21 Day Food Lovers Cleanse: Shopping List and Preparing

by: fabiola in: Appetizer, Beverages and Smoothies, Breakfast, Brunch, Bread, Entrees, Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free
White Bean Arugula Salad with Blood Orange Dressing

21 Day Food Lovers Cleanse: Shopping List and Preparing

As this week starts, I begin by putting together a list of recipes I want to eat during the cleanse.  While I will be flexible in my meal planning, I’ll stick to a general 21 day routine.  You can read about why …

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21 day Food Lovers Cleanse Guide, the Story First

by: fabiola in: Appetizer, Beverages and Smoothies, Breakfast, Brunch, Bread, Entrees, Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

21 day Food Lovers Cleanse Guide, the Story First

This is my intro of sorts to the cleanse I will be doing in a couple of weeks.  I’ll be posting my shopping lists, recipe list, and general how to get ready for it soon in case you want to do a …

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Sweet Potato Soup with Chicken Sausage and Kale

by: fabiola in: Entrees, Soup, Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

It’s been a good month full of cookies, cakes, pies, and candy.  Somewhere in all of it I made this soup.  I think it was on the day I made chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, and two batches of shortbread cookies.  I am a baking machine.  When I get …

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Vanilla Bean Shortbread Cookies

by: fabiola in: Breakfast, Brunch, Bread, Dessert

I am a cooking making machine for all of our pleasure!  Earlier this week I made an Orange Cardamon version of these that are super special and delicious!  You could certainly make half of those and half of these, just split the recipe and enjoy both flavors.  Or make both …

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Olive Oil Carrot Cake

by: fabiola in: Breakfast, Brunch, Bread, Dessert

This cake is a stunner.  A real beauty.

Back in September I had the pleasure of meeting Domenica Marchetti from Domenica Cooks.   She was here in Portland for her book The Glorious Vegetables from Italy at Feast Portland, the food festival.  She is a very talented and successful cookbook author with …

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Jovial Olive Oil Review {Sponsored}

by: fabiola in: Sponsored, TV Cooking Segments
Jovial Olive Oil Review {Sponsored}

This post is sponsored.  I received the product for review, as well as compensation for this post.  As usual my opinions are all my own.

I research companies before I agree to work with them to make sure they align with my food beliefs and standards.  Jovial Foods is one of …

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Black Bean Sauce Tofu

by: fabiola in: Entrees, Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

Balance. Balance.  Balance.  I am almost certain you’ve heard it from me and everyone else in the world.  I do my best to abide by this thought.  I have enjoyed a weekend of leftover sandwiches from Thanksgiving that included everything from the turkey to the stuffing.  Flavored bread in sandwich, …

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