Category: Recipes
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Fresh Ginger-Fruit Tea
I am not a water drinker. I love coffee and tea. I need flavor. Last summer, for example I had been drinking LEMON CUCUMBER (or LEMON RASPBERRIES) water and that worked just fine for me. This year I am trying a new discovery. Fresh ginger. I call it a “tea” because it requires boiling water. It…
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Honey Sweetened Coconut Oil Peanut Butter
I finally did it. I made peanut butter and now I curse myself why I hadn’t done it earlier. Easy. Fast. Cheap. Delicious. It takes me 5 minutes to make it. it has 3 ingredients. and if I let them, my kids would devour it in one sitting. I buy my peanuts in bulk: roasted…
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Avocado Cucumber Spinach Smoothness
This smoothie was meant to be mine. Just mine. You know, these days I can’t eat in peace because whatever I take there are 3 drooling mouths (No.1, No.2, and the dog) watching me carefully with those begging eyes. No.1 is very particular about the color or texture of her food. So if there is…
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Coconut flour Coffee Cake aka I can’t believe I made gluten free cheesecake and I loved it!
So, my last adventure with coconut flour was a disaster. I made pancakes and they were actually awful. So the rest of the flour there was left had been sitting in my kitchen for months now, until last week my husband went to the store and bought 3 dozen eggs. Yes, this is what happens…
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3 ingredient homemade chocolate pudding
I had planned to share this recipe for a long, long time. I made it for the first time about a year ago and I am hooked since. Never was a big fan of chocolate puddings but I never had it made from scratch either. To make it takes about 15 minutes, no eggs, butter,…
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Trail mix. In other words, a jar full of goodness.
Trail mix does and always will remind me of those sleepless nights after our No.1 was born. She was a good sleeper but for the first several months, like most newborns, she would wake up once or twice for feeding during the nigh. Most of the time, while nursing, I was watching tv, mostly news……
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Spinach and Beet Cornbread Muffins
I love cornbread, there is no question about it. Using the little time off from our No.2, who is finally sleeping on her own, IN her own bed, I want to share one of my favorite cornbread recipes EVER. This can be baked in 9 inch pan or in muffin forms For some reason I…
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Marbled Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake (slow cooker recipe)
About 6 months ago my husband got me a slow cooker. This is a new thing to me. For a while it was just sitting on our counter as I had no idea what to do with it. I know that there is many recipes out there for slow cooker but whenever I check them…
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Soft Cheesy Pretzels with flaxseed meal
I was planning to make those pretzels for a while. I don’t know why I was waiting so long. They came out super delicious. Soft and fluffy. My daughter couldn’t stop eating them. Ingredients: 1 1/4 C Water 1 TBS olive oil 1tsp Lemon Juice 2 TBS Sugar 1 tsp Salt 1 Egg YOLK 3…
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Tortilla bowls
Tortillas are the “must have” in our house lately. My husband likes quesadillas. Our daughter can eat them just with peanut butter. She likes them a lot! I like to use them in all kinds of wraps. So far, my favorite are spinach-strawberry wraps on homemade whole wheat tortillas. My husband is not a big…
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