Recipe: Cherry Lime Pie

I don’t live in cherry country.  I never seem them at my local farmer’s market.  They are expensive in stores.  I’d imagine Louisiana’s climate just isn’t quite right for cherries (or that’s what I assume).  It’s for these reasons that it is a real treat to find cherries on sale at a grocery store.  To… Read More

Recipe: Chocolate Stacked Cookie

It’s that time of the work month again.  It’s my week of meetings.  Today and tomorrow, I’m having lunch with coworkers.  I should be back with a bento on Thursday.  In the meantime, please enjoy these Chocolate Stacked Cookies. For this recipe you’ll need: cookie dough, little rectangles of chocolate (Hershey’s bars would work great), … Read More

Recipe: Carrot Cupcakes

All week on NEB, I’ve shown off these carrot & pineapple cupcakes as part of my bento box lunch.  These were fairly simple to make, way tasty and in the long run, not so bad for me (or so I hope, more on that at the end of the post).  I used this Recipezaar recipe,… Read More

Recipe: Baked Apples Revisited

I just wanted to do a quick revisit to my recent recipe post on baked apples.  I decided the 1/2 of an apple cut up wasn’t as bento friendly as I’d hoped.  I decided to bake 2 more apples cut up with the honey/cinammon mixture and topping with only pecans. OH YUM!  This was super… Read More

Recipe: Baked Apples

I’ve been searching for a recipe that was a tasty dessert, but one that didn’t use a cup of sugar, flour, and the like.  Something quick and simple to make that would transfer well to my bento.  As I was searching through my cookbooks to find a suitable recipe, I came across this Recipezaar recipe… Read More