Recipes

Sweets

Cucumber Pumpkin Spice Bread

Cucumber season is from May through August. Just in time for the fall, I made a cucumber pumpkin spice bread. If you garden you may have an abundance of cucumbers. I have relatives who grow cucumbers and I have not been letting them go to waste. In the summer they taste amazing with a pinch of salt. A cucumber is made up of 96% water, which makes it super hydrating on those summer hot days. Now that fall is upon us and colder mornings you make be getting sick of cucumbers or just have no idea what to do what all those cucumbers! I have a couple of ideas to help you use them up!

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Lunch/Dinner Sweets

Apple Cinnamon Sauce Served Over Chicken & Dessert!

Besides dessert what can I make to incorporate fall spices into my dish? I had apples leftover from apple picking and wanted to use them since I plan on apple picking again LOL . Why not make an apple cinnamon sauce to serve over grilled chicken and use the leftovers for dessert?! Perfect! It was a nice sweet dish that had FALL written all over it. This was definitely a hit in my home and this apple cinnamon sauce will be a go to this fall season.

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Recipes

4 Ingredient Chimichurri Sauce//Easy and Tasty

To celebrate my 12 year anniversary, with my husband, I made some steak covered with chimichurri sauce and some scallops. I can’t believe its been that long already with 3 kids! We usually go out for dinner to celebrate at our favorite restaurant, which is also where he proposed! Times have changed as you all know with this pandemic and we now have a 13 month old who is attached to my hip. I decided to make a nice lunch for us to celebrate. The secret to my steak is this 4 ingredient Chimichurri sauce.

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Salads

Fall Farro Salad

Fall is here and you can finally feel it in the air. The cold mornings and the leaves turning color. Here comes the holidays filled with sweets and heavy comforting foods! It’s easy to crave warm foods in winter to keep toasty and cool foods in the summer. You can still have salads in the winter with warm foods in it! This fall farro salad will keep you full and warm all over!

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Recipes

What to Do and Make with Leftovers Part II

I decided to make a part II on What to Do and Make with Leftovers. There are so many ways to incorporate your leftovers instead of tossing them in the trash! Of course, if you are not planning on using them right away then make sure to freeze them! Don’t you love going to restaurants where there is a salad bar with a ton on roasted vegetables to add to your salad? I love that! I have thought of doing that on many occasions. Preparing a bunch of vegetables to add to my salads. Using my leftovers gives me the same results without having to make extras for salads!

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