Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Coconut Oil Give Away I’ve been using Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil quite a bit this week… Chocolate Coconut Kale Chips Chocolate Coconut Cashew Butter Thanks to everyone who told me you loved the recipe and pictures . Make your own in 5 minutes! And previously there’s been Raw Vegan Coconut Oil Chocolate Ginger Coconut Roasted Potatoes & Vegetables Vegan Gluten Free Pancakes...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Easy Roasted Shrimp with Green Goddess Dip This is the easiest way to make shrimp you’ll ever find. They’re juicy, full of flavor, healthy, ready in 10 minutes, and foolproof. Compared to frying , boiling , or threading onto skewers, this is definitely the easiest method. Simply place the shrimp on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper, and bake. It’s a perfect recipe for a no-fuss party appetizer, an easy lunch, or a perfect clean-eating weeknight dinner that’s ready in a flash....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Pasta Extra Cheesy Tortellini Bake Extra Cheesy Tortellini Bake — Three-cheese tortellini baked with pasta sauce AND three more cheeses!! Cheese lovers will adore this easy baked tortellini casserole that’s ready in 30 minutes!! Cheesiest Baked Tortellini Casserole My refrigerator could be confused as a small cheese shop because at any given time I have at least 20 types of cheese. Multiple different types of blue and brie, aged cheddar, white cheddar, extra sharp cheddar, gouda, gorgonzola, goat, mozzarella, parmesan, pecorino, swiss, and on it goes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blender Cake This is the easiest cake ever because the batter is made in a blender. There’s also no white sugar, no butter, no oil, and no flour in it. That’s right, a cake without any of those ingredients but tastes every bit as good as cake made with them. The cake is soft, extremely moist, dense but not heavy, and has bold peanut butter flavor that’s complemented by chocolate....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Nervous Nelly Makes LaraBars I pre-wrote this post because by the time you read this, I should be in Phoenix, or well on my way. I am flying from San Diego to Phoenix for a day trip. I have a lot of anxiety about the trip , not because of flying or airports or driving around in a rental car in a different city....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Crumbles Raw Vegan Apple Crumble…Again! How’s everyone’s weekend been so far? It’s hot-n-awesome here in AZ! The hottah the bettah for me. Later this morning I’m off to go check out a little vegetarian cafe and tea leaf readin’ kinda place. Hippy Dippy at it’s finest and I’m excited, all the while gettin’ a much needed mommy-alone-time kinda mornin’ becuz Skylar will be with Daddy!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Pudding & Mousse Raw Vegan Chocolate Mousse, Mailbox Surprises, Full Moon, Body Talk Happy Monday, Bloggies! How has your day been? Back to the ole school or work grind, I’m assuming. My day was nice. I went to yoga this morning and it felt really good. Since finishing my 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program recently, I took a week or so and scaled back a bit on the amount of in-studio yoga classes I was taking ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Scents Wafting It’s been a manic Monday. I woke up to my blog running as slow as molasses and although I just upgraded to new servers about three weeks ago, it seems that they weren’t quite big enough. I knew this almost immediately after migrating, but was putting off doing anything because tech changes give me panic attacks. Sweaty palm city. However, I couldn’t avoid it any longer so I spent half the morning and much of the afternoon dealing with tech stuff....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sweet and Tangy Jerk Chicken with Caramelized Pineapple and Mango The flavors in this dish just scream warm and sunny tropical island. So much so that it makes me wish I was on a tropical island right about now. It’s a fast, easy recipe the whole family will love and it’s ready in less than 15 minutes. This isn’t traditional jerk chicken but who said we always have to be traditional....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert The Best Turtle Brownies 🐢🍫😍 Turtle Brownies are super fudgy brownies loaded with chocolate, pecans, and caramel! An easy, no-mixer recipe, these are the most INCREDIBLE BROWNIES that are LOADED with all the good stuff! Rich, decadent, and amazing! To save time, use store-bought caramel sauce. Easy Turtle Brownies Recipe Turtle candies . The chocolate-covered caramel and pecan clusters that I can eat five of in 5 minutes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes The Easter Bunny Stopped By The Easter Bunny stopped by our house and Skylar woke up on Sunday morning to some goodies that I picked up last week that the Easter Bunny brought her. She was all over the Dora phone as I suspected she would be. Thrilled about it! She told me now she can text all her friends. She’s four. Soon she’ll be showing me how to use my iPhone ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here’s my roundup of Thursday Things for the week: It’s a very special day today. See #10 below after you’ve read 1 through 9, of course. Keepsy is a fun site for all you Instagramming -obsessed people. It turns your Instgram pics into a calendar or hardcover book, or r you can use pictures from Facebook or Flickr. National Food Holiday list....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Travelin’ Around Yesterday I mentioned that I was flying to Phoenix for a day trip . Well despite packing my handy dandy snack pack for the plane, I had the Breakfast of Champions: A Starbucks Venti Drip & water . I never skip hydrating, especially after that altitude moisture sucking ability that plane rides have. Since I was up at 4am, I can cut myself some slack on the ‘Bucks....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Tripod & Photography Page I have been obsessed with become passionate about photography lately in case you haven’t noticed. I decided to create a Photography Page to keep all my photography posts organized and for easier search-ability in case anyone wants to read over my various photography posts. Some recent posts… My food styling and photography workshop last weekend helped to fuel my new passion....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Valentine’s Day Recap Earlier today I asked what you did for Valentine’s Day so I thought I would share a few photos from our day yesterday. Skylar went to a Valentine’s Day party with her friends and came home with a stash of cute things. Handmade Valentines she was given and a Valentine’s Day “Purse” that she made Earlier in the day, Scott had given me some cards....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken 15-Minute Salsa Verde Chicken, Rice, and Beans 15-Minute Salsa Verde Chicken, Rice, and Beans — Fast, EASY, one skillet recipe!! Between the salsa verde, lime juice, and cilantro mixed with juicy chicken, rice, and beans, you’ll be hooked! Perfect for busy weeknights and meal prepping!! Salsa Verde Chicken, Rice, and Beans There’s nothing better than an authentic-tasting Mexican meal made in one skillet that’s ready in 15 minutes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 15 Un-Labor Day Recipes It’s Labor Day Weekend and that should mean easy, breezy, tail-end-of-summer and ease-into-fall food. And nothing that will cause you to break a sweat or do any hard laboring in the kitchen. Here are 15 of my favorite un-Laboring recipes to munch on or sip on over the holiday weekend. Appetizers & Snacks: Cheddar Cheese & Olive Oil Savory Muffins – One bowl and just 5 minutes to toss these cheesy and moist little muffins together...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 2011 Highlights I wasn’t going to do this post. Everyone has seemingly done one and at the risk of jumping on the Year in Review Blog Post bandwagon, I am doing it anyway. Reading so many Best Of posts caused me to reflect back on some of my 2011 Highlights: Travel Aruba, May 2011 Aruba, December 2011 Travel + Photography Workshops Real Food Styling & Photography Workshop with Matt Armendariz and Adam Pearson...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes A Big Post for The Big Move I am as happy as I’ve been in years right now!!!! I just bought a house and we are about to move in!!!!! In an hour. Well, the buying process started the last weekend of April, so a mere 4.5 months later, the day is finally here! I had intended to send this post out 2 days ago from San Diego, but time got away from me....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blistering I wish I could say that this post was about blistering heat… It’s not. It’s about me getting all kinds of blisters on my feet this week. I can go for months without getting a blister and then bam , I got four doosies this week. I didn’t change my shoes or my socks I am not running any longer or changing my stride, my pace, or my route...