Double Chocolate Almond Biscotti Recipe

Double chocolate Almond biscotti recipe

I haven’t made any biscotti in quite some time.  Today was the perfect day to bake and I decided that I wanted to enjoy the crispness of a biscotti with some hot tea, although the children prefer milk.  This is a recipe I have made several times but tweaked it to make it double chocolate, chocolate anything sounds so good when you are pregnant! Although it seems that there are quite a few steps, this recipe is so simple and {Read More}

Yogurt & Fruit Bar Smoothie Recipes

Fruti Smothies

I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias®  and Fruti #cbias #SocialFabric #FreshNFruti With the feel of spring in the air (or at least the feel was in the air a few days ago!) I caught the bug to make fresh fruit smoothies.  Smoothies are an awesome way to give yourself and your kids a great refreshing treat with being able {Read More}

Little Passports: Tortilla Recipe

Page 13, Tortilla

We have throughly been enjoying our Little Passports learning adventures each month (more reviews coming soon!) but I wanted to give you a sneak peak into the US Passports.  The California State Journal includes the following recipe: Homemade Tortilla Recipe Little Passports is an amazing way to educate your children about countries around the world through the World Edition or the states with the US Edition.  It is extremly affordable, starting at $13.95 a month!  To see our previous post {Read More}

Homemade Coconut Mounds or Almond Joy Recipe

homemade mound recipe

One of the things my kids have come to love is chocolate and sweets.  Truthfully, so do I!  A friend recently purchased Mounds bars for my kids.  I have always loved them but oh, when you look at the ingredients, I don’t love those so much.  I caught myself thinking, why can’t I take the pure, natural ingredients and make something just as delicious? I started experimenting and we found that we loved what we made right in our kitchen!  {Read More}

Plastic Free: Gluten and Soy Free Naked Muffins Recipe

Gluten Free Naked Muffins

With our recent diagnosis requiring a gluten & soy free diet, I began to rely on pre-made GF convenience foods like Whole Foods GF blueberry muffins. I had always baked from scratch our food but was now overwhelmed with the idea of learning to bake entirely gluten-free. Several months later, I’ve now experimented with all kinds of gluten & soy free basic recipes during our plastic free-living project since I can no longer purchase those packaged GF foods. I decided {Read More}