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Oreo Cookie Spread

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Remember my homemade cookie butter? That super delicious stuff that you want to just eat straight from the jar? Of course you do!

Well I decided to go with an idea I saw on foodgawker. Oreo cookie spread. Uhh hello! TOTAL GENIUS

This stuff is beyond words. This stuff is seriously just the best. Better than Speculoos. Better than Biscoff. Yes, I am saying it. I may get like hate mail for those words, but it’s the truth.

If you have oreos at home, make these. If you don’t have oreos, buy them. NOW. Seriously just run and get those babies. You NEED THIS.

Oreo Cookie Spread

3 cups (1 package) Oreo cookies

2 Tablespoons coconut oil or canola oil (melt for 30 seconds in microwave)

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup – 3/4 cup milk (I used skim)

  1. Place Oreos, vanilla extract, and melted coconut oil in the food processor. Blend until combined and smooth. Slowly pour in milk through spout until you achieved desired consistency. 1/2 cup milk was good for me, but if you prefer a thinner cookie butter you should add 3/4 cup milk. Store cookie butter in an air-tight container and keep in refrigerator. Enjoy!
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Fiesta Quinoa Salad

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There are a few key words in some recipes that jump out to me to tell me that it’s gonna be something I’ll really like.

Some of these key words would be chocolate, healthy, cookie, cupcake, cookie butter, biscoff, chocolate – so important it deserves to be mentioned twice, peanut butter, southwest, and last but certainly not least-fiesta. Helloooooo who would not want something with fiesta involved?! Fiesta tacos, fiesta enchiladas, fiesta brownies, fiesta cookies, fiesta ice cream, fiesta salad. I can totally hop on all those first trains.

The fact that fiesta was in the name of the recipe I got adapted my fiesta salad from, was what partly motivated me to make it. I also bought quinoa because the blogoverse is like obsessed with it almost as much as cookie butter…please tell me how anything can even be compared with cookie butter?!

Anyways, I tried quinoa for the first time. I’m no longer a quinoa virgin! ;) woohooo. It was scary. It was scary good. I loved this recipe, it was super flavorful and perfect on the side with some salmon. I’d even eat this salad as a main course, it would be killaa  with some grilled chicken! I’ve seen so many other interesting recipes with quinoa that I’m anxious to try now that I have finally tried it and gotten through the scary first time of preparing the stuff (one of those recipes is a cookie recipe. cookies with quinoa?! crazy!)

Fiesta Quinoa Salad

(adapted from mom de cuisine)

1 cup quinoa, rinsed

1 cup black beans, washed and drained

1 cup corn, cooked

1/2 cup onion, chopped

1/2 cup red bell pepper, chopped

2 Tablespoons lime juice

2 Tablespoons olive oil

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon chili powder

1/4 cup cilantro (chopped), or to taste

  1. Cook quinoa in 2 cups of water according to package directions-about 15 minutes, or until water is soaked up. Drain quinoa and rinse with cool water. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, combine chopped onion, chopped bell pepper, black beans, and corn. Mix in cooled quinoa to combine.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together lime juice, olive oil, ground cumin, and chili powder. Pour dressing over quinoa salad and mix with fork to incorporate.
  4. Mix in chopped cilantro, and serve. May be prepared a day in advance. Store in airtight container in fridge.
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Week in Review (5/13-5/18)

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What a week!! I gave the blog a new little look in case you haven’t noticed, and I made some yummy food! :)

Sunday I went a little out of the order that I usually do things around here, I posted a special post for Mother’s Day! I love my mom SO much, so I thought she deserved her very own post. I also shared with you guys a yummy recipe for chocolate pound cake, that is super chocolatey and rich :)

Monday

Tuesday I shared with you guys how to make homemade peanut butter! I made dry roasted honey peanut butter, but the recipe is so adaptable that you can make pretty much any kind of peanut butter you can think of. So many possibilities for mix-ins, like oreos or chocolate chips for a sweet twist! I also  had my first playoff game for soccer. As luck would have it, lightning started coming out 5 minutes into the second half and the score was 0-0, so we had to stop the game and wait for a while to see if the lightning would stop. Of course the lightning never stopped, so we decided to make up the rest of the game (35 minutes) the next day and….

Wednesday to continue from Tuesday, we finished the rest of the 35 minutes in our game (after driving 45 minutes just to get TO the game), and we won 3-0! I scored, too!! :) It would have been nice if we could have just done that on Tuesday so we wouldn’t have had to come back to finish the rest of the game, but a win is a win so I was pretty happy that we would continue our playoff journey to Friday’s game against the number 1 team in the state.

