Amazing Simple & Healthy Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 1 cup HEB Almond Milk (or any almond milk of course)
• 3 medium strawberries
• 1 banana
• ice

I know this sounds super simple, but it is absolutely delicious!  Blend all ingredients on highest setting until ice is crushed.  It doesn't need any sweetener since there is plenty of sugar in the strawberries and bananas. I thought the almond milk wouldn't be as good as regular milk, but it tastes just like ever other smoothie I've ever had.  Also, be forewarned, this makes a VERY large glass of smoothie--about 16 oz or 2 cups worth--so make sure you have a large glass, or a friend to share it with!

PS if you want to order some Almond milk now from Amazon, here's another great brand that makes it:

Cupcakes: Valentine's Edition

For Valentine's Day, I decided to make some cupcakes for my Valentine.  And what's more valentine's day than pink, sugar, and strawberries?  I found an awesome recipe for vanilla cupcakes, and a recipe for strawberry frosting.

Here are the vanilla cupcakes cooling on the makeshift rack (aka my clean dish drain).

Here is the strawberry frosting.  It's 1 stick butter, 1 lb confectioner's sugar, 1/2 cup of strawberries chopped up.

I decided to get super cute halfway through icing the cupcakes, and started to make hearts on the cupcakes.

I also wanted to be even cuter, and topped each cupcake with a little strawberry slice.


Here are pictures of the finished products:

I can't wait for A to see what I made for him!!!

Tonight at Casa de Melissa

Tonight at Casa de Melissa, we (I) are serving a simple 4-ingredient meal!

-Thin Spaghetti (I split it by half wheat half white)
-Newman's Own Fire Roasted Tomato & Garlic marinara sauce
-Sauteed mushrooms

I doubt anyone needs an actual recipe, but put these 4 ingredients together and you have a tasty, simple,  filling dinner!

I'm also drinking Vides Del Este Malbec (that I got from WineInsiders.com with a $25 for $75 Groupon).  It is DELICIOUS.