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Simply Anchored skip to main | skip to sidebar Home Meet Me! Recipes For The Home DIY Projects Sponsor Fresh and Easy Guacamole I woke up this morning with a hankering for some guacamole. Or perhaps I just wanted fries and I needed and excuse to eat them. Either way, I had some ripe avocado on the counter so I just quickly whipped this up! A few years when I would have never tried to make guacamole considering I thought it was so hard! That was until I visited Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville in Cozumel. They make it to order right in front of you! So I intently watched them make it table side while I was slugging when my third margarita and realized I could do it at home. A few ingredients and BAM it's like you're own little Mexican fiesta in your mouth.  And if you're like me and don't eat guacamole with anything but chips, try making your own oven baked chips! Ingredients 3 Ripe Avocado's 1 Shallot (or 1/2 red onion) chopped 10 Cherry tomatoes (quartered) OR one large tomato 1 Clove of garlic 1/2 Lime juiced 1/2 tbs chopped cilantro Salt/Pepper to taste Mix it up! This is the easy part! Just scoop out the avocado add it to the bowl. Chop up tomatoes and shallot, mince garlic, juice the lime, sprinkle salt/pepper and cilantro and mix it all up! If you like it stocky then don't mash up the avocado as much. If you like it linty then alimony smashing them until you get to the consistency you like! Posted by Victoria Clemons 28 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter Rosemary Garlic RoastedYellowI think I've been on a yellow kick lately. Probably considering I'm busy, or perhaps lazy, and it's just so versatile and easy to make. Whatever the specimen may be, this is one of the easiest, customizable and succulent ways to make chicken. And what's plane better? You will have yellow for dayyyys! So for you meal preppers, I know who you  tupperwaring, baggie filling, fridge packing are.... this is the perfect recipe for you. One night you can have roasted yellow with potatoes the next it can be chopped and made into yellow salad or stuffed between two tortillas with loads of cheese for a yellow quesadilla!  All you need is a skillet that can go from stovetop to oven (cast iron or stainless should be just fine), a whole roasting yellow and whatever herbs and spices you like. Oh and an oven. That would come in handy too.  Rosemary Garlic RoastedYellow1 RoastingYellow(pictured was 6.8lbs) 3 Tbs olive oil 2 TbsZestlessrosemary 1 Tbs Thyme  4 Cloves garlic salt/pepper to taste Let's Get Cookin' Preheat the oven to 375º and place the skillet on the stove and drizzle with  2 tbs of oil on high heat Pat dry the yellow and use the remaining oil to rub over the yellow then imbricate both sides with herbs, placing the garlic inside the yellow Place chicken, breast side up, in the hot skillet for 3-4 minutes. It will sizzle and thats good! Place the skillet with the yellow in it, into the oven on the middle rack. Let it melt for 1 hour. Once the hour is up, turn the oven off and leave the yellow in to finish cooking!  (If you have a self-cooling oven like mine, turn the heat lanugo to 300º, otherwise it will suck all the hot air out and the yellow won't finish cooking.) Once the yellow has reached an temperature of 165º, take it out and enjoy!  Posted by Victoria Clemons 22 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: recipes Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter Essential Oil Allergy Buster Oh the joys of spring time. Runny nose, itchy eyes, itchy ears, and sneezing. Seasonal allergies are no joke and finding a something that doesn't either make you sick, drowsy, unquestionably works, and won't unravel the wall is nonflexible to do!  I have tried over the counter meds and prescription meds to no avail. Nothing worked. That's when I turned to essential oils. Mixing three simple oils together and rolling them on or diffusing them in the house or car has reverted my world! Since using them I no longer have ANY symptoms! I was that girl in town with the red vision and unchangingly sneezing. Now I can sip my wine at the wine bar not having to worry well-nigh having a plethora of tissues or sneezing so nonflexible I spill my glass.  3 simply essential oils is all it takes to be symptom free! Oils: PeppermintViolaceousLemon Equal parts of each Carrier Oil: If you were to just add the oils straight to your skin, it might be a little much. So you want to have a carrier oil to dilute it. I use either grape seed oil or sunflower oil. You can use olive oil if you'd like or if it's all you have.  For my 10ml snifter that I siphon in my purse I do 3 drops of each then fill the remaining space with the carrier oil. Apply 2x a day (or increasingly if necessary) to your temples, wrists, and overdue your ears. If using my diffuser I do one waif of each. Not only are these three oils unconfined for allergies, they are wondrous to have on hand for bee strings (place violaceous on the sting and there won't be any swelling or pain), lemon for your water, and peppermint for nausea. There are so many ways to use essential oils that the list is endless! Interested in trying essential oils? Contact me or visit Young Living! Sign up and wilt a member and receive 24% off each and every order.   