Breakfast Smoothie

I have a love-hate relationship with breakfast. I don't really like cereal, or eggs, or yogurt. But I like really bad breakfast food, like hash-browns and bacon-egg-n-cheeserz (a breakfast sandwich of my childhood). So that kind of made me stop eating breakfast. But recently I concocted an awesome breakfast smoothie that's not awful for me. It started with mocha powder, ice and milk. Then came almond milk instead. Then PB2 (powdered peanut butter) and frozen bananas. Suddenly I had an awesome breakfast smoothie that I really liked and wasn't half bad nutritionally.

Operation Pinterest: Browned Butter Cookies

For the second installment of Operation Pinterest I made Browned Butter & Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies from Ambitious Kitchen. I had only experienced browned butter once before, in a recipe similar to this that involved Nutella as well. (If you follow my Instagram you may remember, those were a little bit of a disaster..) Those cookies were very good, but a bit of a hassle to make, so when I saw this recipe I thought I'd give it a shot.

Pillsbury GF Cookie Dough First Impressions

Today's post was a little last minute, simply because I was shocked to find one of Pillsbury's new gluten-free products at a local grocery store today. I was unnaturally excited to find it, and felt the excitement warranted a prompt testing of the product, of course for blogging purposes. ;) Since this is the first time I've tried this product I'll categorize this as a first impressions post.

Frozen Chocolate Bananas

Today I have a (sort of) healthy summer treat for you! Recently I've been trying to eat healthier, because I'm still not happy with how I feel. My weakest area in this has been snacks. If unhealthy snacks are in the house, I feel compelled to eat them. Then once I eat them, I feel compelled to eat other unhealthy things. I've noticed that direct correlation in myself: when you eat junk you crave junk, when you eat healthy you crave healthy. So in trying to find a sweet, cool snack for summer, I thought of these babies: chocolate covered banana bites. I'm not a huge dark chocolate fan, so I use semi-sweet chips but you could easily switch to a good dark chocolate and this would be pretty dang good for you, and vegan/dairy-free! Keeping these in the freezer makes them like little chocolate covered ice cream bites, perfect for summer.