If you want to know how to cook butternut squash FAST, grab your Instant Pot and let's go! I love, love, love butternut squash, but MAN can it be a pain to cook or what?! Peeling a butternut squash might be one of my least favorite things to do. Then scooping out the seeds and fibers and ...
Staple Recipes
Pico de Gallo Recipe
Pico de gallo is quick and easy to make at home! This easy recipe takes about 10 minutes and only uses 6 simple ingredients. Let's make some pico de gallo for Cinco de Mayo! Say that five times. You're smiling, aren't you? How can you not be smiling? It's Cinco de Mayo and we're making pico ...
How To Cook Quinoa and Quinoa Recipes Your Family Will Love
This article will show you how to cook quinoa so it has a perfect, fluffy texture and you can use it in many different quinoa recipes! The other day I got a message from a friend who was making my Sweet Potato Black Bean burgers. They call for cooked quinoa, and she wasn't sure how to cook ...
Instant Pot Bone Broth Recipe
Making nutrient-dense bone broth is quick and easy with this Instant Pot Bone Broth recipe! Please note that links to products are affiliate links. I love making my own bone broth because it's full of nutritional benefits. There's a reason why grandma told you to eat your chicken soup ...
Homemade Bourbon Barbecue Sauce (Without Refined Sugar!)
This Homemade Bourbon Barbecue Sauce is sweetened with honey instead of refined sugar and is bursting with flavor. If there's one thing I want to teach others about healthy eating, it's that it doesn't have to feel like you're depriving yourself. Healthy foods don't have to be bland or boring. ...
Restaurant Style Salsa with Fresh Tomatoes
This Restaurant Style Salsa with Fresh Tomatoes is quick, easy, and so delicious! There's nothing better than homemade salsa. Heads up! This recipe was first published in 2014. The pictures were updated 2017. Enjoy! When Tim and I were in our dating years, his apartment was stocked with ...
Healthy Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe
Save money and unwanted ingredients by making your own taco seasoning! This Healthy Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe is exactly what you need. When you start reading food labels and paying attention to ingredients, you realize that buying spice packets is not always the healthiest option. Most of ...
How to Make Homemade Bone Broth in the Crock Pot
When I first discovered I could make homemade bone broth in the Crock Pot, my life was changed. Making stock on the stove top isn't exactly difficult, but who has hours and hours to babysit a pot of simmering bones in a pot on the stove? Not me. I much prefer to throw everything in the crock pot ...
Avocado Pineapple Salsa
This Avocado Pineapple Salsa is the perfect combination of heat + sweet and it goes well on everything from chicken to fish to veggie burgers! I've always loved writing. When I was in second grade I "published" a book as part of the Young Author's program. In the back of the book, on ...
