Plates and Palates, my favorite local cafe in Bountiful, UT was the inspiration for Mango Chicken Pasta Salad with Tarragon Lime Dressing. This pasta salad is a combination of flavors from two of my top picks at Plates and Palates: the Mango Avocado Chicken with Basil Dressing and the Lemon Bowtie with Tarragon Dressing. It’s like two… Read More
Levain Bakery Oatmeal Raisin Cookie
Levain Bakery in New York City makes a serious oatmeal cookie. Thick and chewy,filled with raisins and big enough to be a meal replacement, ABK’s Levain Bakery Oatmeal Raisin Cookie is a cookie your granny will love! Oatmeal Raisin has been a favorite cookie in our home for many years. Grant’s favorite cookie is oatmeal… Read More
Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies are the most decadent peanut butter and chocolate lover’s treat ever. Almost 1/2 lb of gooey, dark chocolate and peanut butter chips combined in to a cookie makes this one of the most sought after recipes on A Bountiful Kitchen! If you have been following A Bountiful… Read More
Lemon Lime Sprig Cookie
This version of my Swig copycat cookie is a bit of citrus heaven! The Lemon Lime Sprig Cookie is everything you love in a Swig cookie, but with a fresh twist… lemon juice and lime zest! Everyone who tries this cookie loves it and many have told me they prefer this to my traditional original… Read More
ABK Soft Herb Breadsticks
Soft Herb Breadsticks are the perfect side to almost any dish…soup, salad, pasta. If you love Olive Garden Breadsticks you’re going to love this recipe! It’s spring in Utah, and that means one thing. Expect the weather to change every few hours. Or minutes. Today, it’s feeling like a stay inside and make soup kind… Read More
Pear and Pecan Salad with Sweet Red Wine Vinaigrette
The Pear and Pecan Salad at Plates and Palates in Bountiful is one of my most often requested recipes. I’m guessing it’s their top seller, along with their Lemon Tarragon Salad. My friends and I have been loyal customers at Plates from day one and have watched this business grow (from what seemed like just us… Read More
Triple Chocolate Mint Swig Cookies
Triple Chocolate Mint Swig Cookies are the ultimate treat for any chocolate/mint lovers in your life. This dense chocolate cookie is under baked for extra fudgey goodness and topped with melted Andes Mints, frosted with a dark chocolate frosting and then topped with more chopped Andes Mints. It’s paradise in a cookie for all of… Read More
Homemade Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars
Homemade Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars are the most heavenly blend of dried cranberries, orange, and white chocolate topped with a bit of cream cheese frosting! You can make this “better than copycat” version at home for your family and friends for the holidays. I first tried a Cranberry Bliss Bar at a cookie exchange last… Read More
Coconut Cream (Swig) Cookies
Every respectable Christmas cookie tray should include a coconut cookie. Since this was the year of the Swig copycat (Original (Almost) Swig Cookie, the Lemon Lime Sprig Cookie, the Chocolate Swagg Cookie, all ABK originals) I thought it was only fitting to end the year with a coconut version of one of our favorite cookies…. Read More
Great Harvest Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
I’m not usually a fan of store bought pumpkin bread. It always tastes like a mix (because it probably is) or it is: too airy, too dry, too much like a cake. The one exception is Great Harvest Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread. If you’ve ever eaten a slice, you know that Great Harvest makes a… Read More
Orange Glazed Chicken
On the last post I talked about my experience eating Creme Brulee French Toast at Cheesecake Factory. What I didn’t mention was, while I ordered the french toast, Jake ordered Orange Glazed Chicken. For breakfast. I know. I tried to talk him into a breakfast/brunch item, but he wanted Orange Glazed Chicken. Jake and his… Read More
Creme Brulee French Toast with Creamy Maple Syrup (Cheesecake Factory Copycat)
I’ve been to Cheesecake Factory for lunch and dinner, but this summer was my first time eating breakfast at the popular restaurant. Our server recommended his favorite dish- Creme Brulee French Toast with Creamy Maple Syrup. It was bite-after-bite of melt in your mouth deliciousness. I knew it had to be filled with butter and… Read More
