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Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins — These FAST and EASY blueberry muffins are chock full of juicy blueberries and they’re filled with tangy-sweet cream cheese! You’re going to fall in LOVE with their super soft and moist texture! Perfect for breakfast, brunch, snacks, or dessert! No mixer required and you can use fresh or frozen berries. Easy Blueberry Cream Cheese-Filled Muffins Recipe Looking for Blueberry and Cream Cheese Recipes?...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Busy Beeter I had a really busy day yesterday. It started off by being trapped and chained to my desk reading and answering emails, doing blog-related computer tasks, and trying to keep my inbox under better control than the ever-growing national debt. My inbox can relate to the ever-growing part. Then I went to the post office and mailed package to a friend. She wants to start brewing her own kombucha and I am helping her get started....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Asian Chicken Pad Thai 🍜🥕🙌🏻 EASY Chicken Pad Thai is ready in 20 minutes, and BETTER than takeout! Tender rice noodles, juicy chicken, with crisp-tender carrots, cabbage, and more for an IRRESISTIBLE and AUTHENTIC chicken pad Thai! What Is Pad Thai? Recipe Ingredients How to Make Chicken Pad Thai Tips for Making This Recipe FAQs Recipe Variations to Try What to Serve With Pad Thai Storage and Reheating Instructions Video Tutorial Chicken Pad Thai Recipe Recipe More Chicken Stir-Fry Recipes: My Thai recip es are some of my most popular recipes on my site, and I knew it was time for an authentic-tasting chicken pad Thai recipe that’s easy, ready quicker than you can call for takeout, and leaves you going back for more....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Coconut Water, Coconut Fan or Not? Hi Friends! I’ve had a busy day and have had lots going on. How have things been for you today? I received this package of Coconut Water from One Drinks I love coconut water and can’t wait to crack into this stash! I am excited to try the flavored coconut water. I’ve never had anything other than plain so the pineapple coconut water and the One Active Sports Drinks sound like a great change of pace....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Coronado Island On Thursday I drove a few miles south and took the big bridge over to Coronado , California. Technically just a few miles south of San Diego, but in all senses of the word, world’s apart. It has a very beachy island feel and I always feel like I’ve gone on vacation even though I’ve only gone a few miles. Not that all of San Diego isn’t lovely, but Coronado is truly the loveliest of the lovely....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Desserts Week In Review Or the Peanut Sauce Recipe …but you wouldn’t know it lately with all my desserts , would you. Anyone complaining? Get a load of the recap…. Sunday started things off with my remake of Girl Scout Thin Mints . I made Vegan Thin Mint Fudge . On Monday I also made Raw Vegan Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Cookies Tuesday I posted Raw Vegan Apple Crumble...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Easy No-Knead Buttery Parmesan and Sour Cream Bread This is my husband’s dream food. Warm, soft, fresh buttery bread, with cheese and sour cream baked in. It’s my dream bread because it’s so fast and easy, read from start to finish in 30 minutes . There’s nothing to knead, roll, or shape, and no yeast involved. I had a little bit of Parmesan and sour cream to use before our trip , and bread popped into my head....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Guest Post: Pure2Raw Twins Michelle & Lori Hi Friends, here is an Awesome Guest Post from the Twins at Pure 2 Raw . Lori and Michelle are two of the nicest, sweetest girls around! And did you know they are high raw, all vegan, gluten-free chefs, bakers, and run their own business! It’s called Twin Cakes Bakery …and they do gift baskets and mail order , so if you want to treat yourself to goodies ranging from Raw chocolate walnut biscotti To Swiss Chard Black Sesame Onion Free Flatbread To raw chocolate cupcakes with creamy vanilla coconut icing!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Beef Loaded Beef Taco Salad with Creamy Lime Cilantro Dressing This Beef Taco Salad is loaded with crisp romaine lettuce, sweet corn, juicy tomatoes, and more! It comes together in just 20 minutes and is topped with the most incredible cilantro lime dressing. Easy Taco Salad Recipe About a year ago I made a Loaded Chicken Taco Salad and it’s been such a hit with readers that I came up with a beef version....