Month: March 2013
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Coconut Water Iced Tea
Meet your go-to summer drink! I did some major kitchen re-organizing this weekend and ran across my cold-brew iced tea bags from last summer. Nice timing! But when I went to my fridge to fill up my pitcher with water, I saw coconut water sitting right next to it. Hmmmmmm. A wonderful impulsive creation resulted! …
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Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Smoothie
Got a smoothie for you today with some weird ingredients. Oatmeal (but you’ve seen me do that again and again! and again! ) and an apple. Blended with some more common smoothie ingredients. It’s cinnamony deliciousness first thing in the morning. That tastes like oatmeal cookie batter. Soooo happy.
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Pineapple Macadamia Breakfast Truffles
Dear Spring, Thank you for making my days brighter, in so many ways! Love, Leslie Sorry folks, getting a little too excited about spring here! This was my first winter back in Northern California after several years in Southern California, and although I handled it much better than I anticipated, I am soooo ready…
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Strawberry Basil Lemonade Spritzer
Happy Saturday, folks! I had a fantastic spring day wine tasting in Napa with a wonderful friend of mine. I made a nice light sparkly (and hydrating) spring drink for us to sip along the way: a strawberry basil lemonade spritzer. I thought it would be a great way to start a day before wine…
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Slow Cooked Mocha Pudding Cake
When I got out my slow cooker recently for my saag recipe, I found myself drooling at the memory of my old favorite slow cooker recipe: mocha pudding cake. The main ingredients of that cake were sugar, flour, butter, and eggs. I looked it up to double check. No joke. I definitely don’t eat…
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Kiwi Melon Margarita
Getting excited for St. Patty’s Day?! Well, I’m not. Okay, I’m (kind of) kidding. St. Patrick’s Day will be a fun day filled with friends, food, drinks – and my half marathon!!! Yikes. I had absolutely planned on posting regularly about my half-marathon training. Which I’ve pretty much done – I mentioned my 10 mile…
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Pizza Roll Salad
You know those days when you really want to indulge in something unhealthy, but you really shouldn’t? Well, I’ve taken to putting a small portion of that unhealthy craving on a salad. Every time, my craving is satisfied and I have zero regrets about a small indulgence when it’s on top of a yummy loaded…
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Blueberry Cashew Matcha Smoothie
Got a quickie recipe for you today – a smoothie with green tea in it! Yep! Matcha tea powder blended in a yummy blueberry smoothie will definitely perk you up in the morning. Plus I’m adding one of my new favorite ingredients, raw cashew butter. It’s a great way to add some protein in your…
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Whole Wheat Cheez-Its
Vegan whole wheat cheesy crackers!!! This is not my recipe, it is from the incredible blog Fork & Beans, but it is soooo delicious I had to make sure to post this. I’ve had this recipe flagged for a really long time and haven’t gotten around to it because I assumed that making my…
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Chocolate Coconut Breakfast Truffles
Breakfast truffles are one of my favorite things. Dessert you can guilt-less-ly eat for breakfast. I make these delicious raw energy bites to eat in the morning before a workout. I’ve made all kinds of yummy flavors. This is an extra-special breakfast truffle recipe because I made it with my wonderful friend Maria –…