Robust Recipes

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Roasted Veggie Salad with Skinny Jalapeno Ranch Dressing

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Are you ready for a Roasted Veggie Salad with Skinny Jalapeno Ranch Dressing?! Soooo, it's like 10 degrees here in Iowa today and that temperature makes me want to never touch another cold salad or veggie for the rest of my days! Cold December weather makes me want to eat heavy comforting soups and stews and casseroles and dips  and sip on hot chocolate all day long! I don't know about you, but I find it a challenge to eat all my veggies this time of year. In the summer it's no problem … [Read more...]

San Antonio, Texas

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Hey guys, or as they say in Texas, "ya'll"!  Trust me, I know about how they say "ya'll" because my cousins are from Texas and they like to tease me for saying "you guys".  And of course how I drink unsweetened tea vs sweet tea - unsweetened tea tastes like dirty water they say. Oh and that we don't have good Mexican food in the Midwest, which in comparison to San Antonio's Mexican food they are 200% right about that! This post about our San Antonio trip that we went on way back in the last … [Read more...]

Vegan Cashew Frosting

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As stated below I have re-tested this recipe and updated the recipe to reflect those changes. I created a new post called healthier vegan "buttercream" frosting with updated pictures that reflect the updated recipe. Vegan Cashew Frosting!!! Say WHHHAAAT???!!! Is what all of you non vegan, non dairy free, buttercream frosting loving people are thinking right now. And then there are the vegan and dairy free people who are doing a little dance of joy! To all you non vegan and non dairy … [Read more...]

October and November Recap

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Hello there welcome to December! Wait, what it's DECEMBER 2016?!?! This cannot be! I started these monthly Recap installments exactly 1 year ago to review the recipes I made that month and everything I am into. It's a slow down and look at what we've accomplished - well okay what we ate the month before post. It's a fun way to kick off the next month. I missed October's recap because things happened and then we went to San Antonio - pictures and stories are coming real soon. Pinkie promise! … [Read more...]