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Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Bites

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Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Bites

Peanut butter and dark chocolate combine in this super simple frozen treat. Mix up a few ingredients and in less than 10 minutes you’ll have these Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Bites in the freezer. Waiting for them to freeze is the hardest part!

Hello My Cooking Spot readers! I’m so excited to be the newest contributor around these parts. I’m Jenna, and I’m a food blogger over at A Savory Feast. I blog about just about everything food-related, from recipes to kitchen tips and tricks to foodie road trip ideas.

I live a healthy lifestyle and like to share my better-for-you recipes on my blog. The trouble is, I have a HUGE sweet tooth! I love coming up with recipes like these Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Bites that can give me my chocolate fix without being too bad for me.

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Fried Rice {Gluten Free}

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Marcella Rose here.  Now if you are like me, you’re constantly trying to save money and what a better way to save than to use those leftovers! It’s always a shame to throw away perfectly good food, am I right? Now I don’t just like to warm up a leftover, though I have been known to do so, but where is the imagination in that?!  What I love is taking a leftover and making something extraordinary with it; something that makes the family run to the table.

So today I want to share with you an easy and quick recipe that will use your leftover white rice in a flash and with some panache!  I mean we all order take out and it seems that with every dish comes the ubiquitous box of white rice. You may eat a scoop, but I have never once used up all the rice.  Sometimes I make a rice pudding (I will share that recipe with you next time!) but most times I make fried rice.

What I love about fried rice is that your can serve it for every meal! If I serve it in the morning I like to baste an egg and place it on top; the gooey, runny yolk makes for a great sauce on the rice and really puts it over the top for the first meal of the day.  Serve this at a brunch and your guests will be stunned and love every bit of it.

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Bacon-Wrapped Summer BBQ Hot Dogs

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Bacon-Wrapped Summer BBQ Hot Dogs - skip the forks! | Get the recipe on MyCookingSpot.com!

I love BBQs! I honestly do. In spite of my vehement hatred of almost everything summer, BBQs are the one thing I actually look forward to in warm weather.

I adore the idea of gathering around a big picnic table with friends and family, an array of grilled food before me, beckoning me to indulge in at least one of everything.

There are some days, however, when you want the feel of a summer BBQ without the hassle, and these Bacon-Wrapped Summer BBQ Hot Dogs are an amazing solution for those days! [Read more…]

Homemade Blueberry Apple Fruit Leather

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Now that my little girl is a toddler, I’ve gotten really into creating fun and healthy treats for her. As a mom who loves healthy food, I’m trying to teach my daughter to enjoy a treat that is both enjoyable and nutritious for her.

It brings me so much joy to create fun food that she enjoys…from  gummy snacks, to smoothies, to fruit leather. She gobbles up this slightly tangy, sweet and chewy homemade fruit leather.

Think the old school fruit roll-ups you used to snack on as a kid, but so much healthier. I wrap these up in parchment paper and keep them in plastic baggies for quick snacks throughout the week.

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