PYRC #17: Fresh Caprese Quinoa Salad

Quinoa is an interesting super grain that is great to mix in with salads or vegetables (like the quinoa grapefruit and avocado spinach salad I made in May). With the summer heat cranking and my garden slowly dying, I vowed to make this caprese quinoa salad recipe before my basil and tomatoes died.

 

 

PYRC #16: Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken

I'm a buffalo chicken freak, to say the least, and when I'm at a restaurant and there's buffalo chicken-something on the menu, there's about an 80% chance I'll order it. So, to no one's surprise, my Pinterest recipe board has tons of buffalo chicken recipes - buffalo chicken tacos, buffalo chicken quesadillas, buffalo chicken bites, buffalo chicken lettuce wraps, buffalo chicken grilled cheese - you name it. And the sad thing is not that I'm an excessive buffalo chicken lover; it's that I'm an excessive buffalo chicken lover, and I've never made any of my Pinterest buffalo chicken recipes!

I finally changed that, though, with simple shredded crock pot buffalo chicken, the base practically to all of the buffalo concoctions above.

PYRC #15: Zesty Avocado Cilantro Buttermilk Dressing

Last week I loaded up on avocados on sale and inherently needed to make an avocado-based recipe. So after scraping my Yummy Recipes board I settled on trying Avocado Cilantro Buttermilk Dressing.

The Oster "My Blend" Personal Blender + Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie Recipe

I normally like a pretty simple breakfast, and amongst the simple breakfast things I like are smoothies. They're like a one stop shop for all the things yummy, healthy or not. Unfortunately, the reality is that I don't have the money to go out and buy smoothies every morning nor do I want to spend the time cleaning up a blender. No worries though because I found the perfect smoothie solution: the Oster "My Blend" Personal Blender. Yes, this technically IS a type of blender, but it is way niftier than that. Here's how it works:

1. Fill the bottle with smoothie ingredients.

PYRC #14: Avocado and Grilled Corn Salad with Cilantro Vinaigrette

Simple post - avocado and grilled corn salad with cilantro vinaigrette. This was one of my early stage Pinterest recipe pins, and it has been staring me in the face ever since it landed on my board.