Hello, hello! Today I have what's quickly becoming a new favorite recipe of mine to share with you guys, so let's dive right into it! Banana bread is one of my favorite ways to use ripe bananas, and I'm sure a lot of you would agree with me on that! There's just something so comforting and yummy about a banana bread fresh out of the oven. I like to eat a slice with a cup of hot tea. Today's recipe takes a twist on banana bread - a cinnamon apple twist, because hello October! This is my last recipe creation using the fruit from my apple picking excursion in Julian. There's been lots of apple eating and baking in my kitchen over the past month! ... [Read More]
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Zoodles with Basil Cherry Tomato Sauce, Pine Nuts & Lemon Zest
Hi there! Happy 4th of July weekend to all of my fellow Americans! I am certainly looking forward to a 3-day holiday weekend. Whose got fun plans for the 4th? I've got a beach yoga class and hanging out at a friend's house on the agenda, and I'm hoping to catch some fireworks on Saturday night. Today I'm sharing a new recipe that will probably become a go-to dinner in my kitchen. Packed with veggies and flavor, it's a healthy meal that revolves around my recent favorite kitchen gadget: my spiralizer! I've seriously been a spiralizing maniac. My hubby and I have eaten zoodles so often in the last few months, he's started joking around and putting the letter 'z' in words where it shouldn't be. For instance, we started saying 'zauce' instead of tomato sauce. He told me I ... [Read More]
WIAW: My Favorite Eats of the Week
Happy Hump Day! Being that it has been quite awhile since I linked up to the What I Ate Wednesday blogger party, I decided to join in on this fun this week. Today's WIAW post features my favorite eats from the past week - because as any normal food blogger, whenever I eat something tasty, I snap a photo or two! So what goodies has this vegetarian been munching on? ... [Read More]
Awesome Ways to Eat Apples this Autumn
Happy, happy Friday! So in case I haven't told you before, I'm obsessed with fruit. Every type of berry, banana, melon, kiwi, peaches... and the list of fruit that I can't get enough of goes on and on! Fruit is sweet, it's a natural whole food, and it can easily be incorporated into a diet in endless ways. Topping the list of my favorite fruits is the illustrious apple. In my household apples disappear quickly. I buy probably a dozen of them every time I make a food store trip, which you think would last for at least a bit with only two people in my house, but they don't. In fact, I'd love to be eating an apple at this very moment, but we unfortunately ran out yesterday. Each of us eats at least an apple a day. But hey, I'm not complaining, because you know what they say... An ... [Read More]
Dark Chocolate Drizzled Salted Caramel Rice Crispy Treats [Gluten Free & Vegan]
Today is the birthday of the wonderful, amazing man that I'm fortunate enough to spend my life with. Birthdays are celebrations, and celebrations call for dessert, so today I'm sharing with you guys a new sweet tooth creation I've come up with. Meet my latest food obsession: chocolate drizzled salted caramel rice crispy treats. Lately, as I stand in my kitchen deciding what to make for a meal, I find myself somehow breaking off a piece of one of these rice crispy treats as a pre-meal snack. While having a conversation with my hubby the other night, I all of a sudden found myself with one of these babies in my hand. It was like I blacked out and awoke with a sticky, delicious treat in my possession. Okay, perhaps I'm being dramatic... but I just love these! The recipe ... [Read More]
Watermelon Cucumber Mint Juice
Lately I've been obsessed with watermelon - and rightly so I think, as it's such a refreshing summertime fruit. You may have noticed this because of my frequent mention of watermelon smoothies. Can't.stop.making.them! Besides blending smoothies, making salads like this one with it, and eating watermelon all on its own, I've also thrown it in my juicer a bunch of times lately. Does anyone else drink fresh juice out of a wine glass? I realized that I haven't posted a juice recipe in awhile, but that's not because I haven't been juicing. It's more so because for a few months there, I got a little boring with my juices: always apple, carrots, and ginger, and then I'd often thrown in spinach or cucumber. When I realized that I was in a juicing rut, I decided to get a little ... [Read More]