Oh How Pinteresting Wednesday!

It's Wednesday, and I'm still at youth camp. 

Actually I wrote all of this week's posts before I left town. It is actually Tuesday and I am watching TV with the guys after eating Wing Stop for dinner. Horrible, I know. 

Anyhoo, here are my pins for the week, be sure to share your Pinterest boards in the comment section so I can follow you back. 

If you'd like to follow me my boards are here. 

Tangy Cabbage Coleslaw

Sometimes I really surprise myself with the foods I like as an adult, take cabbage for instance, randomly became a big fan in adulthood. 

The things you can do with it is just nuts, two of my favorites being fried and in this particular coleslaw. 

It was during out first summer as a married couple that I began to make coleslaw this way, before then it was just in the traditional sense, with a very heavy celery seed presence. In this recipe though it takes a whole other twist with coarse ground mustard and apple cider vinegar.

Plus making it myself gave me a chance to get rid of the mayo. Praise the good Lord for Greek yogurt, the happiest day of my life was in college and I came across it. Nothings makes a better sub for anything creamy than plain nonfat Greek yogurt. Plus it is higher in protein... and not mayo. Lest we forget it isn't nasty mayo.

I'll put it on a sandwich, but honestly it is just kind of gross.

While I still use mayo, mustard and vinegar are my condiment favorites, aside from ketchup. The two combined give this coleslaw a great tangy flavor that doesn't deviate far from its Southern counterpart, but definitely create a brighter flavor than plain ole mayo alone offers.

Oh vinegar, nothing made me love you more than going to England as a teenager and getting to douse fries in it! Yum.

Tangy Cabbage Coleslaw::
Ingredients
1 cup plain Greek yogurt
1/4 cup coarse ground mustard
1/4 coconut palm sugar (or dark brown sugar)
2 medium garlic cloves minced
3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tsp celery seeds
2 bags of 16 oz pre-shredded 3 color coleslaw mix
3 green onions, chopped
salt & pepper to taste

Directions
Whisk first 6 ingredients, through celery seed, in a large bowl. Taste, adjusting vinegar if needed. Mix in coleslaw mix and green onion. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve chilled.

***Depending on what I have in the house I will sometimes sub in fat free sour cream, or use half yogurt and half fat free mayo. If you want a really creamy slaw only use half the slaw mix, or double your dressing. 

This slaw is a great healthy alternative to its mayo filled counterpart. It also keeps great for days and is always a crowd pleaser. 

So tell me | Do you make a traditional Southern slaw?  

Meal Pinning Monday

This week we are with a van full of teenagers in Tennessee for youth camp so I am not cooking one bit! However, I decided that this week I would just share some of my favorite Pinterest recipes that I've made for us several times. 

I recently wrote an article for 5 Minutes for Mom (I'm an intern there right now!) called Using Pinterest to Meal Plan, I'd love for y'all to check it out. 

[What is Meal Pinning Monday?]

MPM is how I meal plan for our little family. I once spent a lot of time searching the web and my recipe books hunting for new recipes and ideas for what to cook every week. Then, Pinterest came along and made meal planning much easier for me. Every weekend I look over what I have pinned the prior week and decide what I would like to cook and make my grocery list from these recipes. MPM came about as a way to share what I am cooking, and to also see what others are cooking every week to hopefully get even more dinner ideas from other bloggers. If you don't pin your recipes feel free to just share what you are cooking.

There you have it, 7 recipes idea for this week. None of which I am actually making, all of which I'd prefer to eat over what I am probably going to eat this week.

Be sure to link up and let me know what you're making, if you do and I use your recipe I'll be sure and link back to your blog!

High Five 4 Friday

It's finally Friday and I'm linking up with Lauren Elizabeth for High 5 for Friday!

I'd be saying yay for Friday except the fact that there is a lot of packing left to be done and we leave for youth camp in two days. Holy Packing Fail Batman! But lets review this week and forget the packing failures.

1. This past Saturday we took the littlest Cater to the zoo. Y'all it is far to hot to be doing such an adventure without getting soaking wet in the splash park then walking around. It was fun to take him despite the heat considering we hadn't been since his momma was just barely older than he is now.

2. We've been working on getting water cut on as well as other living needs. Jeremy has been in charge of calling and swapping things around while I've been in charge of staring at boxes and randomly packing things with no real need or order. We seriously move in two weeks, and one of those weeks we won't even be in the state. This is all moving way to fast for my brain.

