I received a bottle to sample and create in a recipe. All opinions are my own.Every weekend I try planning our breakfast menus by making a large batch of crock pot oatmeal for the week. When I prepare it I sometimes add honey, molasses, coconut sugar, and at last resort, brown sugar.It is hard making sure that I am not bringing up my children to learn to be hooked on sugar. I see myself and really … [Read more...]
Alfajores and Oatmeal Raisin Cookies from The Cookiepedia {Review + Giveaway}
More baking!! I am loving it and I hope you are getting in some too! A few weeks ago Quirk Books sent me a few cookbooks to look through and I feel in love with Cookiepedia. Do you have trouble deciding what to make every year and you get stuck making the SAME cookies every year? I felt that way this year even though I did express that I hardly baked last year. It still countsI perused through the … [Read more...]
Amafruits Açaí Review and Giveaway
I have a lovely review today that I have been meaning to do for a while now. Do you know that making anything in a blender with a baby is hard? I try to prepare her but the Vitamix sound startles her all the time.Well, finally I was able to make several recipes with this lovely product. I actually had only been introduced to powdered acai and had been enjoying it in smoothies and in my oatmeal but … [Read more...]
Two Opera Recordings and Blackberry Baked Oatmeal
This has been a long time a coming and I finally got all the pictures together and video from the performance in March 23rd. This truly shows that I am actually performing! Hee hee.This was my first performance after having our daughter on November 2nd and I have to say I was not sure I was going to be able to memorize and physically get back into vocal shape to make it happen. Somehow, … [Read more...]
Strawberry Vegan Overnight Oats
As of Monday I have completed my 2 week trial going without sweets. It has been great and I plan to continue limiting desserts until the weekend. I have been excited that my energy levels have been great and I have been able to be the mother I need to be for my daughter.I'd prepare fruits for breakfast meals and for dessert options. One of these was this amazing recipe for overnight oats. I cannot … [Read more...]
