Thinking Fruitful

Dessert Day…or Week

Happy Dessert Day/Week…what I would like to call the week of Valentine’s Day. This is a week when diets should be put to the side and chocolate and chocolate-covered fruits embraced. Treat yo’ self! Stuff yo’ face! It’s for love!

Banana Baked Donuts with Peanut Butter Frosting

It’s the weekend, well almost! And when I was a kid that meant something really special. It meant that it was almost Saturday morning, the morning that (if it was my turn) was my donut date with my dad. Many Saturdays of my sisters and my childhood were filled with rotating donut dates, one Saturday […]

25th Birthday in Style

This past weekend, I turned 25! Wahoo! I decided that I wanted to have a family birthday as my main shindig, so I invited my sister and brother-in-law from Oklahoma City and my parents to join Jason and I for a party in Tulsa. Both of my sisters went to college in Tulsa and there […]

French 75 Cocktail

For our New Year’s gathering, my sister and I decided that we needed a signature cocktail or fun drink for the evening. It is the new year, after all. So, I began searching for a delicious drink that contained Champagne. And I stumbled upon the French 75. This is a drink that contains gin, Champagne, […]

Top 5 of 2012

Happy almost New Year! 2012 has been a fantastic year for me and for the Fruitful blog. This year, Fruitful turned one and I feel like it’s come such a long way since the beginning. This year, I had one of my recipes featured on foodgawker. And this year, I came up with my own […]