I don’t know about you, but after Easter I have a pile of chocolate bunnies just waiting to be eaten.  Everyone is going to think I’m insane, but I don’t like to just nom on a brick (or bunny) of plain chocolate (unless it’s really good chocolate).  Every year, chop those bunnies up and turn them into something delicious.  This year?  Chocolate and hazelnut banana breakfast cake.  Phew, that name is a mouthful, but a delicious mouthful that ends in eating chocolate and cake for breakfast. I’m a big believer in sweet foods for breakfast.  To me, indulging a little bit in the morning helps me say no to buttery, sugary cookies at work — which is frankly incredibly hard when it seems like *someone* brings in treats at least twice a...

I’m not sure what your kitchen looks like, but mine is packed and overflowing with various kitchen gadgets — many of which were either purchased for me or inherited.  That made this month’s Recipe Redux theme pretty complicated: treasured cookware, meaning something passed on to us from our favorite relatives.  It’s a rare, rare meal I make that doesn’t involve something from my Grandma’s kitchen, specifically her KitchenAid mixer or her bread machine.  I realized that I post recipes using my mixer often and have a shocking low amount of bread machine baking, considering I bake almost all of our own bread. I remember the smell of freshly baking bread at my grandma’s house (and occasionally from my mom’s kitchen).  It didn’t happen all the time, but I loved a fresh, crusty loaf of bread...

I participated in an Ambassador Program on behalf of Millennial Central for Brancott Estate Wines. I received product samples to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.  As always, all opinions are 100% own.  This post is intended for readers of the legal drinking age. Who likes wine?  Everyone?  Obviously.  That’s why I was so excited to try Brancott Estate Wines Flight Song.  First of all, check out their website — I love the artwork/branding on this wine.  It’s fun and quirky (just like me, right?).  They sent me a Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigio to try and before I even tasted it, I was immediately lured in by the fact that it was crafted to be 20% lighter in calories than...

I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Millennial Central for Kirin. I received product samples to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation. Do you like trying new beers?  I love going to beer festivals and sampling a little bit of everything, heading out to a taproom (Michigan has a surprisingly active brewery scene), or just popping into the “fancy” party store in town and grabbing a few bottles of whatever looks interesting that day.  That’s when I was so excited from Millennial Central reached out with an opportunity to try Kirin Ichiban and Kirin Light.  If you’ve never tried Kirin beer (I hadn’t!), it’s a 100% malt, first-press beer — and if you’re anything like my friends, those words...

My name is Kelly, and I’m an Indian-food-aholic.  Pre-Advocare cleanse (update on that later in the post), my friend Lauren and I had these coupons for our local Indian buffet that basically made it $5, which basically forced us to eat there every Thursday for lunch.  After weeks of eating piles of delicious pakoras, navartan korma, saag, paneer tikka masala, and whatever-those-delicious-little-dessert-balls-floating-in-syrup-that-taste-like-pancakes-are-called, I shocked my system by not going for several weeks in a row.  My body refused to accept this, and I dreamed about Indian food.  I wish I was joking, but I straight-up had a dream I was eating pakoras soaked in some sort of delicious sauce that came off an orange-colored veggie dish while the aforementioned syrup drenched thingies danced on a nearby table.  Danced. I know...

We mustn’t dwell. No, not today.  We can’t.  Not on Rex Manning Day. *Cue Music and terrible dancing* I wish I could’ve made you all buttons that say “Marc Sucks” but instead I made you cupcakes, just like Corey would’ve.  From scratch, because there are 24 usable hours in every day.  Are you sick of my Empire Records references yet? You know a recipe has to be tasty for me to let it share the spotlight, right?  I actually made these a while ago and have been greedily holding on to them.  I had strawberry syrup sitting in my fridge just begging me to make a delicious strawberry flavored baked good (after I’d had my fill of soda) and I’d already made these vegan vanilla cupcakes a few times (because bathroom construction was leading me...