Alright, summer is here. The thermometer has reached 3 digits today! Any and all of my plans to use the oven has gone out the window! It’s time to utilize the barbecue and eat cold salads, sandwiches and fruit smoothies all the time. Here is a recipe for an easy garbanzo bean salad. It’s served cold, it’s great …
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Avocado Egg Salad Sandwich
Use avocado instead of mayonaise for a healthier egg salad sandwich! I’m back! I haven’t posted a new recipe on this blog for a while… Work and vacations and other time-consuming projects have been keeping me busy. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking, I’ve just been cooking a lot of my own recipes that …
Healthy Oatmeal Muffins
I don’t particularly like calling these “muffins…” When I think of the word “muffin” I think “sweet-unhealthy-cake-disguised-as-breakfast” which this recipe is not. These oatmeal muffins are pretty much just your morning oatmeal- in a different form! If you prefer the super sweet, double chocolate chip, 500 calorie muffins, look somewhere else because these muffins are super healthy, moist, …
Quick Sauted Spinach
Spinach is so good as a salad and we try to eat it as much as we can. I decided to switch it up a little last weekend and saute the spinach with other delicious veggies. Easy, quick, and healthy. A side dish success! Spinach is a real super food! It’s filled with so many …
Homemade Wheat Tortillas
I remember growing up living next door to my best friend whos mom would cook a huge batch of tortillas once a year. They were seriously the best things in the entire world. I would scarf them down with out a care if I was being a pig or eating all of my friends food- …
Sun Dried Tomato Pasta Salad
Is it just me or does the heat make you laaaazzyyy? We are trying to save on the electric bill so we don’t use the AC in our apartment that often. What ends up happening is we just lay around all day because it’s too hot to do anything at all! What a waste of …
Yellow Squash Fritatta With Fresh Peas
I told you it was squashy recipe week! I’ve still got a few summer squashes left in my fridge so I have to think of creative ways to use them. (My mom has a garden full of these so I got to take a bunch home!) I can’t wait to have a garden of my …
A Well Balanced Dinner
So my boyfriend and I are working on getting buff before the summer comes this year. Now when I say buff, I mean get in shape, loose a few pounds and tone up a bit. We actually made this goal at the beginning of the year, and I admit I have fallen in and out of my …
Fire Roasted Corn
Ever thought of what might happen if you placed your corn cobs right on the coals, rather than the grill? Maybe not, but that thought has crossed my mind, so I decided to try it. And let me tell you- EPIC SUCCESS! The following pictures were taken on my camera phone a couple of weekends …
Grilled Eggplant Sandwich
I always thought that lunch meat is super processed and packed full with sodium. Why not omit the lunch meat and enjoy a sandwich packed full of all the good stuff: Veggies! If the sandwich tastes just as good (or better in my opinion), why eat unnecessary sodium when you don’t have to? Here is …