Special Announcement

Special Announcement:

*Note: Today there will not be any food news because I want to bring to you something else. Please consider to read more into this special announcement.

I Katrina Smith you're Creator/ Administrator of Living Better Cafe wants to, bring you a very special announcement. Today is a very special day here at Living Better Cafe, Which marks two years of me posting Healthy recipes for you all to, enjoy. As there are multiple recipe blog's out there, I find that "Living Better Cafe" has more variety to offer you. While the thought process behind Living Better Cafe continues to grow. I hope that you continue to enjoy coming here, and trying every Recipe, money saving tips, plus reading about food you may or, may not have known about. As Living Better Cafe wouldn't have made it without you all, So, I Katrina Smith want's to wish you all a very Happy Birthday as well because you help make what Living Better Cafe is today.


Happy Journeys to living Better, and looking forward to spending more years ahead with you all.
Katrina Smith,(Creator-Administrator)

Vegan Burrito

Serves: 2

2 (10-in) Corn tortilla
1 small onion, chopped
1 tsp. fresh garlic, minced
1 (15 oz.) Can black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained
1 tsp. Tabasco sauce

Directions:

1. Place tortillas inside oven at 350, and bake at 15 minutes or heated through.

2. Heat oil in a 10-inch dutch oven skillet over medium heat. Place onion, garlic in skillet, cook for 2 minutes stirring occasionally. Pour beans into skillet, cook 3 minutes stirring.

3. Spoon mixture evenly down center of warmed tortilla and roll tortillas up. Serve with a tsp. of Tabasco sauce, spinach.

One pot wonder potato hash

Serves: 1

1 small potato,shredded
1 egg* Tofu
1 small half onion
1 tsp. minced garlic
Black pepper
Cajun seasoning
vegetable oil

Directions:

1. Add oil to a dutch oven pan and allow to get good and hot.

2. Add all the ingredients expect seasoning and allow to cook.

3. Once all the ingredients are done, add in the seasoning and stir until incorporated.

Coffee Talk..... Episode 2

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I am excited to bring you another addition of "Living Better Cafe" web based talk show, as I hope you have enjoyed watching last week episode of Coffee talk, this week I want to share a little bit more. So, with that being said I hope you enjoy this episode. Please consider "Following"  and "Share".

Happy journey to living Better!

Katrina Smith, (Creator/Administrator)

Grilled Turkey po Boy

Adapted from: http://www.foodnetwork.com/…/grilled-turkey-po-boy-recipe.h…

Serves: 3- 4

1 whole wheat French baguette, split lengthwise and cut into 3 to 4 equal pieces
3 Tbsp. Margarine, softened
3/4 lb. Beer brined Turkey Breast
4 to 5 heirloom tomatoes, sliced 1/4-inch thick
1/4 c. pepperoncini slices, drained
1 1/2 c. shredded romaine lettuce, loosely packed, (discard very dark loosely leaves).

Beer Brined Turkey

1 (2 1/2 to 3- lb.) turkey breast, bone-in
3 c. beer
1/2 c.hot sauce
2 Tbsp. Course Himalayan salt
1 Tbsp. fresh basil, chopped
1 Tbsp. fresh garlic, mined
1 Tbsp. Crushed red pepper flakes
1 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 tsp. ground black pepper
Low fat or low sodium Tartar sauce

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to a low broil. Margarine the bread and place on a baking sheet. Broil until golden, 2 to 3 minutes, and remove from the oven.

2. Spread Tartar sauce on both sides of the bread. Layer on the turkey, tomatoes, pepperoncini and romaine. Top with other half of bread and serve.

Beer Brine Turkey Breast

1. Blend together all ingredients inside a large mixing bowl, and refrigerate for 12 to 24 hours.

2. Preheat the oven at 325.

3. Remove the turkey breast from the brine, drain well and pat dry with paper towels.

4. Place the turkey breast, skin-side up, on a baking sheet with a properly fitted wire rack. Place in the oven and cook for 1 hour 15 minutes. Turn the oven temperature to 400 and cook for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, or until the internal temperature is 160 degrees F and the skin is nicely browned. Remove from the oven, cover with aluminum foil and let rest for about 10 minutes.

5. Meanwhile, preheat the grill to medium heat and oil the grates with vegetable oil.-(Cautious Alert: be very careful not to oil over the flame's).

6. Once the turkey has snoozed, cut the meat off the bone and carve into 3/8-in thick slices. Place the slices on the grill and cook 1 to 2 minutes on both sides, just until grill marks develop. Once you see grill marks remove from grill and serve.

Molten lava cookies

Adapted from: http://www.kevinandamanda.com/…/chocolate-chip-lava-cookies…

If you love Molten lava cake your taste buds will for sure love theses cookies.

Serves: varies

1/2 c. (1 stick) Margarine, softened
1/2 c. coconut sugar
1/2 c. pure cane sugar
1 large egg
1/2 Tbsp. Pure vanilla extract
1 3/4 c. all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. Course Himalayan salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 (11.5 oz) semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray a standard size muffin tin with cooking spray. Place ½ c. chocolate chips in a double boiler, and stir until chocolate is melted. Pour into Ziploc bag. Set aside to cool.

2. With an electric mixer, cream the margarine and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and beat until well combined. In a separate glass mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to the wet ingredients and beat on low speed until just combined. Add the remaining chocolate chips (1 c.) and stir to combine.

3. Using half the cookie dough, scoop 1/2 -2 Tbsp of dough, flatten it out a little bit, and place in the bottom of the muffin tin.

4. Repeat for a total of 10 cookies. Cut a small tip in the corner of the Ziploc bag, and gently squeeze a layer of chocolate over the cookie. Scoop and flatten the remaining dough and place on top of the chocolate layer. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes, until the edges are just browned. As soon as they come out of the oven, run a knife around the edges to make for easy removing later. Cool completely before removing from the muffin tin, running a knife around the edge to help loosen.

Living Better suggestions:

* caoca nibs

Money Saving tip Tuesday... Kitchen sponge

Welcome to another edition of Money Saving tips.
In this edition I will be sharing some cool tips that won't break your bank, and will keep you smiling from ear to ear all the time.
Once again thank you for sticking around, for this first edition of Money saving tips for this January edition. I will be bring you different Money saving tip's daily on saving cash in your wallet, every Tuesday. This week on Money saving tip's Living Better Cafe wants to, help you save more cash in your wallet than ever before. This week I will be giving you tip's on how you can take your Kitchen sponges.

How else are we suppose to clean our dishes if we do not have the access to a dishwasher?, and even still if we did have the access to a dishwasher. A kitchen sponge is one of the necessity that is required when it comes to clean up dirty dishes. So, I have some very unique tip's that will even have you're kitchen saying "Wow"!.


Let's multiple:

1. This is also a budget cutter as well, take your scissors and cut each sponge in half.



For the crafty one:

2. you can build you're own kitchen sponge by, buying some foam and reusing the nylon bag's from you're produce or; go to the craft store and find reminisce of nylon. Before tossing away you're old sponge use it as an example, that way you can use it as a guild to build you're new sponge.