Vegan Enchilada Casserole

So, its sunny, well right now anyway, in NC and you can tell that spring is here and hopefully here to stay!

My kids spent all day, literally, outside. Its 5PM and theyve just now come in doors.

Its absolutely beautiful outside but also quite yellow, which also means I've been out there with them and since its so warm and I don't want to slave over the stove I bring you my version of a vegan enchilada casserole which only takes 30 minutes from start to plate! Perfect right?!

Now, along with this casserole, I just received an LG stylo so of course I had to try out its camera, so its where all the pictures were taken and though I love the camera maybe I should learn food photography as its just simple pictures... But I definitely recommend this phone, especially coming from always choosing iPhones.

Anyway, recipe:

1 box couscous (I buy mine from aldi, which is an amazing place to shop! But the box is roughly around a cup)
1 can 10 oz green or red enchilada sauce (I prefer red)
1 can 4.5 oz green chili's
1 can 10 oz, bag, or fresh corn (around 1 cup)
1 can 10 oz black beans drained and rinsed
1-2 cups left over taco meat (vegan of course)
1-2 medium sized avocados
2-3 Roma tomatoes
Mozzarella and cheddar cheeses (you can measure but I never do and usually just go with what I feel is a good amount)

Cook couscous according to package which usually only takes 5 minutes, yay couscous!! Drain both the corn and the chilis, you only have to rinse the black beans and all of this could be done while the couscous is cooking. Once the couscous is done mix it along with the beans, corn, chilis, and enchilada sauce, left over taco meat and some of both cheeses. I usually make the couscous in a medium sized bowl so I can mix them all together in it and keep more dishes clean. Once its mixed together pour it into an 8X8 casserole dish. Then sprinkle with more cheese and bake in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes. Top with avocado and tomatoes serve and enjoy!

So this entire post was supposed to be added last Saturday! I'm guesing my mobile blogger app was being a bit crazy but anywho, here it is...

Sorry I've been away I took the week off along with the children and even delivered kittens Tuesday night, but that's another post ❤

My mind is blank...

You know, ever since I made my previous post about my epiphany moments, my mind has been in a complete shutdown mode, you know where you can't even get it to hush for five minutes of peace.

I'm going back and forth over why I wrote all those things out in the public whenever the things I wrote weren't even about what exactly was going on during my epiphany moments, you know. It's just amazing me how much my mind thinks it needs to protect itself whenever its itself that it need protecting from....

I'm currently locked into the book I shared before, The Untethered Soul, and its all about how your mind is your biggest uplifter and your biggest down fall and its gotten myself and my mind into overdrive with how I should not be listening to this book and how I should continue listening to myself and my fear whenever I know I shouldn't which is of course why I made my previous post and why I am continuing to make this one.


Though I would love to continue with my previous and go further into what I was hopefully getting across to you, I fear I will have to take a few days off to just bring myself back into, well myself.

Though I do hope that you bear with me I thought I would give an update as to why I have no went more in depth yet, but blame it on my mind, my inner roommate, so to say.

I will try meditating the next few days to try and figure out everything going on inside there...

Turning point of sorts

I started this blog off with intentions of posting, DIY's along with recipes and how being vegan/vegetarian can be super yummy, filling and down right amazing for yourself and those poor factory farmed animals!

But this post will be, sort of personal. If everything comes out the way I am hoping it will be the most personal yet!

But I would rather take it slow than jump into it and this post might even take more than a few minutes, hours or days to write out... I'm just hoping to get my point across and to be understood at the same time, I don't think that I can be the only one feelings these kinds of thoughts of realizing these kinds of things about themselves or their life, so maybe this will be good for someone other than myself.

Okay so let me start, I've read lately about how we see the world and other people in it are also ways in which we see ourselves, such as --- I find a problem with my husband about how he handles situations, but also when I think about it and meditate on it I find that I handle problems the same way and in reality I am not mad at how he handles them but mad at myself for handling them in the same way (THIS IS NOT SAYING THAT MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE THIS PROBLEM JUST USING A MADE UP EXAMPLE)

Now, if I am seeing what I dislike about myself in other people then I feel like I should work on that right? Well, yes and no, because even though I have noticed and seen my problems reflected in my outside world I still continue to consciously and internally press these issues and my huge dislike for them, which is both good and bad. I mean to get over these problems and change your life you have to confront the problems inside and figure out what exactly is causing them, which is where my problems come in...

