Healthy Banana Granola

This healthy and delicious banana granola is the perfect topping for yogurt or is great in bowl with milk.

    Granola loaded with banana goodness is the perfect topping for fruit and yogurt.  It is naturally sweetened and easy to make too.  Just whip up a batch and give it a try!

Cheesy Garlic Sourdough Foccacia

Soft and chewy sourdough foccacia topped with cheese and garlic is the perfect side for any Italian meal. It's like one big giant bread stick only easier to make!

    Grab a piece of this cheesy sourdough foccacia to get that extra sauce left on your plate after a delicious pasta meal.  That sauce on is too good to waste and sometimes it's even better on the bread than the pasta anyway.  So get that sourdough fed and get ready to make some delicious bread!

Impossible Dragonfruit Pie

A crustless pie that comes together simply in a food processor or blender. This impossible dragonfruit pie is a great easy dessert!

     This crustless dragonfruit pie is impossibly easy to make. You can do it all right in a blender or food processor. It's a simple dessert that is so fun to make.

Tropical White Cake with Dragonfruit Buttercream #FreakyFruitFriday

Soft white cake filled with blood orange curd and wrapped in dragonfruit buttercream. This stunning cake is a tropical fruit dream come true!

Melissa's Produce sent me a selection of "freaky fruit" for recipe development. As always, all opinions are my own. 

       What do you get when you combine moist white cake, blood orange curd and buttercream filled with the speckles of dragonfruit seeds? A bite of heaven, that is what. Decorate it with strawberry papaya and pomegranate arils for an extra special tropical cake.

Shrimp on the Brain Molded Dip - a Halloween Treat!

This shrimp dip is the perfect topper for crackers. Shape it like a brain with cocktail sauce blood for a creepy Halloween party snack. 

       This is the perfect creepy Halloween appetizer. The shrimp dip is molded into a brain shape with cocktail sauce blood. It is delicious and festive. Of course you could use any mold you have, but the brains make it extra fun!

Ghosts in the Graveyard Trifle

So sweet and so spooooooky! This trifle is full of chocolate goodness with sweet meringue ghosts and white chocolate bones. It's a great Halloween treat! 

     Spooooky thing happen around here in October. Like this chocolaty ghosts in the graveyard trifle. There are candy bones, chocolate cake and pudding dirt and fun meringue ghosts. This is sure to tickle your funny bone, or scare your scaredy bone... or at least tickle your tastebuds and fill your tummy. So make some if you dare!

Super Simple Blood Orange Curd

This fun and citrusy blood orange curd is the perfect sweet spread for so many things. It is super simple to make too!

     If you like lemon curd, you are going to love this blood orange curd! It has that citrusy tang and sweet and sumptuous texture. Plus it comes together in just a few minutes with very little effort. You can spread it on toast or muffins, swirl it into yogurt or fill your cakes with homemade goodness!

Pork Recipes for National Pork Month with Celebrate365

Celebrate national pork month with a plethora of pork recipes!

     It's national pork month and I think that is something to be celebrated! Join me and my Celebrate 365 friends in a pork extravaganza. There are recipes of all kind here.  Bring us your bacon, your roasts, your sausages and more!

Pumpkin Jack-O-Lantern Cookies

These fun pumpkin, oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies are a Halloween tradition in my family. We shape them like pumpkins and decorate them like jack-o-lanterns with candy faces! 

    These cookies are delicious on their own. They are loaded with pumpkin, oatmeal and chocolate chips. They have a nice chew and the icing almost makes them taste like an oatmeal cream pie.  But what really makes them cute are the candy faces!

Quick and Easy Duchess Sweet Potatoes

These duchess sweet potatoes add a little pizzazz to your plate, but they are really simple to make. They would be a fun way to change up your Thanksgiving or Christmas meal, but are delicious any time!

     Fancy up your sweet potatoes without much effort! These lovely duchess sweet potatoes make your dinner plate look nice and they taste delicious. Nobody has to know how easy they were to make. They would be perfect for a fall dinner party, Thanksgiving or just because!