This post is NOT sponsored by Sola, but I use it in the recipe. It’s a great sweetener that I like a lot (read my review!)  Why didn’t any of you tell me eggnog was so easy to make? Like seriously…of all the things I’ve made from scratch this was one of the simplest to execute. But it does require you …

Cheesecake. There’s a lot of it on this blog. There are full-sized cheesecakes, mini-cheesecakes,  savory cheesecakes, fall cheesecakes, cheesecake yogurt, cheesecake pops, cheesecake protein shakes and nowwwwwww….cheesecake cheeseball. Yep. I. Love. Cheesecake. Thanks for noticing. As opposed to extolling the virtues of cheesecake (because, really, who has to be convinced that cheesecake is good?), I thought that in the true …

Goat cheese is one of those things that for years I did not know I liked. I’d had it plenty of times but didn’t know I was eating it. Interestingly, it was a pizza joint that taught me I love the stuff! I sometimes go to Uno’s Chicago Grill for lunch on Fridays with coworkers. They have these lunchtime specials. …

  This is my version of the very first cheeseball I ever tasted. Picture it. Nikki. 2008. Support group holiday party. They served this cheeseball and it was…sigh…it was love. Now at the time I was only 11 months post-op so I could only eat a bite (and then couldn’t eat anything else after that) but man, was it worth …