Fudgy Chocolate Stout Brownies

fudgy chocolate stout brownies // my bacon-wrapped life

Happy (early) St. Patrick’s Day!! What better way to celebrate the Irish than with the richest, fudgiest brownies of all time? With booze, of course. Who do you think I am?

I absolutely love St. Patrick’s Day – it’s one of my very favorite holidays to make a festive treat for my blog. I love drinking stout beer and whisky, wearing green, and being super pale all year around, so an entire day dedicated to such things is highly exciting to me.

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Copycat Dark Chocolate Cherry Cashew KIND Bars

copycat dark chocolate cashew kind bars // my bacon-wrapped life

Important life lesson: You can never have enough healthy hand-held snacks. Or, ya know, chocolate. You definitely can never have enough chocolate.

After absolutely loving the results of these homemade granola bars and these Copycat Clif bars, I turned my sights to another one of my favorite snacks – KIND bars! Dark chocolate cherry cashew KIND bars, to be exact. Can you tell I’m a crazy bar fiend? I love these bars in particular because they’re hand-held and convenient, but also made with real, healthy ingredients. Plus, did I mention chocolate? But whenever I love something so much, my food-blogger brain starts pondering if I could maybe, maybe make it at home. And maybe even make it more delicious, cheaper, and real-food-filled?

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Foodie Favorites – February 24, 2016

foodie favorites - february 26, 2016 // my bacon-wrapped life

The cutest sign we stumbled upon in Berkeley on an impromptu walk on a gorgeous February day! I could not agree more.

Hey everyone! How’s your week going? I absolutely cannot wait for this weekend – we are heading down to LA tomorrow for a weekend trip to Santa Barbara with my parents, Brad’s sister, and her boyfriend to visit our wedding venue and do our wedding food tasting!! This is clearly the best part of being engaged, so I am over the moon and can’t wait to try all the food, drink all the wine, and eat all the cake. I hope you have a delicious weekend to look forward to as well! In the meantime, let’s keep ourselves food-happy with this week’s Foodie Favorites!

These sausage kale French bread pizzas need to make an appearance in my life ASAP. So many of my favorite things!!

Slow cooker cannellini bean soup is so winter-perfect. I’m craving it even here in sunny California!

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Shakshuka

shakshuka // my bacon-wrapped life

I’d like to introduce you to my new favorite breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

It’s healthy. It’s sexy. It’s impressive enough for company yet super easy to throw together. It’s shakshuka, and if you haven’t had it before, it’s just straight-up the best.

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