I’m tired!
After a full day yesterday getting ready for my son’s 11th birthday party, which included 5 of his friends, my 13 year old and his friend, our block party + playing kick ball at the park + them staying up way too late, I need …
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Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
lunch
Taco salad!
I bring my lunch to work about 99% of the time. It’s easy, I know what’s in there and I can keep it healthy. I was running late, so I opened my fridge, and took some leftover taco meat, a little cheddar cheese and that …
Easy Chicken tacos
When I got this months issue of Cook’s Country, I immediately saw this recipe and had to make it. I love the articles about the recipes the most, because the person creating the recipe tries so many different variations to come up with the perfect …
Almost baked penne pasta, + homemade dinner rolls
When I got home from work, I got busy in the kitchen since I knew my dinner was going to be a little involved. I was planning on making baked penne, with ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, my own, sauce, until this happened: If you can …
Roasted Salsa and Fat free home fries
I hope everyone is having a great 4th of July weekend so far! We had mostly rain all day yesterday, but it cleared up for the fireworks, so I was happy about that! (and so were my kids!) We ended up grilling in our garage …
Pork & Veggie Kebabs
I’ve mentioned before that I get a lot of my recipe ideas from Fitness Magazine. I love their recipes, because its normal food, easy ingredients, and manageable even if you don’t cook much. These will be on my menu this weekend, but I wanted to …
Easy chicken dinner
Dinner in about 15 minutes that is! I basically took boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut them into strips and tossed them with this spice mix: I know it says “Hamburger” grill mates, but I think it tastes great with chicken! I just sprayed a skillet …
Brocolli cheddar brunch bake
I didn’t get a chance to work on the 5 minute cake in a mug recipe that I posted yesterday….my family and I went to the pool last night and stayed until it closed at 9:00 p.m! It was so much fun! It was still …
Summer time pasta salad
I haven’t made pasta salad in the longest time! I don’t know why either, when its so easy! This was my version of put whatever veggies I have left in the pasta salad! I used: cheese tortellini carrots red onion edamame celery Italian seasoning salt …
Asian/Mexican Fusion Fajitas
One thing I cook several times a week is chicken. I have been trying to broaden my horizens a bit, so my kids don’t say “Chicken again?” That’s when I happened to come across www.bonelesschickenrecipe.com. For those of you who don’t know, I hate eating …
Chicken Enchilada Casserole
Since it really doesn’t feel like summer yet in Chicago, with highs in the 60’s and getting into the 40’s at night, I can still make comfort food like this, since we don’t need the air conditioner on yet! I got this recipe from Diabetic …
First time trying Purple asparagus!
When I was shopping at Trader Joe’s over the weekend, I happened to come across these beautiful purple asparagus! I’ve never seen it before, or tried it, but considering my whole family loves asparagus, I put it in my cart. If you notice the stalks …
Bed & Breakfast Egg bake + Kicked up Ramen
Yesterday I was thinking about all the wonderful things you eat when you stay at a bed and breakfast. I thought, why can’t I pretend I’m staying at a B&B? So, I decided to look up some bed and breakfast recipes to see what I …
Stir Fry!!
I decided to do some of my grocery shopping this week at Trader Joe’s. They just opened one up in my town last fall. Before that I would drive about 25 minutes to get to one. The funny thing is I waited 2 years for …
Ahhh…the last day of school!
So yesterday was the official last day of school for my kids! I have summer hours at work, so I only have to work 4 hours of Friday for the rest of the summer, so my husband and I decided to take the kids out …
Guest post/chicken salad
One of the great things about having a food blog, is people will tell me their recipes that they love and they think are “blog worthy!” My Mom especially has thrown recipes my way, so I would like to post her recipe for Chicken salad …
How to Make Homemade chicken tenders
I mentioned the other day that I make pasta a lot. This is another recipe that gets requested fairly often. My famous home made chicken tenders. Usually it is requested on nights that my sons will have their friends over for a sleep over and …
Pasta with mini meatballs + southwest bowl
I make pasta a lot. Different pastas, different variations of sauce, some with ground beef, some with Italian sausage, etc… I knew I was going to make my pasta sauce, but I decided on mini meatballs instead of the regular size I usually make. Why, …
Lemon bow tie and shrimp pasta
Sometimes when I don’t know what to make for dinner, I will go to Food TV or Cooking Light and just type a few ingredients I have on hand and then get some inspiration from there. I had shrimp, and pasta, so that’s what I …
A great day!+ Chicken breasts with feta cheese sauce!
I had a great day today! It was gorgeous outside, not a cloud in the sky, so I decided to ride my bike to work! Then when it came time for lunch, I just had to get out again, so I jumped back on my …
Lemon Pepper chicken salad!
When I got home from work, well even before I got home, I told myself I was going to work out before dinner. I announced it to my family when I walked in the door, immediately got changed and got busy! I did 20 minutes …
Great buy!
Do you know what’s in that bag? There is a bread store in my town, Great Harvest Bread which is going out of business and their last day open is tomorrow. I stopped in yesterday just to tell the owner how sad I was that …
Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce
I’m so excited because for Mother’s Day I got two Topsy Turvey Tomato plants. Have you seen the infomercial about it? It’s a hanging bag, you put the seeds at the bottom, fill it with soil, hang it from a hook, and the plants grow …