly needed to be used up or tossed out tomorrow.  There were 6 apples, 4 bananas and 2 pears.  3 of the bananas went into

Royal Foodie Joust Winners: Orange, Black and Sugar
Jenn, The Leftover Queen, is busy taking care of Royal duties in San Francisco this weekend and has asked me to step up and help her out with the Royal Foodie Joust winner post.  As always I am so happy to help out a friend! I love the fall, it is one of  my favorite season. Unfortunately living here we really don’t have too much of a fall to speak of.  But I still love the fall ingredients and these ones were awesome.So when Kat, from A Good Appetite, winner of last month’s Joust, sent me her choice of ingredients for this month I was thrilled! Orange - Pumpkin (or

Quick and Easy Pumpkin Spice Muffins
Have you noticed that pretty much the only things I do right now are things that are quick and easy?  Sad but true.  I am busy… I went searching yesterday for a quick and easy recipe to make some pumpkin muffins.  I wanted something that used no appliances and I could whip out in a matter of minutes with minimal mess.  These were perfect and fit my criteria flawlessly!