Almost as long as I've been cooking in the kitchen, I've been tweaking recipes. Â When I first started learning about eating a more plant-based diet and healthier foods, it wasn't as easy to find clean-eating recipes as it is today. Â There weren't two dozen healthy recipe blogs per household back ...
Fall Recipes
Chicken, Spinach, Mushroom, and Feta Stuffed Sweet Potato
This Chicken, Spinach, Mushroom, and Feta Stuffed Sweet Potato recipe makes a healthy and filling dinner!How many ways can I stuff a sweet potato? Â Let me count the ways. I can stuff it to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Â And then I keep on stuffing it. Sweet potatoes are ...
Crockpot Vegan Coconut Curry Chickpea Lentil Soup
This Crockpot Vegan Coconut Curry Chickpea Lentil Soup is easy to prep and is a healthy, comforting soup!Marriage is all about compromise. Â I'm sure you've heard that phrase about a million times, especially if you are married. Â As cliche as it may be, it's true. You have to be able to bend and ...
Homemade Alphabet Vegetable Soup Recipe
 This Homemade Alphabet Vegetable Soup Recipe is better than Campbell's and much healthier, too! Did you grow up with Campbell's Soup?  I sure did.  We always had a can of Campbell's in the pantry, ready to be poured into a pan along with some water.  It was easy, that's for ...
Gluten-free Almond Oat Cranberry Bars
These Gluten-free Almond Oat Cranberry Bars are an easy one-bowl recipe and are great for a healthy breakfast, dessert, or snack!Do you ever buy food or ingredients on a whim? Â Or is that just a #foodbloggerproblem? That's exactly what happened with the cranberries I used for these bars. I saw a bag ...
Lightened Up Turkey or Chicken Pot Pie {dairy-free}
When a reader asked me to create a lightened up chicken pot pie, I was immediately brought to the early years of my marriage. Â A new wife trying to navigate her way through the kitchen with a new responsibility of feeding someone else, I was a slave to recipes. It took me a long time to gain enough ...
20 Allergy-Friendly Thanksgiving Dishes
Food intolerances and allergies are no fun on holidays. Here are over 20 Allergy-friendly Thanksgiving dishes!There's nothing worse than trying to navigate a spread of food when you have dietary restrictions. Â Whether you have food allergies, intolerances, or just follow certain dietary guidelines ...
Roasted Vegetable Brown Rice Risotto with Bacon and Kale
I'm not so stringent with my quest to eat a healthy diet that I have a set of rules I have to follow or I freak out. Â Eating a whole foods, unprocessed diet as much as I can is important to me. Â But it isn't everything, and even though I write this blog sharing my ideas, I'm not obsessed with it. ...
Warm Brussels Sprout Salad with Pomegranate and Goat Cheese
I'm convinced that everyone who thinks they don't like Brussels sprouts because of some childhood memory simply hasn't had them prepared correctly. Â I don't remember ever having Brussels sprouts served to me, but apparently that is because I'm the baby of the family and by the time I came around my ...
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili
The Top 3 Reasons you Need to Make This Chili As Soon As Possible: 1.) It's National Chili Month. Â Celebrate! 2.) The colors! Could there be a more perfect Halloween meal? 3.) It's a perfect veggie-centric (vegan!) way to switch up your chili routine. Â Variety is good! I could go on, but ...
Quinoa Pizza Pie
Your pizza night is never going to be the same. Â Think of this quinoa pizza pie as pizza with a makeover. It has all the flavors of a vegetable pizza, but it's transformed into a healthier package. Â Instead of being weighed down with a wheat crust, we have a pizza in the form of a quinoa ...
2-ingredient Vegan “Caramel” Dip
Just 2 ingredients is all is takes to make this healthy, fake-out caramel dip. With sliced apples, it makes the perfect after-school snack! I promise you that we are not living on pumpkin and apples alone over here, although it make seem like it based on the recipes I've been throwing at you the ...