Desserts

Brookies: Brownies, Meet Chocolate Chip Cookies!

We like our weekends lazy, but this one was everything BUT. Our weeks are incredibly busy with dropping off kids, picking them up, taking them to dance class & karate, baking, blogging, working, running with the house (you get the idea)! Am sure your weeks are jammed packed, too. I sometimes think it’s an obsession for us…… Continue reading Brookies: Brownies, Meet Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Smoothies

Pretty in Pink: A Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie

This is the stuff healthy food dreams are made of. Smoothies that taste like dessert and can effectively curb a sweet tooth craving, while nourishing your body. If I had to pick a favorite dessert; that would be strawberry shortcake. I would not hesitate to answer or think twice about it. In fact, every single birthday cake I…… Continue reading Pretty in Pink: A Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie

Breakfast

Creamy Raspberry Overnight Oats

In a perfect world, we would all wake up to a freshly-brewed cup of coffee & an enticing breakfast that’s “calling our name”. That surely doesn’t happen (to me, at least)… But I need to make breakfast happen for the 6 beings that run my heart: my 2 and 4 year-old kids, my husband, a dog,…… Continue reading Creamy Raspberry Overnight Oats

Appetizers & Dips

Home, Sweet Home & Watermelon Pizza!

Today was a ponytail kind-of-day. A day so long that the lines as to where it began and ended are increasingly blurry. But am sitting down (for the first time today) enjoying a nice cup of fennel & peppermint tea and posting this entry before going to bed. After 7 grueling weeks of restorations & renos; we are finally back in our…… Continue reading Home, Sweet Home & Watermelon Pizza!

Seafood

Easy Cajun Shrimp Tacos!

Tacos; one simple word that evokes so many mouth-watering variations! Tacos don’t necessarily have to equal junk/fast food, especially when prepared at home & stuffed with real, wholesome ingredients. It all starts with the shell: I ditched white flour & always opt for organic yellow or white corn tortillas. You can find them in the frozen section of most health…… Continue reading Easy Cajun Shrimp Tacos!

Seafood

Shrimp Ceviche with Kale & Pico de Gallo

I have been infatuated with ceviche for as long as I can remember. It has my heart. I was meant to be born & raised in the Tropics just to get an early introduction to this deliciously simple & healthy dish. Am not even kidding. I guess my love for all-things food stems from the…… Continue reading Shrimp Ceviche with Kale & Pico de Gallo