Sometimes you just need a quick healthy meal you can put together in a short amount of time. I came home from work tonight starving and debating just making a grilled cheese and calling it a night. Instead I decided to throw together a 30 minute stir fry combining some healthy and satisfying ingredients. I love variations of fried rice. I’ve made quite a few versions already: Veggie Fried Rice, Bok Choy Fried Rice, and Turkey Fried Rice. I like these types of dishes because you can combine filling brown rice with lots of healthy veggies and protein. I had some chicken breast and some yummy Veri Veri Teriyaki Sauce, [...]
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Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Pork Loin
Ah Valentine’s Day… a strage pseudo-holiday. As if digging out from Blizzard Nemo wasn’t stressful enough, now we have to up the romance quotient. Although I am not a big lover of Valentine’s Day, I do enjoy the sentiment of making special gestures for your loved ones. I rarely go out to restaurants. This is due to a variety of factors, but mainly because I enjoy cooking and feel pretty gross after eating takeout. However, there is one restaurant that we frequent with some regularity. Old Magoun’s Saloon. Craig and I discovered this place a year ago and it has become our regular haunt. A constantly rotating selection of craft [...]
Chili Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Leftovers! We don’t have a lot of them in my house because Craig has a very big appetite. But my Chicken Corn Chili recipe made plenty of them. Instead of just eating the tasty chili, I decided to find a way to use the leftovers. Sweet potatoes are a healthy and filling ingredient for any meal. Packed with vitamin A, vitamin C, beta carotene and antioxidants, sweet potatoes also provide lots of healthy fiber. This meal was a no brainer. Bake some tasty sweet potatoes and stuff them with chili. The spicy chili paired beautifully with the creamy sweet potatoes and the result was an incredibly filling healthy meal. One [...]
Freezer Fridays: Meatballs
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to do more freezing. I spend a lot of time cooking and yet, I often come home from work and there is nothing to eat. Since cooking meals from scratch 7 nights a week is just not realistic, I really want to make more of an effort to make some good freezer meals. So now a confession: Meatballs are one of my Top 5 all time favorite foods. I absolutely love them. I have yet to experience a day I would not feel like eating Meatballs and some pasta. In my mind, there is just nothing better than homemade meatballs. I have spent six years pefecting my [...]
Leftover Turkey and Vegetable Hash – #Sunday Supper
Thanksgiving! A whole holiday devoted to eating delicious food. Every year Craig and I alternate spending Thanksgiving with each of our families. This year we’re heading to my mom’s house where I’ll be cooking and Craig will be grilling our turkey. I tend to overcook even when it’s just the two of us, so I really go overboard for the holidays. The result is usually a TON of leftovers. So, it only seems fitting that this week’s Sunday Supper theme is Thanksgiving leftovers. There are so many things you can do with your leftovers. Our family tradition is that Craig uses leftover turkey to make hash. He usually uses bacon, [...]
Lemon Rosemary Roast Chicken
I have a special surprise this week: A series of posts devoted to one recipe and its leftovers. I’ve mentioned my lovely friend Liz in this space a few times. She is a culinary novice who has been teaching herself to cook using some of my recipes as well as lots of others she finds online. She even admitted to watching YouTube videos about how to do certain things, which I think is a brilliant idea! So, she asked me what her next challenge should be and I suggested roasting a chicken. Roast chicken is super delicious and quite easy. It can seem like a daunting task but it’s actually [...]
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