Finding Joy in Healthy Living
Allow me to introduce my latest food obsession: Quinoa.
Yes, it’s yummy. But the best part? There are 8 grams of protein in each cup! Plus, it is a complete protein, which means that it includes all of the nine essential amino acids the body needs. That is just the kind of food that I want to be including in my diet! So I set out to discover different ways to work it into our meals….
Happy September, everyone! We’re just about to the end of summer and peach season (which means fall and apple season is right around the corner! Yay!), but today I have a recipe using any fresh peaches you still have, or a jar of those yummy peaches you canned this summer. 😉 Enter Peach Cobbler Pancakes. Yum….
They say that desperation is the mother of invention, and I can attest to the truth of that statement. A few months ago, a friend asked me to bake the cake for her wedding [read: over 250 cupcakes, plus a cake]. Lemon was one of the three flavors she requested. I had never made a lemon cake before, and couldn’t find one online that I liked… So what’s a girl to do? Create her own recipe, of course!…
I love scones. Warm, crumbly, moist, buttery scones. However, I used to think every scone was dry and hard. Thankfully, I quickly learned that I had a preconceived idea that was very wrong. If made right, scones are absolutely delicious. And these blueberry scones are no exception!…