my lavender blues

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Holy cheese & rice. I decided to wear shorts today (75 degrees is definitely the new 90) and I am pretty sure I am still blind in my left eye due to alabaster leg pigment (apparently my right eye was suiting an eye patch at the time of exposure).  Move over Sean Patrick Flannery, this girl […]

Healthy Cauliflower Rice Bibimbap

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Most of the time I need to produce a dessert hack to convince myself that what I am eating is actually indeed healthy for me, in which case, portion control is handed a “get out of jail free” card and can be guiltlessly tossed out the window. Which in turn allows me to fully participate in a […]

Cozy Coconut Spiced Brown Rice Pudding

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If I was told that the only food that I could have for the rest of my life was butter chicken? I’d die a happy (and probably smelly) death. Seriously. The entire time I was making this my son kept saying “pee-ew”. Sadly he also seems to use that phrase whenever he sees me changing.  Not […]

Butter Chicken over Cauliflower Rice

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        I have a love/hate relationship when it comes to traditional “Cajun” cuisine. You would think it would be more of a love/love due to the very fact that I go weak at the knees for some good heat and well seasoned food. But there’s something, I just can’t put my finger on […]

Chumbo // Chili Gumbo (Turkey Leftovers)

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  Happy Monday (said no one ever). Especially a Monday that has followed a weekend filled with belligerence and over indulgence of Halloween candy. It left me with a headache, a belly ache and mouth sores. Way to go America! It also left me feeling incredibly lazy and not wanting to make any home cooked meal. […]

Sticky Rice Beef Balls

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  Why is it that when I basically drop a frying pan while my son is sleeping it doesn’t disturb him however when I literally hold a sneeze in all hell breaks loose.  Arghhhhhhhhhh.  I’m going on basically zero-none sleep currently and loads beyond loads of caffeine is fueling my current state of mind. Heartburn […]

Indian Spiced Cauliflower Rice