Cranberry Orange Muffins

I made THESE cranberry orange muffins for breakfasts last week and they are SO delicious!  I love how tart they are.  I also adore my new stoneware muffin pan - it's awesome. 

Pioneer Woman's Orange Mini-Muffins with Brown Sugar Glaze

THESE are tasty!  Especially warm out of the oven.  Mine got a little toasty on the bottoms/sides, but they still tasted good (I think).  They were easy to make, too.  A great brunch idea!

Aloha Cake

We had a luau over the weekend and I made Aloha Cake.  It was a piece of cake to make ;) and it turned out delicious. I love cold cake and this one is kept in the fridge.  It's very tropical tasting and I will definitely make this in the summertime.  I had a piece the second day and I think it was better than it tasted on the first.  I love when that happens!  You should definitely make this as a little escape to paradise.

Chicken Breasts a l'Orange

I made this French chicken dish from the Good Housekeeping cookbook.  It was relatively easy and fast to make - although chicken always takes longer to cook for me than recipes say they should.  Next time I would make sure the chicken breasts were thinner - mine were pretty fat and I'm sure that's why they took so long to cook through.  I found that two oranges didn't produce quite enough juice so I used orange juice I had in the fridge.  Maybe I just didn't squeeze hard enough though.  This was really flavorful & I liked it a lot.  I served it with a flavored rice and next time I'd probably serve it with a rice that was more neutral.

HERE IS THE ONLINE RECIPE.

It's fun to branch out and try these new types of recipes!