How's everyone holding up with quarantined life? Over here in the northeast, we are getting hit pretty hard with coronavirus cases, so my family has been mostly isolating ourselves from the world for a bit now. We know people who are waiting for test results. Someone at my husband's work tested positive. This whole situations feels very surreal. But we're all in this together, and my hubby and I are trying to limit our exposure to do our part in reducing the spread of the virus. Trying to focus on the bright side, this is the most I've seen my husband, like, ever. Him being around more means that our baby girl gets to spend more time with her dad, which has been fun. I'm breaking up on the monotony of quarantined life by doing new little things as often as possible. So far ... [Read More]
easy vegan recipes
5 Easy Meatless Monday Dinner Ideas I Make Often
I find that people often ask me, "Do you have any easy dinner ideas to share?" The truth is, a lot of my weekday dinners are 30 minute or less meals - but this doesn't mean that I'm scrimping on nutrition and flavor. After all, eating mostly bland homemade dinners would make me a crappy foodie and food blogger, don't ya think? One thing I like to stress to those that ask me this question is that easy meals do not need to equate to unhealthy meals. I have a lot of simple go-to vegetarian dinner ideas, and in the spirit of easy, delicious, & nutritionally well-balanced dinners, today I'm sharing 5 of them with you. You'll notice that my dinners tend to put an emphasize on veggies - I'm all about real food! Rice & beans. I'll admit it that I'm not a huge meal prepper, ... [Read More]
10 Recipes to Try This Memorial Day Weekend
Who else is looking forward to their holiday weekend? Today's post shares some healthy summery recipe ideas to try! If you're a blogger that shares a lot of your personal life and adventures, having a blog is like having an online diary of travels and fun (...ya know, a diary that other people read that is!), and sometimes it's neat to look back at what I was doing at this time in another year. Looking back at past Memorial Day weekends, I went on vacation to Mexico last year (surprised my love for his 30th with the trip!), spent the weekend with friends during a deployment of my hubby's another year, and went on a wine tasting getaway to Napa and hiked around at Muir Woods when I was living in the Bay Area. This year, I have some fun things planned for Memorial Day ... [Read More]
Loaded Mediterranean Avocado Toast [vegan]
Hola! While I'm in Mexico eating what's sure to be an abundance of guacamole, today I'm sharing with you a recipe that revolves around the illustrious avocado, but isn't really Mexican-themed... I'm blessed to have my husband for many reasons - one being that he'll try whatever dish I put in front of him. Whoa, when I typed that I just realized that I totally sound like my mom, who loves that A will eat (& usually enjoy) almost anything. She loves when we visit and he eats her leftovers! But I mean, what type of cook doesn't like having a loved one around that'll try all of their creations? Even though A isn't a vegetarian himself, he's open to trying my many vegan and vegetarian dish experiments without complaint. That's why when I received a rare critique from him recently that I ... [Read More]