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6 Tips to Get the Most from Your Yonanna

June 25, 2021 mike

I’m ten years late, but I have a new favorite obsession: the Yonanna soft serve dessert maker and creamy banana ice cream.

It’s a toss up between a warm chocolate chip cookie and a bowl of ice cream as my favorite dessert. But if our current fitness challenge provides any evidence, I might be leaning toward ice cream. But maybe that’s just because it’s the summer. But I wouldn’t be alone in loving ice cream. The average American eats almost five gallons a year! That’s…a lot of heavy cream.

Enter the Yonanna soft serve dessert maker to save me from myself.

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CSA Explainer: What the Heck is Tatsoi?

June 18, 2021 mike

If you’ve participated in a spring or early summer CSA recently, you’ve likely gotten some early season (or late season) greens that look vaguely like bok choy. Welcome to the world of tatsoi. What is tatsoi? It’s a hearty Asian green that is quick and easy to use in a variety of dishes.

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csa tatsoi vegetables

Easy 3-Ingredient Blender Ice Cream

June 12, 2021 mike

Both girls, but especially Ally, have a sweet tooth and I’m constantly on the lookout for ways to satisfy that need in a more healthy but still satisfying and tasty way. This easy 3-ingredient blender ice cream hits the mark. It’s simple, uses natural ingredients, isn’t full of sugar or workarounds, but still tastes great. In short, it still tastes like dessert.

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back pocket recipe dessert ice cream

Lloyd Long Pan Pizza Review

May 14, 2021 mike

There are many different kinds of pizza. Different doughs. Different toppings. But they are always squares or circles, right? What about rectangles? Narrow ones. I’ve been baking long, skinny Sicilian pies with Lloyd long pizza pans now since the end of January and my only regret is that I didn’t order more.

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Afternoon Coffee Cauliflower Smoothie

May 6, 2021 mike

Yeah, I know coffee cauliflower smoothie sounds both weird and disgusting but bear with me. First, you don’t taste the cauliflower. Really. You still get all the benefits but you can’t taste it. Second, with the cauliflower gone this essentially tastes like a coffee milkshake. Add in some chocolate protein powder and it gets even better.

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cauliflower coffee smoothie

Simple, No Knead Italian Semolina Bread

April 30, 2021 mike

This simple, no knead bread, made with semolina and coated in sesame seeds, is almost as Italian as pizza. This semolina Italian bread is very easy and forgiving to make and works well as breakfast toast or in a dinner bread basket. I make at least one loaf of this bread for my father-in-law each time he visits.

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Quick & Easy Chocolate Funfetti Cupcakes

April 14, 2021 mike

I’m not usually a proponent of using box mixes. It’s often just as easy to mix up the ingredients yourself and skip the shelf stabilizers and other weird chemicals. But sometimes, life intervenes. You need a hack. You need chocolate funfetti cupcakes fast.

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Browsing Category: Cooking

6 Tips to Get the Most from Your Yonanna

CSA Explainer: What the Heck is Tatsoi?

Easy 3-Ingredient Blender Ice Cream

Lloyd Long Pan Pizza Review

Afternoon Coffee Cauliflower Smoothie

Simple, No Knead Italian Semolina Bread

Quick & Easy Chocolate Funfetti Cupcakes