Happy New Year Everyone! I hope 2019 has been treating you well. My first post of the year is a simple, healthy, and delicious salad recipe. Truthfully, I came up with it when I had an assortment of random ingredients in my fridge that I didn’t want to spoil. Sometimes you create the best recipes this way. The list of ingredients is short and I realized as I was typing it up that it’s vegan. So if you were inspired by Beyonce and Jay-Z’s challenge to try a plant-based diet in 2019, this salad will get you off on the right foot. Keep reading to see what you’ll need.
This was the most exciting (and stressful) part of planning my trip. Where to eat in NOLA?! With so many amazing restaurants in NOLA where does one begin. What helped was having an idea of the kinds of food I wanted to try. Beignets were a must as was food you tend to think of when you think about NOLA (think gumbo or po’boys) but I also wanted to find something a little off the beaten path. Once I knew what kinds of food I wanted to eat, then it was just a matter of researching the best places to go to get my fix. 
Happy Monday Guys! I’m finally sharing my no added sugar cookie recipe from my 
What’s like banana bread but even better? Plantain bread. And what’s even better than plantain bread? Toasted coconut plantain bread! Being Nigerian I love fried plantains but I don’t eat them often. Boiled plantains are a great alternative for me to enjoy plantain that’s been prepared in a healthier way. I actually just bought some this weekend. When I have them, I usually sprinkle a little cinnamon and sea salt on top and have it with my protein of choice – maybe chicken, shrimp, or salmon and some veggies on the side. Well one day I was dealing with plantains that had gotten a little too ripe, to the point of being mushy. I hate wasting food so I thought, what would you do if you had mushy bananas? You’d make banana bread. So why not make plantain bread. This was the result. Since I like to keep things interesting, I added coconut and fresh ginger to the batter. I was so impressed with the flavor that I had to share the recipe. If plantain bread sounds like your thing (it should), keep reading! 
