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October 2017

Paleo Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cups

Happy almost Happy Halloween!  Celebrate with these homemade paleo dark chocolate almond butter cups.  You won’t want to share these with anyone. 😉 What was your favorite candy to find in that bowl at your neighbors house while trick-or-treating?  Mine was either Milk Duds, Milky Ways, or Reese’s peanut butter cups (which lead the pack)!…

Easy Blender Enchilada Sauce

Learn how to make this easy blender enchilada sauce recipe!  It’s so easy and delicious that you will never want to buy the canned stuff for your enchiladas ever again! Have you ever bought something in a can, looked at the ingredients and thought “I can totally make that myself!  It can’t be that hard”?…

One Pot Curried Butternut Squash Soup

***warning: photo over load because I couldn’t choose my favorites*** It’s official you guys… I have already started listening to Christmas music.  Sorry not sorry.  Current song playing on Pandora is White Christmas by Frank Sinatra and the Christmas movies have already started playing on Hallmark Channel.  Only 60 days until that most anticipated holiday!…

Curried Chickpeas

Two words… CURRIED CHICKPEAS! These curried chickpeas have been hulled, seasoned and roasted to perfection.  Not to mention there is another ingredient in these just to celebrate the fall season (since I am clearly on a kick these days).  And so walks in the mighty peptita (aka pumpkin seed).  But I just found out that…

Roasted Squash Medley

Some days, like today, Sadie and I are homebound without a vehicle.  We are a one car family.  Actually we have been for the past 5 years!  It’s been very convenient that we have lived on base or very close to base during these one car years.  It’s made paying down all our debt in…

Sage Balsamic Glaze Salmon

I have always been a healthy conscious eater but even more vigilant since my PCOS diagnosis.  Food can be the either a valiant soldier or a betraying Snowden to your body.  I think that most people would agree with me that they would rather have a body healer than a body leaker.  Right?  Well, salmon…

Chunky Monkey Smoothie Bowl

Happy Treat Yo Self Day!  Let’s celebrate with this protein packed Chunky Monkey Smoothie Bowl.  A healthy ode to the Ben and Jerry’s famous flavor by the same name.  You see that Parks and Recs episode where Donna, Tom, and Ben dedicate the entire day treating themselves to all things fanc?  Well that day was…

Goat Cheese Egg Casserole

I’m joining my husband these next few weeks in Montgomery, AL while he’s training at SOS (Squadron Officer School).  So many acronyms in this military life people!  I’ll fill you in as needed.  At this school there are about 600 officers in each class, 4 squadron per class, 10 flight in each squadron and about…