Little stories about our family life
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Cocoa Almond Macaroons (with video)
Warning: not a clean-eating recipe. =D …but SUPER delicious. I’ve always wanted to try making macaroons, but was too intimidated by just the sound of the name. haha. After my first attempt, with help from a friend, it actually wasn’t too bad. Turns out that it really only requires four basic ingredients: egg whites, powdered sugar, regular…
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Bacon Egg Muffins
I love making these quick and easy egg muffins in the morning for breakfast. My toddler also likes to help out making these by putting the ingredients into the muffin tins before I pour in the egg mixture. This recipe is also very flexible in what you put into your muffins. Packed with lots of…
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
Happy Memorial Day weekend! According to USMemorialDay.org, Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day, and it was set aside to remember the sacrifice of those who died in the service of the United States of America. Regardless of what it means to you, we must recognize the fact that United States citizens died with the…
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Berrylicious Smoothie
It has been getting pretty hot lately here in CA! Smoothies are my favorite way to cool down and get our fruit/veggies in our systems. This one is a little more tart than others….kind of like frozen yogurt. Ingredients: 1/2 cup of frozen raspberries 1/2 cup of frozen strawberries 1/2 cup of vanilla greek yogurt…
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Gluten-free Super Chocolate Cookies
I love love my dark chocolate and my husband loves cookies. This recipe made both our sweet tooth happy =) I even tried one batch adding a little bit of coffee grinds and it wasn’t too bad! =) Great gluten-free and paleo recipe. Ingredients: 8 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, 4 ounces melted and 4 ounces…
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Blackberry Chia Jam
I always love jam on my toast or waffles. I wanted to try to make a sugar free one and not highly processed. This one turned out quite well. Great with almond butter too. I love it on Ezekiel Bread or Dave’s “Killer” Bread to get a fully loaded nutritious bread. Find out the story…
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Maxine’s Mini Crabcakes
Usually, I am intimidated to make anything with the word “crab” in it, but finally got the courage to try some new recipes. Had some dungeness crab leftover and wanted to attempt to make some crabcakes with it. Forgot to take a pix with the sauce on! Serves about 10 mini crabcakes Ingredients: 2 tablespoons…
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