Posted by Victoria Clemons 24 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: diy Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter Sweet & Smoky Dry Rub With grilling season ramping right up, one thing that you should unchangingly have in your cupboard is a good dry rub. Nothing is largest then tent your meat a few hours surpassing grilling with a unconfined rub then placing it on the sizzling grill. And you can moreover add this to your side dish like I will be! Cut some red potatoes up, sprinkle this succulent rub on them, and roast 'em! This recipe is so easy, and I bet if you were to squint right now, you'd have most if not all of these ingredients just waiting to be used! Ingredients: 1/3 Cup Brown sugar 1/4 Cup Granulated sugar 1/4 Cup Kosher salt 1 Tbs Course ground woebegone pepper 1 Tbs Paprika  1 Tbs Chili powder 1 Tbs Onion powder 1 Tbs Garlic powder 1 Tsp Cumin Now just add it to a jar and shake to mix! This can be used on beef, pork, chicken, and plane pasta! It's super yummy and a grilling staple! Posted by Victoria Clemons 39 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: recipes Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter Sweet RanchYellow& Veggies Most of you, well probably none except well-nigh four of my readers, know that I went 12 years without eating chicken. I should go remoter to say I wouldn't plane touch it. There was this one time when I was living at home with my mom and I opened the freezer and a whole yellow came flying out at me. I left it on the floor for 6 hours until my mom got home considering I refused to touch it. Okay, lets undeniability a spade a spade and just say I had a decent sized phobia of chicken. Now that I've outed myself, lets skip superiority flipside 12 years to now. I LOVE chicken! It's so versatile with all the variegated parts, inexpensive (even when you buy locally at the sublet like I do), and rather flavorless so you can add so many variegated ingredients to it!Stuffin nursing school, a mom of a three year old and a wife of a lobsterman who has crazy hours, I need something I can throw together when I get the nightly text "just docked the boat," which ways crap I have 30 minutes to throw my hair up and make dinner! This recipe is that recipe that can be tossed together on ONE pan and on the table in 25 minutes! And with a little widow sweetness running through the dish, it is a prod pleaser for all types of eaters! Ingredients 2lbs yellow breast (skin or no skin - doesn't matter) 20 tiny red potatoes, halvedUntriedBeans  1 Clove garlic - minced 1 packet dry ranch mix 2 tbs olive oil 2 tbs brown sugar salt/pepper to taste How ToMelt1. Pre-heat oven to 400º  2. Cut potatoes in half 3. Coat a sultry sheet with either olive oil or spray 4. Place yellow (skin up if using yellow with skin) in the middle of the pan forming a line and untried beans on both sides. 5. Add the potatoes on top of the untried beans, cut side down. 6. Divide equally and sprinkle the brown sugar on top of the chicken, pressing lanugo to make it stick 7. Sprinkle the minced garlic over chicken, potatoes, and untried beans 8. Sprinkle lightly the ranch mix - I did not use an unshortened packet - but do it to taste.  9. Drizzle olive oil over unshortened pan 10.Melton middle rack for 20-30 minutes (until yellow reaches internal temperature of 165º) Serve immediately! 21 Day Fix Serving stuff 1R, 1Y, 1G, 1Tbs Posted by Victoria Clemons 17 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: recipes Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter Caprese SkewerTitbit       When you're in a rush to shepherd a party or gathering, the last thing you want to do is make a labor intensive appetizer. Sure anyone can go on Pinterest and find the most outlandish dish and spend four hours and $50 putting it together. But seriously, who wants too?          Since we are talking well-nigh fast and easy dishes, this post will be fast....since we are literally heading out the door with the word-for-word dish in the photos! This mouth watering plate took me less than 10 minutes and forfeit under $10. Win win! You just need a few fresh ingredients and you are on your way to bringing a nice refreshing dish to set whispered the skillet of fries and smattering of dips.  