Thursday I talked about how to tell when a goldfish is pregnant, you never know when that information will come in handy!!  I also shared with you guys a recipe for taco seasoning. Perfect for adding some flavor to chicken, beef, or oven fries! Another exciting thing that happened Thursday was that my sister came home from Spain!! So nice to finally have her back :)

Friday I had my next playoff game. It was for the regional finals, we ended up losing after a tough game. I’m really proud of our team for the way we put our hearts into that game and left everything on the field. We lost to the number one team in the state and they are ranked 3rd nationally. We lost 3-1 with them scoring their 3rd goal in the last two minutes. It wasn’t ideal that we lost, but if we were to lose to someone, that team and game were an alright way to finish the season. It sure is going to be weird going from playing with and seeing these girls on my team everyday to hardly seeing them at all. I loved our team this year, and am so proud that we accomplished way more than anybody ever expected us to!

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Happy Mother’s Day! Plus a Chocolate Pound Cake

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Hey there! I know it’s Sunday and I normally don’t post on Sundays…but I also know that today is Mother’s Day. And I think that certainly calls for a blog post. I have a couple things to share with you all today. One is a recipe, of course! And the other is short little video.

I saw this ad about a month ago, and it really touched me. Literally made me cry. I know, I’m a baby..crying during a commercial. But hear me out. Just watch it, I promise you it will touch you too. Here is it. Mother’s Day Ad.

I hope all you mothers out there had an awesome mothers day and everybody wished their mom’s a happy mothers day, and for those of you who have mothers that have passed, I hope you have remembered all the good memories you had with them.

I feel truly blessed to have my mother in my life. She has taught me so much that nobody else ever could have. She has taught me that women will always be right. She has taught me which boys to avoid and which ones are worth a shot. She has taught me what is right and what is wrong. She has taught me how to cook. She has taught me how to bake. She has taught me who to trust and who will have my back at the end of the day. She has taught me how to tell when a pizza is truly good.

She has taught me that sometimes you have to get your “south-sider” out to get your point across (sorry for those of you who don’t know what I mean by “south-sider”, maybe I’ll explain later). She is the one who sat through countless hours of teaching me how to drive, including the days of nauseating backing-around-the-corner. She is the one who I look up to as a role model and hope to become a fraction of a mother she is. I love her to infinity and beyond, and there is nobody who will ever be able to replace that. Love you mom!

So to bounce off of that, I made a chocolate pound cake that is perfect for Mother’s Day. I know that mother’s day is practically over now, but it’s great for showing your mother, grandmother, or any other special person in your life that you really love them! This is a rich, chocolatey, delicious cake that is sure to put a smile on anyone’s face. Enjoy!

Chocolate Loaf Cake

1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened

1 1/4 cups white sugar

2 eggs

1 3/4 cups flour

2/3 cup cocoa powder (I used dark cocoa powder)

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 (6-ounce) container nonfat vanilla/plain yogurt

1/3 cup water

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a loaf pan, set aside.
  2. In a bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together yogurt, water, and vanilla extract.
  4. Cream together butter and sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time.
  5. Add half the flour mixture to the creamed butter-sugar mixture. Mix in the yogurt mixture, then add in the rest of the flour mixture. Mix until just combined and pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
  6. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn onto wire rack to finish cooling process. Enjoy and store leftovers in airtight container or cake stand with lid.

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Week in Review (5/7-5/11)

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What a busy week! Sorry for just posting one little recipe this week, but I was BIZ-eeeeee!

Monday I showed you guys some yummy banana baked oatmeal, or as Katie from Chocolate Covered Katie likes to call it-boatmeal. This stuff is so yummy and a delicious way to start any day. I have yet to tried real oatmeal, you know the goopy looking kind, but I for sure love this baked version!

Tuesday I had a soccer game against our school’s rival. They are the one other high school in our town, so it’s a pretty big deal. We had our largest crowd ever, and it was also our team’s last home game of the season. It’s always fun to play our rivals because there’s a couple girls from my travel team on there so it’s pretty major to be able to have bragging rights for the next year. We ended up just beating them 1-0, an awesome way to end our home games for the season! Next week the road for play-offs begins

Wednesday I showed you guys Part One of my prom weekend. It was a weekend that surely did not disappoint, that did not have many moments that weren’t exciting.

Thursday I volunteered at an elementary school nearby and babysat a bunch of kids. I have to say, I had an awesome time. Being the youngest child in my family, I have very little experience with babysitting, but being a swim instructor helps quite a bit. By the end of the night, I had suffered a few battle wounds. Including a large bump and bruise on my hip from a crash in “Duck, Duck, Goose”. Those kids are quick! And FULL OF ENERGY! Seriously, where does it all come from?!

Friday I showed you all Part Two from my prom weekend. It was fun to have a weekend of just straight-up fun, but I’m looking forward to catching up on a bit of sleep this weekend. VERY much needed!

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