Whole Grains Archives - My Bacon-Wrapped Life

23
Feb
2015

Mini Pear Crisp with Beer Salted Caramel Sauce

categories: Crisps and Crumbles, Fruit, Recipes, Whole Grains

Are we ready for some real talk today? Some happy/sad/nervous/excited real-life real talk? I hope so, because I am basically in a glass case of emotion.

This right here is my last post as a Chicagoan. Brad and I are packin’ up and doing the whole move-across-the-country thing, because in just a few short weeks he’ll start grad school at UC Berkeley. While so many parts of me are incredibly thrilled and excited for this next chapter in our lives (and, uh, 75-degree winters), thinking about leaving the people I love, this city I call home in every sense of the word, and the wonderful life we have here makes me feel super squeamy inside. Technical term.

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08
Feb
2015

Spicy Sausage, Kale, and Farro-Stuffed Roasted Acorn Squash

categories: Meat & Fish, Recipes, Savory, Whole Grains

This right here is totally my middle-of-Februrary dregs-of-winter love food.

It has so many warm and hearty winter-y things all in one (Spicy sausage! Kale! Whole grains! Squash!) and it’s so comforting and filling and cozy and actually quite healthy. Because we’ve all been sitting around in the cozy indoors on our couches watching movies and drinking wine and eating pizza in our sweatpants for weeks on end, right? And maybe we could all use some healthy comfort food love? (Please, please tell me it’s not just me?!)

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11
Jan
2015

White Chocolate Cherry Almond Energy Bars

categories: Breakfast, Recipes, Snacks, Whole Grains

One of my main foodie resolutions this year is to eat more whole, natural foods. I want to make as much of the food that we consume as I can at home, to control the ingredients and the flavors and make sure there’s no weird aspartame lurking where it shouldn’t. I mean, we all need some full-blown, no-holds-barred cheddar goldfish or potato chips every now and then, but for the everyday, I’d like to try to up the ante on the natural-ness of our food. Honestly, it’s not that I’m generally bad at this, but we all have room to improve, right?

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04
Jan
2015

Bacon, Kale, and Caramelized Onion Quiche with Buttermilk Oat Crust

categories: Bacon, Breakfast, Recipes, Savory, Whole Grains

It’s January 4^th, which means that well-intentioned resolution-makers are busy strapping on their FitBits, busting their ass at those pilates classes, and eating kale like it’s goin’ out of style.

Unless you’re me and you broke your toe by running into a couch on the last day of 2014 and you’re spending a whole lot of time with your bffs sweatpants and remote control. That’s cool too, right?

At least I have the kale part.

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Category: Whole Grains