Pasta with Spinach and Ricotta Cheese Sauce

{noodles being cooked}

 {sauce}

{Recipe}

{washing strawberries for snacking}

Hope everyone is having a good week! Been super busy with school, trying to get back into the swing of things. And now this weekend we have a 4 day weekend! Time to catch up on hw that hasn't been done since my books are still not here! 

Banana Bread Muffins

Well this is the last weekend of Christmas break. I'm glad to have something to do again but at the same time....i kinda liked resting. But anyway, I wanted to make something to bring to school tomorrow. ( I tend to bake the science department food...all the time) So. this is what came of it. The only thing I did was add 1/4cup of mini semisweet chocolate chips. Turned out to be a delicious change. So here is the recipe!

Zucchini cakes

these were incredible. I have tried countless zucchini cake recipes and none of them were very good. They all had pretty much the same ingredients. than i found this one. Oh My! it was so good. the only adjustment i had to make was to use 2 eggs instead of one. i think that is because of my gluten free panko though. Recipe!

{this is the boy. he is incredible. He means everything to me.
he also wont eat any green vegetable. Well he ate these
without any complaints!}

{on another note. burrito- 1. jennifer-0}

strawberry, banana, chocolate oatmeal

So i got tired of eating the same breakfast over and over so i decided to make something different. It was good but not as good as i had hoped. i didn't have enough strawberries so i replaced half of them with frozen berries that i thawed. Here is the recipe if you want to try it!

Healthy rice pudding

So i came across this recipe on pinterest and really wanted to try it. Its healthier than regular rice pudding and also looked really easy. i was really drawn to the fact that you didn't have to stand at the stove for hours stirring and stirring and stirring and waiting. So the recipe says to put everything together and put in the oven....well i have to admit that i don't like soy milk so much, so i used vanilla almond milk instead. so maybe thats what did it. But after i left it in the oven for the allotted time it was super liquidy still. so i sat it on the counter to gelatinize. well nothing happened. So i put it in a pot and proceeded to stir. after a while of stirring it finally gelatinized. So.  next time i will skip the oven all together and just use the stove. 

wacky and wonderful wednesdays

{a couple summers ago when i went to the arctic}

Wacky

my stomach issues
the fact i've been to a doctor or hospital everyday this week
cat peed on the floor, he thought it was the litter box...fantastic...
having to drink 900mL of barium sulfate tomorrow morning ...yuck
school starts monday blehhh



Wonderful

being able to spend this week with the boy. it has been amazing.
boyfriend being able to calm me down when i was freaking out about an iv. (hurts much less in your arm. never get it in your hand)
Gallbladder is working properly! woop!! i should not be excited about that...but i am
boyfriends dad came home today!
a weekend of relaxation.
hopefully finding out whats wrong with my insides.
vampire diaries new episodes on tonight!! Super stoked.

Black Bean Soup

I have to say, I have never been a big black bean soup fan. However this recipe has changed my mind.

{recipe here}