Strawberry-Avocado Spinach Salad with Copycat Brianna’s Poppyseed Dressing
Strawberry-Avocado Spinach Salad with Copycat Brianna’s Poppyseed Dressing: Spinach salad can take on so many different twists. You can change it up and add your stamp with your favorite cheese, fruit, cooked chicken, onions, and varieties of nuts. I made this last week for the teachers at Woods Cross High. It’s simple and always a… Read More
Panera’s Strawberry Poppyseed and Chicken Salad
Have you tried Panera’s most popular salad? According to the girl who helped me last time I was there, it’s the Panera’s Strawberry Poppyseed and Chicken Salad. She promised I’d love it. She was right. I loved all of the fruit in this salad: fresh pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges. As I was eating the… Read More
Almost Swig Sugar Cookie Recipe – Volume 2
Hi there. It’s me. The unofficial-official expert on everything Swig cookie. Self appointed. If you doubt this statement, read my original post and recipe development epistle on Swig Cookies here. Now that we have our very own (truly official) Swig shop in B-town, and don’t have to drive to St. George to get a fix,… Read More
Sour Cream Pancakes
Have you ever eaten a pancake made with sour cream? There’s a little breakfast/lunch spot in Salt Lake called Penny Ann’s Cafe, and they serve the most delicious Sour Cream Pancakes! Sometimes, I daydream about those pancakes. They’re that good. Saturday morning, I was thinking about those light, slightly tangy, melt in your mouth cakes…. Read More
Panera Copycat Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Have you been to Panera Bread? It’s a chain, and even though I’m not a fan of chain restaurants, I love a sandwich and soup from Panera. Maybe it’s because we don’t have Panera in Utah? You always want what you can’t have. I’m not a fan of super thick and cheesy soup. That’s why… Read More
Cracker Barrel Biscuits (copycat recipe)
If you’re a fan of biscuits, especially Cracker Barrel Biscuits, this is your lucky day! My make at home version of Cracker Barrel Biscuits is receiving two thumbs up from everyone. You know how I love a good biscuit. This recipe is a Southern classic. It’s rumored to be the Cracker Barrel Biscuits Recipe. It… Read More
Swagg Cookie
Another lesson today on Good, Better, Best 🙂 Remember the (Almost) Swig Cookie recipe I posted last summer? If you haven’t made it yet, you need to get busy. I’ve had dozens of people tell me they love to make the cookies at home, since they don’t live close to the famous Swig cookie shacks…. Read More
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat Bread (copycat)
I’m trying to figure out where the past 12 months went. A year ago, this was our life… February 2013. The coldest February in the history of the world to move. Not kidding when I say the snow stayed on the lawn until April. It was that kind of winter. Hooray for 2014. Yesterday, it… Read More
(Almost) Swig Sugar Cookies and one long story behind them…
If you live in St George, Utah, or have visited St. George over the past few months you’ve heard about the buzz surrounding SWIG. Here’s the (Almost) Swig Sugar Cookies and one long story behind them… Swig is a little cookie shack (two locations) rumored to be hauling in thousands of dollars each day. They… Read More
BBQ Chicken Salad with Creamy BBQ Cilantro Lime Dressing
Labor Day weekend kicks off the start to Summer. Summer. Summer. It’s been a long Spring here in Utah. One of thosekeep 4 blankets,boots,hat,gloves,scarf and portable heater at all times in your car for the baseball game seasons. So glad it is finally warming up. Summer means salads. I’ve been looking for an excuse to… Read More
Poppyseed Dressing
One of my resolutions for 2013. Cook more. Okay, for real. You know what’s so great about making your own salad dressing? You can pronounce all of the ingredients. I’m posting three recipes this week I tried recently. Loved all three: Poppyseed, Bleu Cheese and Creamy Balsamic. Each one takes about 5 minutes or less… Read More
How to make your own Pumpkin Pie Spice
Last week I was shopping for some spices and started to throw a canister of Pumpkin Pie Spice into the cart. I looked twice at the price $4.99 for a tiny 1.12 oz jar. YIKES. I turned the jar around and looked at the ingredients: Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg and Allspice. I knew I had all… Read More