Baking With Livie: Mixing Chocolate and Veggies (The Secret Ingredient!)

Baking With Livie: Mixing Chocolate and Veggies (The Secret Ingredient!)

  Livie and I baked today! Now this is probably NBD as a lot of moms bake with their littles. I am not one for cleaning so I try my best not to make a mess. But where more than 2 ingredients and measuring are involved PLUS littles with not the best coordination, that's just [...]

Being BASIC Has Never Tasted So Good: My Basic Lemonade Recipe

Being BASIC Has Never Tasted So Good: My Basic Lemonade Recipe

I LOVE LEMONS so naturally lemonade is a fave of mine. Here's my basic recipe. Feel free to adjust the level of sweetness to your preference. I tend to like mine more tart than sweet. Basic Lemonade INGREDIENTS 1C lemon juice (5-6 lemons) 1 1/3C water 3/7C - 1C simple syrup* (see recipe below) METHOD [...]

Smoothie 101 | What You Need to Know Before Sipping Another Smoothie

Smoothie 101 | What You Need to Know Before Sipping Another Smoothie

  A common goal for New Year is eating healthy. A super easy way to reach that goal is through SMOOTHIES! But they can also be detrimental to your goal if the wrong ingredients go in. Here's what 'wrong ingredients' mean: frozen yogurt excess sugar and simple sugars (cane sugar, granulated white sugar, brown sugar) [...]