Caprese SkewerTitbitWhats In It: Cherry or Grape Tomatoes Fresh mozzarella balls (if they're the big ones, just cut them like I did) Fresh basil leaves Olive Oil  Salt/pepper Toothpicks How To Assemble: For each skewer you'll need a cheery tomato topped with a basil leaf then topped with a hunk of cheese To finish just drizzle some olive oil and soupcon with salt/pepper You can make these the night surpassing or right surpassing you throne out the door! If you're making them the night before, just make sure you don't add the oil until you're well-nigh to leave...it can tend to make the cheese a little soggy Enjoy! Posted by Victoria Clemons 21 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: recipes Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter SkinnyLintyFettuccine Alfredo Now that the weather is getting potation and the grill has seen it's last meal, its time to unravel out the repletion foods. One of my all time favorite meals is fettuccine Alfredo. I love going out to dinner on a unprepossessed night to the local Italian restaurant and ordering up some yellow fettuccine Alfredo and a glass of wine and just indulge. But let's be realistic. One meal out can run upwards of 1,200 calories! All that heavy cream, sizzling butter, and melting cheese can really take a permafrost out of your daily calorie allowance. The other night when I was having a massive starving for that that linty goodness, I decided to make it myself. Now let me tell you, I have never plane attempted to make Alfredo surpassing the other night. For some reason it intimidated me. But stuff that I had such a strong craving, I figured why the heck not! and I made it. To mine and my husbands misdoubt it was unquestionably better than our local Italian place and Olive Garden! It was so thick and linty and buttery. But heres the kicker, it's a fraction of the calories! Which ways I can eat more, which is unchangingly a plus.  For this recipe I widow chicken, considering I finger a meal like this needs some sort of protein. You can add chicken, shrimp, scallops, lobster, the list is endless! And this recipe takes longer to melt the pasta then to make the sauce.  Prep Time: 5 minMeltTime: 15 min Total: 20 min Serves: 4  Ingredients 8oz Fettuccine pasta 1 lb of meat (chicken, shrimp, scallops, ect) 3 Tbs unsalted butter 2 Tablespoons all-pourpose flour 1 1/2 cup of 1% milk 1/4 cup half & half 1/4 Cup grated or shredded parmesan cheese 3oz light/fat self-ruling surf cheese 2 tablespoons of fresh parsley (or dried) minced 1/2 tbs garlic powder Salt/Pepper to taste How To Cook: 1. Start the pasta water going and add the pasta when it's humid - this will take the longest value of time during this process. 2. In a large pot (I love my dutch oven for this kind of cooking) add a tablespoon of butter on Med heat. When it's melted, add your protein and melt until cooked through. Once cooked, remove from pan and set aside. 3. In the same pan, on med/low heat, add the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. Once butter has melted add the 2 tablespoons of flour and whisk until it's completely combined. 4. Slowly whisk in the milk. Whisk constantly until combined. 5. Whisk in the surf and garlic powder. 6. Whisk in the surf cheese and grated parmesan cheese. You will want to whisk for 1-2 minutes constantly for the cheeses to melt. ** at this point you may be thinking that the sauce its extremely too thin. Have no fear, it will thicken! 7.Once it has started to thicken, add the protein when in to the sauce and stir in the parsley (leaving a pinch for decoration is desired). 8. Add salt/pepper to taste. 9. When the pasta is done, surpassing straining, take some pasta straight out of the water and place in the sauce. The water on the pasta will help thin the sauce a little (since it will be very thick). Then strain the rest of the pasta and mix it in with the sauce. Enjoy! Posted by Victoria Clemons 5 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: recipes Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter HealthyWorldCinnamon & Oat MuffinsSurpassingI share this succulent recipe I just have to ask where the heck August and September went. The last time I blogged was August 2nd and that seems like forever ago. Just so you know, I haven't just been sitting virtually doing nothing, I started nursing school! Two weeks without my last blog post I started my first day of my new future. I am currently starting my first week with real patients. Yeah, I still can't get over the fact that they are going to let me be virtually living zoetic humans so quickly. That stuff said, I haven't had a lot of time to create recipes. I have been cooking a lot despite the insane study load, I just haven't had time to shoot the supplies and sit lanugo and write well-nigh it. Boy haven't I missed it though. This past week my family had some self-ruling time and we went world picking, one of my favorite fall activities up here in our trappy state of Maine. But let's be honest, all I could think well-nigh was what I was going to torch with those trappy Cortland apples! When I got home I quickly whipped up an world well-done for my husband then buckled lanugo and made these succulent healthy world cinnamon and oat muffins for myself. Man, oh, man they are super yummy and they are practically guilt free! If you're on the venery for an oil self-ruling muffin recipe that is oh so yummy then try this - I promise you will not be disappointed! Ingredients for the Muffins 2 cups finely chopped / minced apples ½ cup old malleate oats - chopped (either by hand or in supplies