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Fun fact: rinse your quinoa before cooking it to make it not taste terrible and bitter. Why you ask? Quinoa has a natural coating, called saponin, which can make it taste bitter or soapy. Or you know, don’t rinse it and enjoy your weird soapy dish. Whatever you wanna do. - - - One Pot Mexican Quinoa ... - 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 jalapeno pepper, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 (14.5 ounce) can fire-roasted diced tomatoes 1 small can yellow corn 1 cup quinoa 1 cup chicken/vegetable broth 1 tsp red pepper flakes 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder 1/2 teaspoon cumin 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste 1 lime, juiced 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro - - Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté jalapeno pepper and garlic in hot oil until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir black beans, tomatoes, yellow corn, quinoa, and chicken broth into skillet; season with red pepper flakes, chili powder, cumin, salt, and black pepper. Bring to a boil, cover the skillet with a lid, reduce heat to low, and simmer until quinoa is tender and liquid is mostly absorbed, about 20 minutes. Stir in lime juice and cilantro into quinoa until combined. See more

Taco stuffed butternut squash with added veg, LF cheese, and homemade salsa. Was it delicious? Yes. Should I have done something to make it easier to separate the squash from it’s skin before stuffing it? Also yes. Either way, I’m still patting myself on the back for a first attempt at cooking butternut squash.

My New Years resolution is to have a little bit more fun with the life I have, instead of wishing for the things I don’t. It’s to be more present, content, and grateful for how lucky I really am, and to always remember how far I’ve come. Early on in this decade I was a sick girl who was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and now I am this healthy woman who built a career off of it. I can finally, and truthfully, say that having an autoimmune disease doesn’t own me anymore, and it never will again. Wow, what a decade. - - Also, I’d really like to finally stop cutting off all my hair so I can reach mermaid status, and to never have another matching hair-cut incident with my name-matching husband Sean but who knows what kind of hairstyles the next decade will bring! 2020 baby!!! Woo!!