Real food for real people
Ok, avocado toast. Here is the thing: it’s versatile, delicious, healthy and satisfying. What’s not to like? The great thing about avocado toast is that you only need three ingredients to make a good one: bread, avocado and salt. And from here you can take…
This is a great sandwich to start off a busy day. Whenever I want to send my kids with their stomach really full of energy to school, this is it: a chocolate, banana, peanut butter sandwich that will keep them fueled for a long morning.…
So these vanilla muffins is what we call madalenas in Spanish or madalenes in Catalan. Kids grow up eating them and after many years of failed attempts I finally came across a recipe that is close to the ones you can buy in bakeries and…
This recipe is for Beth. I was supposed to write about the poke bowls she introduced to us when we visited her in California, but last Friday I didn’t have time to take pics before we devoured them, so instead I’m posting these chocolate chip…
And here we are again with another mango recipe. This time mango jam, because when you have tons of fruit one of the best ways to use it is doing some great jam! For my mango jam I use those mangoes that are super duper…
As I said, there will be some mango recipes coming to the blog in the upcoming months… Today a simple yet delicious smoothie: a mango and yogurt smoothie. Can’t get any easier than that. This smoothie is also called a mango lassi which is a…
Spinach, banana, grapes, apple, almond butter and milk green smoothie, aka Dinosaur Smoothie (nickname given by my kids, of course). I prepare smoothies for my kids a couple of days a week. They vary depending on what I have in the fridge and how much…
This is a fairly new breakfast that has become one of our all-time favorites with just three ingredients that can’t go any better together: mashed banana, peanut butter and cocoa powder AKA Power Bowl! My husband gave it the name (he likes to give nicknames…
When I lived in NYC my friend Carolina came to visit and she was obsessed with granola, so we toured the city in the lookout for the best granola. I can’t remember if we found it, which by itself tells me we didn’t… Since then…
I grew up eating no dairy at all. To this day I’m still not sure if I had some type of intolerance or what exactly, but according to my mom I would not tolerate any kind of milk. Who knows?? Truth is I couldn’t even…