Healthy Food • Healthy Living
Health and nutrition have always been important to me, but over the past several years, my knowledge and interest in food and how it affects our body has really expanded. So, with my love for cooking, organic produce, and whole foods, with my food blog Lemons and Basil, I hope to inspire you in your cooking adventures and journey of good health, the way so many other food blogs have inspired me!
This Green Cauliflower and Wheat Berry Salad is bold in flavor, rich in color, and bursting with nutrition.
One of the things Josh and I love so much about Franklin are the unique, local shops that continue to move in to the area. Herban Market is among those, recently opening just down the road from us…
For someone who loves food so much, sometimes I’m truly amazed by how little I know.
I have a recent and newfound love for curry powder, and while I’ve never really given much thought to what curry powder actually is…
As a full-time mom, to a ten month old baby boy who is into e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g, meals that can be prepped ahead of time have become a must – which is why I love these Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Burrito Bowls!…
I have been sitting on this recipe for WAY too long. Occasionally I make a recipe that I am super excited about, only for it to somehow sit in my queue for months on end. Which is exactly what happened with this one…
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Oh wait..that was yesterday…{sigh}
I had hoped to have this post up several days ago, but as usual, I’m running a little late…story of my life. Although, with a 9 month old, I finally have a justifiable reason!…
SO apparently sandwich cookies and GIVEAWAYS go hand in hand, a perfect pairing if you as me! Perhaps you remember these Pumpkin Whoopie Pies I posted last Fall…if so, then you might also remember that thanks to Coaction, we were able to couple those cookies with a giveaway for a set of my Five Must Have Kitchen Gadgets…
As a lover of all-things-pizza and all-things-veggies, I’m forever combining the two in search of a new flavorful, healthy crust or sauce to see what I can come up with. And my last kitchen venture resulted in this Polenta Pizza with Kabocha Squash and Kale…
This Purple Cabbage and Split Pea Power Bowl is not only full of color, but loaded with flavor and nutrition!
While I love to focus on clean eating here on Lemons and Basil, please know that my way of eating is by no means perfect, nor am I overly strict with my own daily eating habits….
Disclaimer: If wedding stories aren’t your thing, feel free to delete this post and stay tuned for the next one, I promise we’ll be back to clean-eating recipes in no time!
With the birth of our sweet baby boy, nearly 8 months ago, our lives are so different today than they were eight years ago…
Ready for a tasty treat made without refined sugar or gluten? Then you must try this Gluten-Free Apple Crisp + Greek Yogurt Ice Cream! I love apple pie, apple crisp, baked apples, fresh apples, applesauce, apples + peanut butter, apples on my salad, basically…if it’s got apples, I want it!…
If you’ve followed along for long, you likely know that I genuinely love healthy foods. But I also enjoy balance, and there are no foods {in my book} that are altogether off limits. So while, I love eating whole foods, loaded with veggies…
This Roasted Veggie Breakfast Bowl with Fried Eggs is a delicious and healthy dish that can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, OR dinner. It’s a simple combination of chopped and seasoned veggies, roasted to perfection, then topped with a fried egg, a Sriracha based sauce, and a few slices of avocado…
As mentioned in my last post, I have several pumpkin and winter squash recipes in my queue ready to share with you. I had hoped to share this Vegan Kabocha Squash Lentil Curry months ago, shortly after my Eggplant and Quinoa Indian Fare, yet failed to do so…
I know pumpkin season is essentially over, but with all that has gone on the last month or so, I’ve not been able to post much and I’m afraid I’ve got still got several recipes in my queue featuring pumpkin and squash.
Things have been a little quiet around the blog lately. My goal had been to unplug a bit over the holidays and soak in every moment of Brighton’s first Christmas and enjoy our time with family. And that happened. But then some other things happened, too…
With the holidays come so many wonderful things – time with loved ones, traditions, festivities, reflection, giving, and food, just to name a few. And when it comes to the food, there is SO. MUCH. FOOD…
Today’s post is twice the fun, not only am I thrilled to share the recipe for these tasty Butternut Squash Veggie Burgers, but thanks to the NEW Rubbermaid® fasten + go sandwich kit, I also have the perfect food storage container for you to pack these babies up and take them on the go!…
I am super excited to bring this post to you today, not only do I have a delightful, healthy, and Fall-festive recipe for you, but thanks to Coaction, I also have a giveaway! Before we dive into the details of these Gluten-Free Sugar-Free Pumpkin Whoopie Pies…
The Holidays are here, and with them comes holiday baking in all it’s glory – pumpkin, apple, maple, caramel, peppermint, mocha… the flavors and varieties are endless!…
Sometimes food just isn’t pretty.
And I think it’s fair to say that this Eggplant Quinoa Indian Fare falls into that not so pretty category. But, I’m okay with that…
These Zucchini Black Bean Veggie Tacos are full of summer ‘s best end-of-season harvest. Not only are they boasting in flavor and nutrition, but they are the essence of why I love partaking in Community Supported Agriculture {CSA}…
There was a time when I would have turned up my nose and made a face at the idea of eating sushi. Several years ago, Josh began eating sushi from time to time when he and other colleagues would go out for lunch or a business meeting…
These Gooey Black Bean and Beet Brownies were not at all what I had intended to share this week, truthfully I hadn’t decided what recipe I wanted to post, but I have several in my queue with pictures and recipes waiting for final edits and tweaks…
Pizza for breakfast! No, not the left over kind that you eat cold straight out of the refrigerator, an actual veggie and egg filled pizza that is meant for breakfast…
I’m sorry…come again, *Pork*? As in meat?! Yup, you got it! This is perhaps the second, maybe third recipe on the blog that calls for meat. Shocking, I know! I’ve mentioned before that Josh and I end up eating a lot of vegetarian meals, but we are not vegetarians…
Growing up my mom made the best spinach quiche – I’m not sure my tastebuds appropriately appreciated it at a certain young age, but as I matured, my tastebuds joined in, and somewhere along the way, I grew to love her spinach quiche with crust made from scratch…
After 40 weeks of praying and planning for this little boy, Brighton Asher Pauley made his arrival on Saturday, August 8th, 2015 at 10:24AM, measuring 21″ long and weighing 7 lbs 14 ounces!…
These Shrimp and Avocado Spring Rolls were such a delight in my third trimester. In the heat of late July, early August, by the time I got home from work most evenings, it would be after 6 and all I cared about was getting something relatively healthy…
Well I WISH I was writing to say, “he’s here, little Brighton has arrived”, but it seems he’s pretty comfortable in my belly and so, with no other choice, we anxiously wait!…
I know my posts have been few and far between lately, and this nursery is a big reason WHY! If you’ve followed along the last several months, then you know that Josh and I are expecting our first baby the end of July any day now! We could not be more excited to meet our little guy…
