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Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Skillet Lime Cilantro Chicken Baked Cilantro Lime Chicken Thighs — EASY, juicy, tender chicken thighs with plenty of tangy lime and fresh cilantro!! Ready in 30 minutes, starts on the stove, and finishes in the oven! Just a handful of ingredients used and PERFECT for busy weeknights!! Cilantro Lime Chicken Thighs Recipe This easy chicken dinner recipe starts on the stovetop and finishes in the oven and is ready in 30 minutes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Stinky or Not Spring is in the air here and with warmer temperatures combined with working out, that means you better make sure your deodorant is working. Degree sent me some of their new motion sense deodorant. It starts working when it senses movement. Even deodorant is “intuitive” these days. I honestly didn’t notice too much difference between this formula and their fine fragrance collection deodorant , which has been my go-to deodorant for years, but maybe when the weather is truly hotter and I am working out in that weather, the motion sense version will be more apparent....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Sunflower Chicken Salad Sunflower Chicken Broccoli Salad — LOADED with juicy chicken, veggies galore, sunflower seeds, and a sunflower seed butter dressing!! EASY, healthy, ready in 15 minutes! A HEARTY and satisfying salad!! Hearty Chicken Broccoli Salad Recipe Do you remember a few years ago when the sunflower seed butter craze was in full force? Or maybe that was only in full force in Southern California....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here this week’s installment of Thursday Things : I am so excited about iTunes Match . It’s not here yet, but it’s coming soon. “If you want the benefits of iTunes in the Cloud for music you haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution. It’s built right into the iTunes app on your Mac or PC and the Music app on your iOS devices....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Vegan Maple Nut Chocolate Oat Clusters, Cookie These are a favorite chewy cookie, full of texture from the oats, coconut, nuts, and are lightly sweetened with maple syrup and agave. They come together in minutes and are a hit with my family. [print_this] Maple Nut Chocolate Oat Clusters (gluten-free, vegan) [/print_this] And then I wrapped a few up for Scott’s lunches. Check out that chocolate melty action…....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken 20 Healthy Easy Dinner Recipes It’s that time of year when many people decide to either lose weight or clean up their diet. Replacing Christmas cookies with more vegetables and cleaner food choices doesn’t have to be torture, boring, or bland. Nor does it have to be time-consuming or involve running to specialty grocery stores in search of the latest green magic powder that costs a bazillion dollars per serving....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Muffins 40 Favorite Banana Bread and Banana Recipes National Banana Bread Day is February 23 and in light of a fabulous holiday, I’m sharing 30 of my favorite banana bread and banana-based recipes. That’s no where near a comprehensive list of my banana-based recipes. I just love cooking, baking, freezing, blending, and using them any way I can. For example, in mid-2012, I ran a series called Banana Bread Fest and shared 7 weeks of banana bread recipes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Arrived in Boulder I made it to Boulder for my Food and Light workshop but it wasn’t necessarily a smooth travel day. Then again, is travel ever smooth? As I was leaving my house and already running a few minutes late <— but what’s new , I realized the suitcase that I had everything packed in had a bum wheel and was not wheel-able....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Beef Beef Taco Salad Bowls Ground Beef Taco Salad Bowls — Making homemade taco salad bowls is so easy and they’re perfect for holding this family-favorite taco salad including seasoned ground beef, black beans, cheese and more! Everything is topped with a creamy lime-cilantro dressing that’ll have everyone finishing their salad! 100% Homemade Taco Salad Bowls I remember eating taco salad at many picnics and potlucks growing up in the midwest....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blue I went back to the farmers market over the weekendand saw some beautiful blue food. Locally grown blueberries And these blue baby artichokes just spoke to me. Something about the teal plastic baskets, against the purple “tablecloth” with the blue artichokes in the basket, and the way the lattices of the plastic basket resemble the intricate folds of the artichoke tips, I just loved the layers of composition....