Homemade Butternut Squash Ravioli topped with Pumpkin Seed Oil, Parmesan Cheese, Dried Cranberries and Cracked Black Pepper For dinner tonight I made homemade butternut squash ravioli. Partially because I’ve never made pasta from scratch but mostly because I was incredibly bored. I had basic whipped-banana chia oatmeal with a sea of peanut butter and blackberry [...]
1/4 cup rolled oats, 1/8 cup instant oats, 1/2 TBS chia seeds, 1/2 banana, 1/2 cup vanilla soy milk, 1/2 cup water, cinnamon, nutmeg, dried cranberries, sunshine raspberries, crunchy almond butter, dark chocolate peanut butter. Patience is a virtue…that I need to learn. I’ve been making my oatmeal in the microwave in lieu of the [...]
Leftover Rosemary-Thyme Roasted Chicken, Green and Red Leaf Lettuce, Tomato, Green Beans, Dried Cranberries, Walnuts and Goat Cheese dressed in a mixture of Olive Oil, Honey and Balsamic. Leftover Roasted Chicken Lift-up #1: Harvest Salad Beauty.Whole Wheat Toast dusted with Cinnamon and topped with Homemade Blackberry Jam from the Farmer’s Market. Lunch was a pleasure [...]
This morning I had a big ol’ bowl of overnight oats. It has been WAY too hot to make hot oatmeal but cereal and smoothies NEVER fill me like a hearty bowl of loaded oats. I added 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/2 cup vanilla soy milk, cinnamon and vanilla extract to my bowl and let [...]
I love to cook but at the end of a long day I want a meal that is easy to put together. When I am pressed for time I often resort to throwing whatever vegetables, proteins and grains I have on hand into a bowl and call it a ‘big salad’. These dinners are okay [...]
In honor of the Ginger Snap Lara Bar I tried over the weekend, I added a new addition to my oats today: ground cloves. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the warm flavor, and knew it would be a nice addition in my morning oats. Cloves remind me of the winter holiday season [...]
Growing up we always had a special breakfast on Sunday mornings. My dad was the breakfast chef in our house, and would make amazing omelets, Strawberry Belgian Waffles or French Toast after church every Sunday. This is a tradition that I have carried with me into my adult years, and I try to make it [...]
