Day-to-day eating habits can be very individualistic. For instance, some people stick to three square meals a day, while others prefer smaller meals and a few snacks throughout the day. Though I have a set of general eating "rules" that I recommend for everyone, when I get asked what's best in terms of frequency of meals, my answer is whatever really feels best for your body. Personally, I'm a smaller meals and snacks kind of girl. I feel best eating something every 3-4 hours, rather than having big meals. The latter leaves me feeling like I can't digest my food easily. I've definitely mentioned this before on the blog, and it's the reason why I've shared so many snack recipes! As for my go-to snacks, I like whipping up a smoothie, or eating a yogurt or fruit with nut butter. I also have ... [Read More]
gluten free muffins
Chocolate Chip Cherry Almond Muffins {vegan + gf}
Hello, hello! How was your weekend? With temperatures in the 80s, mine was a summery few days! My outdoorsy weekend activities included a few hours relaxing at the beach, tennis workout with my hubs, long walk at the park with my pup and gardening work. Indoors, I did some blog and photography work, and the hubs and I watched a movie and a few episodes of our current TV obsessions, House of Cards and Westworld. Who else is into those? We just recently started watching both, so we have a lot of episodes to keep us entertained during low-key nights for awhile! I also got some baking and recipe creation experimenting in, including the recipe I'm sharing today: chocolate chip cherry almond muffins. Actually, over the past week I've been a recipe creatin' machine! It seems like I tend to ... [Read More]
Healthy Chocolate Chip Matcha Banana Muffins [vegan + gluten free]
This is the story about how I tried three times to create a naturally green recipe and totally failed... but came up with two yummy recipes in the process! St. Paddy's Day is coming up this Friday, and I was actually thinking ahead a few weeks ago when I decided I wanted to come up with a sweet recipe that had a green hue, sans food coloring. I first heard that the chlorophyll in sunflower butter can turn baked goods green when it interacts with baking soda/powder when a friend of mine accidentally wound up with a green colored sunflower butter recipe, so my original idea was to make sunflower butter banana muffins. The result? They did not turn green, and they also turned out a bit dry, so it was a no go. I decided it was possible that because I mixed all of my muffin ... [Read More]
Peaches & Cream Muffins [gf]
All of us have a few pretty useless talents up our sleeves, and one of mine is knowing the lyrics to about a million songs. I can hear a song once or twice and forever have the words in my vault of a brain. For some reason I'm especially good at remembering lyrics from songs that came out when I was in middle school and high school. I attribute this partly to my strange but good memory, and partly to my musical abilities thanks to playing the piano from age 4 up. Do you know when my lyrical memory comes in handy? When I'm driving with my hubby listening to the Pop2K and 90's stations on Sirius XM radio. They play nonstop music from all of the 90s and 2000s, and it's nothing short of awesome. Usually as I rap Ashanti and Ja Rule tunes, A looks at me and shakes his head as he asks, "How the ... [Read More]