Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Beans & Lentils Ketchup & Mustard Lover’s Protein & Veggie Mash Are you a ketchup and mustard lover? I am! I am a condiment queen, actually. If you love ketchup and mustard, this one’s for you. It also happens to be: One-pot, vegan, gluten free, soy free, ready in less than 30 minutes, makes planned leftovers, is packed with protein, is cheap to make, and uses up everyday and common ingredients you have on hand....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Keyed Up Yesterday I had to stop by the hardware store and have a key made because over the weekend Skylar managed to drop one of only two house keys down the crack of the elevator shaft. You couldn’t replicate the randomness of it if you tried a hundred times. She and Scott were locked out of the house until I made it back home and could let them in....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Nutella-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Blondies Chocolate Chip Nutella Bars — Super soft, buttery bars STUFFED with NUTELLA and topped with CHOCOLATE chips! Easy, no mixer recipe that puts a smile on everyone’s face!! Chocolate Chip Nutella Bars A few years back I made Nutella-Swirled Peanut Butter Blondies on a whim. I was traveling and it was an easy recipe to make in a temperamental oven and in a hot and humid climate where running the oven for more than 25 minutes wasn’t happening....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Overnight Growth I went to The Money Pit Target yesterday. Skylar has been growing like a weed and her pants literally went from normal to high waters, overnight. A shopping trip was in order to restock pants. Usually I restock produce, but yesterday it was restocking pants. Yes, she is very tall for a four year old Good thing Target kids clothes are usually a deal at $4 to $5 per item....

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Recipes Peppermint Patty Chocolate Cookies Chocolate Peppermint Patty Cookies — Very chocolaty, ultra FUDGY, and loaded with chocolate chips and peppermint patties!! If you love mint + chocolate, you’ll adore these easy, soft, and decadent chocolate bombs!! Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Recipe I haven’t made any all chocolate cookies since last December. Whoops. That was a serious mistake because these are so, so good. The cookies are fudgy and full of rich chocolate flavor thanks to both cocoa powder and chocolate chips....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Potato Recipes I realized when I posted my recent recipe for Lemon & Dill Roasted Potato Sticks , that I have lots of potato recipes and I wanted to organize them and make them easier to access. And as a total unplanned twist, it’s so fitting that this post about potatoes falls on the day before St. Patrick’s Day! Is that the luck of the Irish, or what?...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Pumpkins Picked & The Week I hope your weekend is off to a nice start. Mine is and this past week sure has been a busy one. Scott was traveling so I was flying solo for much of the week but he’s home now. Skylar and Daddy get to have a little Park Time together while Mommy takes a little Break Time. I was also busy in the kitchen....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Donuts Raw Vegan Donut Holes – 5 minute recipe And gracias for your appreciation of my Vegan Almost Raw Girl Scout Samoas Cookie Remake Recipe. How are you doing today? It’s TGIF time… But I just wanted to post a quickie that I made this morning that totally worked… Averie’s 5-Minute Raw Vegan Donut Holes Grind 1 c flax seeds Then add 2 Tbsp Maple Syrup (or agave if you’re a raw purist)...

Home › Recipe Index › Beverages › Smoothies Skinny Pina Colada Smoothie Piña Colada Smoothie — This creamy smoothies contains just four ingredients and is naturally vegan and gluten-free! I’ve also included instructions on how to turn it into a blended piña colada cocktail! Non-Alcoholic Piña Colada Smoothie Recipe Oh how I love a piña colada for breakfast. This version doesn’t have alcohol in it, but you can fix that if you’d like....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Soft and Puffy Pumpkin Spice Cookies Pumpkin Spice Cookies — These pumpkin spice cookies are made without pumpkin puree but are full of flavor thanks to the pumpkin pie spice! These are so soft and fluffy! Cozy Spiced Pumpkin Cookies Ingredients in Pumpkin Spice Cookies How to Make Pumpkin Spice Cookies Recipe FAQs Soft and Puffy Pumpkin Spice Cookies Recipe More Pumpkin Cookie Recipes: Cozy Spiced Pumpkin Cookies These pumpkin spice cookies are supremely moist, soft, with hints of chewiness at the edges, and their flavor is pure fall....

