Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Smoothie as Pudding The day started off with a fruit-n-raw-veggies smoothie . Into the Vita-Mix went: 1 banana, 2 small oranges, 1/2 of a yellow summer squash (I know, kinda like huh would that work? …but honestly, not even notice-able), handful of baby carrots, 1/2 inch of ginger, dash of agave About 1 minute later Skylar and I had an orange creamsicle-colored Smoothie Fest Goin’ On...
Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Thai Chicken Coconut Curry Thai Chicken Coconut Curry – An EASY one-skillet curry that’s ready in 20 minutes and is layered with so many fabulous flavors!! Low-cal, low-carb, and HEALTHY but tastes like comfort food!! Thai Chicken Curry with Coconut Milk Thai Chicken Coconut Curry Ingredients How to Make Thai Red Curry Recipe Tips Storage Instructions Ingredient Substitutions and Shortcuts What to Serve with Thai Chicken Curry Thai Chicken Coconut Curry Recipe More Easy Thai Curry Recipes: Thai Chicken Curry with Coconut Milk This is an easy Thai chicken curry that’s made in one skillet, ready in 20 minutes, and is naturally gluten-free....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for this week’s Thursday Things : Marshmallow Sauce – Gosh that looks heavenly Bon Appetit featured this sauce in their July issue within a story about ice cream and cold treats for kids this summer. Ice cream, sprinkles, sauces, and raw egg whites. In the marshmallow sauce, for kids. 1 large egg white, corn syrup, powdered sugar, vanilla; beaten together...
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Valentine’s Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars Valentine’s Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars – Sugar cookie bars are so much FASTER AND EASIER than making sugar cookies!! The sprinkles and tangy cream cheese frosting help to make the bars a PERFECT Valentine’s Day treat!! Fast And Easy Everyone loves sugar cookies but not everyone has time to make them and that’s where these frosted sugar cookie bars come into play....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Vanilla Fruit Salad Vanilla Pudding Fruit Salad — The easiest fruit salad ever thanks to the addition of vanilla pudding mix! Make it for your next party and watch this crowd-favorite fruit salad disappear! It’s always the simplest recipes that people love the most! Vanilla Fruit Salad … with Pudding Mix! I cannot resist the glory of summertime fruit. It’s my favorite time of year....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Hi Friends! Are you getting over The Hump ? I hope your week has been smooth sailing and maybe you even had Monday off, so possibly a shorter week for you. I have to teach a 5:30pm Hot Power Flow Class at the Gym (where none of the trainers wanted to help me ) in just a bit , so that’s what I’m up to next....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Windy Window Shopping I hope you had a nice weekend. Mine was nice but fast. Wham-bam and it was over. The weather was craptastic here for most of the weekend in San Diego. This was as nice as it ever got and even this photo is a bit deceiving. It was so windy and dreary and rainy all weekend. Scott is a big Chicago Bears fan and the Bears were playing the San Diego Chargers in Chicago....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes A Savory Din-Din Recap Hola amigos! How’s Saturday been treating ya? I’ve had a nice day…more in tomorrow’s post bout what I’ve been up to. But in the spirit of keepin’ things mellow and less planned on the blog like I mentioned earlier, thought I’d let ya all know what I whipped up for din-din last night. And yeah, if you’re keepin’ track, this is my THIRD post today....
Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Avocado Black Bean Mexican Salad Avocado Black Bean Mexican Salad – EASY, ready in 10 minutes, and there’s so much FLAVOR from the lime-cumin-chili vinaigrette!! Great for lunch or a meatless Monday dinner! Accidentally vegan, gluten-free, HEALTHY, and DELISH!! Light and easy salads that you don’t have to turn on your oven for is what August heat means for me. This one is fast, easy, ready in 10 minutes, and full of Mexican-inspired flavors from the lime-cumin-chili vinaigrette....
Home › Recipe Index › Beverages › Smoothies Banana Strawberry Pineapple Smoothie This Strawberry Banana Pineapple Smoothie contains no added sugar and won’t derail your diet. Sweet strawberries, creamy bananas, and a splash of pineapple juice helps brighten the smoothie and gives it a subtle tropical vibe! Healthy Fruit Smoothie Recipe I love sweet, fruity smoothies. They’re so refreshing and go down quickly and easily. But they can be sugar minefields, and many clock in with stats that should make them meals, not snacks....
Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Easy Spicy-And-Sweet Glazed Chicken Easy Sweet and Spicy Chicken — Perfectly spicy with just the right amount of sweetness in this EASY, super flavorful recipe that leave you wanting more!! Crispy skin on the outside, juicy and tender inside, and so GOOD!! Quick Sweet and Spicy Chicken Recipe I am a fan of salty-and-sweet recipes as well as spicy-and-sweet. There is something about adding a touch of sweetness to salty or spicy recipes that I love....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Fall Chores Friday was like a day of Spring Cleaning for me except it’s the fall. After I dropped Skylar off at school, I went for a 5 mile run and while running I mentally strategized the rest of my day and dreamt about pumpkin recipes . It was about 78F and perfect. Perfect, meaning the pumpkin recipes I was dreaming up in my brain that I can’t wait to cook because I’m craving pumpkin....
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cakes & Cupcakes Frozen Chocolate Pudding and Wafer Cake This cake is no-bake and uses three ingredients. And it’s very chocolaty and easy. Do I have your attention? Okay, good. I thought so. You could also make this cake using vanilla wafers and vanilla pudding or coconut cream pudding or banana pudding or whatever pudding you love. Or if you’re like me, nothing other than chocolate will do....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Happy Memorial Day Happy Memorial Day. Thank you to everyone who’s ever served our country; past or present. Your service is appreciated! Some of the highlights served up here include chips with hummus – the four-ingredients and 60-second easy version with Sweet Corn Salsa and Mango, Lime, Red Pepper Salsa Mini-watermelons were on sale for $1.99 and it was a good one. Juicy and not mealy; just perfect....
Home › Recipe Index › Dips Hot Cheesy Corn Dip Hot Cheesy Corn Dip — 🌽🧀🎉 This super FAST and EASY corn dip recipe has just 5 ingredients and takes only 5 minutes to stir together making it the PERFECT last-minute appetizer to whip up! It’s great for casual entertaining, tailgating, game day parties, or any time you need a quick baked oh-so-cheesy dip! Hot Corn Dip Recipe Ingredients in Hot Corn Dip How to Make Corn Dip Recipe FAQs Storage and Reheating Dishes to Serve Alongside Baked Corn Dip Hot Cheesy Corn Dip Recipe More Cheesy Dips: Hot Corn Dip Recipe I love dips and make meals out of them, and this corn dip was one of the best meals I’ve had in awhile....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes No Power I’ve never blogged from my iPhone until this post. There was a power plant explosion or power lines severed and almost two million people in San Diego county are without power. The outage also involves parts of Orange Co, Tijuana and northern Mexico, and east to Palm Desert. This is serious. They do not know when it will be back. It’s pandemonium here....
Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Oven-Baked Barbecue Chicken Baked BBQ Chicken — This oven-baked bbq chicken takes less than 10 minutes to prep and comes out perfectly moist and flavorful every time! Definitely add this to the meal rotation! Oven Baked BBQ Chicken Recipe Now that summer is behind us, I’m not grilling as often and my family is missing barbecue chicken. So I made this easy baked bbq chicken, complete with sweet potatoes and broccoli, that’s cooked in the oven in one pan and is ready in under one hour....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Tasks I’ve had a productive day of checking various tasks off my list: I got my hair done. Regrowth, goodbye. I love the salon vibe and overall environment at my salon . I just don’t love sitting there for a couple hours. This was my view of the downtown San Diego city skyline while I was sitting in the chair with my feet up and receiving an amazing head massage during my shampoo....
Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables The Best Baked Brie with Balsamic Cherries Balsamic Cherry Baked Brie — This 3-ingredient baked brie is the perfect last-minute holiday appetizer! It’s salty and sweet, and oh so creamy. This stuff is seriously good! Easy Baked Brie Appetizer I love appetizers so much. I’d rather have them than entrees. And of all appetizers, baked brie is my absolute favorite....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogger Meetup, Farmer’s Market Finds, Getting Massages Hi Friends! How has your day been going? Mine got off to a rocky start. I woke up to three nastygrams in my inbox. I have said it before, but if you don’t like me, don’t like my blog, don’t like the way I look, don’t like the food I eat, don’t like the way I parent, don’t like the choices I make, don’t like what I’m all about, that’s fine!...
