4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls

  One of my favorite treats!  I used to make these years ago but now, reflecting back on the ingredient list, I can’t believe I used to eat so many!  4 cups of powdered sugar… What was I thinking?? These big bites of peanut butter and chocolate taste just like the ones I used to…

Satsuma-Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

This is my favorite time of year!  Time with family and friends…. and oh, yeah, great food! Since giving up grains and sugar over two years ago, I have had my work cut out for me recreating my favorite foods. It has been fun and rewarding, knowing that these recipes will help not only me,…

Black Friday Giveaway & Deals

Original Blog Post I love Thanksgiving. It is a time to reflect on all the blessings in our lives.  My two boys, my husband, my family and my friends are just a few of my blessings. I am also grateful your each and every one of you that has supported me over the past 2…

Green Bean Casserole & Thanksgiving Recipes

WOW, I can’t believe Thanksgiving is less than one week away!  Between giving birth to my 2nd son in March (22 months after the birth of my first son), being a SAHM to my two little guys, and finishing up my 2nd cookbook in two years, I am one tired, but happy mama!  I am…

Announcing…Comforting Eats Cookbook NOW Available on Amazon!

Purchase Comforting Eats NOW on Amazon! The winners of Comforting Eats eBook are: Betsy Ferrell Arsula Shumway Cheryl Marro Kelly Surace Stacy @ Stacymakescents Please private message me on Facebook to receive your free eBook!  Congrats! Purchase Comforting Eats NOW on Amazon! Trying to transform your health by cutting grains out of your diet, but feeling deprived?…

Homemade Double-Strength Vanilla Extract

This recipe was taken from my new Cookbook, Comforting Eats, due out tomorrow, November 12th (eBook) and spiral version will be ready mid December!  For more details and a chance to win 1 out of 5 eBooks, check out THIS blog post!  The gift that keeps on giving, Homemade Vanilla Extract!  A few months ago I FINALLY…

Comforting Eats eBook Giveaway!

11-11-13 Update: I am finishing up the final changes and the eBook should go live tomorrow, November 12th! That gives you one more day to earn a chance to win a free eBook… see below!  Just a few more days until my new cookbook, Comforting Eats, is available as an eBook!  I can hardly wait!!…

Comforting Eats Coming SOON!

I am SO excited to share with you the cover of my new cookbook, “Comforting Eats: More Grain-Free, Sugar-Free & Hunger-Free Recipes.”  What do you think??? I am in LOVE!  After another year of laboring on this book, “Comforting Eats” is my fourth child, after my third child, “Satisfying Eats.”  If you have enjoyed the…

Chocolate Graham Crackers

After the polling closed, Chocolate Graham Crackers won out over the Cheddar Crackers!  The results didn’t surprise me. I have not met many people who do not like chocolate but I do know they exist. My husband is not a big fan… this just means I don’t have to worry about him eating my chocolate……

Pumpkin Pie Mousse

There are a couple of reasons why it sometimes takes me a while to post a recipe I have promised, and each one of them has 10 fingers!  Sometimes Mama Brain causes me to misplace my notes or the usual suspect (Hunter) takes them. Either way, I have use what little memory I have and try…

12 Reasons You Should Be Eating THIS Superfood…

“Good broth will resurrect the dead.” ~ South American proverb That’s a pretty strong statement and hopefully after reading this post you will understand the importance of good quality gelatin in your diet. What is Gelatin? I am sure you have noticed that your homemade bone broth thickens and resembles jelly after being refrigerated. That gelatinous…

Grain-Free Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting

Lately, life has been SO busy!  My 6 month old is getting more mobile, rolling and “pivoting” everywhere!  Oh, and he doesn’t want to let mama out of his sight!  My 2-year-old is all over the place as well, plundering through cabinets and climbing onto the tops of tables! 😉 They are both learning so…

Melissa’s Mocha Frappuccino

I like a good low acid coffee. I drink just a little in the mornings (usually about 1/2 cup). Some days it gives me something to look forward to after getting up with the baby during the night.  It’s the small things in life when you have 2 little ones with no break for yourself.…

Triple Chocolate Cookie Cake

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates In search of an affordable, yet quality raw cacao powder, I stumbled upon a great company this week!  Terrasoul Superfoods, located in Houston Texas, is a GOLDMINE when it comes to organic & raw Super-foods. Chocolate, the Perfect Food Yes, chocolate, more specifically Raw…