Kitchen Sink Caramel Corn: Guest Post on Around My Family Table

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Did you know that October is National Popcorn Month?

I didn’t either, until Wendy over at Around My Family Table brought it to my attention! But as soon as she asked me to come up with a fun popcorn recipe for her month-long popcorn extravaganza, I knew I wanted to participate.

So head on over to Wendy’s site to check out my recipe for Kitchen Sink Caramel Corn, and be sure to check out some of the other awesome popcorn guest posts that Wendy has been featuring this month!

Raisin Bread Pudding with French Vanilla Creme Anglaise: Guest Post {and Giveaway!} on The Realistic Nutritionist

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Oh man am I ever excited to share this recipe with you guys.

For one, I love bread pudding. {As you will see from another ah-mazing bread pudding recipe I will be sharing with you next week.}

But what I really love about this recipe? It only uses four ingredients.

You read that correctly. Claire over at The Realistic Nutritionist challenged me to come up with a recipe using Coffee-mate creamer – that’s right, it’s not just for coffee! – and this was the result. Fancy, impressive and oh-so-easy.

Head over to Claire’s site for the recipe and a giveaway!

Peach Crisp Baked Oatmeal: Guest Post on The Realistic Nutritionist

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Happy Tuesday, guys!

I hope everyone is having a great start to your week. I have a real treat for you this morning: today I am guest posting for Claire over at The Realistic Nutritionist with this awesome Peach Crisp Baked Oatmeal.

You read that right. Peach crisp. And baked oatmeal. Together at last.

But that’s all I’m going to say about it for now! Hustle on over to Claire’s blog to get the full scoop and check out her awesome site!

Blackberry Skillet Cornbread: Guest Post on Sarcastic Cooking

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Today’s a big, exciting day for me!

Yesterday I flew out to Boston for new staff orientation for my new job! Can you keep a secret? Even though I am crazy excited (both for the job and for my first trip to Boston!), I’m also a little nervous. Not only will I be learning everything I need to know for my new job (brain overload!), these sort of things always make me feel a little like I’m back at my first day of school. Will everyone like me? Or will I just be that weird girl who talks too much about food and has too much cat hair on her sweater? I’m hoping I can win them all over with cute shoes.

It’s also a big, exciting day here on the blog because I am guest posting for my fabulous friend Stefanie today over at Sarcastic Cooking! Pop on over to check out my Blackberry Skillet Cornbread and make sure to show Stef some love by following her on Facebook and Twitter!

What are you still doing here? Go go go!!

{Guest Post} Peach Gingersnap Tarts

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It’s time for part two of guest post week here at Eat Your Heart Out! Today’s post is brought to you by my friend Grace. You remember Grace – she is my awesome foodie friend who keeps me entertained and well fed at work. While keeping up with her own blog, she was kind enough to guest post for me again, and I am so excited for you to see these beautiful little tarts she whipped up to share with you!

I was kicking around lots of ideas for this post, and just couldn’t make up my mind.  So I asked my mom what she’d be interested in having, and she asked for these little tarts.  When I first made them, it was just one of those recipes that came together from what I had in the house at the time.  Now they’ve become a classic around here.  They are super easy and quick, but oh-so-decadent.  And who doesn’t love getting an individual dessert at a dinner party?  Tres chic.

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Peach Gingersnap Tarts
Yield: 8 tarts
 

This recipe is for eight tarts, and uses about ¾ of a bag of ginger snaps. I would have liked to provide you with the correct amounts for using the whole bag of cookies, but somehow, I didn’t have a whole bag when I started cooking. How did that happen?
Ingredients
  • 30 Mi-Del gluten-free ginger snaps, or your personal favorite gluten-full brand. (My mom bought these cookies when my brother came to stay last year, since he can’t do that wheat-flour thing. She and I liked them so much that we’ve just kept buying them!)
  • 4 ripe peaches
  • 2 egg whites
  • raspberry jam (or other tasty jam or jelly flavor)
  • vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, fruit, and mint for garnish

Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Crush 30 ginger snaps. Personally, I prefer the Rolling-Pin-n-Ziploc-Bag method. (Put about 10 cookies in the bag. Close it. Roll them with the pin. Repeat). Place half the crumbs in a small bowl, and half into a larger bowl.
  3. Dice 4 peaches, and stir the pieces into your large bowl of cookie crumbs.
  4. Add the 2 egg whites to the other bowl of crumbs and stir until well mixed.
  5. Evenly divide the eggy crumbs among eight muffin cups. Put a tasty dollop of jam on top of the eggy crumbs, and top it all with a scoop of peaches.
  6. Bake for 10-12 minutes. There will still be some bubbly liquid when you remove them from the oven but they’ll firm up as they cool. Or else just eat them hot with a spoon right out of the muffin cup. That’s what I do.