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert No-Bake Tropical Granola Bars Don’t get me wrong, I love peanut butter and chocolate in my homemade granola bars but I wanted a change. Something bright and fresh which is when the idea for tropical granola bars hit me. The granola bars take 5 minutes to make, 20 minutes to set up, and in under a half hour your snack is ready. No baking necessary and they’re made in the microwave....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Quick Pickled Vegetables Quick Pickled Vegetables — It’s so easy to make quick pickles! These pickled vegetables take just 10 minutes to prep and are ready to eat after 24 hours. I made pickled carrots and parsnips, but you can use any veggies you have on hand! Easy Pickled Vegetables I love vinegar and vinegary foods. Pickling carrots and parsnips is how I’ve been getting my vinegar groove on lately....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Rainbow Roasted Vegetables Rainbow Roasted Vegetable Medley — Trying to eat more vegetables? Seeing the rainbow should do the trick!! Roasted mixed vegetables are FAST, EASY, and as HEALTHY as it gets!! Easy Sheet Pan Roasted Vegetables How are those New Year’s resolutions going about trying to eat more vegetables? Just in case you need some colorful veggie inspiration, for either your resolutions this rainbow roasted vegetable medley should do the trick....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Spruce it Up & Dippy I recently received some Crystal Light Pure from Kraft Foods They sent me three different flavors to sample. I liked the Tropical Blend best, but they were all good. There was no funky aftertaste and it did not taste “chemically” to me. I think that Crystal Light may have gotten a bad rap in the past because of how artificial many people believed it to be....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Sweet and Sour Zucchini Corn Salad Sweet and Sour Zucchini Salad — Packed with big, bold flavors and tons of crunch! It’s a healthy, light, NO LETTUCE salad! Sweet and Sour Salad Recipe Sweet and Sour Zucchini Salad Ingredients How to Make Sweet and Sour Zucchini Salad Make-Ahead Instructions What to Serve with Sweet and Sour Zucchini Salad Sweet and Sour Zucchini Salad Recipe More Zucchini Recipes: Sweet and Sour Salad Recipe Sometimes garbage salads are the best....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Whirling Around Mondays are always my busiest day of the week, but this one really took the cake for being especially manic. Target was closed on Easter Sunday as I mentioned , and many of you noticed that this year, too, and that it seemed to be a new thing. Who knows. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to make a Target run today but I stopped by Rite-Aid and grabbed a few items when I was out today....

Home › Recipe Index › Air Fryer Air Fryer Mozzarella Sticks Air Fryer Mozzarella Sticks with Marinara Dipping Sauce — Soft, gooey, melted mozzarella cheese inside a crispy and lightly crunchy golden brown exterior is what you have with this quick and EASY mozzarella cheese sticks recipe! Pair them with my herb-flavored marinara sauce for dipping! The perfect appetizer for your next game day party, casual entertaining event, or just a tv night at home because everyone LOVES these!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Aruba: Food & Fun Pictures How are you doing today? Monday after a holiday week and weekend. Did you have to go back to work? If you’re in school, you’re probably still on break…good! We’re in Aruba but heading home in a few days. The piles of mail, phone calls, voicemails that need to be returned, unpacking, and organizing, the massive grocery and errand runs that will need to happen, all running on little sleep and with a toddler , well, let’s just say that vacations coming to end end can be a double multi-faceted whammy!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Barbies & Bailey’s Hi Friends! I know I mentioned that I was done with my Christmas Shopping , but I lied. I forgot that Santa needs to come. Whoops! So I scampered off to the only store on the island that has an abundance of pink plastic children’s toys. And it is a gross place. It’s not air conditioned, it’s hot, there are industrial-sized fans blowing hot air, dust, and dirt everywhere....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles Candy Corn Cookie Dough Pretzel Bites Tis the season for candy corn What are you going to do with all that candy corn you’ve accumulated? My suggestion is to make these They’re easy, no-bake, and the whole project is done within 10 minutes And who doesn’t love cookie dough? If you don’t, well, I don’t fully understand....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Brownies Chocolate Coconut Mounds Bar Brownies Chocolate Coconut Brownies — Like eating a Mounds candy bar that’s on top of rich, fudgy brownies!! Easy and oh so good!! Ooey Gooey Brownies Recipe I’ve made a lot of brownies in my day, but usually with mint , caramel , peanut butter , or Nutella . It was high time to break out the coconut....