Vanderbilt Wife: Mouthwatering Monday: Five-Minute Spinach Salad with Cherry Vinaigrette
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my Disclosure statement for more details. Last week, someone was supposed to bring us dinner but it fell through because of illness. I had purchased groceries to make my very quick D-Hall Feta Pasta, but I wanted a yummy side dish. So I created this super easy spinach salad, and it was DIVINE! It’s also easy to substitute what you have on hand.
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"All the SIIIIIngle ladies! All the single ladies. All the SIIIIngle ladies! All the single ladies. Now put your hands uuuUUUP!" *raising my hand up high*
3 ingredient cakes
“K-I-S-S: Keep It Stupid Simple” is a mantra that should pop in my head more often. Sometimes I feel like many of us (women especially) are so addicted to trying to make things so complicated, perfect and impressive that they turn into a nightmare rather than the dream we had in mind. Using a simple approach I came up with 4 healthy cake recipes using only 3 ingredients per cake. These cakes are just easy, quick, no-fuss healthy treats. Walnut cake Banana cake
Bûche de Noël with Eggnog Ice Cream Cake, Chocolate Streusel, and Butterscotch Sauce by Pastry Chef Patrick Fahy
The day I met Pastry Chef Patrick Fahy, I was allowed to have much more fun than I deserved. We spent an afternoon making beet ice cream. He also let me wander around the kitchen playing with things I wasn’t supposed to, and answered many questions, including dumb ones.
How to Grill Vegetables Like a Pro
Vegetables come to life on the grill. Heat works to caramelize the natural sugars and juice in vegetables; combined with smoky grill flavor they equal mouthwatering taste. In fact, once you grill vegetables, you’ll never want to return to frozen, microwaved versions that lack taste and texture. Here are the basics of grilling delicious vegetables. <a href=" src=" alt="Grilling Vegetables - How to Grill Peppers" border="0" /></a><br />Source: <a href="
Homemade Chocolate Syrup Recipe
I love it when I can easily make something at home and it turns out to be just as good or better than the more expensive store-bought kind. I’ve been wanting to try some homemade chocolate syrup. The basic recipe is very simple, but there are a few variations of it, so the other day I decided to experiment with them and have a chocolate syrup taste test. Not a shabby way to spend the afternoon! The one I liked the best was from Amy Dacyczyn’s The Complete Tightwad Gazette. ½ cup cocoa powder 1 cup water 2 cups sugar ⅛ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon vanilla
Tres Leches Cake
I first made Tres Leches cake about five years ago, when my baby was still a baby and I was trying to find something yummy to make for my friend Ana for her birthday. Ana’s from Mexico and taught me how to make pico de gallo and guacamole, and I asked her what her favorite kind of cake was. “Tres Leches,” she said in her sweet Spanish accent. “Tres Leches?” I said.
Chocolate Cake with Raspberry White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
As good as the cake I shared with you yesterday was (and it was mighty good), I simply could not resist pairing that heavenly white chocolate cream cheese frosting with some real chocolate. And since two cakes are certainly better than one, only a week after I made the raspberry cake I went ahead and threw this puppy together. I used the recipe that my friend Lindsay uses for her chocolate ganache cake and it worked beautifully. The frosting tasted just as good on this chocolate cake as it did on the raspberry cake.
molten chocolate cakes with raspberry coulis
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Living here in California has many advantages, one of my favorites being the abundance of fresh avocados available to you practically year round. If you think you know avocados and haven’t had an organic one from a local California farmer, well then you just don’t know. Before, I would grill them with just a little olive oil and lemon juice all the time for a snack.
Make Fruit Leather without a Dehydrator! Raspberry Peach Fruit Leather
I love fruit leather, but those little single packages that they sell at the grocery store are expensive. I knew there had to be a better way and thanks to Google, I found that, yes, it was possible to make fruit leather at home without a food dehydrator. I was a little bit worried when I saw people saying that it took 18 hours to make fruit leather in an oven, but it only took mine a little bit under 5 hours. Not too bad! I cut the fruit leather into strips comparable in size to the kind sold in stores and ended up with 16 of them–I spent about $4 on fruit for this recipe, so that’s a big savings over what I would have paid for fruit leather at the grocery store.
