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 …
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Summer – flip flops, swimming pools, lemonade and frozen yogurt. Can I just get a round of applause for frozen yogurt? Ever since my Mom gifted me with an ice cream maker I have been churning all sorts of flavors out. And while Mr. Beet and I love the more traditional flavors like chocolate and …
Here is an easy copycat Starbucks strawberry acai refresher recipe you can make in batches at home and store in the refrigerator for up to a week. It’s been several years since Starbucks introduced their line of caffeinated refreshers – with the first being the original Cool Lime Refresher. Now, Starbucks introduced a flavor with …
Make it at home – the Starbucks Green Drink – another drink off the Starbucks rainbow menu of summer beverages. For me, my summer Starbucks obsession started with the Pink Drink. Which led to the Purple Drink, then the Orange Drink. Though there is also a blue drink (the jury is still out on what …
A few months ago I posted a recipe for Almond Butter Energy Bites and they became pretty popular across social media. And since then I have had several requests for a few variations so I came up with these Maple Blueberry Oatmeal Energy Bites – mostly in a haste to use up a few pints of …
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 …
Yes, there is yet another colorful Starbucks drink – the Orange Drink and this one is really easy to recreate at home. #OrangeDrink Because we,as consumers,are not satisfied with only having a Pink Drink, and a Purple Drink, there is now an Orange Drink.I kid you not.The rainbow palette is alive and well at your …
This is the original Starbucks Purple Drink copycat recipe with Passion Fruit Tea, vanilla simple syrup, and blackberries. Ok people…this Starbucks thing is getting out of hand. First we had the Pink Drink, now we have the Starbucks Purple Drink (not to be confused with the Violet Drink), though it really isn’t purple. The Pink …
I don’t know what is more delicious than Vanilla Simple Syrup. I use it in everything from milkshakes to Starbucks copycat drinks. I guess maybe just because it is summer but I drink a lot of iced tea when the weather is hot. I love all the flavors- green, hibiscus, passion fruit, blueberry, etc. One …
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 …