Strawberry Cream Popsicles

I’m not really an ice cream fan… You probably would never know since last year I posted so many homemade ice cream recipes. But popsicles are right up my alley. Especially if they contain fruit of any kind.

I realized, almost too late, that I still had a carton of strawberries sitting in my fridge. I wanted to do something super amazing, but during the summer don’t really have the time or energy to bake. So I went with a good ol’ standby recipe.

These strawberry cream pops make an appearance every summer. Something about the vanilla yogurt and pureed strawberry mixture make them hard to resist! They never last more than a week… If I decide to share that is…

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Flourless Nutella Cookies

We’ve all been there… You walk over to the pantry… Searching for something sweet… You think;

“Oh! I’ll make some cookies! Something with chocolate!”

Because what girl DOESN’T love chocolate? But when you get to the pantry you realize something is wrong… Very wrong. There is NO flour and you are out of butter!

How did you let this happen?!?!?

This is EXACTLY what happened to me last week. I was out of butter and flour. Two of the most important ingredients when baking. How in the world did I not realize how low we were? I was definitely going to need to make a trip to Costco and stock up, but that wasn’t going to happen until the next morning and I wanted cookies now…

SO, I improvised with a little Nutella and sugar.

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World’s Funnest Dad Giveaway

Ok, are you on giveaway overload? Looks like this will be the last one of the summer, so you should most definitely enter! Especially if you are anything like me and WAAAAAAY behind on Father’s Day shopping! I know there are still two weeks to go, but I have a sneaky feeling I will wait until late Saturday night and then run to the store for something great… er… semi-great… ok, ok… homemade because I’m too lazy to run to the store…

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Ratatouille

Our biggest vacation plans this year happen to be to Disneyland… Incase you couldn’t tell by my overuse of “periods” I’m not too enthused. I grew up in southern California and love to go back for visits, but Disneyland mid summer is not my favorite place. It’s hot, crowded, and well… yuck!

HOWEVER, I have a four year old that is over the moon excited. He gets to visit Mickey Mouse and see Cars land?!? What more could a little boy ask for?

His enthusiasm has gotten me in the Disney spirit and we’ve decided to start a new series here on the site! Once a week for the month of June (and apparently one the last day of May) I will be posting a recipe that is inspired by a a Disney movie!

 

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