Ingredients: 1 can of coconut cream (higher the fat content the better) ¼ cup of honey (or white sugar) 1 tsp of Mexican GF Vanilla Extract Fruit of your choice, I use blueberries and strawberries or cherries and blueberries Tools: Metal bowl (chilled) or whip n prep bowl hand mixer or stand mixer can opener […]
Easy Baked Avocado with Prawns Recipe
I have always loved avocado cold in salads or sandwiches and I wasn’t sure how I felt about baked avocado – but I loved it. As a diabetic, I have to try and adapt recipes to become low fat so that’s what I have done with this recipe: you may prefer to add back cream […]
Asparagus Salad Fresh Spring Meal Recipe
You will want to try this fresh spring asparagus salad recipe!
Grow Your Own Basil
I’m so excited to be sharing about growing basil. It’s one of the things that we’ve managed to not kill for years, and we use it constantly in our cooking! The basil you see in front of my daughter (and behind her, too) all started from a $3 plant from our HEB grocery store. Here’s […]
Crock Pot Cheesy Chicken Dip
My husband originally introduced me to the recipe after he found it on the side of a can of chicken. Just typing “can of chicken” disturbs me, so I set out to make fresh and delicious meal. So forget those cans o’ chicken and head out to your local butcher! Okay, no, you don’t have […]
Amazing Bacon Brownies!
The trick to this amazing recipe is to bake the bacon. Cover a standard cookie sheet with foil and lay out your bacon (I use center cut and can fit 8-10 strips). Place the sheet in the oven and then set the oven for 350. Bake for approximately 20 minutes, you want it just to the […]
Roasted Chickpeas
Roasted chickpeas make a delicious, high-protein snack that’s easy to make at home. Many of us crave something salty between meals, but potato chips and pretzels don’t provide much nutrition. Chickpeas, on the other hand, are high in protein, fiber, iron, and folate. A half cup of cooked chickpeas has about 7 grams of protein, […]
Whole Grain French Toast
Breakfast- the most important meal of the day. Still, it can be tempting, especially on the weekends, to stray from healthy options. That’s okay from time to time, but too much straying can undo any good choices you’ve been making. What if there was an option that felt like a breakfast treat but was actually […]
Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe
This recipe is adapted from Cheeseslave’s recipe and the recipe we used when I was a kid. We had our own pastured chickens and sourced as many raw ingredients as we could afford on our limited budget. When I first tasted store-bought mayonnaise as an adult, I couldn’t believe how rancid and disgusting it was. […]
8 Healthy Salad Dressings
These delicious raw salad dressings are easier (and way cheaper) to make than driving to the store and buying them. As an added bonus, these salad dressings actually add nutrition and digestive aid to your salads. As a bonus and unlike commercial salad dressings, the ingredients in these dressings (particularly the raw apple cider vinegar […]
Super-Soft Chocolate Heath Cookies
These super soft cookies are giant and will blow your mind with softness and flavor. If you are looking for a cake-like cookie, sorry, these are only mostly cake-like and mostly cookie like. The crispy edges melt in your mouth as the toffee and chocolate bits take over your senses. They contain secret ingredients like […]
Thousand Island Salad Dressing or Burger Sauce
Next to ranch, Thousand Island salad dressing is a favorite in our family, but I hated how many chemicals and sugars were in commercial brands and vowed to find a healthy alternative my husband would agree with. I think we found a winner. This has the right about of tang, spice, and creamyness. This delicious […]
