I've been posessed by a domesticated housewife.

I don't know what has gotten into me, but I have been pretty obsessed with cooking lately

I made a chocolate cake with chocolate and peanut butter chips and a chocolate glaze with white chocolate drizzles with. It was easy and turned out fabulous!

Then Wendee wanted one for her birthday that was chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, so I used a similar recipe and made a white chocolate butterfly for the top.


I was pretty excited to pull off this sweet, spicy Thai coconut soup. It's one that I tried at a restaurant and challenged myself to try even if I am happy with the results, I'm making it again soon.

I also did fresh spring rolls (not pictured here) which I am definitely going to have to practice working with rice paper before I master these.

Ivan loves Gnocchi, and although I had made them before, in the last year we had only eaten store-bought kind so we decided to make a gnocchi production line one night and pump out about 5 lbs of Gnocchi (half with wheat flour!). Then bagged and froze them for a quick dinner plan.

A few nights later we tried them with a fabulous lemon basil sauce.
It was a success!

Last night I decided to try these cinnamon rolls. They turned out lovely (I'm going to be honest, I've had sugar every day this month, more updates on that soon!)

I also put this peanut sauce on tofu one night, yummy, easy, quick. Ivan even liked it.

I actually spend hours on allrecipes.com and recipezaar.com collecting recipes I want to try. It's a nice feeling at the end of the day to come home and create something in my kitchen and I'm lucky to have a wonderful husband who helps with the dishes!