My brother is quite a bit older than me so we really didn’t have that much in common growing up but two things we could always agree on were our hatred for picking rhubarb from the garden and our love for the splendiferous strawberry rhubarb crisp mom would make from those annoying bitter stalks:
Why not make some for yourself?
After years of careful study I’ve come to the very scientific conclusion that peanut butter cookies can help fight everything from moodiness & cramps to grumpiness & colds.
Make your own in minutes with only 4 ingredients!
Huzzah! The new Ikea brochure has arrived! Packed full of funky furnishings we don’t need but will hopefully find in the As-is section when we next pop in to waste a day browsing. The clever Ikea flyer designers included a delightful Tipp:
a cheap, cheerful, quick & scrumptious scone recipe…
Our little sweet pea is in full teething mode (& is sporting 2 shiny new teeth!). We’ve searched everywhere for sugar & chemical-free baby biscuits but apparently they don’t exist in Germany – even in natural food stores, bah! After a few bizarre & slightly frightening results I finally came up with a quick & easy 3 ingredient combination that the baby, the hubs & even the dog love to munch on!
As a wee lass I was so addicted to my mom’s homemade muffins it became my nickname. *Which then haunted me in teenaged-life when friends came over!
Cranberry! One of my absolute favourites!
Two of my favourite edibles combined into a low cal treat that tastes sinfully delicious?
You betcha! Delectably divine chocolate almond brownies!
According to Dr. Mom one of my fave treats-to-squish-into-the-highchair as a kid is also low in fat, stays fresh forever, requires no baking and best of all? only 4 ingredients!
Melt in your mouth peanut butter marshmallow squares…droolicious!
4 ingredients & 4 quick steps to make your own:
Here’s an awesomely quick & effortless treat that won’t add inches to your bum:
delicious and nutrious…perfect!
As my baby weight banishing crusade is in full swing I’ve been working out daily & desperately trying to eat healthier – a difficult task with nursing hormones forever steering me towards savoury & sweet treats. Enter my skinnyminny mom, sender of copious cut-out-of-newspapers-and-magazines-good-for-you-recipes-that-made-my-eyes-roll-and-are-now-a-possible-healthy-alternative-to-the-sweet-aisle-at-the-supermarket…
My first experiment in healthy treat baking are these beauties:
Good-for-you Peanut Butter, Banana & Chocolate Chunk Cookies! Sounds decadent & fattening, right? Awesomely, they’re not.
Here’s how to make ‘em:
Christmastime can be evil when you’re a kid & desperate for something you can’t have. For me it was always gingerbread. Gingerbread cookies, gingerbread houses, gingerbread men…I needed them but my mom refused to make the dough required to build these sweetly spicy treats. I swore that when I grew up I would have homemade gingerbread every Christmas! …know why my mom never made gingerbread? Because it’s a complicated & time consuming pain in the arsch! Luckily my find-the-easy-way-out brain discovered a quick & tortureless ingredient combination that creates delicious cookies…
and even groovy houses…
here’s how:
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