Chipotle Lime Fish Tacos

Tacos are my favorite quick meal during the week. I love to search the Internet for recipes and then modify them to create my own!

Meyer Lemon Sorbet

We had a few leftover Meyer lemons sitting around the other evening and I decided to make another sorbet. We don't have an ice cream maker, but I've been making sorbets without one for years using just one simple technique. Here's how I do it.

Look anywhere online and you'll no doubt find an abundance of recipes for a simple Meyer Lemon sorbet like the one below. That was my starting point.

10 foods for healthy skin

You are what you eat! While applying nourishing products to the outside of your body is important, what you consume on the inside is even more critical for beautiful skin! 

Take a look at this list of foods that have a great impact on your outside as well as your inside.

Artichoke
This potent antioxidant has been known for improving the skins luminosity. Also benefits the body by easing digestion and lowering cholesterol.

Alfalfa Sprouts
Scatter a few of these on your salad. Each sprout is packed with calcium, folic acid, potassium, silicon, zinc, magnesium as well as Vitamin A, B complex, C, E and K! Such nutrients are great for clearing the skin.

Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies

We had a craving for dessert last night, and didn't want to go out into the cold winter air, so we tried a new recipe found on FoodNetwork for delicious Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Just 30 minutes later we bit into (and devoured) cookies that really hit the spot.

We chose to use a mix of milk chocolate and dark chocolate chips for variety, and increased the amount of instant espresso by another half teaspoon to really give them that rich, espresso taste.

Homestyle Apple Cinnamon Pancakes

Not every meal needs to take a lot of time in order for it to taste delicious. Most days of the week, I'm running behind and want to quickly throw together something scrumptious that won't make a giant mess in the kitchen.

So I turn to a good quality pancake mix. No, not Bisquick. There are a number of mixes readily available in stores that taste nearly homemade, and

Five-Minute Strawberry Lime Sorbet

Winter was making a statement this evening, as it was only 8 degrees outside.  Naturally my thoughts turned to summer, and I decided to whip together a bowl of summer sorbet to escape the winter blues.