Friends, oh how I've got a yummy dessert recipe to share today! Let me tell you the story of how my newfound love for pudding began. Around a month ago, I got super sick with ear infections. The gist is that I have sinus issues and have gotten ear infections in my adulthood numerous times, but usually it's either when I'm already sick with common upper respiratory yuckiness, or when I'm traveling since my sinuses sometimes don't drain normally after flights (fun stuff). This time, however, I wasn't either of those things. And normally when I get an ear infection, I get some ear drops prescribed and go about my life. I swear to you that I'm not a baby about these things... so believe me when I tell you that these ear infections were hell. I was experiencing throbbing pain that kept me up ... [Read More]
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Pumpkin Apple Banana Muffins {vegan}
Packed with apple, pumpkin, banana and cinnamon, and free of refined sugar, these healthy vegan muffins make for a great autumn snack, small breakfast, or guilt-free dessert! One of my favorite September activities is apple picking. But since it's pretty warm and summery feeling in San Diego in September, sometimes I forget that the apple orchards are ready to be visited. A few years we've been too late in the apple picking game and either a.) go when the orchards are pretty picked over, or b.) miss apple picking all together (like last year!). BUT NOT THIS YEAR! Nope, in 2016 I was on high apple picking alert! In the San Diego area, the best area to visit for apple picking is Julian - a cute little town I've talked about before. It's about a 75-minute drive from my house, and it's like ... [Read More]
Cocoa Banana Blueberry Protein Pudding
Happy Friday!! I'm currently en route to Miami for my friend Meaghan's bachelorette party - I haven't seen her since last fall and am really excited to have an awesome girls' weekend! - but I have a yummy recipe to share with you guys... If you read this blog often at all, you probably already know that I love making dessert-like recipes that are actually healthy and can be eaten as snacks or meals as well. Enter Cocoa Banana Blueberry Protein Pudding. Blue Diamond recently sent me their dark chocolate almonds as well as sea salt almonds to try, and not surprisingly, I'm kind of in love with the dark chocolate ones. ... [Read More]
2-Minute Berry Banana Sorbet
Happy, happy Friday! Any fabulous plans for this weekend? I'm looking forward to my long weekend full of football watching, a hiking date with my hubby, doing some recipe experimentation, a workout with a girlfriend of mine, and a mix of both doing some productive things and relaxing. Today's topic is a never-ending love of mine - fruit. I have a serious obsession with fruit, from apples and banana to cherries and strawberries. In fact, while I enjoy veggies, I have to kind of plan them into my meals mindfully. Otherwise, on the produce front, my diet would consist of all the fruit and none of the veggies. Since I have a huge sweet tooth, I'm always finding ways to make meals that could be dessert, but are also healthy and nutritious enough to be considered a wholesome meal. I'm sneaky ... [Read More]
Banana Almond Butter Muffins {Vegan & Gluten Free}
Happy Friday friends! Hope that your first full week of January has been awesome, and that you have some fun weekend plans ahead. Speaking of fun, today I've got a fun recipe to share with you guys! Whenever I go food shopping, bananas are always on the list. I buy a ton of bananas! A and I both use them for smoothies almost daily, plus I like to smear bananas with nut butter or top yogurt bowls with banana slices often. However, I somehow wound up with too many bananas in the house over the past week. We couldn't eat them fast enough, and before I knew it, I had 5 brown bananas sitting in my fruit basket. I threw a few of them in the freezer for later smoothie use, and then I had a yummy idea for the remaining ones... ....baking some muffins! ... [Read More]
Grilled Nectarines with Banana Honey Soft Serve
Last weekend my mother-in-law, hubby, and I were sitting at my kitchen table. We had just finished up a yummy dinner, and all of a sudden, I jumped up. ME: "Ooooh I have to make dessert now!" THEM: "But we're pretty full. Why the rush?" ME: "Because it's going to get dark soon!" THEM: "We're using the grill for it? We can still grill after the sun goes down." ME: "No we can't, because I have a feeling it's going to be yummy, and if it gets dark, then I can't take pictures and blog the recipe!" Ah yes, bad lighting... classic case of #foodbloggerproblems. ... [Read More]