10
Aug
{vegan} Black-Eyed Peas – peace. love. quinoa
Aug 10 When we decided to make Fried Green Tomatoes, we decided to make an entireSouthern Comfort Meal.On menu: Fried Green Tomatoes, Black-Eyed Peas, Jalapeño Cornbread, and Sweet Teammmm Print {vegan} Black-Eyed Peas Author: peace. love. quinoa Ingredients 7 oz black-eyed peas 2½ cups water 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 large onion (or 2 small onions), finely...
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08
Aug
Fried Green Tomatoes – a recipe – peace. love. quinoa
Aug 08 We have sooooooo many tomato plants this year, seven to be exact.(Hey! That’s a lot of tomatoes!)Despite a little scare with a hornworm on one of the plants, every single one of our tomato plants is healthy and producing. Our cherry tomato plant has at least 50-75 tomatoes on it, no joke! I found another...
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07
Aug
a Cucumber Watermelon Quinoa Salad – peace. love. quinoa
Aug 07 I have an announcement to make.I GREW MY FIRST CUCUMBER EVER.Save the applause for later, I have a recipe to share. But before I share that recipe….Have you ever seen a YELLOW watermelon?No? Me either.Not until today. When I was cutting open this watermelon, I had no idea it would be yellow.I was...
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06
Aug
Christopher’s Spicy Garden Salsa – peace. love. quinoa
Aug 06 We are finally reaping the benefits of growing a garden!We have successfully grown onions, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and even a cucumber (that the bugs didn’t attack). Chris gets excited about the tomatoes and peppers because he LOVES to make salsa. He’s pretty good at it, his salsa is ALWAYS delicious. Look, anything that...
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04
Aug
Horchata Milkshake: 2 ways – peace. love. quinoa
Aug 04 I’m going to go ahead and say “you’re welcome” because I know you are going to thank me for this {easy} recipe. Every time I am in Wicker Park, I think about the Horchata Milkshakes at Antique Taco and more often than not, I go for it. I have tried several times to...
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30
Jul
Nashville Eats: HUSK – peace. love. quinoa
Jul 30 During the planning process of my Nashville trip, I stumbled upon blog post after blog post speaking highly of this brand new restaurant addition to Nashville, HUSK. I knew early on it was a place I needed to visit. Success. Although we couldn’t get reservations, we showed up anyway. We found a cozy...
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28
Jul
Whiskey Kitchen & a Bourbon Cherry Bread Pudding – peace. love. quinoa
Jul 28 Last weekend after we hit up East Nashville we were dying to go vintage shopping. The locals kept telling us that vintage shops are closed on Sundays. epic #FAIL. They directed us instead to the Gulch neighborhood where they thought we’d find something cool to do. (we weren’t quite ready to get our Honky...
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25
Jul
brunch at Wild Cow – peace. love. quinoa
Jul 25 A few locals in Nashville recommended we visit East Nashville while visiting and that is exactly where we found the Wild Cow vegetarian restaurant. When I pictured Nashville, I didn’t visualize a vegan-friendly city but the Wild Cow was bomb. I was so delighted to find a vegetarian restaurant in Nashville!!! Crista’s #1...
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23
Jul
Rocket Fizz: a soda shop – peace. love. quinoa
Jul 23 Near the Downtown Hostel, we found a cute little soda shop, Rocket Fizz.Finding the soda shop was one of the best things that happened to us that day because it was HOT over the weekend (especially underneath our brand new boots and hats). The “owners” were telling us some story about being from...
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22
Jul
Nashville, Tennessee: “we’re not from ’round here” – peace. love. quinoa
Jul 22 We’re here in Nashville, and we survived the weekend.Our first stay in a hostel was exhilarating, I get off on new experiences. Around here in Nashville, the locals aren’t familiar with the hostel (it’s only been there for a year) in fact – one local we met thought a hostel to be a whore-house...
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