Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Yoga Mat Destiny As promised at the end of my last post about the Raw Sweet ‘N Tangy Chickenless Chicken Salad , this post is starting off with one of my favorites things… yoga . And more specifically, a new yoga mat! Imagine my delight when The Bolder Mat Company sent me a new yoga mat! I was like a toddler on Christmas morning about to break into a new toy....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › French Toast Baked Bagel French Toast with Maple Glaze Baked Bagel French Toast with Maple Glaze — Soft, chewy bagels make the best French toast! So easy, no flipping required, and tastes phenomenally good!! French Toast Breakfast Casserole…With Bagels! I’ve made my share of French toast . With Hawaiian bread , as French toast sticks , as muffins , with gingerbread , pumpkin , streusel topping , and peanut butter maple syrup ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blueberry Muffin and Buttermilk Pancakes Cake Blueberry Muffin Cake — This fast and easy cake tastes like a big buttermilk pancake that ran into a blueberry muffin on the way to the oven. It’s fluffy, tender, and moist from both the buttermilk and sour cream that’s incorporated into the batter! Easy Blueberry Breakfast Cake I was going to make blueberry muffins but didn’t want to deal with the one-by-one nature of muffins....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Coffee in Aruba How are you doing? Greetings from a warm and sunny place! I’m actually in Aruba. And let me tell you, if you forget your memory stick card reader in order to import photos from your digital camera into your antiquated Sony Vaio laptop, and you’re running on some rickety barely-better-than dial-up-kind-of-DSL-lines, blogging can be a real beast. (Insert many other words that start with B, too....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Delicious Food I Saw I read a ton of blogs. And here is just some of the delicious food that caught my eye this week. I hope you enjoy the recipes as much as I did! Kiss My Broccoli’s Super Fluffy Peanut Butter Carob Chip Pancakes Jenny’s Itty Bitty Cinnamon Roll Bites Emily’s Frosted Doughnut Sugar Cookies Holly’s Roasted Vegetable Tart (i.e. The Tart of No) and post on Saying No...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Fly Away & Happy Places On Tuesday I called Scott in the middle of the day and said, “I’d like to get away.” He said, “Really? I can’t.” I said, “Well, I’m buying.” He said, “Great! Where are we going and when are we leaving?” When I used to sell timeshare it was always interesting that no one could ever “find time to get away”, but if the trip was paid for, time away was never an issue....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Happy Birthday! Hi Friends! I hope you’ve had a good day and are staying warm and not stressing out over the holidays. I would be remiss to mention that it was someone’s birthday here yesterday. Not My Birthday Not Skylar’s Birthday It was Scott’s Birthday! (for those of you who have asked, due to his job and privacy issues, I can’t post pictures of him on my blog)...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Loaded Chicken Enchilada Zucchini Boats Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Zucchini Boats — Skip enchilada wraps and use zucchini instead!! Easy, healthier and there’s so much FLAVOR between juicy chicken drenched in enchilada sauce, corn, peppers, and CHEESE!! Stuffed Zucchini Boats Recipe It’s that time of year when everyone’s gardens are exploding with zucchini. Except mine because I don’t have a garden. But the zucchini are inexpensive and plentiful at the grocery store....

