Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Weekend Happiness Did you have a nice weekend? Maybe you’re still enjoying your weekend because you have Monday off in light of Columbus Day or maybe you’re Canadian and are still basking in the post-Thanksgiving glow. I had a nice weekend but it flew by. Weekends always seem to go by quicker than other days of the week. I’m sure you can relate....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Chicken Orzo Salad Chicken Orzo Salad — This chicken orzo salad comes together in under 30 minutes and is made with juicy tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, a tangy lemon vinaigrette, and more! Chicken Orzo Salad Recipe This chicken orzo salad is ready in under 30 minutes , makes enough to serve a crowd or for planned leftovers, can be served warm or chilled, and it’s a very flexible recipe based on the vegetables you have on hand....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Stuffed French Toast Peanut butter and bananas is such a classic combination that always tastes good. I used to eat peanut butter and banana sandwiches as a kid and this recipe trumps that for a few reasons. First, chocolate peanut butter. Automatically a leg up on regular peanut butter. You could also use Nutella. Second, rather than just making sandwiches, I made French toast....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Chocolate Stash & What to Make Next Lately I’ve been trying to thin out my cupboards and organize them more. That’s code for, I’d rather not spend money on non-perishable grocery items until I use up what I have on hand . Case in point the Curried Ginger & Raisin lentils were made with all on-hand ingredients And so were the Microwave Blueberry Banana Oat Cakes...

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Recipes Christmas Red Velvet Poke Cake Christmas Red Velvet Poke Cake — The EASIEST and most impressive red velvet Christmas cake! You’ll have your friends and family thinking you’re a rock star pastry chef! Moist red velvet cake is infused with white chocolate pudding, then topped with whipped topping, sprinkles, and white chocolate curls! Ready in ONE HOUR and uses shortcut ingredients to make your job as easy and hassle-free as possible!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Counting My Blessings It’s been a perfect Friday in Aruba. Except for the 10 minutes that I was walking home from the beach and it started downpouring out of no where. That’s island weather for you. You never know when it’s going to start pouring out of thin air out of humid air. Be prepared to take cover under any awning, hut, or little bit of shelter at any moment....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Edamame Salad Hi Bloggie Friends, how’s Tuesday going for you? Mine started off with a bang. Literally. I dropped the metal frame of a tricycle on the top of my foot. How did I manage this one? Well, I promised Skylar a pink trike once she fully learned the potty. Well, it’s been a couple months and she’s got it completely down pat so it was trike buying time....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Friend Meetup, Exercise Balls, Car Repairs, Stress Busters, Productivity as the Week Progresses Hi Friends! I hope you’ve had a good day because I have had better! My car issues from yesterday are not looking good, at all . More on that in a minute. Let me give you the good news, first. I got together with my friend Jenny! The last time I saw her she was about a week or two away from delivering her second baby and was feeling a little camera shy....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes From The Weekend The highlights of my weekend include: Ordering this white Hemnes Cabinet fom Ikea. I have run out of storage space in my kitchen-living-dining room (it’s all just one big connected room) to store anything. Urban living and no storage at its finest. I literally have cereal boxes, nice dishes , yoga mats, camera lenses, and spatulas crammed into nooks and crannies, random drawers, stuffed in various closets and things are a big disorganized hodge-podge....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Holidays with Friends & Family: Blessed or Stressed? Hi Friends! Wow just two days until Thanksgiving! So much to do and accomplish before then. I probably won’t do any of the cooking I plan to do for the meal until that morning. I am working every day up to the holiday, and have other irons in the fire I’m juggling too, so no time to “pre-cook” some things, even though that would be nice....