wesleysgirl

Yes, I'm still months behind, but I'm making progress toward getting caught up, LOL!

( Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Bars )

Yes, I know, it's June and I'm just posting the March recipe now. That's sad. I could come up with plenty of reasonable excuses but really it's just laziness on my part. But here is a recipe for you!

( Slow Cooker Thai Peanut Pork )

I willingly admit that this was a totally made-up recipe, loosely based on Alton Brown's homemade granola recipe (courtesy of justhuman) and then tweaked to my heart's content. It's not the only granola I'm going to make, though, so if the end result is less than perfect it's my own fault. I promise not to blame Alton. Or JH.

( Tropical Granola )

If you like granola, do you have a favorite way to eat it? I like it sprinkled on top of yogurt, or with a container of yogurt blobbed onto the top of it.

After a while, my bookmarks start to get overrun with recipes, and I need to clear them out, so here is another recipe dump. (Along with pretty much every recipe at Willow Bird Baking.)


Cake
Mamy Jacqueline's Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Covered Oreo Cookie Cake
Lemonade Cake
Honeybun Cake with Caramel Sauce
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bliss Cheesecake
Snickers Cheesecake
White and Dark Chocolate Jaffa Cake

Cookies
Chocolate Pistachio Cookies
Orange Gingerbread Cookies with Rum Glaze
Rolo Cookies
S'mores Cookies
Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch cookies
Triple Chocolate Espresso Bean cookies
Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate cookies
Oatmeal Butterscotch cookies
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip cookies
Peach Cobbler Newtons
Peanut Butter Fingers

Cupcakes
Mojito Cupcakes with Lime Cream Cheese frosting
Gingerbread Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese frosting

Other Sweets
Chocolate Peanut-Butter No Bake cookies
Homemade Kit Kat bars
Stained Glass Jello (I just think this is so pretty!)
Mocha Fudge
Chocolate Fudge
The Most Magical Butterbeer
Foolproof Cinnamon Buns
Grasshopper Pie

Savory/Main Dish/Sides
Taco Soup
Crispy Tilapia Fingers with Lemon Garlic Sauce
Kansas City Sue's Chicken
Mediterranean ChickPea Pasta Salad
Chicken Peanut Stew
Indian Spiced Lentils with Chicken
Ham and Cheese Biscuit/Muffins
Seared Chicken Breast with quick pan sauce
Garlicky Ginger Beef and Green Bean Stir Fry
Sweet Potato Biscuits

Or, as I said to the boy this morning, more like "TFIF," Thank Fuck It's Friday.

Made two new recipes this week, both of them very good!

( Recipes behind cut! Mediterranean Chickpea Pasta Salad and TrailBlazer Cookies! )

I'm starting to consider going vegetarian again. I think I just have to psyche myself into it, as well as finishing up the small amount of meat we have in the house and reminding myself of the many, many meals I used to make when we didn't eat any meat at all.

Recipes I want to try -
Banana, honey and peanut butter "ice cream"
Mary Ostyn's Maple Morning Polenta
Gingersnap Oatmeal
Pumpkin Turkey Chili (easy enough to swap veggie crumble or beans for the chili)
Light Banana Bread (love that this recipe uses real food)
Broccoli, Parmesan and Lemon

Also, must remember Post Punk Kitchen for really good-sounding vegan recipes.

I just took a batch of these muffins out of the oven -- they smell so good. Lemon Muffins. I used blueberries instead of raspberries because I had them in the freezer. I have to say that I think the recipe is missing an ingredient, because what I got once everything was mixed together (before I stirred in the blueberries) was a very thick dough, not muffin batter. I had to mix in the rest of the fresh lemon juice I had as well as some soy milk before I got something resembling muffin batter.

I've also recently (in the past couple of weeks) made Lemon Poppy Seed Scones -- fine, though turns out I'm not a huge poppy seed fan -- Orange Poppy Seed Scones, and Cherry Chocolate Chip Scones in which I had to use "cherry flavored" dried cranberries instead of the cherries because I couldn't find dried cherries at the store. The cherry chocolate chip ones were the yummiest.

Cranberry Orange Loaf - I think this would make fantastic muffins.

Glazed Lemon Bread

I did make these Cinnamon Roll cookies a few days ago and they were great - the icing really made them special, although it was also kind of messy and therefore they aren't really the ideal cookie for a holiday cookie basket or whatever.