Noelle likes Good Food

Hey everyone! I have good news. Last friday my summer semester at school officially ended. I have two weeks of break and I have many things planned to do while I am off. I spent Sunday hanging out with my wonderful friend Jessica in Atlanta. We hiked the trails at Chattahoochee Recreational Park, visited an international market and ate some wonderful Greek and Indian food. Yummy!  Yesterday, I hung out with my Mom and 5 of my younger siblings on the lake. We had a great day of swimming, laying out in the sun, playing card games and eating lots of good food. I have enjoyed getting some time to relax with good company and good food. Now for my upcoming plans.... Freezer Cooking! I am jumping on the freezer cooking bandwagon. Growing up, my Mom would do freezer cooking every year, making over 200 meals at one time. I have learned from the best and I figured it was high time I started doing it myself.  I am not making 200 meals, but I do have plans to try to...

Blueberry White Bean Coffee Cake I would like to present to you my all time favorite way to eat beans.  White Bean Vanilla Cake . Several months ago I found this recipe on The Spunky Coconut blog, and since my discovery I have made it at least a dozen times. It utilizes white beans, lots of eggs, coconut flour, honey, coconut oil, and the essentials like salt, vanilla, baking soda, etc. This cake is delicious for breakfast, lunch, dinner or anything in-between. From someone who chronically forgets to pack snacks, my solution is to eat a huge breakfast that will tide me over until lunch or whenever I get home from work. Eating just one piece of this cake for breakfast will keep me feeling satisfied for hours. Of course it also tastes great between lunch and dinner, or after dinner for dessert.  Being the recipe rebel that I am, I always do something different each time I make it. Like the cake pictured above. I made the normal recipe but added 2 cups blueberries...

Thanks to the rain and the Georgia summer heat we are getting lots of tomatoes! Today I walked out to the garden and seemingly overnight many tomatoes were ripe and ready to pick.  These tomatoes are from my two roma plants. Many of them are a little less than ripe because they were getting spots on them. They are chilling by our kitchen window and I am sure they will be ready soon! You better believe a HUGE batch of pico de gallo is in the near future :). The darker tomatoes are cherokee purple, the yellow ones are striped and of course the red ones are cherry tomatoes. I picked so many cherry tomatoes today. Many of them had split because of so much rain recently. So, after I brought them inside I sorted through them and placed the smooth ones in the bowl for us to eat fresh.  The split tomatoes were divided up. Half of them went into a pot with garlic, a little bit of chicken broth, olive oil and salt and pepper. I cooked it down for about 30 minutes a...