Baby Livingston has Arrived!

Remember the baby shower we threw for my sweet cousin Brooke in June? Well, her due date came (and went), and I can now officially say that we've added a new member to the family... and it's a boy!!!

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.