I am such a hypocrite. Here I am writing a post about this wonderful and healthy vegetable, Spaghetti Squash, and guess what I am munching on? Chocolate chips. I just can’t keep them in my house. They don’t last. Its my new rule (starting… tomorrow). No buying chocolate chips until right before I need to…
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Loaded Sweet Potatoes with Creamy Roasted Red Pepper Sauce (Vegan)
I need to take a minute to gush, here. And I mean gush and rave and jump up and down with excitement. What could get me so excited? CREAMY ROASTED RED PEPPER SAUCE!!! Oh. My. Goodness. This stuff is amazing and addicting and I think I am drooling on the key board. Can I…
Deliciousness Across the Bloggosphere
I love cook books. I just love collecting them and flipping through them. One of my favorite things to do is sit down with a new cook book and put little tabs on all the recipes I want to try. I love cook books with lots of big, bright pictures. Perhaps that’s why I love…
Roasted Cauliflower Soup
If you read my last post, you know that I have been restricted to really mushy foods with no fiber or roughage. After a whole week of just consuming veggie and fruit juice, I slowly started to add real food back into my diet. I started with pureed vegetable soups. With the weather being below…
Christmas Break Recap: Amazing Chocolate Cake and Snowman Sugar Cookies
For the past three weeks I have been visiting home. I grew up in a winter wonderland: Welcome to the new year! If you are like me, you are probably thinking back on all the treats you ate during the holidays and thinking of ways to eat better this year. I usually eat pretty healthy…
Hot Cocoa Cream Puffs
When I was little I was big on all things fancy. When my parents were building my childhood home, I really really wanted my room to have a fancy chandelier and a canopy bed. They had a little more common sense and went with a light with little roses engraved in the glass, which I…
Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies remind me of Christmas cookie exchanges. One of the best parts of the Christmas season as a kid was getting treats from all the neighbors. The doorbell would ring and my siblings and I would scream and run to the door excited to see what treats would await us. We…
Portobello and Spaghetti Squash Stacks
Oh, it feels good to be eating healthy again! (Mostly. Ok, ok…I admit I just had 5 pumpkin spice marshmallows. Oops.) I just got back from a two week trip across the country to visit family. It was a blast! My little Stella got to meet so many people for the first time. I also…
Coconut Cauliflower Red Lentil Soup
After a quick burst of recipes to make in the heat of summer (Portobello Pineapple Burgers and Fresh Veggie Spring Rolls), we had a few days of cold, rainy, blustery weather. When it first started to rain, I opened all the windows to cool down the house and it never really warmed back up. I’m…
Homemade Valentines Fruit Chews, Free Printable, and My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software GIVEAWAY!!!
Wow, that’s a long title. That’s because there is a lot going on in todays post! So pay attention! First, I’m going to show you how to make your own homemade fruit chews out of real fruit. I also have a cute little bag topper for you to print out so you can turn todays…