Y’all. I have a confession to make, and it’s embarrassing: up until recently, I didn’t have a Texas Chili recipe because I always made my chili… from a mix. I know. I know! It was a shameful secret I lived with until an out-of-state relative called me to ask for my chili recipe, because she just *KNEW* that out of ALL the people she knew in Texas, I’d be…
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Baby Susie’s Oatmeal Banana Bites.
A quick update on Baby Susie: for those of you missed this post, she had two very scary seizures last week, but praise the Lord, NO seizures since last Thursday. We’re still waiting for her lab results to come back to rule out a metabolic or genetic disorder. THANK YOU for the continued prayers! Susie is REALLY into food these days. For a fourteen-pounder who is smaller than 95% of…
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Oatmeal Pecan Muffins.
I love pecans. In everything. Desserts. Vegetable dishes at Thanksgiving. As a crust on salmon. Or soaked, Nourishing Traditions style, to snack on by the handful. But ESPECIALLY in chocolate chip cookies. It wasn’t until I was a grown-up that I realized that pecans are a Southern thang. I had NO IDEA that not everybody loves pecans in EVERYTHING. Well, yankees maybe. But that’s probably it. My favorite pecan recipe lately?…
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Pioneer Woman’s Asian Salad, Trim Healthy Mama Style.
It was after I made this salad that I knew that the Pioneer Woman and I were destined to be BFFs. It’s because this is our favorite salad! And that’s just only ONE of the things we have in common. Also, her chocolate cake. And men in cowboy clothes. Me and Ree — that’s what I call her, Ree — we love those things. She doesn’t know we’re BFFs yet,…
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Cajun Shrimp Stuffed Mushrooms, Trim Healthy Mama Style.
This all started because my family wanted pizza. And I’m a sucker for a five dollar pizza on certain days, especially days in which Susie Whitney Houston (that’s her new name on account of how she acts like an entitled little diva) acts like an entitled little diva, and her older sisters have spent all day having that typical summertime conversation all bored, unscheduled siblings have that goes…
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Good Girl Moonshine: A Refreshing Summer Beverage.
School’s out, summer is upon us, and the sweltering heat is already sending us all on the quest for something cold and refreshing to drink. Of course, we ALL know we need to drink more water; even those of us who aren’t all Modern and Alternative know that basic fact of life. Water = health. Duh. But sometimes what you’re really craving… isn’t a glass of water. And that can…
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The Fifth Grade Tea, Life Inspiration, and Mini Almond Muffins.
My sweet little Katie, the little girl who JUST started kindergarten, like, two weeks ago (seriously, I just recently stopped crying about it) is now graduating from the fifth grade. HOW did that happen so fast? I can’t even take it. But anyway, the fifth grade girls got to have a Tea one day last week in the school library, and it was a fun chance to dress up in…
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{Trim Healthy Style} Cauliflower Pizza Crust
Take a look at this Homemade Cauliflower Crust Alfredo Cheese Pizza, would you? Oh, it looks delicious all right… but would you believe me if I told you it’s HEALTHY? Well, maybe not by some definitions, because my version is coated with a generous layer of butter, cream, and cheese… but if you’re a believer in whole foods like I am, and that butter and cream from grass-fed cows are…
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Texas Cinnamon Roll Pancakes.
Just so you know, this wasn’t MY idea. It wasn’t mine, because I’m all Trim Healthy Mama and Nourishing Traditions and plus I have a degree in Christian Ministry from ETBU. I’m just good, is what I’m trying to say, and these pancakes are most decidedly NOT. NOT GOOD on ANY kind of healthy diet, I mean, and yet… SO INCREDIBLY GOOD, like meth. Or at least like I assume…
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Pinto Bean Seasoning Mix and Crock Pot Pinto Beans.
Long, long ago I posted a recipe for my Famous Pinto Beans. ‘Famous,’ only because I’ve shared this recipe with everyone I know (like, six or five people, at LEAST). It’s no small feat to make pinto beans actually taste good, and it took me many years of trial and error, but by George, I got it! I told you once upon a time that I cook Pinto Beans weekly….
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{Trim Healthy Mama} Trim Healthy Pancakes.
OK, I’m serious this time… I’m starting this Trim Healthy Mama thing for REAL. It’s been hard ok, it might have been hard, had I been trying, which clearly I have not — but I just celebrated my 40th birthday and I was NOT gonna have some healthy cardboard concoction for my 40th birthday, ok? I just was NOT. I know, I didn’t have to have the Villa Montez Chocolate…
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{Trim Healthy Mama} Skinny Chocolate.
So, like, everybody I know is reading this new book called Trim Healthy Mama. I bought it, but I’ll be honest… I’m only halfway through reading it. That’s because it’s 600-something pages and though there was a time in my life when I could have read that in a day, now I have a terrible smartphone habit that interferes with me reading actual books. The first step is admitting you…
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