Do you ever have those times where you have all the ingredients for a new recipe, and then after a long day you don’t feel like putting in the effort? This dish was born that way. I had planned to make a roasted-vegetable baked-polenta dish last week, but after a busy week of work and client meetings…
I feel like every food blogger should have a couple good oatmeal recipes on their blog. Currently I only have one– my Peaches & Cream Cheese Oatmeal Bake that I’ve made a couple times for brunches. It’s old-fashioned oats, cream cheese, and chopped fresh peaches, baked and served warm. It’s very delicious– but very high in…
So I often tell Nick that I deserve a “Best Girlfriend Award”. He’s pretty lucky if you ask me. Before we moved in together, he would bring his lunch to work (step one in the right direction) but it would mostly consist of a sandwich with meat and cheese only, a bag of chips and…
Today we’re talking about oil and vinegar. And how it can take your salad from blah to extraordinary! So last weekend I had lunch with one of my best friends, Erin. We’ve known each other since high school. She’s actually getting married this June, so whenever we get together our conversations are mostly about super…
Happy Sunday, everyone! Today we’re taking a break from Sunday Link Love for a Recipe Redux post! This month’s theme challenged us to make good use of leftovers, or show our readers how we can use leftovers to create new recipes. Two for One We’re all about cooking once and eating twice. In short, double…
Okay, so how often you respond to someone asking you “What are you up to?” with “Nothing!”? And how often are you really doing “nothing”? We all know how to do nothing. Some days I think I deserve a college degree in laying around and wasting time. But many of us are too busy to…
Do you ever notice that you can complete an entire task without even thinking about it? Sometimes I’ll drive home from work and by the time I get home, I realize that I didn’t notice anything about the ride home. Or, I’ll be eating dinner and multitasking, and I realize that I didn’t really even…
Hi friends, happy Monday! Today I’m excited to share with you an amazing recipe for spicy meatballs + fried rice. We love our Asian style food over here and I’m always trying to re-create our favorites at home. Fried rice is one of our favorites, plus any type of sweet and spicy meat. By posting…
Have you seen the someecard that goes, “Men, if you ever wanna know what a woman’s mind is like, imagine a browser with 3,241 tabs open. All. The. Time.”? I don’t know about you ladies, but couldn’t me more true for me. Being present is honestly one of the hardest things I’m trying to work…
17 days until Spring. Let’s visualize together: 70 degree weather, sunshine, blue skies, long walks at the park (with Link!). Avocados, lemonade, fresh salads. After last week’s crappy icy weather, I. am. ready. It snowed three times here in Dallas last week, and when I say “snow”, I mean half an inch of icy snow…
This is the perfect recipe to share on the blog this week because we’ve been enjoying #SLEETSHOW2015! It started icing here in Dallas Sunday night and continued on through Monday. The whole city pretty much closed down, including the clinic where I work so I got to spend all day Monday stranded in my apartment….
Hi there Zen Friends! My name is Lindsay Cotter and I blog over at Cotter Crunch. So happy Emily is letting me share her space today. I love that about her, so generous! Anyway, about me. I’m a pro triathlete’s “sherpa wife.” I make the fuel, and the refuel, and everything in between! Let’s just…
Hello Zen & Spice readers! I’m Alysia, and I blog over at Slim Sanity. I can’t remember exactly how I found Emily, but I was drawn in by her delicious recipes and beautiful food pics! I’m a sucker for anything that makes me drool on my computer screen. When she reached out about guest post…
· Crunchy and refreshing, this German Cucumber Salad is sure to hit the spot any time of year. Serve German cucumber salad alongside grilled meats or your favorite German dish! This is my Oma’s recipe. My Oma is my German grandmother on my Dad’s side. She is straight from Germany– she grew up there,…
Happy Friday! I don’t normally post three recipes in a row like I did this week, I usually like to space them out a little bit. But since I had the whole website crashing situation I had to post all my Cabot contest entry recipes three days in a row. The more cheese, the better…
Onward with the Recipe Redux/Cabot Cheese Contest! Today I’m bringing you recipe #2: these cheesy, spicy, crunchy wonton cups. I will have to confess that after I shot the photos for this recipe, I ate all twelve. Yes. Every single last one of them. I definitely didn’t mean to eat all twelve but the smells…
Hi everyone! The blog is finally up and running after almost 5 days of being out of commission. My website got hacked and contracted a huge virus. My old host wanted to charge me out the wazoo for repair, so I switched hosts and it’s taken forever for the site migration and nameserver updates (<–…
It’s time for another Recipe Redux! This month’s theme: Start Smoking in the New Year. I’ll admit I did giggle a little before reading the description of the theme. But no fear– this month’s theme is all about using smoke and spiciness in our foods! The New Year is heating up with smoke and spiciness….
Hi friends! For my 12 habits in 2015 series, we’re focusing on gratitude & positivity in January here at Zen & Spice. If you want to read what topics the rest of the year will be about, click here. If you missed last week’s article on showing gratitude today, make sure to read that also!…
Happy Monday! This past weekend was our 5-year dating anniversary. It seems like just yesterday I accidentally added my boyfriend on Facebook (funny story for another time…) and we had our first date on the edge of a canyon under the sunset. Many things have happened in five years– he was 22 and a senior…
Every year people make new years resolutions for what they want or what they think they need in their lives. For changes they want to see. Improvements for themselves. While setting goals can help you achieve what you want in life, what about being thankful for what you already have? The power of gratitude can…
A thirty minute tomato soup that’s sure to please everyone on a busy weeknight! Full of hearty veggies like tomato, carrot and onion and topped with cream and melty goat cheese. When I was younger, on cold rainy days, my mom would bring home a giant container of Market Street’s tomato basil soup. We’d heat…
Are you ready for an overload of puppy pictures? Back in November, I wrote this post about our new schnoodle puppy, Link. When we adopted him, he was only eight weeks old and weighed just 2.2 pounds. Now at sixteen weeks, he’s almost tripled in size (mostly fur?) and weighs almost 5! We absolutely…
Beta carotene, anyone??? I’m probably going to turn orange in a couple weeks because I’ve discovered the amazing-ness that is this soup. I spent some of my Christmas money this year on a NutriBullet Rx. I figured… every dietitian needs a really good blender, right? I think I’ve used it over fifteen times in the two…