This Slow Cooker Curry Butternut Squash Soup Recipe is a great make-ahead healthy meal prep lunch or comfort food Fall dinner with sweet potato, apple, & curry. If you have never had curry and butternut squash together, add this soup to your meal plan ASAP! Trust me. This is a combination that should be right …
This Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash recipe is a fast and easy vegetable dish that is low calorie and low carb, making it a great food for weight loss! How to Cut Spaghetti Squash These squashes can be tough to cut apart. I usually don’t use a microwave when I cut mine, but it definitely helps …
These protein-packed quinoa bites bursting with apples and sweet cinnamon are a healthy & delicious make-ahead breakfast. My sweet niece, Brianna (she’s 6), is still in that stage where I am her cool aunt. I kind of hope this phase carries on forever, but even if it doesn’t, I am soaking it up while it …
This Harvest Quinoa Salad is full of butternut squash, walnuts, cranberries, and Parmesan for a healthy side dish, great for a party. Some friends of mine from church just threw their annual harvest party. Their story behind the party is actually pretty awesome! They just are really grateful for everything God has blessed them with, …
This Slow Cooker Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese is an easy and healthy spin on the classic comfort food, making a festive Fall side dish. I am LOVING Fall this year! After desert dwelling for the past 7 years, I am soaking up every little bit of the season that I can. That means watching …
Prep this make ahead breakfast in 5 minutes the night before and you have a healthy and delicious Peanut Butter & Blueberry Overnight Oats in the morning. Make ahead breakfasts like overnight oats are a lifesaver for me. It is no secret that I am not a morning person. I don’t wake up grumpy or anything, …
Turkey Quinoa Bites are the perfect way to transform your Thanksgiving leftovers into a tasty and healthy, perfectly poppable protein-packed dish. Controversial topic of the day – leftovers. Do you love ’em? Hate ’em? Eat ’em? Toss ’em? Re-purpose ’em? Growing up, we always had some kind of leftover in the fridge at all times …
The ultimate holiday comfort food – sweet and creamy mashed sweet potatoes with maple syrup, cinnamon, and a hint of nutmeg. The perfect Thanksgiving side! It’s November! I know, I know, thanks for the announcement, Captain Obvious! It just seems like the last time I blinked it was summer, and now we’re already past Halloween …
This nutty and delicious Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread will have your mouth watering. Eat it whilst it’s still warm! This weekend, I had the joy of spending time with my parents up in the White Mountains and it was absolutely beautiful! There were leaves changing color all around us, chipmunks and squirrels shimmying up and …
A friend and I were talking recently about kale (because who doesn’t talk about kale regularly with their friends?) and she was telling me that she just isn’t a fan. I get it. I didn’t used to like the stuff either! And then I discovered the secret – the kale massage. Start with your bowl …
Break out of your salad rut with this healthy southwestern barley salad recipe. It’s an antioxidant-rich, nutty grain mixed with southwestern flair. Barley is a newer food to me. I think the only meal I had ever heard barley used in consistently was beef and barley stew (which I want to make once it cools …
Healthy, but oh-so delicious morning glory muffins made with whole wheat flour. These have no processed sugar, and are packed with cinnamon, pineapple, and plump raisins. Vacations are always tough for making good food choices and I have been on vacation for the entire past month. Don’t get me wrong, there were a lot of …
This Broccoli Cheese Soup is packed with veggies & uses Greek yogurt instead of heavy cream for a healthier and protein-packed comfort food on chilly nights I read an article a few years ago that was discussing the things our fast food culture was missing out on by just grabbing and gobbling food. It talked …
It’s finally fall! It’s time to break out the apple cider and caramels and sweaters! Except not the sweaters here. We’re still pretty warm here in Tucson. I’m still wearing shorts, tank tops, and flip flops. #DesertLife Instead, I busted out fun fall soaps and Scentsy scents. Currently, my hands smell like apples and my …
I am officially back to work for the school year, which means it’s back to meal planning. I let planning kind of go to the wayside this summer. It was all about road trips and meals with friends and eating Everything Pretzel Crisps & hummus for dinner at 9pm. Oh, those summer nights. But, now …
These Easy Turkey & Black Bean Enchiladas are so simple. Only 7 ingredients to throw together this healthy Mexican dinner for a potluck or a busy weeknight! This is one of the easiest (and most requested) weeknight recipes I’ve made around here. I have an unspoken rule for myself – I don’t make a recipe …
Carbs are so comforting to me. And they just taste so darn good. Fluffy dinner rolls, soft pretzels, buttery garlic bread, warm french bread… Bring. it. on. I’ve already talked about how my favorite breakfast to offer guests is warm cinnamon rolls, but I wanted to play around with the recipe and kick ’em up …
AKA, a few of my favorite Halloween recipes. Dirt Cake. The real stuff. Jazz it up by adding grave stone graham crackers or candy corn pumpkins or gummy body parts. If you’re into that sorta thing. Spider Web Taco Cups. These taco flavored cups are delicious, but you can (and should) add a sour cream …
I don’t know who to credit the brilliance of the jack-o-lantern carved bell pepper to (seeing as it’s here, here, here, and here, just to name a few), but I hate missing the boat on fun trends! I’m always late to jump on the fun fad bandwagon because I’m always worried I’ll be the one …
Halloween is all about the sweets. It just is. Candy apples are about as healthy as it gets in the midst of the bags of Snickers, Kit Kats, and 3 Musketeers bars. I’m not complaining, mind you. I love sweets. I still get jealous when kids talk about all the Halloween candy they accumulate in …
I put up our Halloween decorations yesterday. It sounds intensive when I leave it generalized, when really I should specify that our Halloween decorations include candy corn that I put into glass candle holders and a few pumpkin/ghost/witch snow globes that we bought from the dollar store. I don’t really do a lot for Halloween. …
These individual meatloaves use ground turkey and spinach for an easy, healthy, and delicious dinner to throw together on a busy weeknight! I met this couple at the dog park a few months ago – Maren & Jake. They’re about my age, our dogs get along well, and over the past couple of months, …
Zucchini bread has been a part of my life since…well, for as long as I can remember. There was this morning when I was in 5th grade that our teacher gave us an assignment. She explained that we were supposed to go home, cook something with our parents, then bring it in to share with …
This Roasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes & Chicken Sausage is a one pan healthy dinner recipe that is easy to prepare and both nutritious and delicious! I’ve avoided sweet potatoes like the plague for my entire life. I was convinced potatoes were meant to be white, not orange, and they most certainly were not meant to …