Recipe Index

As the name of my blog implies, I have a hard time following recipes and I would rather wing-it in the kitchen! I still manage to take notes whenever I'm creating something new, and after a few test-runs I often feel confident enough to turn my illegible notes into a coherent recipe. Enjoy!

Breakfast and Brunch Airhead Apple Cinnamon Muffins With a Nutty Topping A breakfast muffin with chunks of fresh Golden Delicious apple and a crunchy and sweet nut topping.

"Apple Trinity" Apple-Cinnamon Muffins This is a different version of the Airhead Apple Cinnamon Muffins above. It is made with a delicious appley trio: a tart Granny Smith apple, applesauce, and apple juice.

Pankin Pumpcakes You can go ahead and be all serious and call them Pumpkin Pancakes, if you want. I'm gonna go ahead and be silly.

Pumpkin-Ginger Pancakes Christmas themed pancakes with classic holiday flavors. They also work as boring, round, normal shaped pancakes.

Spinach-Clementine Christmas Tree Pancakes Blended frozen spinach gives these festive pancakes a lovely green color, but I promise they won't taste like Popeye's dinner.

Desserts and Other Sweet Treats Almond Butter Blondies with Chocolate Chips and Almond Paste Chunks This is one of my favorite recipes! Almond paste chunks FTW!

Apple Cream Tarts Shortbread crust filled with a creamy custard and topped with shredded apples, maple syrup and cinnamon.

Coconut-Apple Cake A simple eat-with-a-fork coffee cake topped with shredded apple and coconut.

Chocolate-Almond Cupcakes Wheat or buckwheat based. It's OK to eat half of the chocolate-almond ganache with a spoon.

Date-Sweetened Ice Cream Coconut milk based ice cream sweetened only with dates!

Eureka Brownies Fudgy with a crusty brownie top!

Gluten-Free Chocolate Whoopie Pies These whoopie pies with a whipped ganache filling make sweet Halloweegan spiders!

Mini Clementine-Blackberry Cupcakes A simple treat with a fruity center.

Mini Lemon Pies Tiny lemon pies baked in a muffin pan. Shortbread crust filled with lemon pudding and topped with buttercream.

Mint Chip Ice Cream This fresh mint ice cream gets that lovely green color from blended baby spinach. Not to worry, it does not taste like salad ice cream!

Mutant Flourless Chocolate Cookies with Macadamia Nuts Chewy and chocolatey nut-butter cookies made without flour.

Nonconformist Peanut Butter Cups These peanut butter cups are a little different than their more popular cousins because of their gooey center.

Self-Frosting Peanut Butter Cupcakes Hannah Kaminsky's amazing self-frosting cupcakes from My Sweet Vegan!

Sookie's Peach Sauce A tangy and sweet peach sauce to pour on top of your favorite vanilla ice cream.

Soy-Free Chocolate Mousse Coconut milk based mousse. Oui oui.

Strawberry Santa Hats Festive strawberries decorated with buttercream to resemble Santa hats.

Strawberry Santa Hats - Take 2 More Santa hats! This updated post has step-by-step pictures.

Breads, Buns, Biscuits and Scones Biscuity Scones No oven? No problem! These biscuit/scone hybrids are cooked on the stove top.

Chocolate Chip Scones Simple and tasty scones with a hint of orange.

Easy Multi-Grain Buns (Hang Loose Buns) No need to knead much, no big mess to clean up. It's all gooood duuude.

Fastelavnsboller Almond paste filled Shrovetide buns.

I-Don't-Have-Time-For-a-Yeast-Dough Whole Wheat English Muffin-ish Stove Top Buns Sorry, that is the full name of the recipe for these easy stove top buns.

Jane Eyre's Brown Bread Simple whole grain rolls in honor of one of my favorite books.

Main Dishes/Side Dishes Corn Dog Millionaire Made with whole wheat flour.

Gingery Granny Smith Quinoa With Slivered Almonds A side dish for hardcore ginger lovers.

Mini Meatless Loaves Mr. Wing-It's favorite meatless loaf recipe. Instead of one big loaf, these are shaped into individual loaves for faster and more thorough cooking.

Rice Patties Savory and tomatoey, and super easy to make! These are not intended to work as a meat substitute for a burger.

Spanish Tortilla This savory potato omelet is one of my favorite meals of all time. It is a blank canvas begging to be customized to your personal taste!

Steamed Potatoes With Mint and Parsley Dressing Garlicky potatoes with a fresh herb dressing. No kissing!