Posts by "Karen Petersen"

  We all went over to my sister-in-law’s house for Mother’s Day dinner.  Part of the dinner was, of course, a tossed salad.  She went to grab the dressing out of the fridge and she pulled out a regular store brand bottle of ranch dressing.  But unlike normal dressing bottles she had this cool easy [...]

I was in charge of bringing dessert to Mother’s Day dinner.  After perusing through my awesome and huge dessert pinterest board, I decided to make these.  Good choice.  And a happy mother’s day to me.  Because that’s what we all want for mother’s day, right?  Something chocolate and some cookie dough.  Bam!  Winner.  These are [...]

  These cookies have quickly become my favorite.  The reason?  The dough!  Oh man, it is the best, most addicting dough ever.  (eat at your own risk…it does have uncooked eggs in it. Also, the cookies are pretty awesome as well!  Just don’t over bake them.  That is a sin in my house.  Over baked [...]

  My mom didn’t let me get my ears pieced until I was 18 years old.  So I feel like waiting that long really helped me to appreciate getting to wear earrings.  Now I wear them all the time!  Basically, if I’m leaving the house I wear earrings. However, within the past year my ears [...]

  First off, I just want to say that this Creamy Tomatillo Ranch Dressing will change the way you think about salad or raw veggies.  Salad for dinner?  Nah.  Salad for dinner with this Tomatillo dressing?  Yes, please.  There are a lot of different versions of this dressing floating around on the internet but this [...]

Best Cookie Bars Recipe   This recipe came from my sisters Home Ec Cookbook from 1991…our family has been making them ever since.  They are the perfect combination of chocolate and cookie and oats.  These cookie bars are my favorite thing to make for potlucks or when we’re having company over for dessert.  My husband [...]

These are my new favorite muffins!  They are healthy and so tasty that kids and adults alike will be happy.  I love how they don’t have any butter or oil but are still moist.  They only have 1/4 cup of sugar in them so they are not overly sweet.  I like to use muffin liners [...]

  My friend Stacey told me about this “recipe” and I’ve been using it lately.  First off, it lasts forever.  Second, it is sooooo much cheaper than that expensive laundry detergent at the store.  I cannot believe how much laundry detergent costs and how quickly we go through it at our house.  So this was [...]

Sometimes you just need a little heaven in your life.  Make these.  They’ll bring heaven to your kitchen and your mouth and your tummy.  They will basically make all your wildest dreams come true.  That is if you have dreams like I do…peanut butter and chocolate dreams.  Try them.  You won’t be sad, I promise. [...]

The ultimate comfort food mixed into muffins.