Who wants a super easy 3-ingredient recipe for Smoked Salt Chickpeas? This girl (me) is not one for sweets. I am more of a salty girl and like my potato chips and veggies more than cupcakes and fruit. However, one cannot snack on potato chips alone. Well, I can, but I would like to think I can restrain myself after one chip. Maybe after just two. <Sigh> Well, since I can’t live on just potato chips, I have to find alternative salty treats. In the past I have made Easy Spicy [continue reading...]
Mexican Street Corn Nachos recipe
These Mexican Street Corn Nachos are to die for. I know whether I am going to love a restaurant based on its Caesar salad, or an egg roll if it’s a Chinese spot. I want a creamy Caesar dressing with hint of anchovy, creamy being the key word. So many places use a vinaigrette on their Caesar salad and it’s just not the same. And please, I beg of you, serve a Caesar salad with the dressing already in the salad, not dumped on top or <gasp> served on the side. Don’t even get me [continue reading...]
The easiest Chocolate Beet Brownies
This recipe for Chocolate Beet Brownies poses the question: if no one knows there are vegetables in the brownies, are they really in there? If a beet falls in a forest....... A few years ago I posted a recipe for my Iced Beet Cake and it was a huge success. I had a lot of great feedback and some glowing comments, but I sort of accidently fell into that recipe. It was supposed to be more of a blonde brownie then a cake, but that didn’t work out so well for me. They were definitely large [continue reading...]
Copycat Starbucks Recipes Round-Up for Summer
With summer just around the corner, we are turning away from our hot frothy coffee drinks, and diving into lighter drinks like lemonades and iced tea. Our addiction habits at Starbucks change just like our choices in lighter clothing and healthier foods in the summer. I am more likely to order a Berry Hibiscus Refresher with an extra shot of green bean coffee powder to keep me in my zone than I am a steamed Venti double shot espresso latte. I have heard rumors that there may be some new [continue reading...]
Spinach, Egg, and Feta Toast
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, and super healthy Spinach, Egg, and Feta Toast. Mr. Beet eats bread daily, hourly sometimes. He can put away a loaf od bread and never gain an ounce. Then again, he runs long [continue reading...]
Homemade Cola
Every time Mr. Beet and I travel, I have this unfounded desire to drink a soda. It doesn’t matter if it Pepsi or Cocoa-Cola, it doesn’t matter if we are driving or flying, I love to grab a soda. The caramel chemical bubbly beverage is also my go to medicinal assistance when I get a migraine as it soothes my head and calms my stomach. And I have tried to substitute the “healthier” versions with raw cane sugar, or the “natural” soda (is soda natural?) and I always find myself going back to those [continue reading...]
Brussels Sprouts Hash with Poached Eggs
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 are the cat of a travel blogger. But the drive Florida to Indiana is a long one. We ended up splitting the drive into three days- the first day we drove from Orlando to Atlanta, the second day was Atlanta to [continue reading...]
Cashew Vegan French Toast
Happy New Year! My Mom once told me how you spend January 1st sets you up for the rest of the year. If you start it healthy, your year will be healthy. If you are happy and productive on January 1st, the rest of the year will be happy and productive. So we in Beetstown are starting out the New Year with a healthy recipe for Cashew Vegan French Toast. I am not usually a resolution person on New Year’s, but this year is different. I have set some goals for the year, but then I am also going [continue reading...]
#NoBake Vegan Cheesecake
When I was a senior in high school I worked in cheesecake shop. I ate so much cheesecake you would think I would be sick of it, even to this day, but I am not. I love cheesecake. I am sure my boss thought we would grow tired of all the free cheesecake, but he gravely underestimated me. And back when I was 17 my metabolism was quicker than my mouth. I managed to eat cheesecake my entire shift and still lose weight. Now I gain a pound just thinking about dreamy creamy cheesecake, why does God [continue reading...]
Easy, Thick, and Creamy Dairy Free Egg Nog
When I was growing up in Washington, DC, we lived near a convenience store called High’s Dairy and every year at Christmas time, we stocked up on High’s Egg Nog. It was so thick, so creamy, and so delicious. I crave High’s Egg Nog year round. As I got older, I learned how incredibly fattening my favorite egg nog really was and then Mr. Beet and I stopped drinking dairy milk. Fast forward to the varieties of almond nog and coconut nog that have now hit the market. All in all, these aren’t bad but [continue reading...]
