This Easy Sauteed Broccoli recipe takes about 8 minutes to make (really!) and is a family favorite. Need a quick, easy, and healthy side dish for any meal? This is your recipe! Sometimes you just need a quick side dish to round out a meal. Or, sometimes, you realize your kids haven't eaten ...
Side Dishes
Look Again: Spinach Nuggets
Look Again is a series where I feature an old recipe that deserved a second look. These Spinach Nuggets have been buried in the archives since 2010, but are a great way to get your toddler or kids to eat more spinach! I've been on a mission to get my kids eating more greens. Greens are pretty ...
Quinoa Avocado Salad
Do you ever have a 24 hour period that feels like you've lived a week inside of a day? That's what the last 24 hours or so have been like for me. This past weekend was one of the coldest of the winter, and with two active kids, taking them to SkyZone, an indoor trampoline park, seemed like a ...
Chopped Kale Salad with Cranberries, Feta, and Walnuts
If you need a festive, colorful salad to add to your holiday table, this is your recipe. If you need a quick, easy, and healthy lunch salad to balance out the holiday treats you've been eating, this is your recipe. It is always with a little hesitation that I serve Tim kale, especially raw kale. ...
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. 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. Eating a whole foods, unprocessed diet as much as I can is important to me. 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. 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 ...
Balsamic Roasted Grapes and Pistachio Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
If you've never tried roasted grapes, ...
Zucchini, Summer Squash, and Tomato Bake
This recipe is for all you green thumbs out there who have a garden bursting with summer vegetables. I can't include myself in that group. My thumb is so brown, it's almost black. I started a container garden on our patio this year. Nothing elaborate, just a few herbs and some green beans that ...
Grilled Kale Salad
If you are a fan of roasted kale chips, you are going to love grilled kale. No need to turn on the oven, just fire up your grill and a few minutes later you'll have crispy, delicious kale that even your kids will eat. Really. There isn't a tastier way to eat your greens than to roast or ...
Roasted potatoes with pistachio pesto {vegan}
Meghan is the kind of kid who decides if she likes a food or not based on how it looks. I suspect she's not the only kid out there who does this. So when she looked at these potatoes, she quickly declared, "I don't like that kind of potatoes." Of course not. They look...different. There's ...
Lemony pesto potatoes {dairy-free, nut-free, gluten-free}
I only have a little bit of time to post today because I'm getting ready to leave for vaaaacation. Preparing for a trip is a thousand times harder when you have a child. For each child you have, add another million times harder. I got behind schedule yesterday when I got home from running ...