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…
Pasta & Grains
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 it…
Cilantro Lime Brown Rice
Fluffy brown rice gets an upgrade with a healthy dose of lime and cilantro! Recently my father asked me how I like to prepare brown rice, and it was a nice reminder of one of my favorite side dishes: Cilantro Lime Brown Rice! It’s super easy, light in texture and goes with a seemingly endless number…
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…
Shrimp Pasta Salad + easy cleanup with ocelo™ No-Scratch Scrub Sponges
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GiveItASparkle #CollectiveBias Hey friends! LONG time, no talk. We’re almost completely settled in the new house now, so all things food are starting to come to fruition again. But here’s the thing – IT’S HOT. IT’S SO HOT….
Ramen “Spaghetti” Bake
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 theme would be the perfect way to try a different spin…
Easy Chicken Ramen Stir Fry
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 start out all optimistic that you’ll always eat healthy, and you’ll get food at the designated times from…
Copycat Ruby Tuesday Pasta Salad
My homemade, copycat version of Ruby Tuesday’s pasta salad. Perfect for a summer party! Generally speaking, I’m not a “chain restaurant” kind of girl. I live for finding little hole in the wall cafes, family-run diners and restaurants that only use locally-grown ingredients. But I do have a couple exceptions, and the Ruby Tuesday salad bar…
Stuffed Pepper Dip
I have a thing for chunky-style dips. If it’s smooth and creamy, I probably won’t partake in it… the only real exception being queso. Mmm, queso. Salsa? It’s gotta have beans and corn and chunks of tomato in it. Guacamole? That thing better be chock full of garlic and onion. Spinach and artichoke? All the…
Spicy Quinoa Stuffed Peppers
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 isn’t covered in sugar and chocolate in order to button up their pants and live past 30. They’re…
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……
No-Boil Mac ‘n Cheese
I hate doing dishes. I hate dirtying dishes. So when I find an opportunity to eliminate a step that would dirty another dish, I jump on it. And this is one of them – you can skip the process of boiling water and draining your pasta, and just do it all at once in one pan. And…
Baked Broccoli Mac & Cheese
So, as you may have read in my previous post, Apple and I are not friends at the moment. Therefore, I lost all the in-process photos from this recipe. The only picture I have is the “after” because I had emailed it to myself to test my wifi. Sigh. Anyway – I love broccoli….
White Chicken Lasagna
I really liked the idea of this recipe, but after I made it I decided I didn’t like having as many artichoke hearts in it, so I cut the amount of artichoke and upped the amount of chicken instead. White Chicken Lasagna [Adapted from Tasty Tidbits] 3 cups shredded chicken 8 ounces artichoke hearts (drained…
Chicken Alfredo Rollups
I love all things “rolled-up”. Lasagna, burritos, wraps, fruit (see what I did there?). So I’ve seen a few versions of these Chicken Alfredo Rollups floating around and wanted to try my hand at it, and I made a few alterations of my own. I’ve thought of other ingredients to include that I might try…
Ground Turkey Stuffed Shells
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! I wanted to make stuffed shells, and it needed to be with whatever was lying around the apartment. So I ended up with these,…
Homemade Shredded Chicken Enchiladas
Last night I decided to make enchiladas – we had a bunch of chicken breasts in the freezer (as well as ground turkey, but we opted for chicken) and I wanted to put them to good use. Here’s what I came up with – I more or less completely winged it, so this is by…