3. Along with hot summer heat the also common summer nausea has set in. I randomly get nauseous between being in the car, being way to hot, and being on the computer...so Sea Bands are my best friend. I highly suggest them over ever taking the pill form of anti nausea meds.

4. Jeremy let me go play golf with the guys for the first time, I started out okay for myself but the harder it rained the worse I got. Then it really rained, like soaked through to your undies rained, and we had to high tail it to the car. Fun but wet. We went back yesterday and I couldn't hit the ball to save my life.

5. Green Apple Icees are okay, but someone really needs to bring back the Pink Lemonade flavor I always got in high school. Sadly I think I've hit a spot in this heat filled LA summer that nothing can soothe, not even an Icee.

Now tell me | What were you favorite moments from the past week? 

4th Anniversay Recap :: Cafe Du Monde & Emeril's

I wish I could say we went out and did something crazy for our anniversary, I can't. With the upcoming move that Jeremy has compared to hemorrhaging money, decided to play it low key.

Also with this being our last anniversary living so close to New Orleans I thought we should head into town and try out a restaurant I've wanted to sink my teeth into for well over a decade... nearly two. 

So after a little convincing of Jeremy, I made our lunch reservations at Emeril's. 

I highly suggest you make lunch reservations at places if you are looking to check it out, get a good taste of what they are about, and not blow your whole wallet on one meal. I also wasn't in the mood to spend the whole day in the city so lunch was a good way to get in and out quickly.

Our first stop of the day was Cafe Du Monde, and in true Emily & Jeremy style we hit up one in Kenner so we could skip the crowds in the Quarter. I just wanted my frozen Cafe Au Lait, no reason to pay for parking.

Parking by Emeril's is tricky, just give in and take the valet if you go. I just love the first pic in this set, the sky was absolutely beautiful and it wasn't so crazy hot in NOLA just yet.

Now for Emeril's food. I have wanted to come here for years and just now got around to it. He was one of the first chefs I really like and made recipes from, Emeril Live was probably my favorite show growing up.

To start we got the BBQ Shrinp for an app. It was divine, I could have eaten a dozen of those little rosemary biscuits. Jeremy got the salmon with an andouille hash, I'm not a salmon gal but I can tell you that the hash was divine.

Speaking of rosemary, my plant has bit the dust. I need to look up how to plant from a stem so I can regrow this poor plant.

I on the other hand was super indecisive about what I wanted and the server suggest the chicken & waffles out of the long list of ideas I thew at him. I just couldn't make up my mind to save my life, lucky for me it was a great choice.

For dessert we got the Banana Cream Pie, if you go you have got to get this. I'm not a big banana cream pie person, but this is the dessert they are known for. It was absolutely heavenly, I would love to know what was in it to make at home.

Now tell me :: What are your favorite restaurants for special occasions? 

Oh How Pinteresting Wednesday!

I really have a Pinterest problem, then again considering how many new recipes I've tried and DIY projects I've undertaken it may not really be that big of an issue. Here are just a few of my favorite pins from the past week. 

Clean Eating Green Pancakes

I love carbs. Pancakes are heavenly.

You may have seen my original clean pancake post, but after awhile I decided I wasn't getting enough veggies in my breakfast and started playing with the recipe. I stuck with the base, but just played like crazy from that point.

Clean Eating Green Pancakes 

serves 1

Ingredients::

1 banana

2 eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla

dash of cinnamon

1 cup fresh spinach

1 tbsp milled flaxseed

Optional add-ins - protein powder, peanut butter or PB2, chia seed. Try not to add liquid or it will make them super thin and very hard to flip over. 

Directions :: 

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until frothy and combined well. You could also use an immersion blender. Pour (roughly) 1/4 cup of mixture into a greased skillet heated to medium. Flip when the top bubbles and begins to look dry. Continue until the pancake batter is used up. It should make about 6-7 pancakes. 

While I have only a cup listed in the ingredients, I tend to add more spinach. Especially if the bananas are ripe, it then needs a drier ingredient to thicken the batter up. I literally just pack in spinach, blend, add in more and keep going until I get a consistency that I like.

If you want to add peanut butter I would suggest the powdered PB2, if you are doing a Whole 30 or Paleo just toss in some almond butter and add more spinach to thicken it up. You really can't taste the spinach at all, it's like a Green Monster smoothie without the almond milk and eggs added in.

What is one of your favorite healthy swaps for a usually unhealthy food?