Healthy ingredients like pure maple syrup, almonds, and sesame seeds make this homemade granola recipe simple to make and delicious to eat! My favorite breakfast cereal growing up was (and still is) Cocoa Pebbles and Cocoa Krispies. Seriously. But long gone are those days of eating all that sugar first thing in the morning. The …
Breakfast
Baked Chocolate Donut Holes are a great way to start the morning- easy to make + easy to eat! No frying required. What is better than chocolate and espresso? How about glazed chocolate espresso donut holes? Donut holes that are BAKED instead of deep fried. Delicious chocolate cake-like donuts with a hint of espresso flavor. …
Cake-y easy chocolate chip scones with only 5 ingredients are easy and delicious for a quick breakfast or as an accompaniment for Sunday brunch. I am not a big fan of breakfast. Usually I am satisfied with a protein smoothie as I am getting ready to start my day. Then the weekend comes and I …
Mushroom Bacon is meaty and smoky thanks to ingredients like liquid smoke and pure maple syrup. These make a perfect topping for burgers or a breakfast side with eggs and toast. I have been making this mushroom bacon many times in the last week. I love it on top of these green pea and spinach …
Maple granola bars are a delicious and nutritious snack made with rolled oats, maple syrup, and other healthy ingredients. Making granola bars at home offers several benefits, including: Overall, making maple granola bars at home offers numerous advantages in terms of customization, nutrition, cost, and environmental impact. It's a practical and healthy choice for those …
Use your favorite fruit jam and cream cheese to elevate ordinary French Toast into Stuffed French Toast- a delicious way to start the day. Mr. Beet is predictable. We go out to breakfast every weekend and every weekend he orders the same thing - French Toast and side of breakfast potatoes. Occasionally he may switch …
Biscotti is incredibly easy to make. Pair this orange biscotti with a piping hot cup of coffee or enjoy with a sweet dessert wine. I try to start each morning with a warming cup of English Breakfast Tea or a fruity detox hot tea. Sometimes I have time to whip up a Blueberry Biscuit Skillet …
These fresh blueberry cinnamon rolls are exactly what you need when unexpected guests drop by, or when you just want something quick and easy! It's Sunday morning and you plan to lounge around in your pajamas sipping on coffee, leisurely easing into the day. Suddenly, there's a knock at the door - it's your neighbors/in-laws/cousins/best …
These Fruity Pebbles cereal breakfast cookies take 20 minutes from start to finish. Back in my younger Philadelphia days, I had a day job that kept me busy all day, then I worked in a nightclub where I would often work well into the wee hours of the morning. Only to do it all over …
French Toast Tortillas are a fun twist from traditional French toast for a delicious breakfast any time of the day. The Atlanta Breakfast Club in Atlanta, Georgia serves many unique breakfast dishes like Peach Cobbler French Toast and Salmon Croquettes in addition to traditional eggs and bacon. Breakfast Tacos is a popular item on the …
Healthy breakfast on the go. These egg muffin bites are simple to make and will store up to 5 days in the refrigerator for easy grab and go. I am not a morning person. I prefer to start my day with a run, then a shower, then breakfast. By the time I get anything to …
It's part Mexican, it's part French. Wake up your fiesta with these Breakfast Tacos with warm maple syrup and French toast tortillas. Throughout the state of Texas you can’t trip over your own feet without falling into a taco joint. Tortillas are serious business. San Antonio is where I learned to make Grilled tortillas with …
Want to be voted most popular at your next brunch gathering? Whip up this Very Berry Cherry Breakfast Custard. I admire anyone who can wake up and whip up a seven course breakfast for their family and guests. I think it takes a lot of patience and discipline to create a spread worthy of a …
This blueberry skillet cake is a fan favorite and is requested in my house once or twice a month. It's a super easy prepare and go dish and versatile enough to add strawberries or raspberries to the bueberries. Sunday is the best day of the week in Beetsland. I get to sleep in, go for …
An easy recipe for No Bake Almond Butter Energy Bites. Read on to learn how to make the many different varieties of this super easy no bake recipe. As we are all embarking on this life of quarantine, I know we are spending a lot more time in the kitchen trying to come up with …
Easy recipe for Glazed Biscuit Doughnuts with a basic sugar glaze. Dress them up with sprinkles or cocoa powder. I am not normally a person that likes sweet things for breakfast. Occasionally I may splurge on French toast or chocolate chip pancakes but normally I’m more of a cold pizza for breakfast type of girl. …
Jump to recipe Happy Monday. Happy Meatless Monday. Are you one of the millions of people in over 44 countries that have joined the Meatless Monday Global Movement? This week, along with every week, I share one of my favorite meatless recipes- and this week I am going breakfast-y on you. With this super easy, …
Mr. Beet and I drove from Orlando, Florida to northern Indiana for the holidays. While we have done the drive in past years, this year we took our kittens with us. They are no strangers to road trips as we bring them with us sometimes when we drive somewhere - that’s what happens when you …
Some people ask the secret to a good marriage. I tell people we take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. He goes Tuesdays, I go Wednesdays. When the cat is away the mice will play. Mr. Beet has been working out of town this past week so I have been having …
Happy Monday y'all! Time to shake off all that yummy but bad-for-you food you indulged in this past weekend. I am starting the new week with a delicious and healthy Vegan Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cake. It started with the idea to make a homemade Vegan scone, but doesn’t a cake just sound better? Why can't …
Last week I shared a recipe for Beet Avocado Toast that was inspired from a breakfast I enjoyed in Utah. And this week, I am again sharing an inspired recipe from that same trip – Egg Salad Toast. I was in Salt Lake City, Utah for a food blogging conference so I was making it …