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Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Orange on a Green Day & Seeing Things I had a really busy day, but what’s new. One of the highlights of my day was that I had a great workout! Do you ever have one of those workouts where the stars seem to align and you just have a killer workout? Yesterday’s workout was one of those days for me. The weather was perfect for a 30 minute run....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Packing Lunches Every day I pack Scott’s lunch for him. He never gets anything too earth-shattering in his lunch. But life isn’t always earth-shattering. Sometimes its just lunch . And it’s always based on what I have on hand and can throw in his bag. For instance: Apples Fresh pineapple chunks Date Rolls No Bake Coconut & Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites Homemade Trail Mix with whatever odds and ends I have to throw into it...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls How are you doing today? I’m doing great and excited that there’s only one more day til it’s TGIF time! Woo-Hoo! Thanks for the props yesterday on the roasted veggies , the acai smoothie action, and of course, the raw vegan cheesecake. Guess which one I like best? Should be pretty easy to deduce....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Peanut Butter Cowboy Cookies Peanut Butter Cowboy Cookies — Chewy oats, sweet coconut, crunchy pecans, peanut butter, and plenty of chocolate!! A true ‘kitchen sink’ cookie that stays soft and chewy! Everyone (not just cowboys) loves these cookies!! Cowboy Peanut Butter Cookies You don’t have to be a cowboy or cowgirl to love them. I’m neither, but am a huge fan of these cookies because they’re hearty, loaded with texture, and have so many wonderful flavors going on in every bite....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Salted Caramel and Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars Salted Caramel and Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars — You’ll never want plain pecan pie again! Caramel and chocolate makes the bars taste amazing! Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars I normally don’t like nuts in desserts, but I recant everything I’ve ever said after these. They’re some of the best bars I’ve ever made. To top it off, I don’t even really like pecan pie, but the inspiration for the bars started after trying a rich, buttery, chewy caramel with nuts from See’s Candies, and I’ve always loved their chocolate-coated walnut chews....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Salted Caramel Magic Bars Salted Caramel Seven Layer Bars — A buttery graham cracker crust is topped with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, salted caramel sauce, and sweetened condensed milk. It’s a fast, EASY, no-mixer recipe that’s as easy as layering ingredients in a pan! Layered Chocolate Caramel Coconut Bars Recipe Ingredients How to Make Coconut Caramel Seven Layer Bars Recipe FAQs Storage Instructions Salted Caramel Magic Bars Recipe More Seven Layer Bar Variations: Layered Chocolate Caramel Coconut Bars I have a thing for Magic Bars, or Seven Layer Bars as they’re sometimes called....

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Recipes Shortbread Sandwich Cookies Shortbread Sandwich Cookies – Chocolate filling is sandwiched between two buttery shortbread cookies before the cookies are dipped in sweet white chocolate and festively decorated! EASY enough for novice bakers and PERFECT for holiday entertaining, gifting, and cookie exchanges! Shortbread Sandwich Cookies Classic shortbread cookies just got elevated to sandwich cookie status. And who doesn’t love a sandwich cookie! In between the buttery, crispy, delicate shortbread cookies is a thin layer of melted semi-sweet chocolate....

Home › Recipe Index › Thanksgiving Recipes Slow Cooker Turkey Breast ⏰🙌🧡 Slow Cooker Bone-In Turkey Breast turns out perfect every time and is nearly impossible to dry out! Save the drippings at the bottom of the slow cooker for making into turkey gravy . Whether you want to free up oven space for a holiday meal or you’re looking for an easy weeknight dinner, this EASY recipe creates AMAZING turkey every time!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Spicy Vegetable, Corn, & Bean Soup Hi Friends! I hope you’re having a good day and that the week is going by fast for you. Between Christmas and New Years, I always find the week between the two to be a wash. Nothing much happens and even though some people have to get back to work, you’re there in body only....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Strawberry Pineapple Banana Lava Flow Smoothie I’ve made thousands of smoothies in my life but this one is special. Because I’ve never made a lava flow smoothie but I’m hooked now. Fast, easy, healthy, refreshing, and tastes wonderful. It’s so creamy and tropical-tasting and perfect for this weather. Oh and it looks cool which counts for something, right. The light portion is pineapple and banana blended with Silk Unsweetened Cashewmilk ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thanksgiving Plans: Recipes & Meal Ideas Hi Friends! How is your week going? Mine is going along just fine, but super busy and jam-packed . Can you believe in less than one week it’s going to be Thanksgiving? What, huh? Feels like I was just cooking Thanksgiving Dinner . But it was Last.Year. Wow. As I posted the other day, life is really moving at warp speed !...