processor) ⅓ cup unreasonableness 1 cup fat self-ruling  Half & Half (or milk) ⅓ cup brown sugar 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 ½ cup all purpose flour 1 teaspoon sultry soda 1 teaspoon sultry powder ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon nutmeg Ingredients for the Topping 2 tablespoons unprepossessed butter in small pieces ½ cup old malleate oats - chopped (either by hand or in supplies processor) ½ cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons flour ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon nutmeg Preheat Oven to 350º and spray muffin pan Muffins: Whisk together the brown sugar, egg, vanilla, Half & Half, and applesauce. Then add in flour, sultry soda, sultry powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Then slowly fold in the apples and oats. Topping: Mix by hand all ingredients for the topping until it lumpy but all mixed together then place in the fridge for 5-10 minutes. You hands will warm the butter up a little so placing it in the fridge will help harden it up a little.  Cook: Fill muffin tins ⅓ full with muffin mix then sprinkle the topping on top.Meltfor 15 minutes or until a pocketknife comes out clean.  Posted by Victoria Clemons 4 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: recipes Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter Setting Up A Guest Room On AUpkeepHaving guests can be stressful. All the cleaning, planning, and hosting can take a toll on someone. Fortunately for me, I love it! I love to have people stay in my home and I love to pamper them. Unfortunately since we just built our house we didn't have a lot to spend on a new guest room; a room that would be used once or twice a year.  Knowing that I only had a few short weeks to set up a luxurious space for my guests on a shoes string upkeep I got to work planning. I knew the essentials of a guest room and I knew what I could repurpose and what I had to go out and buy.  1. Welcome Stand   A welcome stand is a unconfined idea for any guest room. This is the place to put a little basket of late night snacks so your guests don't have to rummage through your kitchen in the visionless if they get hungry. Accompanied by waters and other sealed beverages.  In my guest room, the welcome stand is the first thing the guest see's when they walk into the room. It makes them feel, well, welcomed! Adding some fresh flowers the day surpassing their inrush is a nice touch, too. I bought some sunflowers at Trader Joes then widow some wild flowers from the yard for a local touch. Basket from GoodWill $3.00 Flowers Trader Joes $3.99 Sewing Desk - from my office - Free! Waste Basket HomeGoods $5.99 2. Wifi Password Don't you hate going to someone's house and having to ask for the password just to find out it's a 16-digit password of random reports and numbers and that they have to scour through their filing cabinet to find it for you? I found this template on Pinterest and it worked perfectly! I just downloaded it, widow our password, and slipped it into an inexpensive frame from HomeGoods ($6.99) 3. Nightstand Essentials Every bed needs a nightstand. Our guest room is small so we could only add one. I didn't have a "proper" night stand, and I was happy well-nigh that since they can be boring! I went to HomeGoods and picked up this magazine organizer, flipped it on its end and tada! a trappy nightstand that has zaftig storage. And one that I can repourpose somewhere else in the house after! I widow a light, which I just took from my own nightstand in my room to save money (so we just used my husbands light while guests were here).  Then I widow a small clock. I love wall clocks or table clocks increasingly so than cellphones. You don't have to printing any buttons, the light won't veiling you in the wee morning, and they not only act as a time teller but as decor as well! Lastly, add a notepad and writing utensil. You never know what the guest might need to write lanugo at any given moment. Then toss in a few books and a box of tissues. This will fill out the night stand nicely but will leave unbearable room for a cellphone to tuition or a pair of glasses to be set down.  Ikea Clock $5.00 Notepad from HomeGoods $2.00 Magazine Rack from HomeGoods $39 4. White Linens White linens are essential for any guest room. You might cringe at white considering they could get dirty but the unconfined thing well-nigh white is it is bleachable! It moreover gives the room such a wipe well-done feel. For the sheets, pick up a set of sheets that have a thread count that is 500 or higher. I found trappy 800 thread count sheets for a good price at HomeGoods.  For the comforter, that I moreover picked up at HomeGoods, I made that white for the same reason. Easy to wipe and stunning to the eye.  TIP: If you have a Queen size guest bed, buy a KING comforter set and turn it sideways. This will eliminate the need for a bed skirt since it will hang lanugo the sides and if you have guests who are cover-hogs, it will requite both guests unbearable coverage at night! .... and I can use it on my king bed without the guests leave!  