Averie Cooks

Checked Off the Weekend List

by Averie Sunshine on January 23, 2012

I did not want to get out of bed this morning. It’s been cloudy, raining, dreary, drizzling, or overcast for a few days and rainy weather, alarm clocks, and Mondays don’t...

Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookies with PB Cups & PB M&M’s

by Averie Sunshine on January 22, 2012

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My whoopie pie pans were burning a hole in my cupboard. Just begging me to make something. You don’t have to have a whoopie pie pan to make these deep dish...

Gloomy Day

by Averie Sunshine on January 21, 2012

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The weather here today was the opposite of the normal San Diego sunny weather and blue skies we have. It was rainy, gloomy, windy, and one of those days you want...

Weekend List

by Averie Sunshine on January 21, 2012

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What’s on your to-do list this weekend? Mine includes some kitchen time… I’ll be taking this out for a spin. I’m not sure what I’m making yet. I have so many...

Cascadian Farm Cereal Giveaway

by Averie Sunshine on January 20, 2012

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Cascadian Farm has two new cereals they’ve just launched: Purely O’s & Honey Nut O’s They want to give away one box of each to two of my readers. To...

Out and About

by Averie Sunshine on January 20, 2012

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TGIF! I hope you have some fun things planned for the weekend. I know that I’ll be spending plenty of quality time at my desk. Yesterday I was organizing my photos...

Thursday Things

by Averie Sunshine on January 19, 2012

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Time for a few Thursday Things 1. This may seem self-evident, but do you know how to properly measure dry ingredients for consistent and optimal baking results? The Food Network has...

Avocado, Cream Cheese, and Salsa-Stuffed Puff Pastries

by Averie Sunshine on January 18, 2012

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I had been wanting to make stuffed savory stuffed puff pastries for awhile. Probably for the past, oh, seven years, give or take. My sister is the queen of puffed pastry...

Scraped

by Averie Sunshine on January 18, 2012

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I picked up one of these KitchenAid Flex Edge Beaters from Bed Bath & Beyond. They retail for 39.99 which isn’t cheap (who knew that’s the going rate for a beater)...

Free Lightroom 4 & Photo Editing

by Averie Sunshine on January 17, 2012

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Lightroom 3 is one of the best things that ever happened to my life. It’s better than sliced bread. It’s almost better than chocolate chip peanut butter cookies but you can’t...