Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Prosciutto and Balsamic Greens Flatbread Prosciutto Flatbread Pizza — Topped with prosciutto, red onion, kale, balsamic, and made with store-bought dough! Perfect for FAST dinners or EASY entertaining!! Easy Flatbread Pizza Recipe Do you ever feel like you should have a salad but in reality feel like pizza? This flatbread is the answer. It’s part kale salad thanks to the wilted kale that’s been sautéed with zucchini, red onions, garlic, and drizzled with balsamic vinegar for a snappy punch of flavor....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles Raw Vegan Pumpkin Spice Donut Holes Recipe – 5 Minute Recipe How’s Hump Day treating you? Has anyone been humping? I have…. From Vegan PB Chex Mix To Broccoli Salad To Roasted Sweet Potato Fries I am really glad you were enjoying my good, albeit a bit random , feast!!! Today I wanted to hook you up with another Donut Hole Recipe just in time for Halloween and the Fall Season!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Strawberry Cream Cheese Shortbread Bars Strawberry Cream Cheese Shortbread Bars — A buttery shortbread crust topped with cream cheese filling, frosting, and strawberries!! EASY and perfect for spring and summer parties!! Easy Strawberry Cream Cheese Shortbread Bars A few years ago I made these Almond Cream Cheese Shortbread Bars and realized the bars are perfect with strawberries as well. My eyes were bigger than my stomach when I bought 5 pounds of strawberries, and using some in this dessert was a necessary move....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Tahini Dressing & Choc Coconut Snowballs How are you doing today? Who’s enjoying their Hump Day? Sorry Sarah! I am going to be taking the little precious one to a Mommy & Me Pottery Class. Admittedly, I kinda burned out on the peppy soccer moms & “Mommy & Me” type scene by the time Skylar was about a year old, but this event looked too cute to pass up so we’re going to make some pottery handprints and whatever else the teacher wants to do to keep a roomful of 2-3 year olds engaged....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Superbowl Foods and Plans Is anyone watching the Superbowl this weekend? I’m not. Is anyone cooking anything special for the Superbowl this weekend? I’m not. But I know many of you are either watching it or cooking things, so I’d like to refer you to my Game Day Recipes Post Everything from (Kale) Chips and Dips and Hummus To Guacamole To Vegan Chili...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sweet Mango and Lime Corn Salsa From my last post, it sounds like I’m not the only one who collects cookbooks as sport enjoys Cook Books so I’m glad you enjoyed the Cook Book Reviews Today I snacked on some Sweet Mango & Lime Corn Salsa [print_this] Sweet Mango & Lime Corn Salsa 1/3 c fresh diced mango 1/3 c fresh diced red pepper 1 c canned corn Juice of 1/2 lime, a scant 2 Tbsp 2 Tbsp Agave (use more/less or omit, or use Stevia , based on taste preferences) 1 teaspoon ground ginger salt and pepper, to taste Optional: 1/4 Tsp Chili Powder and/or Cayenne Optional Add-In’s: Add black beans, garbanzo beans, red onion, garlic, or other diced veggies to the mixture...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Toxic Beans, Vegan Vanilla Softserve Hi Bloggies, how are you today? Did you do anything to Celebrate the Summer Solstice ? Did you do 108 Sun Salutations like I mentioned is customary in yoga on Solstice days? I kept a loose count but did about 75. 10 here, 15 there, type of thing. Skylar was busting out Sun Salutations nonstop yesterday, too. On the bathroom floor of the gym, no less....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Vanilla Bean and Brown Sugar Caramelized Banana Jam Sometimes my eyes are bigger than my stomach and I wind up with too many ripe bananas all at once. But when you just can’t make one more banana smoothie or loaf of banana bread, make banana jam. It’s fast, easy, vegan, gluten-free, and comes together in about 20 minutes. It isn’t traditional jam and there’re no water bath or canning involved, so in case ‘jam-making’ instantly sets you into panic mode, don’t worry....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Big Dogs A couple weeks ago I mentioned that it’s common for people to bring their dogs into stores here, including the grocery store Yesterday Skylar and I were out doing some shopping and we were inside the grocery store… …when a homeless man who was drunk (and probably high) had a big dirty dog that was not on a leash and it was trying to sniff Skylar while we were in the sugar aisle....