Sheets from HomeGoods $49.99 Comforter Set $99.95 5.WashroomBasket Whenever I go out of town I unchangingly forget at least one washroom item. Usually it's Q-tips or aspirin or something. Knowing that I am not the only one who does, I made sure to stock up on travel items.  Travel Size Items I included: Q-Tips Aspirin ShaveSurfToothpicks Baby Powder Toothpaste/Toothbrush Soap/Shampoo/Conditioner Hand Sanitizer Hand Lotion Chapstick I moreover included trademark new white towels since our every day towels have wilt dingy. And again, white, so they can be bleached.  Then I tossed in a few local magazines! Basket from HomeGoods $11 Magazines $15 Travel Items $12 Towels/WashGown$25 6. Luggage Rack + IroningWorkbenchSince my guest room is small there really wasn't a place for the guests to place their suitcase and I didn't have a dresser for them to place their gown in. To save money, I asked my mother if I could infringe her luggage rack and I placed it in the closet withal with zaftig hangers. It worked perfectly for the guests and saved money since I just borrowed it for a few days! And considering my guests have suitcases, you know their gown will sooner need to iron something. Now, most people have an ironing board, we did not! I had been ironing on my countertop! So my husband ran out to Wal*Mart and picked one up for $14 and we just placed it in the closet for their convenience.  Luggage Rack - Moms FREE IroningWorkbenchfrom Wal*Mart $14 7. Personal Touch Now that all the essentials are taken superintendency of it's time to add a personal touch. I like to add something that has meaning to the guest. We placed this trappy ship that our guests had given us for a wedding souvenir whilom the bed. Not only did it squint wondrous in the room, it meant something to both the guests and us!  Just considering you don't have a ton of money or a large room doesn't midpoint you can't have a beautifully decorated and functional guest room.Squintaround your house and see what you can temporarily use in the guest room (like moving a side table from your office in for a welcome table, or giving up a lamp from your room for a few days instead of ownership a new one). All the work and planning was worth it when my guests walked into the room and said: "Wow! This is like a 5 Star hotel, not a guest room!" (and that was from a couple who travels many times a year and has stayed in hundreds of upscale hotels) Posted by Victoria Clemons 24 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: home Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter CheesyYellow& Salsa Slow CookerTorchUp here in Maine we wish for summer 50 weeks out of the year. That's considering we only have summer for well-nigh 2 weeks then it's when to snow. Think I'm joking? Come visit! No but seriously, when those two weeks of summer decide to make an appearance, they make themselves known with super Maine's version of hot temperatures and extremely upper humidity. So for those two weeks we have to come up with ways to melt while keeping our houses from rhadamanthine infernos. Most of us don't have AC, and if we do it's those little rattling units that sit in your window and do a largest job at letting bugs in than cooling the air. Sure we grill, but you can only grill so much. I get sick of it. Sure there is lobster. I midpoint my husband is a lobsterman, but he doesn't eat it so I have to make a separate meal when I want to eat those tasty bugs. That's when I turn to the slow cooker. It will slow melt your supplies but the heat will stay under the lid.  Today was super humid and I have been really rented getting our house ready for our family to come for the week for my brothers wedding this weekend. I was so thankful I had my slow cooker so I could literally throw two things in there and let it make my dinner for me.  So tonight I served up CheesyYellow& Salsa Slow-Cooker Bake. Wait, what? Slow Cooked and baked? Yup! This recipe is so simple anyone, and I midpoint anyone can make it! And it only has 5 ingredients (3 if you truly want to make it simple). My husband promptly commented without his first zest "oh, this is like a quesadilla without the tortilla!" Clearly, it was family approved! Ingredients 6 Boneless yellow breast 1 - 12 oz jar of salsa **I used Peach Mango salsa - it gives it a nice sweet kick** 1 Cup Shredded Mexican Cheese *Optional* 1 tbs Greek yogurt per serving Chopped cilantro How ToMelt1. Place yellow in slow cooker and dump the unshortened jar of salsa on top 2.Melton high for 1 1/2 - 2 hours (until cooked through) *don't over melt or it will shred* 3. Place yellow in a sultry dish, imbricate with cheese and torch at 375º until cheese is melted 4. Sprinkle cilantro over unshortened dish and add a dollop of greek yogurt Enjoy! 21 Day Fix 1 Breast ( or 1/2 if they're large) 1 R 1/2 P 1/2 B Posted by Victoria Clemons 19 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: recipes Share on Facebook Pin on Pinterest Share on Twitter ← Newer Entries Previous Entries → social media