The perfect recipe for a summer celebration includes: 1) sunshine, 2) friends or family and 3) pineapple cookies. These cookies are bright and warm, like the summer sun.
Margherita Pizza
It’s the Fourth of July. Instead of making something red, white and blue, I’m making something red, white and green. It’s Margherita Pizza — with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil!
Fruitcake Baklava
I joined Daring Bakers. If you haven’t heard of Daring Bakers, it’s an online baking club where the members bake a new recipe each month. This month is baklava. I made mine with candied fruit and toasted nuts, similar to a fruitcake — and I learned you have to be a bit of a fruitcake to make baklava from scratch.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Maybe more people would eat their vegetables if vegetables were covered in chocolate. It worked for me with this chocolate zucchini cake.
Blueberry Orange Oatmeal Muffins
A great way to start the day is with blueberry muffins baked with oatmeal and orange juice. These muffins are packed with all you need to brighten your day.
Sweet Honey Cornbread
On the outside, it looks like ordinary cornbread — baked golden brown in a cast iron skillet. On the inside, it is sweetened with golden honey.
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Oven Roasted Red Potatoes
Potatoes deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Put them on the table to end any argument. Potatoes make everyone happy no matter how you serve them — whether it is mashed, fried or oven roasted.
Blueberry Cupcakes With Hi Hat Ice Cream Tops
Remember the Smurfs? These cupcakes, like the Smurfs, are blue and small with white hats. Infused with blueberries, baked in miniature muffin cups and topped with vanilla ice cream, they are quite “smurftastic.”
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Iowa Stuffed Pork Chops
It rained most of the Memorial Day weekend. Instead of a cook-out, we had a cook-in — and baked Iowa chops stuffed with corn, bread, apple and onion and glazed with honey mustard. The chops weren’t the only ones who were “stuffed.”
Marshmallow Chick S’mores
Spring turned into summer quickly this year. One minute I am planning Easter dinner, and the next I am enjoying a summer cookout. For my first cookout of the season, I made marshmallow chick s’mores, which I also have dubbed “Peeps® in Shells.”