Lunch Date, around the house, and a Lentil Recipe

I’ve never had a lentil recipe until now! I’ve never really liked lentils until now. It’s a simple one, I added lettuce, and it’s delicious! (It’s the lemon herb dressing that makes it) Tell me if you make it! …** good news!!! It’s a ton easier to leave a comment here for me, Dave helped…

What We Ate Last Week 🌿🍅🫐🍲

We’ve been trying to eat more healthy foods, as there always seems to be too many desserts around here! So I’ve really been trying to plan ahead and get in some good options. My nasturtiums are finally growing! They are so pretty/ the leaves almost more so than the flowers. Since they are edible (the…

6 Healthy Foods from this week 🥗🥦🥑🍐Vegan at Times!

This cook book is awesome! I’m so inspired….this week I’m a vegan – haha…not really, but we had some good vegan food. And I’m trying to add in more healthy foods and not as much sugar! This looks healthy, right? Well when you make crepes with oat milk and applesauce, it’s practically a health food…

Quinoa Mint Watermelon Salad 🌿🍉

The mint is doing pretty well in the garden. A deer is coming and eating the tops off of the tomato plant, the cucumber plants, and even the sunflower leaves. But the deer (we saw her yesterday and I scolded her just a bit…I do like her to come by, just leave some of the…

that simple salad we had to have again

Here’s our version of Crawford Cookshop’s salad… Spring mix, cut into small pieces + Candied walnuts (chop walnuts, add to pan, add 2T sugar, stir over medium heat until all sugar is melted, cool) + Shaved or grated Parmesan cheese + Simple vinaigrette …equal parts oil and vinegar, a few spoonfuls of powdered sugar, salt…

GREEN SMOOTHIE MANIA!!!! 🌿🥗🥬🍏🍐

I had to ask myself when I started this post…was the point of this whole thing so I could make a fun chart, photograph pretty smoothies, or get healthy?! The answer: all of the above! Plus… It’s also a chronological look at the rise and fall of an American wife’s nail polish HA!! This is…

3 food things…☕️🍦🥬

I love this picture!!! HAHA!!! It’s my life in a nutshell ….the sugar fast book plus ice cream 🙂 First the ice cream. I have to stay away from caffeine because it makes my heart race. Chocolate seems to be ok (!) thank goodness. But a lot of coffee makes me weird and keeps me…

Updates! Father’s Day, Art, Games, and Food😍🥰

Happy Father’s Day (late) to all you Dads out there! It was so nice to have Dad Mincy here for Father’s Day! Granna and Poppop came to stay for a few days We played games….our new favorites are Quiddler (word making card game) and Camera Roll (super fun game where you find photos on your…

Food + Clothes

I’ve mentioned this quiche before, but I have to again because I make it once or twice a week, it’s so good! From Carrie Underwood’s book. Then I found this AMAZING soup!! (More mushrooms!) It is complete comfort in a bowl. I’ve been reading Ruth Reichl’s books through, I think this one is from Tender…