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Kitchen Gadgets & Tools I hit the kitchen tool jackpot over the weekend when the UPS man brought me a box filled with all these goodies from OXO as part of my relationship with FoodBuzz as a Featured Publisher. It was all delivered on a Saturday no less. It must have been a sign from The Universe that I was supposed to spend time in the kitchen cooking over the weekend....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes New Beach Pictures, Rules of Life & Life Lessons Hi Friends! I wanted to pop in and say hello and see how your weekend is going. We had a nice time at the beach yesterday and here are some pictures The sun was going in and out. A few minor sprinkles here and there but nothing that ruined our afternoon. From yesterday’s Pan Seared Ginger & Lemon Pepper Grouper with Sweet Dipping Sauce recipe , thanks to many of you for the compliments on it and for telling me if you’re scared to cook fish or any other foods or recipes that you’re scared to prepare or possibly “mess up”....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes New Coat & Boots, Childhood Shopping Memories, MAC Makeup Favorites Hi Friends! TGIF baby! Thank god the weekend’s here. Not that I was counting the days or anything. I’ve been working 4 days a week, and of course, also holding down things on the homefront and my #1 role of being a mom always keeps me busy. I’m looking forward to the weekend because maybe I’ll be able to sneak off and do some jeans shopping , solo style ....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Fish Parmesan Fish Nuggets Parmesan Fish Nuggets — Lightly crisped on the outside and tender on the inside, these EASY fish nuggets are picky-eater approved and they’re baked not fried! Made with a combination of Parmesan cheese, panko breadcrumbs, plus there’s homemade tartar sauce for dipping! Crispy Baked Fish Nuggets Recipe I have childhood memories of eating fish practically every Friday during Lent. Sometimes we’d go to a fish fry and other times my mom would make fish at home....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Pasta Raw Bakery Treats, Zucchini Noodles & Peanut Sauce, Chocolate Snowballs How are you doing today bloggie friends? I am doing great and have had a super productive day from lots of raw dessert making escapades to crossing things off my to-do list. Changing the sheets, going grocery shopping, chopping veggies, changing diapers, and paying bills isn’t exactly glamorous , but at least when you’re done you feel like ahhh, ok, I’ve accomplished something....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Readin’ Along? Hi Bloggies, a little bonus post for you. Just wanna make sure for all of you lovelies who read along in GoogleReader with me that this post shows up…I made a couple changes on my end with my domain name, and just double checkin’ things. Would hate for you to miss me, even though I’m upside down in headstand Or for you to miss any of the Raw Vegan 15-Minute Apple Crumble Delight...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Red, White, & Blue Food The 4th of July is right around the corner and it’s time to break out the Red , White, and Blue Food. Here are some ideas for your 4th of July parties and festivities: Red Food Strawberries with Chocolate Coconut Cashew Butter Raw Pasta & Raw Marinara Sauce Vegan Sloppy “Bean & Lentil” Joes Raw Taco Salad with Raw Taco Nut “Meat”...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Fish Salmon Niçoise Salad with Basil Vinaigrette Salmon Niçoise Salad with Basil Vinaigrette — An ELEGANT French-inspired salad with juicy salmon, tender potatoes, soft-boiled eggs, crispy haricots verts, and more. And it’s all drizzled with a super FLAVORFUL fresh basil vinaigrette!! This BEAUTIFUL salad has something for everyone!! What Is a Niçoise Salad? Traditionally, it’s a French salad from the area of Nice, France; hence the name Niçoise....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Santa’s Helper On Monday I met up with my friend Amber for coffee and chit chat. It had been far too long since our last meetup and it was fun to catch up with her and hear about what’s going on in her world and squeeze in a little girltalk. Thanksgiving Week will only get more hectic with each passing day and Scott, Skylar, and I are leaving next week ....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Slow Cooker Slow Cooker Peanut Butter Cup Swirl Cake Yellow cake is spiked with peanut butter, hot fudge, topped with a peanut butter glaze, more hot fudge, and sprinkled with peanut butter cups!! It’s rich, decadent, SO EASY, and made in a slow cooker!! This is one of the best cakes I’ve made in ages despite it not being the most photogenic cake. It’s not neat and dainty....