It’s one thing to eat a plant based diet but it’s another to eat an organic plant based diet. While there are plenty of restaurants in the San Diego and LA areas that are plant based, the...
Memorial Day is one of my favorite holidays – it’s second only to Halloween. I love the super long weekend and I take full advantage of that extra day. Grilling, afternoons at the beach a...
Memorial Day is a day to remember and to celebrate our hero’s and to say thank you to all the military personnel who served our country. Living near Camp Pendleton, every day I am reminded of t...
It’s funny, not ha-ha funny but interesting funny, that I don’t care for cucumbers but I love pickles. There’s something about that briny sour flavor that changes them in a good way...
Happy Birthday To Me! Today, I turn 25 for the 8th time. It’s gonna be a great year!!! Cheesecake has always been my cake of choice for my birthday (and just about everything else too). While I...
Yup, I’m still on a pea kick! I just can’t get enough of them right now. This time I bought a bunch of snow peas at the grocery store and decided to whip up this fresh and crisp asian ins...
I’ve gotten lots of questions about what I’m eating now that I’m pregnant and if I plan on changing my diet at all. So I figured I’d share all the fun details along the way wi...
Can you believe a few years ago I hated coconut?! If something had coconut in it I avoided it at all costs. After lots of reading and research on the many, many health benefits of coconut I decided t...
Each fall I look forward to apple season, each winter I look forward to Brussel sprouts and every summer I count down the days until peaches and nectarines show up in the supermarket. Last week I spo...
Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner and that means the official start of summer. Grilling, picnics, reunions and festivals will fill the days ahead and so will all the delicious foods that...
I’m sure almost everyone has had several different kinds of root vegetable chips. Potato, sweet potato, carrot, beet, parsnip are all standard chip material but have you ever had eggplant chips...
Lately, I’ve been going through a pea phase. I’ve been buying up sugar snap peas by the pound and adding them to every meal I made. They are by far one of my most favorite vegetables. Rig...
Years and years ago I used to waitress at a Mexican restaurant. A lot of the food was made fresh daily inside the kitchen. The customers always used to say that we served the best refried beans they ...
How do you like your brownies? Soft and cake-like or gooey and fudgey? I love a good ooey-gooey fudgey brownie. No cake like brownies for me. I have tried so many variations of brownie recipes recent...
The past few weeks I’ve shared with you the foods I’m loving, my new favorite dessert and the foods I always have on hand in my freezer. But it’s time I’ve come clean. The pas...
I could talk about how I like this recipe because of the nice balance of flavors with the bite of arugula, the sweet oranges combined with the creamy millet. Or I could talk about how eating this mak...
Yup, we finally did it. We joined Pinterest. I know we are a little late jumping on the Pinterest bandwagon but better late than never, right?! We still have lots more stuff that we will be ‘pi...
While working on a recipe recently I needed lima beans and was having a hard time finding them. I looked at 3 different stores and finally decided that I was going to have to make a substitution. I s...
While I’ve definitely been showing the blueberry some love lately, I’ve actually been going through a phase with other fruits as well. Strawberries, apples, grapes, bananas – I̵...
Remember the infamous broccoli and rice casserole made with instant rice, cream of mushroom soup and Cheese Whiz? I’m ashamed to say I do and that I even made it many, many years ago. What a te...
Once a week, for just a couple of hours, my kids meet up with other homeschoolers for what we call ‘workshop’. They do fun projects, have lunch and recess and finish up the day with some ...
I recently read an article in Bon Appetit magazine about the nutritional benefits of parsley. Actually, the article was about a chef with rheumatoid arthritis who has written a cookbook called Hero F...
I tend to go through weird food phases. I’ll become obsessed with a certain food or dish and will literally spend weeks eating nothing but that item. The past few weeks I’ve been o...
This dish is inspired by a recent lunch I had while dining at a little sidewalk cafe near Oceanside Harbor. I hadn’t been very hungry so I ordered their arugula salad. It ended up being so deli...
As I was out watering my garden this weekend and looking at how well the zucchini and summer squash were doing I was dreaming of all the delicious ways that I would be using them in recipes this summ...
My kids and I recently finished reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. It was one of my favorite books as a child and my kids loved it as much as I did! We had a fun time talking ...
The last few weekends have been filled with to do lists. Cleaning out the garage, planting our vegetable garden, training for our half marathon in June and working on our upcoming cookbook. This we...
For the past few weeks the organic market where I shop has had the most beautiful, plump, juicy blueberries I’ve ever seen. I’ve been buying them by the cart full and enjoy a handful eve...
There are days, sometimes weeks, where I do not feel like cooking anything! I admit I am occasionally guilty of plopping down bowls of cereal for dinner. It’s not something that I get a...
I call this Lazy Fried Rice Salad because it’s like fried rice only not fried because I was in a hurry to get lunch made and threw the ingredients together to make a chilled salad instead. Or e...
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