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Black bean soup is one of my favorite soups.  But I normally use dried beans and it takes hours to make.  Enter Instant Pot Black Bean Soup with canned black beans!  My daughter Hannah reminds me all the time of a black bean soup I made pre-blog and never wrote down.  She declared it the best soup I ever made – Hannah, I think this...

A week ago I had never even heard of vegan pakora.

  If you haven’t tried pumpkin bisque, you are really missing out. It screams fall! I bought a small pie pumpkin, called a sugar pumpkin and had a small butternut squash and decided to use both in this soup. Can you roast vegetables in an air fryer? Yep! This is the best part of this recipe, you just air fry the pumpkin and butternut squash...

 When my husband was alive, our Friday night conversations went like this:  Me: “Hey honey, I am meal planning.  What do you feel like having this week?”  Hubs: “I don’t care.”  Me: “Really?  You don’t have a taste for anything?”  Hubs: “Nope, whatever you make is fine.”  While I loved that conversation because that meant I could fix whatever I wanted, when it came time...

You guys – this delicata squash pasta sauce is money!   I saw my friend Courtney make a Pinch of Yum recipe using butternut squash, fried pancetta and sage. I had none of those ingredients!   But I did have delicata squash – duh!  If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know my love of delicata squash is deep. What is Delicata Squash? I...

This salad marries my two favorite things: honeycrisp apple and delicata squash!      This salad just tastes like a fall day with a bit of chill in the air and a slight crunch of leaves at your feet.      My philosophy on salad is that if you are going to make a good salad great – you have to use a great salad dressing, and that’s why Marzetti® Tastefully Dressed™ Honeycrisp Apple...

Pumpkin Chicken Chili Recipe I know pumpkin chicken chili sounds weird, but this is an amazing chili. My friend Ally (here is here blog!) recently came out with an eCookbook and I immediately bought it.  She had a recipe for a beef pumpkin chili and since I was using stuff I had on hand, subbed in ground chicken for the beef.  I grind my own...

I MADE SKINNY GLUTEN FREE PIZZA! In 2016 I made a gluten free pizza recipe for a friend who had a gluten intolerance.   This was before I made the skinny pizza dough, and well, lots of people wanted a gluten free skinny pizza dough. I had that dream too! 😁 What is the difference between gluten free flours? There are so many differences between brands...

These peanut oat bites with dark chocolate are so delicious – peanuts are packed with 19 vitamins! They are the perfect heart healthy snack and these peanut oat bites with dark chocolate are the perfect #mealprep snack. I use Lily’s sugar free dark chocolate chips – so good!   These are the perfect snack - sweet, salty and delicious! What makes peanuts good for you? A...

This post will help you be able to cook a tomahawk steak at home like a pro, pinky swear. No Labor Day Weekend would be complete without grilling up some meat. Mariano’s had Tomahawks steaks on sale for $16 a pound! What Is A Tomahawk Steak? A Tomahawk steak is essentially a ribeye. What makes it so expensive is how it is cut, and you...