Thanksgiving Recipes.

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Today I'm sharing with you two recipes that would be perfect to bring and share with your families for Thanksgiving this year. As you know, on my blog I try to take recipes and make them healthy while still being delicious, the first recipe is exactly that…but sometimes you just have to splurge and that's what the second recipe is, a treat. Hope you enjoy them both!

Spicy Cornbread:

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup whole wheat flour
3 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sea salt
1 1/2 tsp cane sugar
1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup Country Crock
1 cup almond milk
3/4 cup shredded Mexican cheese
Crushed red peppers (as much or as little as you'd like, I like mine spicy)

 Preheat your oven to 425. Mix the dry ingredients: cornmeal, flour, baking powder, sea salt, and sugar in a large bowl and combine well. Make a hole in the dry ingredients and place the beaten egg and Country Crock in the center. Using a hand mixer, mix well, stirring from the center.

Add the almond milk slowly while still mixing. Fold in the cheese and red peppers. Pour your batter into an oiled (I use extra virgin olive oil) 9 inch baking dish and bake for 20 minutes. This is delicious with chili, soup, and/or topped with cream cheese. Perfect for a cold day!


This next recipe is a bit of a splurge, but if you just use a bit at a time it’s fine! You have to treat yourself every now and then.

Honey Cinnamon Spread:
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup Country Crock
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp pumpkin spice (optional)

Mix everything together well. I recommend using a handheld mixer to get it mixed completely and to the right consistency. This recipe would also make a great hostess gift!

Thank you to Good to Know & Unilever Spreads for being a sponsor. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Won't you come out to play?

I love the outdoors. Something about being out in nature when no one else is around is so peaceful to me. I feed off of the energy in the stillness and the breeze.

I love that part of my job requires me to find gorgeous locations like this and really soak them in. It's really forced me to step away from the computer and out of the house. I didn't even realize this was something I needed more of until it was a necessity.

Today I get to take pictures of a little 4 year old cutie. God is good...

Introducing Sassy Lemonade!

I'm so excited to introduce this month's featured ad, Sassy Lemonade! My current favorite item in her shop is here. Today I asked her a few questions so you all could get to know her better, make sure to show her some love and say hi on her sites! Tell her I sent you...

1. How long has your shop been open and how did you get started?

Sassy Lemonade has been opened for little over a year now. I’ve always had a thing for Jewelry, at first I was making it for my Friends and Family. Then I started getting stopped where ever I went, people asking me where I got what I was wearing. Figured why not try to open up a shop and see where it goes from there.

2. What item do you sell the most?

Any piece of Jewelry that consist of Anchors, they seem to always be a Hit.

3. For anyone with a shop, or hoping to open one soon, what is your biggest tip?

Give the Best Customer Service... I treat each Customer as if they were my First.

How cute is her stuff? And I wholeheartedly agree with her answer in question number 3...too bad more shop owners don't follow the same ideals...

Links to love~
Shop // Blog // Facebook

Ally and Jimmy.

I had so much fun photographing these two little love birds. Ally is a law student at UT and Jimmy is a certified teacher and their love for one another is palpable...

...can you feel it?

If you're in Austin and are hoping to grab a session before we move, email me as soon as possible! My last few weeks here (we leave mid December) are filling up fast!