Simple Living and Eating

Eating Healthier This Spring #Healthy Eating #Weekly Menu Plan


grilled shrimp
Grilled Shrimp

Author Bio: This is a guest post by Meredith K. on behalf of Alexia®. For more spring recipes and healthier sweet potato recipes, visit www.alexiafoods.com.


After hibernating with thick comfort foods and stick-to-your-ribs kind of meals all winter long, many people view spring as the perfect time to lighten up their eating habits. This doesn’t mean you’ll need to eat lettuce for every meal, however! Between fresh produce and gorgeous warm weather, spring makes it easy to lighten up your cooking while still enjoying what you...


Shellfish & Peas Tagliatelle #Foodie Friday

Seafood: Langostino & Peas Tagliatelle
Seafood: Langoustine & Peas Tagliatelle

I just want to put peas into every dish in the Spring. What is it about peas and Springtime? This is a fresh, light and simple seafood dish that can be made quickly any weekend night.

It is really important to try and get more fish into your diet and shellfish is very accessible because you can buy it frozen and not have to worry about the mealiness you can have from other frozen fish when it is thawed out.

I know a lot of you don't live by the ocean which is another reason why shellfish is great. It can be found in...


M. Jacques' Armagnac Chicken #French Fridays with Dorie #Food Revolution Day

Roasted Chicken
Roasted Chicken

May 17th is Food Revolution Day. A day to share with friends and family the value and importance of good food and essential cooking skills. It is kinda of sad that we even need to have this type of reminder of how important it is to cook from scratch, and to sit down to a meal with your friends and family on a regular bases. This type of behavior had always been taken for granted because it was just what people would do.

Today families and friends are more sprend out than ever, and we all are involved in numerous activities. Fast food companies have sold us on...
        

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Building a Canoe: What's Your Dream Project? #Simple Living in Practice

3 men building boat
3 Generations Planning the Canoe

When my father-in-law was a teenager he built a boat in his basement. He spent the whole winter working on it. When Spring came and he was ready to hoist that boat out of the depths of his house, his teenage mind had not thought through the logistics of getting a full size sailboat up a narrow L shaped stairwell that was the only exit from the basement.

Tried as he might there was no way that boat was going up the stairs. His father took pity on him and got some help to remove a basement window and part of the wall to get the boat out. It...
        

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Garam Masala Chicken: Bloggers Around the World go to India #Healthy Eating #Weekly Menu Plan

Chicken Masala
Chicken Masala

Once upon a time in the 1980's during a period of airline deregulation a young college girl would regularly jump on a flight to Paris or Amsterdam for anywhere between $59 - $99 each way. Yes, those of you who have only lived during this time of barefoot check ins... there once was a golden period of cheap air travel. Alas, I now enjoy the world by traveling through the world's cuisines. So on every 13th of the month come travel with me and my fellow adventurous food bloggers to another country and taste its' cuisine.

For my maiden voyage I crossed the world to ...
        

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