An easy method for making crunchy quick pickled jalapenos in under 10 minutes, with a tutorial for canning or storing in the fridge. The BEST addition for tacos! Vegetable gardens can be hit or miss. My first year growing peppers, I had four plants and got maybe 3 peppers in total. One plant didn’t produce any fruit at all! This year, though, I have two jalapeno plants that are producing more jalapenos ... Continue Reading
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Cilantro Lime Dressing
This cilantro lime dressing is so easy and is the BEST! It's vegan, Whole30, keto and perfect for tacos. Much cheaper than store-bought with an option to make it creamy! Have you ever made dinner that just seemed so-so? I mean, dinner itself didn't taste BAD per se, but it wasn’t a home run? Or do you know those dinners where everyone at the table grabs seconds or thirds and literally talks about how ... Continue Reading
Chocolate Pancakes
You guys. I know we all have our favorite breakfasts. I like fried sweet potatoes with runny eggs. My husband loves almond flour pancakes. We ALL like cinnamon blender waffles. But there is something about these chocolate pancakes that makes my kids SWARM and SWOON. As in, they literally run to the breakfast table, pump their fists in the air and cheer for chocolate pancakes. And then they sit there, savoring ... Continue Reading
How to Find Rebates for Healthy Food in Ibotta
I don’t keep it a secret that I quit using coupons years ago because there weren’t many coupons for healthy foods back then (and because it took WAY too much time). I still don’t use coupons (unless Kroger sends them to me), but manufacturers have caught on that there are a lot of people are trying to save money AND eat healthier too. So instead of coupons, I use just one app that has consistently saved me TONS ... Continue Reading
Rich and Creamy Mashed Cauliflower
Not all fun foods can be fun foods… that’s what I told my kids when they wanted homemade pizza and stove-top macaroni and cheese for dinner and cared less about the pan-seared broccoli I was making. “Perfect example: Mommy doesn’t like cauliflower. To me, it’s not a fun food at all. But I still eat it, because it’s a vegetable and it’s good for me.” Well, here I stand eating crow. Because thanks to this rich ... Continue Reading
Bend Soap Milk Scrub (homemade bathroom scrub)
I love having a homemade all-purpose cleaner readily available, but sometimes you need something with more oomph, you know what I mean? The house we're renting has white laminate counter tops. They're so porous that if a slice of beet falls off your cutting board, you must stop you're doing right that moment and clean it up, otherwise you'll have an unsightly red mark on the counter forever. Oddly ... Continue Reading
Cooking in a Minimal Kitchen for Two Weeks
If I didn't have friends and family nearby, I would have given the issue of "What am I going to do without a kitchen for two weeks" more thought BEFORE I packed it all up. But as things often do, it didn't work out that way.I ended up thinking about the "what will I need" and "what will we eat" questions as I emptied each kitchen drawer into a box. Literally. ... Continue Reading
Recipe: Spring Greens with Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
Salads are my all time favorite food. They're quick, easy and delicious. But somewhere along the way, they've gone complicated. Onions get caramelized, tomatoes are roasted and almonds are tossed with maple and cinnamon before toasted in the oven. Don't get me wrong - those types of salads are downright delicious. And to be honest, I'm salivating a bit just thinking about a thick bed of greens ... Continue Reading
{Yummy} Recipe: Crispy Almonds
This post contains affiliate links. If you're following along with the little call to actions at the end of each post, you've got a jar full of nuts or bean sitting on your counter happily germinating away without any strenuous effort from you. When you wake up tomorrow, you'll see them trying to push their little sprouts through an end of the nut. By the way, those call to actions - Do Somethings - are ... Continue Reading