paper oranges: words to live by

Thursday, January 22, 2015

back to it

I'm back.

We moved.

The holidays came and went.

It's been a long haul but here I am.

Gotta get back to my blog.

Keeps me inspired.

In the meantime I will focus on above!

from positivelifetips.com

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

rules for life

Gosh...I'm only human.

I love this...a big reminder.

Take a breath

and be grateful for all the blessings.

So many.

found

here

Thursday, June 27, 2013

give up and have a marg

Right on!

via pinterest

These two recipes do the trick:

This one is via need supply, a site/shop worth visiting!

Ingredients:

2 oz tequila
1/2 oz Cointreau
1 oz lime juice
1/4 oz simple syrup
lime wedge and course salt for garnish

Start by slitting a lime wedge and running it around the rim of your glass. Dip the rim in course salt to you liking. Add ingredients to a shaker with ice, if you like things on the sweeter side you can add a dash more of simple syrup, or omit it altogether if you prefer extra tart. Shake extra hard for a full ten second so you margarita gets frothy and icy cold. Strain over ice in your salted glade and garnish with a lime wedge.

Leave it to Ina

via there goes the cupcake

Pink Grapefruit Margaritas
From: Barefoot Contessa’s How Easy Is That

1 cup ruby red grapefruit juice
1/2 cup fresh squeezed lime juice (about 4 limes)
1 cup triple sec orange liqueur
3 cups ice
1 cup silver tequila
1 lime cut in wedges, optional Kosher salt.

If you prefer to rim the glasses take a lime wedge and rim, then dip in salt, if you do not like a salted rim sprinkle a touch of salt in each glass, the salt really brings out the flavor.
Combine the grapefruit juice, lime juice, triple sec and ice in a blender. Pour into a large pitcher (or just keep it in the blender) and pour in the tequila, stir. (I personally just added it all to the blender- I like slushy, that is totally up to you)
Makes 4 drinks.
* Just as a note: it is important to use Ruby Red grapefruit juice, it is much sweeter than regular and it has the lovely pink color.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

clean slate + banana almond smoothie

and have a

banana almond smoothie

Ingredients:

1 medium to large frozen banana (break your bananas into one-inch chunks before freezing)
1 heaping spoonful of almond butter
2 spoonfuls flax seed
1/2 cup almond milk, yogurt or regular milk
drizzle of honey, agave nectar or maple syrup
dash almond extract
(or vanilla extract, but the almond extract makes the smoothie taste almost like candy!)

Instructions: Toss all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.

recipe+smoothie image from cookie and kate

slate from green like bathwater