Expand your use of this healthy fruit with these four recipes, featuring a green smoothie, avocado dressing, chocolate avocado bread, and chocolate avocado pudding.
Category: Desserts and Baked Goods
Boston Brown Bread with Milk Kefir
This school year brings American History lessons back to our homeschool, and one of the recent activities suggested in my daughter's curriculum was making a colonial recipe. The recipe below is my take on Boston Brown Bread, using milk kefir instead of buttermilk. If you don't have milk kefir, you can substitute buttermilk back instead.… Continue reading Boston Brown Bread with Milk Kefir
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins
You really can't go wrong with any recipe that has "chocolate" twice in its name, can you? Well, this recipe is no exception. I originally found this recipe on About.com. The only thing I did differently was to use the extra muffin batter for a brownie-like cake.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
These decadent treats taste just like the brand name peanut butter cups, only butter I mean, better! This is one of those recipes that I feel necessitates a disclaimer. These are so, so good, but...the butter. Oh, so much butter. How could they not be good, right? I make these on special occasions (Christmas, Father's Day,… Continue reading Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Pumpkin Pie
It's the final day of Thanksgiving Prep Week, and what better way to finish things off than with dessert! This is a classic pumpkin pie recipe that I have had in my collection for at least 20 years. I tweak it a bit for my hubberman's tastes (he hates nutmeg with a burning hot passion.)… Continue reading Pumpkin Pie
Clover and Thyme 