My most favorite aspect of traveling is experiencing food in a new city. Sometimes a dish is unique to a certain region, like eating a buffalo burger in Park City; and sometimes you just find something not so unique, but maybe served in a new way. On my recent trip to Utah, I met some …
I remember being in junior high and making raw “cookie” dough for an after school snack. I would take eggs, flour, sugar and a little vanilla extract and mix it all together, then eat it with a big spoon. Raw. Sometimes if we had chocolate chips in the house I would add those. My brothers …
There’s two camps to breakfast pastries, those who love pop tarts and those who love toaster strudels. One is a dense pie-like crust with frosting while the other is of a flaky texture with an icing drizzle. So why can’t a girl have both, at the same time? Why do I have to choose? I …
On a recent trip to a restaurant at Walt Disney World, I ate a blueberry pastry that was part muffin, part cupcake. I even asked the Chef what he called it and it was just a blueberry mini cake to him. So what does one call a muffin/cupcake? A Mupcake? A Cuffin? I guess it’s …
Most of my recipes do not reinvent the wheel (I said most!) One of my favorite culinary “projects” is trying to recreate some of the foods I eat dining out. Especially when Mr. Beet and I travel. But today I bring you a recipe of a local dish I had here in Orlando. The East …
Why not Ackee Scramble? Because sometimes you want something different than eggs. What is Jamaican Ackee? I first learned about using the fruit ackee while studying for my Forks Over Knives certification- ackee is actually the national fruit of Jamaica. Ackee is very common in Jamaican cuisine and is especially popular when paired with salted …
I took a week off from the blog. I took a week off of everything. The writing, the cooking, the cleaning….everything. It was blissful…for a little while. Then I got ansy and found myself flipping through recipes, making grocery lists and making a mess in the kitchen. Mr. Beet doesn’t mind as he gets to …
Back in August, I attended the BlogHer conference in Los Angeles. I had the opportunity to connect with many other bloggers and brands, one of those brands being Foodstirs. Foodstirs is a line of organic, non-GMO and fairly traded baking mixes, founded in 2014 by Moms Galit Laibow, Gia Russo, and actress, Sarah Michelle Gellar. …
Make these Pumpkin Spice Latte Bites anytime you need a fix. Why wait for the fall? These are no bake with only seven ingredients! So I find that there are two kinds of people in the world – those that spend the Fall planning their lives around Pumpkin Spice anything, and those who don’t have …
In recent years breakfast has become more than eggs and bacon or pancakes and syrup. There has been an influx of new meals like smoothie bowls and avocado toast. some restaurants have even begun to offer avocado toast as an entrée, usually served with an egg or a bowl of yogurt. I usually try to …
When someone hears my blog name for the first time, there is often a comment about how much they love beets. Sometimes followed by “wow- you must cook with beets all the time” which is not true. I really do not cook with beets that often. I feel like that needs to change. Maybe I …
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. We’ve all heard that right? Breakfast is also the time we are rushing out the door to make it to the meeting/class/work on time. Not too many of us set the alarm an hour early to make sure we fit in our daily exercise and start …
I love trying new ways to eat Brussels Sprouts – I could eat them morning, noon and night. But Brussels Sprouts for breakfast? I mean, I would do it, would you? Well, wait until you try this – Brussels Sprouts Quiche. So I was sent a jar of Chosen Foods Avocado Oil Mayo to use …
By now it is no secret that I have been on a big blueberry recipe mission lately. Well, mainly because of the contest I won with Wish Farms as part of my winnings was a flat of blueberries. That’s 12 pints. That’s a lot of blueberries considering that my household consists of myself, Mr. Beet …
I recently spent a week in San Antonio where I visited a restaurant called Ocho at Hotel Havana. The restaurant was beautiful, decorated in glass chandeliers, bright blue chairs and white tables, overlooking the famous San Antonio River. The menu was a bit traditional, a bit quirky. One thing that caught my eye was the …
I have always loved Biscuits and Gravy. To me, it’s one of those dishes you just eat every once and a while, usually when I am craving a filling breakfast. But alas, I no longer eat meat and that kind of throws that thick hearty sausage breakfast gravy out the door. Or does it………..? Well, …
Happy 2016! How was your New Year’s Day? Chad and I stayed in and did absolutely nothing. Well, not nothing- we did a little cooking, a little cleaning and a whole lot of watching the college football bowl games. We spent the Christmas Holiday in Indiana with Chad’s parents and while it was fairly warm …
The days are shorter, the nights are colder- sounds like a good time for oatmeal! Gosh- sometimes oatmeal is so….blah. Boring. (I said sometimes) But oatmeal is so darn healthy! Well this recipe has come just in time, no? Hello Maple Blueberry Breakfast Quinoa! Quinoa is so versatile and I have used it before as …
So usually I am sharing recipes that are Vegetarian, healthy and chock full of vegetables, but sometimes I admit I like to bake with sugar and sweets. Sugar just really isn’t my thing normally but then I will see a recipe that inspires me and I love to see what I can do with it. …
Oatmeal is one of those things that you can eat in the morning and you won’t feel hungry again until it’s time for a late lunch. Oatmeal just sustains you with fiber and oatmeal is known for lowering bad cholesterol. I will tell you these Oatmeal Egg White Spice Pancakes are a bit messy on …
A power breakfast to me is something simple like a bowl of oatmeal or fruit quinoa, a hard boiled egg and an avocado. I like eggs enough and know they are full of protein, a great way to start the day- and eggs are so versatile. Eggs can be poached, boiled, fried, baked etc. but …