Whether you’re making cookies for Santa, your neighbor or to enjoy at home, December is full of baking and treats. I, like many others, love to bake and eat sweets. How do I manage to do it and not gain weight? Easy! I exercise consistently and share my goodies. I also eat healthy meals…
Holiday Gift Guide 2011
Need some gift ideas for the upcoming Holidays? Here is my 2011 food-kitchen inspired gift guide. I’ve had a lot of time to flip through magazines and catalogs while I feed the baby so this is what I came up with! Eat Smart Retro Kitchen Scale from Amazon: perfect to measure your ingredients when a…
Thanksgiving Recap and Cinnamon Fig Jam
I love the Holidays. We had a great, yet quiet, Thanksgiving this year. I cooked the whole dinner myself but spread it over 3 days so that I could actually finish. It turned out delicious so I was very pleased. I knew that making 12 dishes alone, there would be a few disasters along the…
How to Simplify Thanksgiving
I was a bit unrealistic this year in my attempt to plan a grand Thanksgiving for my family and a couple friends. Then it dawned on me….who am I kidding? My newborn son will be 3 weeks on Thanksgiving and I am already getting overwhelmed at the thought of all the dishes that need to…
Banana & Blueberry Baked Oatmeal
I love breakfast. I really do. With a newborn in the house, and nursing around the clock, I wake up starving. Most of the time I eat something quick and easy like whole grain cereal, eggs and/or fruit, but I love the weekends when I have more time to experiment. I’ve been wanting to try…
It’s a BOY!
Sorry I’ve been MIA but I’ve been busy having a baby! 🙂 I am so happy to be home with my newest love, a sweet baby boy. He came into the world Wednesday morning November 2nd. He is perfect in every way. Please bare with me as I adjust to life with 3. I have…
A Taste of Tex-Mex: Chicken Fajitas
I have to admit something….since growing up in Texas and having access to a plethora of fabulous Mexican restaurants, I almost always ate my chicken fajitas out at a restaurant and if we did make them from home they were the pre-marinated kind from HEB. I rarely, if ever, made them myself. I know, it’s…
Easy and Fun Halloween Treats
My oldest son’s birthday is 2 weeks before Halloween so I could not resist throwing a Halloween themed birthday party for his 5th birthday. I had a hard time narrowing down the treats to make because there are so many fun ideas for Halloween goodies. I also wanted to make sure it wasn’t just sweets…
Meal Planning Monday
Let me tell you what I’ve been up to: Halloween baking! And I am up to my ears in this stuff….. I know, it seems early, but we are having a Halloween-themed birthday party this week for my baby boy who is turning 5 years old and I couldn’t be more excited. I have always…
Mom’s Simple Chicken Tortilla Soup
I have about 4 different versions of tortilla soup that I make and this is the go-to quick version. My mom actually came up with it. This is how it evolved. When we were home visited in March she decided to make tortilla soup for dinner. She was out running errands late in the afternoon…
