Food collections!

Had the honor to be included in quite a few collection on Artfire and wanted to share. 

These 2 in particular I'm very proud of as they are food related.....my favorite subject!!!! 

Hope you enjoy! 

 What's your Cupcake by Micah5five

Whats your Cupcake

Curated By: Micah5five

ArtFire.com

Handmade Soap

Fun Food by luvncrafts

Fun Food

Curated By: luvncrafts

ArtFire.com

Fine Art Paintings

Any collections or treasury that you'd like to share with me?

Sick again!

No matter what I do, it seems that I can't catch a break. 

I go to sleep Friday night looking forward to the long weekend, just to wake up in the morning all swollen and stuffy!!! Another cold! 

Enough is enough already! All my weekend plans fell through, I decided to stop everything and take care of this cold once and for all! 

 One thing that makes me feel better when I have a cold is so drink hot beverages, specially tea and chamomile with a teaspoon of honey......aaahhhh! It's good when I need to go to sleep and I feel either too stuffy or my nose won't stop running.....instant bliss! 

 But during the day I feel restless and I can't stop thinking of things to do, the kids need this and that......what is a mom to do?? 

One thing that I found soothing is eating a good bowl of green or red curry at my favorite Thai restaurant. BUT.....I'm cheap and going to the restaurant every time I have a cold at this pace is really not doable, plus today the restaurant was closed!!! 

So I scoured the local grocery store and found the ingredient to make my own curry!! 

It's pretty easy actually! All you need is this:

  

Coconut milk, green or red curry paste and my secret ingredient, tabasco. 

Lately I seem to prefer green curry, but it's really a phase, I like them both. 

The tabasco, I like it as it gives it a spicy kick and trust me, if you have a cold you want something like this: hot, creamy and spicy.....clears your sinuses right up! 

I have to thank my friend Eva for introducing me to Thai food that by the way is gluten free and way healthier that any other food out there. 

Also, thanks to my friend Aggie that directed me to the appropriate aisle of the grocery store so I could do curry in my own kitchen. 

What I usually do is during the weekend I boil a can of coconut milk, stir in 2 tablespoons of the curry paste, a little bit of tabasco and voila', the curry is made. 

Then throw in whatever left overs I have, usually veggies, pieces of chicken or shrimp, boil some rice and pour it over. 

 But I also tried it over left over spaghetti noodles today and once I sprinkled a spoon of the sauce over my blend boiled tilapia and it was delicious! 

Well, I guess you got the gist, I love this stuff everywhere and wanted to share XO

Baking and cooking.

Christmas is around the corner and so the baking and cooking has started for me. 

For instance, the last day at work, I baked lasagnas for the teachers and personnel. 

But I didn't stop there, oh no! I baked a pumpkin pie (from scratch!) and brownies 

Made chocolate fudge for the first time!! Courtesy of a wonderful recipe that I found on pinterest HERE

 

YUM! Thumb print cookies! It took me 2 matches to make them right. Recipe HERE  

Chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies! Not as pretty as the one in this recipe but they sure are tasty! 

Chocolate dipped pretzels

And vanilla bark, happened actually by mistake but very good nonetheless!

Should I stop or keep going? 

What have you baked so far?? 

If nothing, tell me what you're eating will do! XO

Merry Christmas to me Part 3

This time is for gifts from the work place! 

Gloves, reindeer sock (this person knows me well!), chocolate (oh YES, baby!) and of course a card. 

A plate full of lovely goodies from a sweet kindergarten!! YUM!! 

What did you get so far???

Merry Christmas to me Part 1

I have started to get some Christmas goodies in the mail from my dear friends, so I thought to start sharing them with you and make you drool! 

The first package I got is from Lisa, the owner of Hillside Bakery. 

She knows me well as I can tell by the fact that she sent me a cupcake pincushion and it's BLUE!! My favorite color!!! 

The peppermint bark was simply supreme!! She makes it herself and I've never tasted anything so good. I still have a little tiny piece left in the bag.....I know, I know! It's calling my name.

 And of course the lovely snow man card! 

I was very touched by how thoughtful she was and also how sneaky!!! One day I found this package on my door step and I started thinking how weird it was since I didn't order anything from her (this time!) and probably she made a mistake!! But nope! 

She simply blessed me and I truly do feel blessed.....

New favorite snacks

I was weighting my self again and noticed that I'm still under 145 lb so, I'm happy about that. I still get the munchies from time to time and I found my self hooked some Chex trail mix and wanted to share.

The chocolate turtle mix is definitely a favorite now:

  

I recently found a limited edition mix called "Cocoa" with marshmallows.....YUM

Can't find a picture on line, so I had to take a photo of the {almost empty} package I have home.

It's a limited edition that will around only for the holidays, so they will be gone soon and I will be sad soon.......oh well! Such is life! 

I was drawn by Chex in the first place because is one of the few company that has gluten-free cereal that you can easily find at the grocery store and won't cost an arm and a leg. 

Even tho the mixes I'm currently eating are not gluten free, I noticed that as long as I eat the recommended serving size, it doesn't bother my tummy. 

They keep my need of chocolate satisfied without breaking my weight loss plans: win-win.

 

Grateful

Well, Thanksgiving is come and gone, can you believe that? 

 Even if you don't, the turkey was eaten, the pie is gone, some of us is still in a turkey coma, others are drunk. 

I, personally, am grateful For a table full of yummy food:

For a juicy turkey

For my very first apple pie: it started as a pumpkin pie, but when we opened the pumpkin, we found only seeds, no pulp. So I had to improvise and I loved it!

And for my children. When I asked them what they were thankful for, they both listed me as the first person. 

My little girl included herself in the people she's grateful for (this is huge, we worked for months of her self-esteem) and my son listed the teachers and therapist from the Autism Center.  

I'm thankful that I'm doing a few things right. 

What about you?