Monthly Archives: June 2014

Mediterranean Lentil Salad

Mediterranean Lentil Salad
Life has been crazy lately. Let’s call it the end of school year madness. Field trips, end of year parties, preschool graduation, Kindergarten graduation, add in swim team practices and you have madness!

Jack and Ewan are on the swim team this summer for the first time and practices started a few weeks ago. This means picking up Jack at the bus, rushing home for a quick snack and rushing off to the gym. It also means not getting home until just before 6PM. So what about dinner?!

If all goes well I do all my prep work earlier in the day and just need to heat things up when we get home. Or better yet, I make a salad like this Mediterranean lentil salad. Make it in the early afternoon, throw it in the fridge and you are good to go.

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Toasted Coconut Ice Cream with Dark Chocolate and Almonds

Toasted Coconut Ice Cream with Dark Chocolate and Almonds
Last year I received an ice cream machine as a gift, yet somehow I only used it once. It was time to change things and delve into the world of homemade ice cream. Since we recently went to our favorite ice cream shop up in the mountains I decided to make a flavor similar to one I enjoy there.

This is a wonderfully coconut filled ice cream with dark chocolate and almonds. Somehow many of my recipes seem to contain coconut, odd since I could not stand it growing up! I can’t recall when I began to like coconut, but there is clearly no stopping me now! Continue reading