Tiny fragments of pep...

Snapshots with my beloved T3 from the past few months..

What more to start off the day than with green tea and honey? mmm..

Grilled Chicken & Spinach sandwich with balsamic vinaigrette on Sunflower bread.

Carrot sandwich Cookies with a smooth cream cheese filling.

Chocolate chip & bluberry Granola bars.

Rich in Fragrance Thyme / Rosemary loaf.

Flamin' hot chicken tenders (using Cheeto's flamin' hot cheesedoodles).

Northern Star Cupcakes

Parsnip & Carrot chips.

"Be my valentine" Red Velvet buttermilk Pancakes..

Turkey, lettuce, tomato & pesto sauce in between two slices Thyme / Rosemary sandwich bread.

Tapioca pudding

Valentine Cupcake #1

Straight from the oven Thyme / Rosemary loaf.

Tri-taco Salad #1

Tri-taco Salad #2

Rainbow Sherbert (Made by Addison, Age 9)

Thai noodle soup

Valentine Cupcake #2

Chicken Sandwich - Take 2 - Cut in half

Roasted Beet & Apple Salad

Valentine Cupcake #3

Artsy Hallow's Eve Cookies!

Sick of the plain ol' sugar cookie with icing? Well, whether you answered "Yes" or "No"..I have quite a surprise for those taste buds of yours.

In these festive little cookies, you will be surprised at how flavorful they are with just the perfect amount of spice. Elegantly paired with pumpkin ( I used canned ). You can use fresh pumpkin if desired. Think of a pumpkin latte, but only in a cookie ;).

Halloween Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
2 cups Confectioner's Sugar
2 table spoons Milk or Water

How to make:
1. Using a mixer, combine butter and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
2. Whisk in pumpkin, vanilla and egg until blended.
3. In a separate bowl stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg and salt.
4. Pour your flour mix into the pumpkin mix. Using a rubber spatula to combine and form a dough.
5. Once thoroughly incorporated, cover in plastic wrap and chill in freezer for up to 2 hrs.
6. Preheat oven to 375 degrees farenheit.
7. On a floured surface roll out cookie dough to about 1/8" inch in thickness.
8. Use festive cookie cutters and transfer to a baking sheet.
9. Bake for 8 minutes until aromatic and browned on the top.
9. Allow to cool.
10. Combine Confectioner's Sugar and Milk or Water. Mix to combine in a shallow bowl, Just shallow enough to dip cookie in. Make sure the icing is thick enough to hold sprinkles. If you want a thicker icing to do some different color piping work, just add more sugar and test it out. If you prefer a glaze to just dip the cookie in for a 'base' color (what I did) then make it a bit more liquid-y.
*IMPORTANT: you must work quickly when using this icing. It hardens within seconds, especially the thicker the consistency. So have those decorations on site and ready!*

So have fun with your family and decorate some cookies for the upcoming holidays! Or just make these year round because they're just so darn delicious! Yumyumyum.

Be-lated Easter Bunny Cookies!

Hooray for just uploading these little creatures! A simple Lemon Shortbread cookie, cut out into what else!?..Bunnies!

Added a thick layer of Royal Icing and some delicious sweet Coconut Flakes :). And for the final touches, some silly eyes and fun-play with Edible Markers when Icing dried completely. Almonds for ears too!

Romantic Scrabble like cookies.

I don't know what posessed me to make these. Just one of those 'spurr' of the moment things!..And with romance :)..Reminds me of this little corner bar in Chelsea where my boyfriend & I went ( probably our third or fourth date). Well, I brought up how I wanted to play Scrabble so badly that night..and to our surprise we walk into a bar and there it was! Scrabble! Oddly enough I made out the astrological sign "Taurus". Peter is in fact a Taurus. Coincidence? Sure!. Alright now on to the cookies!..A butter cookie cut out mix from my FCI Lev.2 Book. I added some Lemon Zest. I then made a nice thick royal icing and dipped each individually. To try and conserve the icing/keep from dripping on the sides, after you dunk the top into the bowl..sort of swirl it around side to side while upside down. Watch as the excess icing rolls and finally falls off into the bowl. Then place right side up onto it's surface. I piped out the letters with some chocolate added into royal icing. But it was not dark enough, So when it dried..I decided to paint it on with Black gel dye :). Gives it a sharp look too! And surprisingly enough, the dye comes off very easily. Trust me, I took a bite! (Just wipe it off ASAP!)..don't take any chances.