These Double Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy, and become almost fudgy when fully cooled, with a truly intense and totally dark chocolate flavor! Ever since I can remember, this has been my go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe. Although originally, it wasn’t exactly like that. I started making these double chocolate chip cookies when…
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Smoked Ham Grilled Cheese Sandwich
This Smoked Ham Grilled Cheese is a true heavy weight champion: with over half a pound of cheese and a quarter pound of meat, it WILL satisfy your hunger. No, I’m not kidding… I’m actually giving you a Grilled Cheese Sandwich recipe today. Yep! A recipe for a sandwich. I mean, what could possibly be easier to…
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles
These Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles contain no raw eggs or flour, so they are perfectly safe to eat raw. A heavenly treat for the cookie dough lover! Whenever I plan on baking something good, I often get just as excited at the perspective of munching on raw cookie dough (or cake batter, for that matter), as I am…
7 Layer Magic Cookie Bars
Graham cracker crust, shredded coconut, pecans, semi-sweet and white chocolate chips drowned in a sea of sweetened condensed milk: 7 layers of pure heaven! Ever since I can remember, I’ve always had a thing for sweetened condensed milk. I mean, a major thing. A just-looking-at-the-can-would-get-me-drooling-all-over-the-place kinda thing. If one could have an actual crush on food, then…
Creamy Blue Cheese Tortellini
Blue Cheese Tortellini, smothered in a smooth and silky blue cheese sauce with pieces of fresh, crispy apples and buttery, crunchy walnuts. This heavenly fare and I got acquainted many many moons ago, back when I was still a very young adult, perhaps even a teenager… I’d been paying my brother a little visit that day, and…
Banana Peanut Butter Bundt Cake
Just a taste of this celestial Banana Peanut Butter Bundt Cake and you’ll never again wonder what to do with those overripe bananas sitting on the counter! What do you do when you have a bunch of overripe bananas sitting on your kitchen counter, looking all miserable and dangerously threatening to call in a bunch of fruit flies…
Tortellini alla Gigi
Tortellini alla Gigi, or cheese stuffed tortellini, sauteed mushrooms and sliced prosciutto all smothered in a delicious creamy, cheesy rosé sauce Tortellini alla Gigi reminds me so much of my dad. Remember how I said that he used to work in a pizzeria for close to 20 years? Indeed, he did! Funny thing is he…
Peanut Cranberry Chocolate Bark
Chocolate Bark is so easy to make and offers so many possibilities, it’s the perfect fix when a craving strikes, or when company arrives unannounced. I’m such a huge fan of Chocolate Bark! I mean, what’s there not to like about it? I it comes together in no time, dirties practically no dishes, requires no special…