I’m baack! I know, I know. It’s been months. But when I say we’ve been having life here at the house, I mean we’ve been having LIFE. Way more than I can get into here, but just know I was thinking of y’all and feeling guilty for not posting and not cooking. I *still* am not getting much cooking done, so since I don’t have any new recipes to share with you, here is one from Rouxbe.com.
Are y’all familiar with Rouxbe Online Cooking School? …

Sorry it’s been so quiet lately, but we’ve been having a lot of Real Life at our house. Vehicle accidents, kids in trouble at school – you name it, we got it.
 
Consequently, comfort food is the dish of the day!

What do you do when you want something quick and easy, there’s not much in the house, and you don’t want to go out?
 
Pantry Raid!!

On a recent week night, after eating dinner, we decided we wanted something sweet. Something that was really dessert, but didn’t take a long time to put together. We had a movie to watch and we wanted to get to it.
 
So, I jumped onto the Food Blog Search (see box in the right hand sidebar) and typed in “quick dessert.” A whole bunch of things popped up, and a few items down, I found Millie’s Quick Dessert Cake. Not only did it, indeed, sound very quick, but it used canned pie filling – of which I have several I need to use up (how is it that I have several, I ask you? I never use them! Why did I buy them? I don’t understand). So, Quick Dessert Cake it was!

The theme for this month’s Sugar High Friday was chosen by Heather at Diary of a Fanatic Foodie – and it’s a fun one! Recreate a fabulous dessert had while traveling.

Oatmeal + strawberries = Fresh Berry Oatmeal Bars = yummy!

Simple Guacamole

After my recent attempt at non-yeasted cinnamon rolls, I had pretty much determined I would just have to bite the bullet and go the traditional route if I wanted perfect cinnamon rolls. Don’t get me wrong – that Cook’s Illustrated recipe was delicious, but the dough was difficult to work with and the end result wasn’t very pretty. So, I had pretty much stopped looking for that kind of recipe and mentally slotted cinnamon rolls as a “major plan ahead” recipe only.
 
Then, quite by accident, I ran across a Fine Cooking recipe called Fastest Cinnamon Buns. As previously, my hopes immediately rose. Maybe this one would work better! Without delay, I went home and made it that very night.

I’ve been looking for a good belgian waffle recipe for a long time. I mean, almost all of the ones I tried were good but they were never as good as I knew they could be. A perfect waffle is crispy on the outside and tender on the outside, and it’s so easy for them to become cakey or heavy.
 
Finally, I’ve found an excellent one! Not a light recipe, but definitely an occasional treat. These are awesome served with warmed maple syrup or topped with sliced fresh berries.

Some fruits are so delicious fresh and untouched that you can barely think to cook them. Others, I think, are improved with a little heat. Blackberries are like that for me. I love blackberries and so do my guys, but they have those hard little seeds in there that get stuck in your teeth and detract from the whole experience. But if you bake them, they soften and become much less of a distraction.