Category: Nature’s Yummy

  • Cookbook Sneak Peek Recipe ~ Cinnamon Apple Quinoa with Honey Walnuts

    I am so excited to share one of the recipes from my new cookbook SET the TABLE with LOVE! The book is in the editing stages right now, but everything is going wonderfully. I will be sharing a few of my favorites from each section. This is  an actual picture from the cookbook, just click…

  • Thin Crust Cauliflower Pizza Sticks

    This recipe was created because I wanted to eat cauliflower, but you just can’t eat cauliflower. It needs to be created and honey child, please it needs to taste not like cauliflower. I found a great recipe on Food Mamma website. But of course like all recipes I don’t really follow them. I think you should make…

  • Sweet Potato Balls with a little Thai Indian twist

    This recipe came out of the fact I had some sweet potatoes leftover from dinner last night. I thought about making my Gluten free sweet potato biscuits but wanted to do something different. These Sweet Potato Balls are Gluten free and diary free. I love the ginger bite they have and they are not too…

  • Ode to Chocolate Cake! Chocolate Pecan Ganache Cake with Chocolate Butter Cream Cheese frosting

    Organic Chocolate Pecan Ganache Cake with Chocolate Butter Cream Cheese frosting[/caption] So sometimes I get a craving for Chocolate! Ladies and Gents do you know what a girl is talking about! Last night the craving it hit a sista really hard.  I love too cook but baking is not my expertise. However, when a girl…

  • Chocolate Fettuccine Pasta with Chocolate Sauce, Raspberries and chopped Walnuts

    I made homemade spaghetti and meat sauce for my family tonight.  Afterwards, my son and husband went to a Lacrosse game and I was left alone to myself. Not good when I am in a baking mood and I want sweets. LOL. I made homemade cinnamon buns yesterday. Today I decided hmm.. I have leftover…

  • Me want Cinnamon Rolls, Now! without Yeast :)

    So last night my son and I had a craving for something sweet. Well actually I just need my hands in some flour. I love the soft and silky feel of flour. I hope that is not too strange. I was going to first make cranberry orange scones. My son is not a fan of orange…

  • SET the TABLE with LOVE cookbook IT’S HERE!

    OKAY THE COOKBOOK IS FINALLY DONE. PLEASE GO CHECK IT OUT HERE:   SET THE TABLE WITH LOVE COOKBOOK     So I am almost done with my cookbook and I wanted to share a few pictures of the recipes that will be in the cookbook.  This book is all about how we Set our…

  • Homemade Flatbread, Roti, Tortilla? Hmm.. You decide

    Homemade Flatbread, Roti, Tortilla? Hmm.. You decide

    Other day my family wanted to eat cajun flatbread pizza. It is really yummy. It’s basically sautéed onions, cajun sausage, spicy barbecue sauce and sharp cheddar cheese. Unfortunately, we did not have any flat bread. My hubby was about to go and run out to the store and buy some, when I yelled, Stop!!! As…

  • I MADE PASTA ~ from scratch ~ What!?

    Yes. My dear friend gave me her Italian grandfather’s pasta maker to try my hand out with making pasta from scratch.  I felt so special to have this machine. She has never used it and wanted someone to have it that would appreciate it.  This bad boy is straight out of Italy, even the direction.…

  • For Cold Season ~RED soup

    So what is RED soup! Well I came up with this concoction when my son got sick with a cold and I also got his cold as well. Since I am a kidney transplant survivor I have to use food as my medicine. Well duh, says, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy…

  • Ginger peach Coho salmon salad with warm cinnamon pears

    My former yoga teacher sent me this amazing vinegar Alessi White Balsamic Pear Infused vinegar and the sweet note. So she asked me to post what I am going to do with it. I made a ginger pear dressing for the Coho Salmon salad.  I also took the dressing and used it as a marinade for…

  • Ginger peach Coho salmon salad with warm cinnamon pears

    My former yoga teacher sent me this amazing vinegar Alessi White Balsamic Pear Infused vinegar and the sweet note. So she asked me to post what I am going to do with it. I made a ginger pear dressing for the Coho Salmon salad.  I also took the dressing and used it as a marinade for…

  • Darker the Chocolate the sweeter the……Antioxidants Sillies

    Dark Chocolate is amazing for your body, mind and soul. It is high in antioxidants. Here  a few more benefits ~ Studies show that eating a small amount of dark chocolate a few times a week can help lower your blood pressure. Dark chocolate improves blood flow and may help prevent the formation of blood clots. Dark…

  • I love the movie Ratatouille.

    I love the movie Ratatouille! These are some of my favorite quotes. I have watched this movie a million times. It inspires me to cook.

  • Grilled Peaches with Cinnamon and Cardamom Honey Butter.

    This is so good!!! So so very very good!  I had the honor of help cater my best friend’s husband 40th birthday party. They requested my sweet potato biscuits, ( gluten free)! I made this cinnamon and cardamom honey butter to go along with the biscuits but I forgot it at home.  Fortunately that did…