This summer vegetable spaghetti dinner is the perfect way to use up all those summer veggies! The base is spaghetti, zucchini, summer squash, corn and tomatoes and it’s all topped with a garlic lemon sauce, fresh basil and creamy burrata. If you ask me, there’s nothing worse than a heavy meal on a hot day….
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Easy Instant Pot Corn Chowder
Corn chowder is the ultimate summer soup! It’s light and creamy, and loaded with corn, red potatoes, bacon and fresh thyme. A great way to use up all that summer corn! Includes directions for making in an Instant Pot as well as on your stove top. Corn is my favorite vegetable. Period. I can eat…
Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad with Steak
A light and bright salad full of spinach greens, freshly sliced strawberries and avocado, seared steak and a simple lemon balsamic vinaigrette dressing. This past week has been spent at the Everything Food Conference in Salt Lake City, so things have been a little bit busier than usual around these parts. I buttoned up my…
My Top 10 Favorite Soups for Winter
My top ten favorite soups for the cold winter season that are sure to warm you right up! I feel like we can all agree that winter is soup’s prime time. They get to be front and center, everybody wants a piece of them, and just about everywhere you go has some sort of soup…
Instant Pot Carrot Ginger Soup
This carrot ginger soup makes for an easy, healthy and heartwarming winter dish! It’s creamy with a subtle spicy kick of ginger, gluten free, dairy free, sugar free and perfect for those on a paleo diet. Includes directions for making in an Instant Pot as well as on your stove top. Even better, it will…
Baked Mac and Cheese
The perfect mac and cheese casserole! Rich and cheesy on the inside, crunchy homemade breadcrumbs on the outside. Posting this recipe is so overdue I’m almost mad at myself. This is my go-to in the depths of winter, and I’ve been making this for as long as I can remember. Every time I make it…
Roasted Delicata Squash and Brussels Sprouts
A fall side dish that will brighten any meal! Roasted delicata squash and brussels sprouts are topped with pomegranate arils for gorgeous pops of color. I would like to submit this recipe as a last minute addition to your Thanksgiving dinner tablescape. This dish is a combination of my favorite winter vegetables and fruit, which…
Bratwurst and Red Cabbage
Bratwurst and cabbage is a flavorful, brightly colored dinner! Smoky sautéed vegetables are combined with sweet and sour red cabbage to make the perfect partner to juicy, flavorful beer-soaked bratwurst. When Johnsonville reached out to me about doing a post to celebrate National Bratwurst Day, I was here for it because 1) I freaking love bratwurst…
Veggie Lasagna Rollups
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PremiumPrep #CollectiveBias || These tender vegetables, gooey cheese and perfectly seasoned sauce are so hearty you will forget you ever put meat in your lasagna! I’ve always been a “load it up with meat” kind of gal when…
Easy Puff Pastry Pizza
A super easy way to satisfy a pizza craving when you’re low on time or dough: Puff pastry steps in as the crust, and the rest is totally up to you! You guys! It’s National Pizza Day! !!! I feel like I don’t have to do a lot of convincing on the topic of eating…
Lobster Scampi with Cheese Tortellini
A light and bright dish with a nice lemony white wine sauce to complement fresh lobster over a bed of cheesy tortellini. We got a burst of Indian Summer this last week in Massachusetts, and while I don’t love the heat (and that we already put away the air conditioner units for the year… oops), I…
Chicken Shawarma Pita Pizza
Seasoned shredded chicken and homemade tzatziki sauce are served atop pita bread for a Middle Eastern favorite turned into single serving pizzas! So, funny story… I just discovered that I never published this post. I made these Chicken Shawarma Pita Pizzas back in September, took pictures, edited said pictures, entered the recipe and pictures into…
Ramen “Spaghetti” Bake
A cheesy, meaty, family-sized casserole featuring a surprise ingredient – ramen! Week three of of the ramen & funfetti challenge is upon us! The weather has started to cool down a bit, so I was aching for something warm. Warm comfort food. One of my standby comfort foods is spaghetti, and I figured this week’s…
Easy Chicken Ramen Stir Fry
A simple stir fry chock-full of vegetables and chicken using an old college staple as the base: Ramen! Welcome to the first week’s ramen recipe for the Ramen & Funfetti Challenge! There’s such a stigma around ramen. It’s the food all college students end up stockpiling in their dorm room after their first semester. You…
Easy No Mayo Lobster Rolls
There’s no mayo in these lobster rolls – just buttery lobster meat lightly tossed with lemon juice and served on a toasted bun. A New England staple! How is it possible that I haven’t done a recipe post on this before? It’s only my all time favorite food: lobster rolls. Lobster rolls are available most anywhere…
Spring Salad with Pomegranate Vinaigrette Dressing
Loads of fruits and vegetables paired with a flavorful pomegranate vinaigrette for a colorful and healthy entree. Just call me Elaine Benes, because I love a big salad. The bigger the better. “Big lettuce, big carrots, tomatoes like volleyballs.” If I order a salad and it fits in a cereal bowl, I feel dejected and let…
Spicy Quinoa Stuffed Peppers
My go-to stuffed pepper recipe that reheats beautifully, making it the perfect dish for Sunday meal prep! I know we’re a couple days away from Christmas, and the fact that I’m posting a completely non-holiday themed recipe is blasphemous. I know. I’m sorry. But the reality is that people do need to eat food that…
Ground Turkey Baked Rigatoni
This baked rigatoni is full of ground turkey, veggies and – most importantly – cheesy goodness! I apologize for the lack of posts lately. Between the Boston Marathon Bombings and a member of my boyfriend’s family ending up hospitalized in what turned into a much more difficult surgery than had been originally anticipated……
Ground Turkey Stuffed Shells
These ground turkey stuffed shells are my most popular recipe of all time! Large pasta shells stuffed to the brim with ground turkey and cheese and covered with tomato sauce and yes, even more cheese. Serve with a basket of addictive cheddar bay biscuits! I wanted to make stuffed shells, and it needed…