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I spent time in the kitchen earlier today creating.

Baking ingredients - 3 Baking ingredients - 4

I’ll give you three hints at what I created. Inspired by three of my favorite food categories.

It had something to do with:

Chocolate Recipes

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies - 5 Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies - 6

Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter Recipes

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies stacked on plates - 7 Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies stacked on plates - 8

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Balls/Bites/Bars Recipes

Overhead of Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - 9 Overhead of Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls - 10

High Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

This recipe is sort of similar to what I created but not entirely

No Bake Nutella & Peanut Butter Graham Bars with Chocolate Frosting

No Bake Nutella & Peanut Butter Graham Bars with Chocolate Frosting stacked on white plate - 11 No Bake Nutella & Peanut Butter Graham Bars with Chocolate Frosting stacked on white plate - 12

It sure was fun making a mess and taking out 17 different things out from my cupboards and then deciding what was going to go into the recipe

Oats and cashews in blender  - 13 Oats and cashews in blender  - 14 Ground up oats and cashews in blender - 15 Ground up oats and cashews in blender - 16

And what didn’t…

Like most everything I make, it came from items I have in my pantry or what I happened to have on hand. Like Oreos !

Oreo Fudgees cookies - 17 Oreo Fudgees cookies - 18

Why would I go buy something just to make a dessert? Yes, ok, I have. But I try not to.

Questions:

  1. What have you created lately? Not even just created in the kitchen, but anything.

Have you created any artwork, photography , sewing, music, poetry, writing, creative dance or yoga, created a shabby chic piece of furniture, done a DIY project of any kind, created anything from a wall mural to putting together an outfit that was pretty awesome? What’s been your latest creation?

I am happy with the way our house and furniture came together in our new place .

Making your living space a home and arranging your existing furniture and possibly pairing it with new pieces that complement the space so everything fits, works together, and doesn’t look like a complete hodgepodge I think is definitely an exercise in creativity.

I know many of you just moved into new places because the school year just started so I bet you have some moving in and new-home-makeover-creation stories, too.

  1. What inspires your creativity in general?

In the kitchen, some people are recipe followers. I am not.

I am a recipe ad-libber. Doing it on the fly with what I have on hand.

Tweaking the dough until I have it right in terms of texture, taste, consistency, authenticity, and the intended recipe goal . <– i.e. Sometimes I want to make cookies but the dough is too runny so I either have to add flour and then end up with way more cookies than I’d care to dollop onto cookie sheets, or just roll with the punches, change a few things up perhaps, and pour it all into a cake pan .

In terms of my photography, I am constantly inspired by almost everything around me. I can be in really unique surroundings and be inspired and still want to take pictures.

P.S. Thanks for the Healthy Snacks Giveaway Entries

Enjoy your weekend and I hope you’re creating or doing something fun!