Solid Foods Recipes

 Yesterday I posted the above picture on the Bariatric Foodie Facebook wall, calling for folks to guess what was in it. This will be my lunch throughout this short work week, so I thought it’d be fun to give folks a peek into some of the stuff I like to make that hasn’t yet made it to the blog. …

 My New Year’s Resolution (if you can call it that) is cleaning up the blog a bit. There are posts where I promise to post a picture later that I never did or an additional recipe that I never did. If you see any of these posts please, please, PLEASE hit me up. I need to fix it! So …

Oh Foodies…how I can’t wait to move and have a more spacious kitchen so that extension cord is no longer in my food shots!!!  So…it’s almost two weeks into the new year. Let’s talk sensible sweets, shall we? I don’t know about you but there comes a time, especially after holidays filled with rich food and lots of treats, …

 It really warms my heart when one of my Foodies plays with their food and sends me recipes and pics. I ask for it all the time! And sometimes my wishes come true! Today’s offering is via my good friend, Melissa. I had the pleasure of meeting Melissa when I came to Pittsburgh for the Bariatric Foodie Holiday Food …

Many folks shy away from playing with cookie recipes because they are something of a science experiment. Cookies need to have the right balance of starch, fat, flavoring and levening agents to form into the perfectly simple deliciousness that we know as a cookie. But really it isn’t all that complicated. Take these almond cookies. They use no flour. They …

(Earlier today in Nik’s kitchen. Two divas leaning in front of the oven door, peering in the window.) Diva #1: What is it? Diva #2: Smells like brownies… Diva #1: Maybe it IS brownies. Diva #2: With our mom it’s never JUST brownies… Yep…they are right. Because this is no-flour baking baby!!! Ok, so I didn’t invent the concept of …

 Ok, first I have to give a big, PHAT (with a P) BF congratulations to Christine, the winner of the “Ho-ho-holiday Photo Contest!” She’s won a super cool nutrition label digital scale. Check it out! I have one myself and when the divas and I FINALLY move (read: have a bigger kitchen) I am going to start playing with …

 Anyone who knows me and the divas in real life should know we are unapologetic food snobs. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that boxed pancake mix is forbidden in my house. One might think this means I spend a lot of time making pancakes. Not so! My 12 year old has gotten so adept at mixing up …

This year I am hosting Thanksgiving for the first time!!! It’s exciting but also a bit sad. Next year we’ll move from the house where we have lived for the last 13 years so this will be my first and last Thanksgiving in this house. That’s why I want to make this meal special. We’re not expecting a big crowd, …

Don’t mind the browned crust. Me and my oven are going through a divorce. Sniff… “Well, it looks like regular sweet potato pie…” Holds plate closer to nose and sniffs again. “Smells like it too…” Pokes with finger then tastes fingertip. “C’mon, Nikki, what’d you do to it? You wouldn’t be asking me to taste it if you didn’t do …