Gluten Free Crunchy Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies

These crunchy peanut butter Nutella cookies are a cookie lover's fantasy. Crispy on the outside with a slightly chewy center, they are proper, American-style cookies & they won't stick around for long!

Yield 12 to 18 cookies

Crunchy Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies

I inherited a trait from my mother: I prefer my baked goods slightly doughy and nearly under-done in the center. Brownies, bread rolls and especially chocolate chip and sugar cookies must be teetering on the edge of raw in order for me to enjoy them.

Except for peanut butter cookies. I want my peanut butter cookies crispy and crunchy around the edges and slightly chewy but not doughy in the middle. And I want them rolled in sugar. With a hint of vanilla. And with Nutella. That bit is a new discovery. Warning: these cookies will become your new favorite.

Love Cadbury? Win a bundle of chocolate!

I have teamed up with 20 other bloggers to bring you a 24-hour flash giveaway in time for St Patrick's Day!
Each blogger is giving away something different cash to gift cards to kitchen gadgets to food! I'll be giving one lucky winner a bundle of authentic Cadbury chocolate straight from the UK! I'm not talking about your usual Cadbury, I mean the hard-to-get stuff that we only have in the UK!

Feed your chocolate addition! For you chance to win, stop by my Facebook page and look for the shamrock!

What to Eat this Weekend #01

I've been crushing on these recipes this week:

Italian Pear & Mortadella Oven Sandwiches

Ribbon-thin slices of Italian mortadella with fresh ricotta, mustard mayonnaise and sweet juicy pear makes and interesting and delicious European style sandwich!

Yield 2 sandwiches

Italian Pear & Mortadella Oven Sandwiches

This sandwich has everything. Absolutely everything you never even knew you wanted in a sandwich: sweet, salty, crunchy, gooey, heavenly. Okay, so that last one isn't really an edible thing, but it's important. Don't judge this crazy concoction by it's contents. I know on the surface it seems a bit strange to put pickles, pears, cheese and deli-shaved cold cuts into a sandwich, but believe me guys, it works. My husband even said this was one of the best sandwiches he's had in a long time.


And he's a staunch pickle hater. I'm not sure this sandwich completely turned him into a pickle convert (I'm not even sure he ate them, now that I think about it, because he took it to work with him). Pickle lover or loather, there's so much more going on between bread that deserves your attention!

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Eat Your Greens! 55 Fabulous Sweet & Savory St Patrick's Day Recipes

A collection of 55 sweet & savory green recipes in celebration of St Patrick's Day!

Chicken Caesar Salad Pizza

Diets just got better with this simple but unbelievably tasty salad-topped pizza made with basil pizza crust!  This pizza gets even more interesting when a toddler gets involved in the cooking! 

Yield 4 individual pizzas

Chicken Caesar Salad Pizza

This Chicken Caesar Salad Pizza is the perfect example of not growing bored with a healthy diet. A base of homemade basil pizza crust is topped with chicken, cheese, Romaine lettuce and of course, Caesar dressing. It's a simple concept but it's so delicious and so good for you.

Tasty Tuesdays #52

 

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Without you, we wouldn't have a party at all. So we think you're pretty special and deserve to benefit from linking up with us each week. Here's how:

Gluten Free Bangers & Mash with Onion Beer Gravy (St Patrick's Day Dinner)

Succulent sausages cooked in a simple onion beer gravy served over creamy mash is a perfect St Patrick's Day dinner!

Yield 2 to 4 servings

Bangers & Mash with Onion Beer Gravy

Bangers & Mash is one of those stereotypical British dishes. A mountain of creamy mashed potatoes is smothered with succulent sausages and draped with rich onion beer gravy. This is comfort food at its finest and it's one of the best ways to celebrate St Patrick's Day!

In this recipe, I used chipolata sausages, which are French and not Irish at all, but you could use Irish sausages. Or your British sausages. It doesn't really matter, just use your favorite. The gravy is super easy to make and the addition of a dark ale gives it a nice, rounded flavor.  Then there's the mash. From the packet is completely unacceptable! For my mash, all you need to do is boil potatoes and pulverize them. Easy and much tastier than the stuff from the packet.

Gluten Free Easy St Patrick's Day Cupcakes for Two & that Stringy Stuff in your Egg

These St Patrick's Day cupcakes are easy to make and perfect for two!  No need to bake a whole batch to have a treat tonight.

Yield 4 cupcakes; 1/3 of a dozen

Easy St Patrick's Day Cupcakes for Two

Couples and small families tend to get left out of the baked goods loop. Junk food seems to come in dozens or half dozens, so one or two things usually happens in my house:

1. We each eat two of everything so that nothing's wasted, which means more sugar, which isn't exactly healthy or
2. We eat our fill and then leave the rest in the snack basket with the intention of finishing it off later, but never actually getting around to it until it's time to toss it in the bin.

 Hoping to break the cycle, I've challenged myself with making most of our junk food, but doing it in family-sized portions that don't encourage overeating or waste. That's when these St Patrick's Day cupcakes were born!