I have never met a pomegranate I didn’t love, then eat. It’s the fruit that I wait for from year to year. I even wonder why it’s not available other times during the year like all the other fruits. For me, it feels like home. There was a pomegranate tree just outside my bedroom window in my parents’ house …
Pumpkin Apple Smoothie
I have realized one thing over the years. The closer I get to the source of the food, the closer I want to be. We are blessed in Raleigh, NC to have a year-round-seven-day state farmer’s market. It’s gigantic and dynamic. The bounty changes with the season, farmers rotate based on specialties and we love all of it. It’s been …
Purple Cabbage and Crunchy Chicken Salad in a Walnut Lemon Dressing
It feels like I’ve been away too long, well almost a month to be exact. And what a month! Flu season came early in our house, and there’s nothing worst than seeing your kids not feeling well. Now that everyone is back to a healthy and happy state, I can go on with my life as “planned”, sort of. I’m …
Coconut and Fig Smoothie
Now that everyone is back to their routine, I’m still attempting to find mine. It’s taking me longer than I thought to get a solid schedule together for my newly found free time. I have decided to resume writing for NaturalNews.com among other things. And my brain is crowded with recipes that are itching to come out. I don’t know …
And then a Blueberry Pear Smoothie!
It is true that kids will have a manual to train you and not the other way around. The first 15 months of my son’s life (he’s now 3.5 yrs), I was on top of it. A happy (still is), quiet baby (not so much now), who made it simple by sleeping from 6pm to 6am since age 4 months. …
Lebanese Fruit Cocktail with Fragrant Avocado and Mango Purées and Ashta
It doesn’t get any more “Summery” than this dessert. A very classic Lebanese concoction found at every street corner café in Beirut, blending local and regional fruits into a fresh and healthy dessert that you can really sink your teeth into. It’s an absolute favorite in our house, even for the kids. It was around 10:30 in the evening the …
Quinoa Pudding
The ultimate comfort food has to be Rice Pudding – warm, sweet, and fragrant with orange blossom water. However, in the last few weeks, I have been obsessing about this variation made with Quinoa. I’ve had it many different ways, for breakfast, for lunch and dinner, even as a snack in between. My husband is perplexed about this obsession, “Are …
Toddler friendly Tomato Corn Soup
If you’re a mom, then I know you’re pressed for time. I seem to have a chronic issue with not catching up with all that has to be done, in 24 hours. When it comes to meal time, I have to keep it simple, fresh and interesting for my toddlers. Although my son is so finicky when it comes to …
Strawberries in Full Bloom: A Mousse and Lemonade
We’ve been waiting for three years to take our son for strawberry picking. Well he was just too young, he would have just uprooted the whole strawberry farm. Now that he’s a “big boy” as he calls himself, he had such a wonderful time, picking, eating and eating and some picking. We came home with about 30 pounds of juicy, …
Spiced Rice Pudding
A popular dessert reserved only for the occasion of a birth of a child, and Christmas. Well, I don’t to play by the rules, so I make it whenever because it’s very tasty, and because I love any excuse to have more nuts, and because my daughter loves it too (she’s now 18 months). Inevitably anyone that walks in and …