Simply Tasheena

Happy Friday Everyone!

Last weekend my hubby and I rearranged our living, and I truly love the new layout… Now that the living room has been rearranged. We finally have enough room to have some type of storage system. Below are some ideas we have in mind.

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This would be the perfect addition to our living room, enough storage a blanket, mail and a laptop.

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very modern!

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Another great choice!

As you can see, I really want a secretary desk!

Do you have any living room storage ideas?

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(picture taken with my Nikon Coolpix L105- My Wonderful husband brought for me for Christmas)

I hope you guys are having a fabulous day so far! If you guys have noticed, I have been trying to eat a little healthier. After going online, I saw numerous recipes for no bake energy bites and I knew I had to give them a try and put my own little twist to them. They are super yummy and you can pretty much put whatever you want in the recipe. From dried cranberries to white or dark chocolate I opted to not go with chocolate due to me using the sweetened coconut flakes. I hope you guys enjoy this yummy treat!

Recipe

(makes 18-20 ball)

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1 cup oatmeal

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/3 cup honey

1 cup coconut flakes (sweetened or unsweetened)

1/2 cup ground flaxseed

1/2 cup raisins

2 tsp vanilla

Combine all ingredients (well), and let chill in your refrigerator for a half hour.

Then roll into balls and Enjoy!

Easy peasy right?

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(All that was left)

Over the weekend, I came across this great fried rice recipe; I knew this would be perfect recipe to pair with my orange chicken recipe. Seeing how I love good rice, and I have not had my favorite orange chicken in almost a month. I was eager to try this recipe. We had most of the items needed to complete this recipe. However, I was still off to the store yesterday with a grocery list. I decided to go to the closest Wal-Mart to me and to my surprise they had all of the items on my grocery list...Once the meal was almost finished my hubby was the first one in the kitchen to tell me how great the food smells. The combination of the orange chicken and the fried rice was extremely delicious. The food was so good that we only had about a cup of rice and a 1/2 of orange chicken.

Fried Rice
Recipe Adapted from: Life-As-A-Lofthouse

1/2 cup bean sprouts

3 cups cooked white rice

3 tbs sesame oil

1 cup frozen peas and carrots (thawed)

1 small onion, chopped

2 tsp minced garlic

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1-2 tbs soy sauce

On medium high heat, heat the oil in a large skillet or wok. Add the peas/carrots mix, onion and garlic. Stir fry until tender. Lower the heat to medium low and push the mixture off to one side, then pour your eggs on the other side of skillet and stir fry until scrambled. Now add bean sprouts rice and soy sauce and blend all together well. Stir fry until thoroughly heated!

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Hello, I hope all of you had a wonderful productive weekend! This past weekend I decided to make a no sugar added smoothie. I was truly inspired by all of the green smoothie recipes I saw online, and I decided to come up with my own. We actually had everything on hand in our home. My hubby usually blends up enough smoothies for himself to last for the entire week (his own recipe). I may just try making large batch, I have been drinking at least two bottles a day with my travel size bottle.

(20oz)