This is a fun and easy recipe to add more veggies into your diet. Its also a great way to serve Shepard’s Pie to kids (and adults). Begin by prepping the veggies. You will need 5 peppers, 1/2 cup carrots, 1/4 cup chopped sweet onion, 1 tsp minced garlic and 1/4 cup chopped parsley. Add…
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Avocado Coffee? What?
So if you have been following my blog, you will have noticed my little obsession with coffee. Yes I love coffee. Well here is another interesting coffee recipe that I stumbled across. I first saw this recipe on the youtube channel emmymadeinjapan. She made a recipe called Es Alpukat which is basically an Indonesian avocado…
Easy Yogurt Banana Bread
Have left over yogurt and over ripe bananas? Can’t eat eggs? Well here is a recipe for you! Super easy and quick to make. What you need is yogurt, banana, coconut sugar, butter, flour and baking soda. Mash the bananas. Add the coconut sugar, yogurt, melted butter and mix well. Add the flour and baking…
Roasted Pickled Beets
I’ve always loved getting roasted beets from restaurants and I didn’t realize how easy it was. Start with cleaning and slicing your beets. You want to remove the outer skin which can get a bit tough. The beets that I had was a candy cane beet. They had a wonderful and gorgeous look when sliced…
Roasted Parmesan Fennel
Fennel is such a wonderful vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked. This is an easy way to prepare fennel and makes a perfect side dish for your dinner. To make this dish, take a fennel bulb and slice it. Coat the slices with a good amount of olive oil and a dash of…
Edible Pudding Slime
This week the kid in me wanted to come out and play. I wanted slime, but I also wanted to make something that was toddler friendly. I found this recipe and it was so easy I decided to try it out. All you need is instant vanilla pudding and cornstarch. Mix the instant pudding and…
Carrot and Ginger Salad Dressing
I love going to Japanese restaurants and getting salad with carrot and ginger dressing. Sometimes I crave this dressing at home. I decided to try to make my own version. After looking at a couple recipes, I found one that looked fairly easy. Make the dressing by taking 3 medium carrots and coarsely chop them….
Fast Microwave Custard
When you are feeling lazy (or you are just lazy), here is a dessert for you. It is super easy and tastes like creme caramel. Start with eggs, vanilla extract and whole milk. You can use 2% if you want to cut down the fat, but it wont be as creamy and rich. Beat all…
Tonic Coffee
When I saw this on Pinterest, I had to try it. It looked so interesting. You only need two ingredients, tonic water and espresso. But since I don’t have an espresso machine, I decided to use cold brew coffee instead. If you want to know how I made my cold brew coffee, check out the…
Easy Dulce de Leche
Dulce de Leche is sweetened milk cooked for several hours to make a creamy caramel sauce. This version cuts the cooking time to only 2.5 hours!! It is really simple and easy to make. When I make this recipes, I make a couple cans and save them for later use. They store well in the…
