‘dinner’

I never would have thought of zucchini tacos if it wasn’t for my friend Alfredo. Well, I call him my friend, but I’ve only met him in person once.  😂 He has a giant TikTok following and recently started a recipe blog. He recently posted a recipe called Tacos de Calabacita, and it looked amazing.  I am using zucchini because it is a bit more...

Welcome to week six of our meal plans!  In case you missed it, here are the previous weeks meal plans: Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five  The vision for these meal plans is to possible get you out of your rut of making the same things over and over.  Feel free to mix and match, use one recipe or all this week...

Taco potato skins bring back so many memories and I am so happy to have a healthy version to share with you! I worked in a bar in my early 20’s.  On Wednesday nights I worked the kitchen to give our only cook one night off a week.  He was the Uncle of the owner of the bar, and he drank Heineken and shots of...

There seems like a lot of steps in this jalapeno popper burger, but promise this is a 20 minute dinner at most. So good and only 8 smart points.

I didn’t do a true meal plan this week, because I knew I had plenty of food in my house to make the week work.  Especially after I found six bags of different types of frozen chicken.  I said on my Instagram page that if anyone was in the NW suburbs and saw me looking at chicken in the discount meat pin, they had full...

You guys.  Thanksgiving is in TWENTY TWO DAYS!  Yes, I am shouting that because I can’t really believe it.  This year has flown by and I need to stay focused during this holiday season.  I love my Weight Watcher leader Mickey.  I think she said it last year, that typically she attends six holiday events during the season.  That season lasted from Halloween until New...

I love soup.  Like all kinds of soup.  I do consider soup to be a meal – especially this Tuscan White Bean Soup – its got beans, its thickened with butternut squash and potatoes, and it even has sun dried tomato chicken sausage meatballs – winning! This is my take on Ribollita – which is a white bean soup that’s traditionally thickened with bread –...

Homemade Sopes Recipe I’ve never made homemade sopes before.  But that’s what happens when you meal plan with what you have on hand.  I’ve had a bag of masa in my pantry for a while.  I just googled “what to make with masa” and sopes popped up.  A lot of recipes called for adding lard to the batter, or butter.  Masa is simply corn flour. ...

Guys.  You have to make this!!  I haven’t been this happy with a recipe I made on the fly in a while.  Most of the times I recipe develop on the train ride home, I get home, make the recipe as I’ve written it, and then had to tweak it.  Like a lot.  Not this Korean Pork BBQ sauce.   I grilled a pork tenderloin I...

I walked into work with another pile of documents to revise in my inbox.  It’s been a long week y’all, but we made it to Friday!  I was plowing through the stack of stuff, when my friend Jacky texted “do you want a lunch buddy?”  Um, yes!  I quickly asked “walking or food?” and she replied that she didn’t care which, so I chose food! ...