Peanut Butter Apple Muffin in a Mug

I must say, mini muffins are fun, but they really don’t do it for me when it comes to breakfast. My typical morning breakfast will consist of one of three options: a bowl of Puffins cereal with frozen blueberries, peanut butter and banana overnight oats, or pancakes. However, every once in a while, I’ll find…

Easy Two-Minute Omelet

I must say, omelets are by far the most filling breakfast. After enjoying a nice spinach, tomato, and cheese omelet, I typically find myself satisfied for hours — even long past lunchtime. However, I hardly ever have omelets for breakfast (in fact, I have them for dinner far more often than for breakfast). Why? It’s…

Very Berry Smoothie

My favorite place in the world when I was a kid was Costco.  To my sisters and it, it was basically the best store ever: there were free samples waiting on every aisle, you could buy a bag of pretzels practically taller than you were, and their food was phenomenal. After dragging our mom around…

Brown Sugar Pecan Quinoa

This summer I learned that Pecan Pie is referred to as a “Southern dessert” practically everywhere outside of the south in the US. I suppose the fact that Pecan Pie is predominately southern should’ve been fairly obvious- after all, it’s pronounced as “Pe-can” pie by half the people I know, and slathered in brown sugar…

Overnight Oats in a Nut Butter Jar

What do you do with your empty nut butter jars? Or should I say mostly empty nut butter jars? Because I think we both know it’s practically impossible to scrape every last bit of the nut butter out of the jar with a spoon. Most people will probably answer “throw them away” – unfortunately, this…