Strawberry lemon oat bread

Hi 🙂 How’s your afternoon treating you? I hope it had at least one moment that felt like this: Oh Bell. So much joy and sass for a tiny pup. Livi and I had a great morning, and then around noon, we went to go see Kyle and Meg’s new house. They moved this weekend…

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Post-vacation salad + all the things green

Hi! Hope you’re enjoying your Monday <3 Bella and Caro wanted me to tell you how much I missed them. (Bella did not want me to tell you that you can see marinara sauce in her beard from the lunchtime pizza she “borrowed” from Liv’s plate while I was upstairs putting her down for her…

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Juice thirty

Hiiii 🙂 How’s your day been? Livi has a bit of a cold, so we’ve been laying low over here. My madre came over for a little while so I could drop off our tax documents, and I brought back La Parrilla soup for the the three of us. Their chicken and rice soup is…

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Avocado Chicken Salad

Hi! How’s your day going so far? I have a healthy avocado chicken salad for you below! I’m so happy you liked the Fit Tuesday workout! We haven’t succeeded in making our Mardi Gras cookies (we went to the store for sprinkles and they had every color except purple, yellow and green!), but maybe we’ll…

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Blood Orange, Beet and Basil Salad

So I had a crazy flashback while making this blood orange salad. I was standing in the restaurant in 105degrees, in my little cheffer outfit, segmenting an entire bucket of blood oranges. It was my first time working with the citrus, so naturally I was astonished by the bright, bold color. I used the orange…

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Double Chocolate 2-Minute Protein Muffin

I have a filling and delicious 2-minute chocolate protein mug muffin recipe for you below, but first- I can’t believe that Winter Shape Up is over!! <3 Thank you again to all of you for your awesome check-ins, feedback, energy and motivation. Our Facebook group was an extra-amazing place to be this past month. I…

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Superfood Snack Bites

Happy Valentine’s Day week! <3 To celebrate, I have a recipe for superfood snack bites! It’s fun to look back and think about how I’ve spent different Valentine’s Days throughout my life: as a little kid, carefully analyzing which boy got which Valentine; in high school, watching sappy movies with my best girlfriends; a college…

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Grain-Free Upside Down Apple Bread

This grain-free apple bread is made upside down style, which makes it perfect for dessert. It also makes a great breakfast served with a cup of coffee!  Just the usual shenanigans over here. (PS. A fedora is a great for any bad hair day)  Playing, reading, hanging out, some great workouts… and this apple bread.…

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Buffalo hummus + touchdown eats

Word on the street is that there’s an important football game this weekend. 😉 I’ve got the perfect healthy Super Bowl appetizer for you: buffalo hummus dip! Don’t ask me who’s playing, because I have no idea. (In my defense, I’m not a football fan at all but I could tell you the top 10…

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Gingerbread Amazeballs

‘Tis the season for giving, for memories, for making our yard look like a light explosion, for mugs of candy cane green tea while watching “Four Christmases” for holiday-ifying all of my favorite recipes…. The gingerbread amazeball had to happen 😉 Sometimes it’s fun to stick with the usual snack standbys: -egg burritos -salad beast…

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Clean eating sweet potato casserole

Here’s the sweet potato casserole you need at your Thanksgiving table.  Livi and I were planning on going to squadron Thanksgiving on Friday afternoon. She ended up being awake all night Thursday night -teething is the worst- so after playing with friends Friday morning, we came home for naptime. Since she didn’t sleep well the night…

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Clean Eating Cranberry Sauce

Begin the avalanche of clean Thanksgiving recipes. And memories of that one time I thought I’d eat a bowl of fresh cranberries like a fruit salad. Don’t ever do that. Aren’t they pretty? While I definitely think there’s a time and place for splurging and saving, Thanksgiving is high on the live-it-up factor. I look…

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