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Pomegranate White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Source: @TwoPeasandPod

Feeling the love this Valentine’s Day with cookies and warm mug of white hot chocolate.

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Tangelo-Stuffed Chicken Breast Source: @MarthaStewart I missed out on persimmon season this year, but I’m making up for that with all of the winter citrus fruits. Meyer lemons, grapefruit, blood oranges, honey tangerines, and the amazingly juicy tangerine and pomelo hybrid: the tangelo, provided courtesy my loving mother. Thank you, Mom!

Tangelo-Stuffed Chicken Breast

Source: @MarthaStewart

I missed out on persimmon season this year, but I’m making up for that with all of the winter citrus fruits. Meyer lemons, grapefruit, blood oranges, honey tangerines, and the amazingly juicy tangerine and pomelo hybrid: the tangelo, provided courtesy my loving mother. Thank you, Mom!

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Champurrado (Mexican Hot Chocolate) Source: @MuyBuenoCooking A warm cup of filling sweet and spiced hot chocolate is the perfect pairing to a snowy day.

Champurrado (Mexican Hot Chocolate)

Source: @MuyBuenoCooking

A warm cup of filling sweet and spiced hot chocolate is the perfect pairing to a snowy day.

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Mexican Tortilla Soup Source: The Daily Soup Cookbook Prepared with homemade baked tortilla chips, not fried as the recipe calls for. At two cups of soup per serving for only 280 calories it doesn’t get any better. Oh wait it does with the inclusion of smoky minced chipotle chile. This is the best soup cookbook.

Mexican Tortilla Soup

Source: The Daily Soup Cookbook

Prepared with homemade baked tortilla chips, not fried as the recipe calls for. At two cups of soup per serving for only 280 calories it doesn’t get any better. Oh wait it does with the inclusion of smoky minced chipotle chile. This is the best soup cookbook.


Layered Birthday Carrot Cake

Adapted from: @Cooking_Light and @brooklynbaker

What to do when your birthday also happens to be National Carrot Cake Day? Make a delectable layered birthday carrot cake! I tested many different recipes and found my favorite in a bright and spongy Cooking Light carrot cake. It has a tasty crumb texture and an amazing cinnamon punch finish (using Vietnamese ground cinnamon from Penzey’s), paired with a tangy fromage blanc cream cheese frosting between the layers, and coated in a classic cream cheese buttercream. Topped with toasted coconut and chopped pecans, it is my ultimate birthday cake. It tastes even better the next day.

The only thing I would consider changing would be to make it as a two-layer cake instead of three next time for more cake with each bite.

16 servings, 435 calories.

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Vanilla Bean Toffee Streusel Caramel Apples make for a very happy Halloween indeed. As do Soul Cakes and Shrunken Apple Heads in Hot Mulled Cider.

Adapted from: Baked: New Frontiers in Baking by @brooklynbaker, @Cooking_Light, @NPR, @MarthaStewart, & @Cooking_Light.

Toffee Streusel Topping by me:

In a food processor combine the rolled oats, sugar, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice. Pulse two to three times, or enough to just chop the oats. Drizzle in the apple juice concentrate, then pulse one to two times. Combine in a large bowl with toffee bits.

Makes 14 caramel apples, 320 calories each.

Soul Cakes photographed by pixilation, and the recipe made 17 cakes, 128 calories each.

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Traditional Egg and White Lotus Seed Paste Mooncakes

Adapted from: @easyrecipes, @cafenilson, and House of Annie

The leaves are changing, the wind is bracing, and the fruits of summer are being harvested. Today I celebrated the Mid-Autumnal Equinox with my dear friends over a hot cup of tea and batch of homemade mooncakes.

Prep for the mooncakes began on Tuesday, soaking the lotus kernels overnight in order to make the paste and the dough on Wednesday. On Thursday molding and baking commenced, before letting the cakes sit two days as the oils soaked through to turn the dough shiny and soft.

Commercial store-bought mooncakes range anywhere from 700 to 1000 calories per cake. At 60 grams and 217 calories each, mine were worth every bit of homemade effort.

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Triple-Ginger Beer and Melon Float I’ve been on a bit of a craze for The Ginger People products, some of which feature in this spicy little float alongside The Chocolate Shoppe’s delectable super premium ice cream. Technically it’s a quadruple-ginger float, but that doesn’t roll off the tongue as well. Makes 1 float, 350 calories Ingredients: 1/2 cup chilled cubed melon 1 tbsp ginger syrup 3 oz chilled ginger beer 3 oz honey ginger ice cream 1 tbsp crystallized ginger Chill a soda glass in the fridge for approximately 30 minutes. Combine melon and syrup in the chilled soda glass and pour in ginger beer until about 3/4s full. Add one to two small scoops of ice cream and top with crystallized ginger.

Triple-Ginger Beer and Melon Float

I’ve been on a bit of a craze for The Ginger People products, some of which feature in this spicy little float alongside The Chocolate Shoppe’s delectable super premium ice cream. Technically it’s a quadruple-ginger float, but that doesn’t roll off the tongue as well.

Makes 1 float, 350 calories

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup chilled cubed melon
  • 1 tbsp ginger syrup
  • 3 oz chilled ginger beer
  • 3 oz honey ginger ice cream
  • 1 tbsp crystallized ginger

Chill a soda glass in the fridge for approximately 30 minutes. Combine melon and syrup in the chilled soda glass and pour in ginger beer until about 3/4s full. Add one to two small scoops of ice cream and top with crystallized ginger.

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South-of-the-Border Grilled Chicken and Green Tomatoes Source: @Cooking_Light This incredibly easy and simple recipe yields unbelievably tasty results. Improve the recipe further by tossing together your own fresh pico de gallo while the chicken marinates.

South-of-the-Border Grilled Chicken and Green Tomatoes

Source: @Cooking_Light

This incredibly easy and simple recipe yields unbelievably tasty results. Improve the recipe further by tossing together your own fresh pico de gallo while the chicken marinates.

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Simple Baked Egg Source: @Cooking_Light For such an absolutely basic recipe (butter, egg, and cream), it is perfection in a custard cup. The only modification I made was to use a four ounce cup instead and even that was a bit too large.

Simple Baked Egg

Source: @Cooking_Light

For such an absolutely basic recipe (butter, egg, and cream), it is perfection in a custard cup. The only modification I made was to use a four ounce cup instead and even that was a bit too large.

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