Real Food & Real Life
I was driving through Starbucks the other day grumbling to myself that they didn’t have sugar-free Pumpkin Spice Sauce for their famous fall lattes.
I have no problem indulging every once in a while, but I would be much happier if there was a sugar-free option for guilt-free treats a little more often!
And then I realized that I could just make my own. Why did it take me so long to figure that out?!
Yum, yum and YUM. I am so in homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte heaven!
Today was such a long day. It has been hot here in cold, rainy Washington… hot and muggy. Ok, warm and muggy, but we’re wimpy and all this mugginess just makes us grumpy.
So, of course all I want to do all day is run my a/c with all the doors and windows shut, which is glorious and refreshing and consequently makes me want to bake. Not sure what the correlation is, but hey… I’ll go with it!
Yesterday it was classic, perfectly chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Today, roasted curried cauliflower.
We did our weekly Costco run today and I just about squealed when I saw bags of fresh cauliflower florets in the produce section.
I have been bemoaning the fact that they haven’t sold cauliflower because I pretty much only shop at Costco, and I have been seeing so many fun recipes around the web lately with cauliflower! (Cauliflower ‘rice’, cauliflower pizza crust, cauliflower tortillas, etc. etc.)
Microwave sweet potato chips? Really?!
That’s exactly what I thought when I first heard of this! I have been ignoring the concept, until I started intensely craving sweet potato chips today and decided to do something about it.
Usually I make sweet potato fries, in the oven. They are delicious, but always lack the ‘crunch’ I crave.
I was so skeptical of using the microwave, as I’m not a huge microwave user in general, but the more I thought about it, the more it started to make sense.
Have you ever tried to microwave something soft and moist, like bread, cake or cookies? And you know how hard and dried out they get if they stay in there even a few seconds too long?
Well, use that drying-out to your advantage for some homemade chips!
