Beware – Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites are delicious and addicting.
Who doesn’t love raw cookie dough? Something about the chewy, moist texture and pronounced flavors that make the dough too tempting…mmmm.
I’m using this recipe for an upcoming Holiday Cookie Exchange. I had to share with you because they’re not only delicious, they’re easy to make {no-bake} and use natural ingredients. Here goes. Hope you like them.
Piggy-backing off the last post, I found a new way to use my delicious, plentiful watermelon. So far, I made watermelon coolers, watermelon ice-pops, and now a yummy and spicy watermelon salsa!
Watermelon is the perfect ingredient for a sweeter-style salsa. The two star ingredients in this salsa, though, are really the spicy Padrón pepper and the mint. The pepper adds a nice punch and the mint gives it complexity and pairs so well with sweet watermelon. Most Padrón peppers fall on the mild and sweet side but not all. The ones I picked up at the farmers’ market this morning were definitely spicy. And a little heat is what this salsa needs.
Recently, I made watermelon coolers. They were exactly what I was looking for–a tasty and refreshing summer drink. The problem with watermelon is I had so much remaining. I had to get creative. This is how I came up with watermelon salsa and here, sweet watermelon pops.
These ice-pops are a great low-cal snack for everyone but kids will especially love them. You don’t have to add sugar if your watermelon is nice and ripe. You also don’t need ice-pop molds or ice cube trays because these guys are simply blocks of watermelon sprinkled with lemon zest, frozen, and handled using chopsticks. Simple, yet so delicious. Read more →
I woke up this morning and realized I had an overwhelming number of apples in my kitchen. So I had an obligation to do something about it. Something like a deliciously sweet crumble. Et voilà: mostly apple crisp. It’s mostly apples because I threw a pear in there, squeezed a lemon on it, and threw a few strawberries in. The strawberries gave it a beautiful pink color, the lemon gave it some tart flavor and the pear … just because. Read more →