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Caribbean Citrus Roasted Sweet Potatoes I wouldn’t call this a recipe. I’d call it more of a I made this for dinner and the husband really loved it and told me to blog about it type of thing. This is not rocket science. This is potatoes. But they’re sweet potatoes which elevates them past typical tuber status. Their natural sweetness paired well with the Mrs....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Mexican Cauliflower Tinga Tacos with Avocado Crema Cauliflower Tinga Tacos with Avocado Crema — Roasted cauliflower is drenched in a smoky, perfectly spicy chipotle sauce, then folded into corn tortillas, cheese is added, and baked to crispy perfection! A bright avocado crema sauce is the finishing touch! Naturally gluten-free vegetarian food never tasted so AMAZING! You’ll never miss the meat in these healthy tacos!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Chocolate Rollup Bread I’ve tried over the years to make cake rolls but I admit they’re not my forte. This bread reminds me of a cake roll, but it’s so easy and goofproof which isn’t my experience with cake rolls. Ahem. The recipe uses a tube of crescent rolls and you sprinkle the inside with cinnamon and sugar and chocolate chips before rolling up the bread, folding it in half, sprinkling with a streusel topping, and baking....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Chocolate-Covered 7-Minute Microwave Caramels Chocolate-Covered 7-Minute Microwave Caramels are rich, buttery, creamy, sweet, and softly flavored with vanilla. They’re the perfect balance of soft-yet-firm and just melt in your mouth. I’ll put them up against fancy candy shop caramels. You’ll never need another candy shop caramel or recipe for homemade caramels after trying these. And they’re so easy. If there’s one thing I like better than homemade caramels, it’s homemade caramels dipped in chocolate....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Debt Free & Saving Money When I posted my 2011 Intentions and Goals (some people would call them New Year’s Resolutions but I prefer intentions/goals) , my number one priority was to pay off my credit card debt . I am thrilled to report that my American Express has been paid in full! A hefty five-figure sum. Paid. The weight of the world on my shoulders has been lifted!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Fish Easy 15-Minute Fish Tacos with Avocado Corn Salsa 15-Minute Tilapia Fish Tacos with Corn Salsa — Tons of big flavors in a fast, fresh, and healthy meal!! A clean-eating taco recipe that tastes like comfort food! Quick Fish Tacos with Corn and Cabbage Salsa This is an easy, family-friendly tilapia fish taco recipe that’s ready in 15 minutes. You may even change the mind’s of those who say they, ‘don’t like fish’ with these tacos....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Easy Honey Mustard Chicken Easy Honey Mustard Chicken — This honey mustard chicken is ready in 20 minutes and features a homemade honey mustard sauce. A great recipe to have on hand for busy weeknights when you want a no-fuss, healthy dinner! Honey Mustard Chicken Tenders I love all mustards. Yellow, Dijon, spicy, grainy, you name it and I’m a fan. Add some honey and it’s even better....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Locally Grown I know how fortunate I am to live in San Diego. Not just because of the beautiful blue skies, sunshine, and palm trees… …or the flowers that grow year-round here… Saw this rose on a run the other day and went back with my camera. …but it’s a blessing that fruits and vegetables of all kinds, including avocados, are grown locally here....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Loving Spring I love living in San Diego. Especially when spring is in the air! The lemon I used to create my earlier recipe for Raw Pasta Salad with Creamy Lemon & Herb Dressing used a lemon that came from a friend’s lemon tree. And then, I was at another friends’ house and she had tons and tons of little Meyer lemons from her tree....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Not Cutting the Line I went into the kitchen on Saturday with the intention to use these type of ingredients To make something more along the lines of, say, Deep Dish Double Chocolate Golden Graham Smores Bars (no bake) But came out with this Not sure how that happened Ok, I know. Because man cannot live on desserts alone. But woman can. Ahem....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes November 2012 Recipes It’s the end of the month and time to recap the noteworthy recipes and events from the month: Cranberry Bliss Bars {Starbucks Copycat recipe} – One of the best desserts I’ve made in ages, with a white chocolate and cranberry blondie base, topped with white chocolate-infused cream cheese frosting, more cranberries and a white chocolate drizzle. It’s a good thing the batch size only yields eight wedges because they’re dangerously good and a dead ringer for the Starbucks version...