‘healthy’

Welcome to week eight 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 Week Six Week Seven 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...

My love affair with delicata squash continues with this delicata squash mashed potatoes recipe.  So good! The best part about this recipe is that you air fry the delicata squash, and can do this step the day before you make this dish. How do you cook delicata squash in an air fryer? Delicata squash is called the “lazy man’s squash” because the skin is edible. ...

Yes, that’s a bold statement, but these are the best turkey meatballs! My secret?  Adding just a bit of pork sausage with the ground turkey – makes all the difference! How to cook ground turkey breast If you are making a burger with ground turkey, check out my post for the perfect turkey burger – a pat of butter in between the patties makes the...

If you have been intimated to make risotto at home, this shrimp risotto is easy! When I was in Italy I bought arborio rice that had turmeric.  The color that turmeric gives this risotto is incredible and pairs really well with the shrimp. Is it better to buy fresh or frozen shrimp? Unless you live near a body of water that you can get fresh...

My second cookbook is now available and oh what a journey it was. For the full story and purchase links, read on!

This easy shrimp fried rice is a great way to sneak in some veggies! My late husband made THE BEST fried rice.  You can check out this video of how he makes it here.  I watched this a couple times today – it made me smile.  Sadly, my fried rice is nowhere near as good as he made it, but this is still really good. ...

This healthy KFC bowl recipe will soon be a family favorite! My original recipe used natural heaven mashed hearts of palm with canned mashed potatoes to make the mash for this dish.  To make this dish even easier, I simply use prepared mashed potatoes that you find in the refrigerator section of your grocery store. What are the ingredients in a KFC bowl? Mashed potatoes...

Homemade Spaghettios This bowl of homemade spaghettios brings me right back to my childhood. Specifically Sunday mornings after church.  I would heat the can of spaghettios, toast white bread and butter it, and scoop the bread into the spaghettios with each bite. Can you make homemade spaghettios with fresh tomatoes? Yep!  I frequent The Waypoint Farm at my local farmers market and scored these amazing...

These oat pancakes are what I like to call a basic pancake.   It’s simple because you can dress it up however you like – add poppy seeds and lemon, add blueberries – whatever you have on hand! What kind of oats can I use? You can use quick oats or regular oats.  Just don’t use steel cut oats.  I had a follower make them with...

Friday night I came home from work and decided to clean out the fridge while Hannah and Jacob were out.  And between their groceries and mine, I threw out a whole garbage bag of food that had gone bad or leftovers that were never used up. Gross. So my friend Alexis on WW declared a #wwpantrychallenge and I knew I was in.  After writing down...