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One Pot – Two Salads – Red Quinoa Salad two ways.
When I say that this is super easy, it is super easy. Both of these salads are created by using one pot of red quinoa. All you have to do is open up a few ingredients and cut up a lemon and a cucumber, parsley and mint. The first salad is an inspired Greek style…
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Butternut Squash Bread Pudding w/Red Wine Balsamic Reduction
I was strolling through my pictures on social media and saw this post below. I made a few years ago during the holidays and thought this would be a good one to share with you guys since Thanksgiving is this week. Hope you enjoy it! What I do with leftover Butternut Squash Bread Pudding and…
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Mindful Living Moment: Filling our hearts with gratitude
“It is when we deny where we are, that we eventually look up and see that we are lost.” Lisa Washington
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Baked Hasselback Potatoes with What’s on Hand CHIMICHURRI SAUCE
I love homemade chimichurri sauce and you don’t need a steak to enjoy it. It’s awesome on veggies. I remember a conversation I was having with my sister and I told her about the importance of seasoning food. It is the key to flavorful food. It doesn’t matter if we are seasoning a steak or…
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Eat Cake!
The holidays are coming and one of my favorite things to do outside putting up the decorations is baking! However, I must confess, baking was not always my thing. It was my mom who inspired me to bake, well at least , later in my life, the inspiration kicked in. I remember when she came…
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Craving Taquitos? Spicy Vegan Taquitos
Sometimes you just crave something delicious and comforting, but you wanna keep it on the healthy side, so this came into my mind! Spicy vegan taquitos and I thought, so how do I wanna do these, because I didn’t have my vegan sausages, so what’s a girl to do. I decided to use beans and…
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Taco Supreme Crunchwrap
The taco supreme crunch wrap is the trend in food right now and I see why, because it’s absolutely delicious. I actually made one of these last week, that was vegan! I actually used vegan chorizo sausage, black beans and an avocado crema, instead of using nacho cheese. My family tasted a bite of my…
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Figs! Figs! Glorious Figs!
Oh how I adore figs and this is the perfect season for them, just like pumpkins, figs represents autumn for me. One of my favorite things to do with my grandkids, during fall break, is to take them to my girlfriend’s organic vegetarian farm www.fryfarm.com, just a few miles from my house. The grandkids love…
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Vegan Sweet Potato Pie Oatmeal with my Stovetop Maple Pecan Granola
I am a huge lover of oatmeal, that was not always the case. I had it everyday for breakfast and hated seeing it on the table each morning, but with a few tweaks, I have love it! Oatmeal is one of those ingredients that can be savory and sweet. It has definitely had it’s comeback.…
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My Little Monsters
My Little Monsters My Little Monsters. Halloween is coming up soon, so Gigi is in the kitchen playing around with some ghoulish halloween treats for the grandkids! Okay it has to be a bit healthy, but not too healthy where they look at them like U am making them eat spinach! They actually loved these…
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Give yourself two minutes to come back home to you.
Deep breathing is a beautiful practice. Deep breathing gives us an opportunity to talk to stop, pause, and reconnect back to ourselves. I understand that we all don’t have 30 minutes to just stop, take a huge chunk out of our day. However, I’m sure we can find two minutes to just slow down the…
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Grand Mummy White Chocolate Orange Cranberry Biscottis
How to get them to try biscottis? So one of the other things that I really love about the fall season is all the harvest festivals, the little tricker of treaters running around on their costumes and making ghouly treats. Well with Covid this year will be a bit different. Here’s a few things I…
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Vegan Red Beans with Cornbread
In New Orleans as my father-in-law has always told me, that Mondays is for red beans and rice, that’s been simmering on the stove for hours, bringing the most intoxicating aromas of garlic ,onions, smoked meats and spices in your home. Honestly, he makes the best red beans and rice I have ever had. Now…
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Chocolate Chip Banana Pecan Bread
So my grandchildren ate up most of the bananas, but they left me a few so I decided to make my chocolate chip banana pecan bread, this one is loaded with flavor, because I add a teaspoon of cinnamon to the batter. It’s super moist from the apples sauce. Not to mention there’s about 10…
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Sweet Potato Biscuits with Harissa Maple Candied Pecans
My mother made the best sweet potato pie and sweet potato pie in my household meant Fall was here. My mom’s sweet potato pie was airy and super fluffy. I love all the warming flavors Fall weather brings us, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and ginger, to name of few. The other thing my mom was amazing…
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