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]
healthy recipes
Asian Sesame Noodle Salad
Hello! I'm feeling very excited to fly home and see my family tomorrow! I know that while I'm on my trip I'll be indulging a lot and not exercising as much (especially with frigid temperatures in Jersey and my crazy pup not being with me to nudge me to take her on walks!). That's perfectly fine and I'm looking forward to the vacation, but knowing this, I have been mindful in making some of my meals extra healthy and produce-packed lately. For one thing, I've been eating a lot of veggies to help build up my immune system a bit and protect myself from getting sick while I'm traveling and around so many people during the holidays. For another thing, eating really healthy meals helps balance out the sweets that have inevitably been present in my life more so than usual. Yesterday I made ... [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]
Arugula Pesto Linguine with Tomato & Zucchini
Saturday was one of those days when I was all about checking things off my to-do list. Finish schoolwork. Check. Vaccum. Check. Dust. Check. Do laundry. Check. Fold laundry. Check. Clean bathrooms. Check. Walk the pup. Check. Do an at-home workout. Check. Purchase a car dog seat cover so that my pooch doesn't ruin my car. Check. When Saturday evening rolled around, I decided that it was a nicely productive around-the-house day, and now it was time for some weekend fun. My hubby and I had plans to go to a luxury movie theater with another couple, but first, it was time to check this off my mental checklist: Make an awesome dinner using the farmer's market pasta sitting in my cabinet. The week before I had met a girlfriend for a smoothie date, and afterwards we walked around ... [Read More]
My Annual Halloween Themed Night In + Italian Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
Hi friends! How was your weekend? Mine just flew by and involved a major purchase: a new car! I didn't mention it at the time, but I had a scary car accident experience last month that left me fine but totaled the Toyota Corolla that I drove for 11 years. I had been wanting a new car for awhile but couldn't really justify looking for one since my current car was running fine, so the accident forced me to get one. Everything happens for a reason, and I'm pretty excited to now own a Hyundai Sonata. It's a hybrid car, which the environmentalist in me loves. Besides spending an entire day at the car dealership, highlights of my weekend were short hikes on both Friday and Sunday evening.... ...nabbing a sweet Batgirl Halloween costume for my Dingo... ...which surprisingly, she didn't seem ... [Read More]
Veggie Tofu Stir Fry with Brown Rice
Happy, happy Friday! Hope that you all have some fabulous plans for the weekend. I've had a great week in Jersey hanging out with family and girlfriends, and have some fun plans that I'm looking forward to for the weekend. My week has been full of good food, and there are definitely certain eateries that I simply must hit up when I'm in town. One of those places is Veggie Heaven (my post on the restaurant can be viewed here), which I just chowed down on for dinner: (I'm digging my fortune!) And speaking of yummy, healthy Asian food, I have a new recipe to share today! ... [Read More]