Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
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 …
When I got home from work last night, I was getting my mail and saw a flyer for Penzey Spices. If you aren’t familiar with Penzey Spices, they have an awesome retail store, plus great on-line catalog of virtually every spice on the planet! The …
My friend Kathy gave me a great cook book for my birthday last year that’s called the “Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook” by Tosca Reno. For those of you who don’t know who Tosca Reno is, she was a yo-yo dieter for years and after changing her …
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 …
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 …
As I was browsing the Food TV networks website, I saw this recipe that looked quick and easy. It was featured on a show about “All American Festivals.” I love those shows a lot because its just regular people making fantastic things! Ingredients 5 tomatoes, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This recipe was inspired by Recipe Girl’s post on chocolate banana bread a few weeks ago. It sounded so good, but instead of making it into bread, I made muffins of course! I adapted the recipe, but it still turned out great! Ingredients: 5 ounces …
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, …
As I was reading your blogs yesterday, I was so happy to see a recipe I needed to make. I had the task of making desert for my son’s school. Today is the teacher appreciation luncheon and since I couldn’t help, I told them I …
Holy cow I had a busy weekend! And wonderful! Except for rain in the afternoon on Monday, the weather cooperated and it was perfect this weekend! So, I will fill you in on my activities! Party pizza Friday, Water friends yard while they are out …
I think I’ve mentioned before that my family orders pizza every Friday night. My husband and I started that tradition when we first met 16 years ago, and through getting engaged, getting married, having 3 kids, its always been a tradition that we look forward …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What a busy weekend! I didn’t go on-line at all! But I wanted to share a great recipe I found from Fitness Magazine. I wasn’t able to download my pics because as I was downloading them, I have no more space on my computer! Maybe …
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 …
I’ve posted so many muffin recipes that are sweet, I decided to make a recipe that is savory instead. I consulted a few places, and ended up finding one I liked as a base to go off of from Eating Well Magazine. I’m going to …
I printed out a recipe from Spark People for what I thought was tortellini soup, but it turned out to be a recipe for a side dish that was just called “tortellini with vegetables.” Since I still had soup on my brain, I read the …
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 …
For someone who likes to blog, read blogs, check e-mail, etc… it’s been rather frustrating! After several calls to the cable company who said it was a local area problem and it should be back up in several hours, well two days has passed when …