Reader’s Digest posted an article titled “What Your Alcoholic Drink of Choice Says About Your Personality” We obviously read this and had to do a drink series based on some of our favorite drinks! Before reading this or any of our drink series articles we like to remind everyone to drink responsibly and to abide …
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Rise and Run Fruit Salad
Fruit stands, I am talking California, Mexico, Barcelona, Hawaii. Starting the morning with a run or bike around the city knowing you can treat yourself after with a fresh cup of fruit. It is so rainy and dreary in Chicago today I had to make me a fruit cup to cheer me up. This is …
Brunch Breakfast Burrito
When I was in Mexico we stop at this little hole in the wall taqueria and it had the best vegetarian breakfast burrito with avocado crema. Normally I am just a smoothie or acai bowl breakfast person but this was so good I had to recreate it. My stomach is actually growling thinking about this …
Avo-Verde: Avocado Salsa Verde
I was originally just going to incorporate this recipe into my breakfast burrito recipe but I honestly put this on everything I make so I decided it should have it’s own post. I am not fan for most salsas but I absolutely love salsa Verde and avocado just makes everything better. This recipe makes about …
Laur’s Avo-Layered Salad
Blogging really helps you grow to be more introspective because I never really understood how much of diet consisted of salads until I am trying to think of dishes to write about. This recipe is a mix between Potbelly’s Farmhouse salad and my grandmother’s 7 layer salad. Let’s stop talking about it and get cooking …
Laur’s Favorite Wedge Salad
I was debating what recipes to do for lunch because all I really eat is salads and so boring right? Well why not I love salad and we are going to do a whole series. This recipe idea came about by this amazing salad I had at Faborit in Madrid. Like always Let’s Stop talking …
Avo-Avocado Egg Rolls
In case you have not guessed it by now….. I may have a slight obsession with avocados. I mean how could you know with 700mg of potassium, 3g of protein. and a assortment of vitamins? Also they taste amazing! Once again I digress. In college I had quite a few of Filipino friends and one …
Midwestern Puppy Chow
I am from a small town in nowheresville Illinois, and at every event growing up, and I mean every event. Every birthday, graduations and sleepover someone or multiple people brought puppy chow. It is addictive and unhealthy but it is so good and homey and a necessity at any game or movie night. The perfect …
Low Carb Night Pasta
Confession. I am not a pasta person. I am not sure why but its not my thing, my friend loves pasta but only in white sauce, but they also do not like veggies so I would make this recipe. I developed an obsession with chickpea pasta and if I do eat pasta this is most …
Vegan P.F. Paleo S’more Bar
I got the idea for this blog from Lexi Carrick’s blog Pucking Fresh, so obviously had to make one her recipes. I am going to be doing her paleo s’mores bar but of course putting my own spin on it. Disclaimer I am not a nutritionist or professional chef so not 100% sure if it …
