Unbelievably moist muffins made with vanilla yogurt, bananas, and blueberries. Just before school was out I decided to make some muffins for the girls’ lunches. It was towards the end of the week and grocery shopping needed to be done, but our bank account wasn’t quite ready for that yet (I don’t even want to…
One of The Maestro’s favorite recipes is this easy lemon cake. It’s super easy because you just have to doctor up a basic yellow cake mix, and it’s really good, too. I need a good dose of springtime in my life, so we made this cake a couple weeks ago, and it was just the…
Love BYU mint brownies? Here’s the secret recipe! Our favorite brownies are the ones you can buy on BYU campus—the yummy BYU mint brownies. Over the years, my husband has done his best to dissect and perfect a recipe that comes pretty darn close to the ones you can buy at the CougarEat, and I…
These delicious, melt-in-your-mouth holiday cookies are topped with a peppermint glaze and crushed candy canes. The perfect cookie to leave for Santa Claus! This is my very favorite Christmas cookie recipe. You guys, they are so good-they literally melt in your mouth! They aren’t called Peppermint Meltaways for nothing! We love them. Maybe a little…
If you follow me on Pinterest you might know that I have an obsession with pumpkin. I freaking love it. My Pinterest board called “Pumpkin is My Favorite Food” has (gulp) 767 pins on it. Yes. Seven HUNDRED and sixty-seven. As if I would ever make them all. And, obviously, about 750 of them are…
This pear pie is so good you’ll definitely want to add it to your Thanksgiving pie menu! Thanksgiving is coming, and that means one thing to me: Pie. Turkey is great and all, but I am all about the pie on Turkey Day. So I call it Pie Day instead. Last year was my first…
Have you recently received a diagnosis that requires you to eat gluten-free? Whether it is Celiac Disease, Hashimotos, or something else, transitioning to gluten-free is a process. Follow these five tips and make your transition to a gluten-free diet painless. Gluten-free life has begun to take the members of our household down one by one….
As of today (November 2013), 3/5 of our little family is completely gluten-free. The other 2/5 eat an almost gluten-free diet simply because it’s easier, but also because I suspect they are both sensitive to gluten like the rest of us. The real problem is that one of them is a teenager who doesn’t want to be…
If you’re a Mormon, you understand the phenomenon that is Jell-O salad. You may not actually like it, but you do understand it. Or maybe you don’t understand it, but I’m pretty confident that you’ve at least eaten it once or twice. When I was a kid, my mom always made the same green Jell-O…