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Caramel and Chocolate Gooey Bars I created the world’s gooey-est and stickiest bars when I made these. Or at the very least, the gooey-est bars I’ve ever made, and I’m not complaining. That’s what soap and water is for. There are only good things that can come from melting butter, brown sugar, caramels, and cream. Add lots of vanilla extract and chocolate for good measure....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Pudding & Mousse Cherries, Sweet Potato Fries, Chocolate Chia Pudding How are you doing today? I’m chillin like a villain as a solo parent. Scott’s been gone since early Sunday morning, I’ve been taking care of the Little Princess by myself, and can’t wait til he gets home late Tuesday night! I miss him. But admittedly, a break from the 24/7 solo childcare will be lovely , too!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Chocolate Peanut Butter Kit Kat Crunch Bars These may be the best no-bake bar I’ve ever made. And I’m the queen of bars , so that’s quite a statement. They’re like a homemade peanut buttery Crunch Bar topped with Kit Kats, and they’re worth every empty calorie. No-bake Cereal Bars are a real specialty of mine. Some people can make macarons in their sleep or pipe flowers onto 4-tiered fondant-covered cakes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Flax I hadn’t had any Mary’s Crackers in ages but in doing some cupboard re-organization, I found a buried box of M.C. They are so good. But I think they are almost too fiber-rific for me. Flax seeds = Little fiber bombs Flax seeds and fiber are great and all. Just not when you eat a half of a box of Mary’s in a sitting....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Greek Chicken Gyro Pita Pizzas Greek Chicken Pita Bread Pizzas — Chicken gyros transformed into FAST, EASY, and HEALTHY pita pizzas!! There’s juicy chicken, homemade tzatziki sauce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and feta on pita bread!! FRESH and LIGHT!! Healthier Pita Pizza Recipe Imagine that your favorite juicy Greek gyro morphed into pizza made on lightly toasted pita bread. Yep, that’s what we have going on here....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Hemp Jackpot, Home Gym Underway, Grocery Store Pet Peeves, Do Your Own Thing or Influenced by Others, Leader or Follower Hi Friends! I am glad it’s Thursday, how about you? That just means we’re one day away from the weekend! And for me, Scott will be coming home Friday from his business trip which is a very good thing! My agenda is still open for this weekend, but I am sure I will have no problem filling it in....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Mounds Bar Chocolate Coconut Cookies Remember the old Mounds Bar and Almond Joy Bar commercials Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut, Sometimes You Don’t I never feel like nuts in my baked goods. Macadamia nuts in white chocolate cookies , walnuts in brownies ? No.Way. But big hunks of Mounds Bars? Yes. For sure. If you don’t like coconut, good for you because there’s more for me....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Peanut Butter Smores Cookie Pie Peanut Butter Cookie S’mores Pie — A peanut butter and graham cracker cookie underneath gooey marshmallows and melted chocolate!! You don’t need a campfire for these easy and AMAZING smores! Grab a spoon and dig in!! Peanut Butter S’mores Pie Recipe I love making cookie pies because they’re faster and easier than making cookies and this one is no exception....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Bake Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Bake — Every bite tastes like the super SOFT, gooey CENTER of a cinnamon roll! Spiked with pumpkin and flooded with icing, this EASY recipe is an automatic WINNER! Perfect for cozy, fall-inspired breakfasts and brunches that will impress everyone! Gooey Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Bake Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Casserole Ingredients How to Make Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Casserole Tips for Making Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Casserole Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Casserole Recipe More Pumpkin Breakfast Recipes: Gooey Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Bake This sweet breakfast casserole soft and gooey factor of a Cinnabon cinnamon roll but with pumpkin flavor and flooded with icing....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles Raw Vegan Chocolate-Peppermint Donut Holes Howdy Bloggie Friends, what’s been going on? I’ve had a really busy week this week. Yoga classes that I’ve been taking and teaching , and running around doing that. And I decided at the eleventh hour to send out holiday cards . I have sent out holiday photo cards the past few years to friends and family and almost skipped it this year, but decided that I wanted to keep my friends, extended family, and long-lost relatives updated with some photos of us ....