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This blog post was sponsored by The Quaker Oats Company in partnership for their More Taste, Less Waste campaign. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting and making Chickpea in The City possible. I can’t think of a breakfast I love more than eggs, some sort of vegetable and avocado. While I love my usual avocado toast, sometimes I need something else to add my fried eggs ...
This blog post was sponsored by The Quaker Oats Company in partnership for their More Taste, Less Waste campaign. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting and making Chickpea in The City possible. If you have been following my blog since the beginning, you’ll know that I originally started it because I loved creating and promoting healthy food products. From nut ...
This post was in partnership with and sponsored by Canyon Bakehouse. All opinions, thoughts and content creation are my own. Thank you for reading and supporting Chickpea in The City and making this all possible. There’s no better way to start off a weekend in my mind than with a comforting and delicious breakfast. During the week I’ll usually make overnight oats or avocado toast but when I have ...
I often find that most of recipes I create are sparked from something I've come across or eaten when I was a little kid or teenager. There's a specific memory about a comforting dish or baked good that urges me to recreate it but in a healthier way. Like banana chocolate chip bread, for example. My mom would make this for my brother and I when we were younger in loaf and muffin form and I remember ...
If there is one thing I love incorporating into my recipes it's coconut. Now that it's becoming more of a trend, it's being put into energy bars, ice creams, dairy-free milks, breakfasts, etc. You name it, coconut is probably involved. I remember my mom would always buy my aunt coconut patties and macaroons for the holidays when I was younger and I always thought how weird it was that someone ...
Pitaya, pitaya. Where have you been all of my life? If 2015 was the year of my açai bowl love affair forming, 2016 will be the year I make pitaya bowls until my eyes see hot pink everything everywhere. When I came across this magical pink bowl all over my Instagram feed, I had to find out what the hype was about. Thanks to my new friends at Pitaya Plus, I received a big brown box on my door step ...
