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The Best Chicken Meatballs

The Best Chicken Meatballs
Breakfast nachos were on the menu yesterday for breakfast – so easy and delicious.  Only one tiny problem.  I forgot that I brought home my cheddar cheese that I usually keep in my work fridge – but the day before I tossed it back in my lunch bag.  How can you have any type of nachos without cheese?  Well guess what – you can shred...
June 21, 2018

Chicken and Roasted Red Pepper Naan

Chicken and Roasted Red Pepper Naan
I made it the whole week without doing a full grocery shop – whoop!  I think I spent about $5 on fruit (not counting the farmers market yesterday) but that’s about it.  It really makes you use up the food you already have, and I think I could easily go another week without shopping.  But that’s silly talk.  I’ve been gone the last two weekends,...
May 25, 2018

Grilled Pizza

Grilled Pizza
This grilled pizza needs to be in your life! *********************** I’ve been tracking like a boss this week and guess what?  It’s not been that hard.  When I take the time to put my food together and bring it with me, I am much better at eating what I brought, then if I tell myself “I’ll just pick up something healthy when I get downtown.” ...
May 24, 2018

Vegan Mac and Cheese

Vegan Mac and Cheese
Another busy Monday is in the books.  I knew it was going to be steady busy, so I was mentally prepared for it.  Even though I would have rather hung out with my brother and his family before they left last night.  Such is life! I made this quick picky plate for breakfast.  Hannah and Jacob bought cantaloupe last week and hadn’t cut it yet...
May 15, 2018

Italian Bolognese Sauce

Italian Bolognese Sauce
Congrats to my friend Nicole of Prevention RD for coming out with another cookbook – The Easy Heart Healthy Cookbook for Sow Cookers:  130 Prep-and-Go Low-Sodium Recipes which includes th e Italian Bolognese Sauce I made below. You can check it out here. Long time readers may remember, but Nicole and I went to the same high school.  Ahem, I may have graduated about 18...
April 30, 2018

Bolognese from The Pretty Dish

Bolognese from The Pretty Dish
This cold weather is just sucking the life out of me.  I can’t help but think of what Tony would say to me every day if he were still here – “why do we live here?!”  He hated winter most of all, and this lingering winter would have drove him batty.  And while I’ve bumped up my thermostat to 68 (I usually like it at...
April 17, 2018

Fried Margherita Pizza

Fried Margherita Pizza
The best part about making waffles is that you can have breakfast for days.  I made another waffle breakfast sammie yesterday.  1/2 of my Bolthouse Farms Protein Waffle (3) an egg, spinach, ham (1) 1/2 once of cheese (2) sugar free pancake syrup (1) and tangerines for dessert.   We finally had a nice day in Chicago yesterday!  When Jenn and I went on our walk...
April 13, 2018

Spinach Pasta

Spinach Pasta
Let’s start this day off with finding out who the winners are of my birthday giveaway!  First up is Jessica’s cookbook, The Pretty Dish.   And the winner is . . .  KIMBERLY March 19, 2018 at 8:07 am Happy birthday greetings from Mussouri ðŸ˜€ The winner of the Trader Joe’s spices . . . ANN March 20, 2018 at 8:25 am Happy belated birthday from Central...
March 23, 2018

Buffalo Tender Chicken Pizza

Buffalo Tender Chicken Pizza
I made a batch of bagels the night before last.  While I posted my skinny bagels in December, lately I’ve just been using my skinny pizza dough for the bagels, skip the boiling step of the bagels, and they turn out just as good. I happened to be watching This is Us (season finale already?!) and I shaped the bagels, brushed them with an egg...
March 16, 2018