Orange Glazed Chicken Salad

I love salad. It's one of my favorite things to eat in the Summer time. Cool, nutritious and pretty to look at: so I'm always looking for new salad recipes. This one was pretty dang good. Aaron didn't like the oranges so he opted out of that, but other than that he liked it too. Tasty and beautiful, win win.

I'm Working On It... Okay!

Things have been super crazy around here as of late. I have been working mass amounts of hours, been chasing Aaron around with Chrome Molly on most weekends, and spending every free second I have with Jess before she leaves me for the new chapter in her life. I haven't had time to make dinner let alone try new recipes. Needless to say, my cookbook challenge has been somewhat put on the back burner. 

I have posted all of the recipes I tried right before starting this blog, and already had up on my personal blog. They are recipes I want to keep, so need to be bunched with my library. I will add new ones as I can, but won't really be back on track with my goal until September. Then, hopefully, my life will settle down a little bit. We'll see.....

Strawberry Coffee Cake

I think breakfast is probably my most favorite meal of the day. I am a total carb girl though. I DO NOT like eggs and breakfast meat. Bleck! But, I do love bread. Any kind of bread. Pancakes, muffins, waffles and.... coffee cake - yum! I also LOVE strawberries, so when I saw this strawberry coffee cake it just seemed perfect: and it pretty much was! Of course I modified it to suite my desires, but you know, that's just what I do.

White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake

I love cheesecake and have had this recipe in my book for a while now waiting for me to try it out. It's a bit labor intensive, but so worth it if you have the time! Delicious and absolutely beautiful. A great centerpiece to any nice dinner you want to prepare.

Broccoli Salad

Always looking for ways to add more veggies into my diet, and trying to appease the rest of the carnivores in my house, I gave this recipe a try. It was really good. Of course, modification was necessary, but all worked out great.

Chicken Focaccia Sandwich

I love flat bread and focaccia bread.... okay, let's face it, I just love bread! Throw some yummy veggies on it to make a good sandwich and I'm in heaven. This is a pretty easy twist on the same ol' boring sandwich.

Cake Batter Ice Cream

Cake batter ice cream is one of Jessi's favorite flavors of ice cream. We wanted to make ice cream for her Graduation party, so I went sleuthing for a good recipe: this one was a huge hit. I have made this twice now and it was great both times.