Home › Recipe Index › Beverages › Alcohol Sunset Drinks & Trip Photos Hump Day of a Holiday Week. Does that make Hump Day sound any better? Nah. Not really. So what’s happening in your world? Are you wrapping presents like a banchee? Or baking up a storm? Speaking of baking, so glad you enjoyed Shannon Marie’s holiday high raw all vegan dessert recipes yesterday! Everything from Cinnamon Mocha Crinkles...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thrifty Dishes & Registries Over the weekend I ventured into my fave thrift shop and scored 7 items for $7 bucks. $7.53 but who’s counting. One bowl was inadvertently left out of the photo sesh. Oops. The bowl in the very center was a dime. 10 cents! You can’t even buy a tampon in a vending machine a gumball for a ten cents anymore, but you can buy a little dish....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for a few Thursday Things . A few eye-catching and noteworthy items this week include: Casetagram . Make an iphone case from your Instagram photos. Holy coolness and I think I have to start designing mine. As soon as I get our holiday card designed. Lens Skins I didn’t even know these existed. It’s both fashionable and functional because it adds a layer of scratch protection to your lens....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for a few Thursday Things . A few eye-catching items this week include: Paula Deen sells butter-flavored lip balm Other flavors include banana pudding and key lime pie. And, yes, the slogan really is “Put a little South on your mouth” Speaking of butter… Norway is running out of butter . “(Reuters) – The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Weekend Plans & Brown Happy Weekend! I am always glad when the weekend is here. Time to get some fresh air and enjoy the fall weather Ok, I really don’t love fall because it means that winter is coming but I’ll pretend the seasonal changes just stop with fall. And that winter won’t ever show up. And yes, it does get chilly here in the winter....

Home › Recipe Index › Extras 5 Ways to Shake Up Your Dinner Party It’s time to spice things up a bit. Make an invitation to your dinner party more inviting with one of these five dinner party ideas and serve up an evening for the books. Evite has some awesome ideas they want to share . A Trip Around the World: Celebrate everyone’s heritage and your friends’ diversity. Ask guests to bring dishes from their family’s country of origin, or if you’re feeling extra ambitious, ask them to simply name their favorite dishes and make them yourself!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Acai Smoothie & Roastin’ Veggies Good Afternoon friends! How’s the humpy day goin’ so far? I am sooooo glad you’re all diggin’ the Raw Vegan Cheesecake I posted earlier. To answer some random questions… .cashews I think are best because they are a soft nut and lend well to blending and making a nice creamy filling. Macadamias may also work but almonds…nah, I probably wouldn’t....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Balancing It All & Feeling Balanced Note: I had much of this post pre-drafted before hearing of the tragedy in Japan. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone effected by the natural disaster. The gravity and severity of the disaster further illustrates that what most of us deem as a “problems” usually mean very little in the great scheme of life and to keep life in perspective and in balance....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Beachy Afternoon We spent the afternoon here . Absolutely picture perfect. Just coming in to reload with a Coconut Cream Pie Smoothie (vegan, GF) and we’re headed out for a pre-dinner family walk. Okay and I lied. And a handful of Cinnamon Sugar Chocolate Pretzels (no-bake, vegan), too. Gotta replenish the sodium (and chocolate) stores. What did you do today? Thanks for the Capresso 12-Cup Stainless Steel Coffee Maker Giveaway entries

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Buttery Crumb Coffee Cake Coffee Crumb Cake — This coffee crumb cake recipe couldn’t be easier to make! It’s made with boxed yellow cake mix, which is used in both the batter and the crumble topping. Easy Coffee Cake Recipe I have a thing for buttery crumbs or anything with a crumble or streusel topping. The more crumbs there are, the happier I am....