Though I do remember parts of my childhood I do not remember enough to figure out some of the reasoning behind my angering reflections of my inner self, which means that I would have to do some long sitting and digging -- alone now, since I do not have my mother to ask and interrogate about myself as a child, and because I do not entrust my raw emotional state with anyone other than her and my husband, who was not around for my childhood.


But lately during my late night, zen music induced meditation baths I have slowly came to some realizations about my outer world being my inner world, and some have been epiphany-like while others were like I had known all along and have just been avoiding them, which could be said for all of them as I have been aware of various things but have just not wanted to think or talk about them, which is what makes me, me.

But what I've began to notice is how I project myself into people around me, I can literally see myself in everyone I come in to contact with lately, be it my husband or my children even my sister at a couple of points. What I am seeing and already knowing about are things that I am greeting with an, oh you finally caught up with me and I'm thinking about you now, kind of way but the others which I kind of have a light bulb moment are ones that are just absolutely throwing me and I am in awe of how much I did NOT see it coming or even begin to notice it.

But right now, I am going to have to end this post.
Yes, I know I'm cutting off right before getting into it, and well, I hope that if you're enjoying what I'm saying then you will come back in a day or two for me to finish this up and get my words correct with whats going on inside my head.

And, I really hope that you into what I'm talking about <3

Oh by the way, here are the couple of books that are making me slowly pan into these revelations. and go check them both out, so far they have been beyond amazing for both a read and learning about myself in ways I did not think possible.

Bath Fizzies... Or Bombs, whichever you prefer

You know how I told you guys I make bath bombs? Well here are the first three I plan on selling. I've been through recipes and finally found one that is my absolute favorite!

These particulars happen to be energizing citrus and perfect for those weekend morning where you just wanna be a little lazy and relax in a bath before starting your day, which is in fact what I plan to do, well with my weekend morning that is.

Though I do make and sell these bad boys, I actually test every single batch I make, even if it one I've been using the same recipe for the last 10 times I made it. Not because I'm all "Ohhhhhh, fruits of my labor" but because I'm rather "Let me see how these leave me feeling, exact smell and if it fizzes the way I feel it should" I don't want anyone receiving something from em which isn't satisfactory so, I test along with a couple of other people whom I've chosen as my testers.


But anyway I'm supposed to be telling you how amazing these bombs are right!? I mean their enriched with vitamin E along with coconut oil to leave you feeling silky smooth and moisturized. And the smell is there but definitely not overbearing. I like to make my bombs where they're perfect and nothing is too extravagant, other than the decorations or presentation! Well maybe making your skin feel amazing.


UPDATE: These bath fizzies have sold and though I do not have any in stock as I would rather make them when ordered I urge you to either check out my etsy shop and message me for an order or comment here.


Thanks guys!

So, I'm meat free...

Okay, so its taken me a while but since I have been a grown up and deciding what goes into my body along with my children, I have come to the realization that for us -- meat free is better.

Now, please I would love for the world to go without meat, but if you eat it and enjoy it then I have no bad feelings toward you, though I would like to mention to you that factory farming is RUINING the earth and would love for you to think about going organic and grass-fed, but again I can only mention and hope that you look into it and make the switch even if you don't want to give up meat.

Please don't stop reading because I know the whole farming, eating meat, harming the earth thing triggers a lot of people and also upsets them, but if there is one thing I am it is open-minded, I know how I think is, a lot of the time, completely different than others and I enjoy having conversations with people while also disagreeing in a civil way. Although, this is my blog and I control what I talk about and promote I do promote being vegan, or at least vegetarian!

Before there wasn't much choice in foods when you were meat free, well not anything that tasted very pleasing. But now, there have been so many breakthroughs with taste and texture that its almost impossible, with some things, to tell that their are meat free.

But, there are some amazing recipes to try and make yourself while going without meat, and there is a huge difference in your body once you get rid of all the toxins being pumped into the factory farmed meats.

This post really isn't about much today but rather my argument of trying to tell you the positives of going meat free because to me, there are no negatives. My next post I will go in depth with one of my favorite recipes that I found and altered to my own liking and various things you can change out with it yourself. Along with this recipe I will continue to try various meat free products and review them for you as well, for whenever you decide to take the plunge of vegetarian... Which will be one of the best decisions you make <3