Month: January 2020

Chicken Coconut Curry

Chicken Coconut Curry

This coconut curry is creamy, delicious, healthy and best of all… made is a single pot. You could also easily swap out the chicken for shrimp or any other meat of your choice. As an added bonus, it is ready and on the table in about 30 minutes, so ditch the takeout, your family will be begging you to add this to the weekly menu!

Italian meatballs and marinara sauce

Italian meatballs and marinara sauce

This is a classic, delicious recipe for Italian style meatballs served with marinara sauce. You can serve this recipe over pasta, or on toasted french bread with melted mozzarella cheese for an amazing meatball sub. I prefer to double the recipe and serve over my pasta of choice for dinner, then use the leftovers for meatball subs the next day.

Instant Pot Mac N’ Cheese

Instant Pot Mac N’ Cheese

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Instant Pot Mac N' Cheese
If you have other mac n' cheese recipes for your Instant Pot, you can throw them away, cause this is the only recipe you will ever need. This is a regular dish at our house. It is literally on the table in less than 15 minutes from start to finish and everything goes into a single pot, so the clean up is a breeze. Win win!! You will not find a smoother, cheesier recipe. As an added bonus, it is very easy to customize. Try adding jalapeño and corn or grilled chicken and barbecue sauce. Regardless of what your taste buds prefer, this recipe is a tried and true crowd pleaser.
Course Main Dish
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 6 minutes
Servings
people
Ingredients
Course Main Dish
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 6 minutes
Servings
people
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Add uncooked macaroni noodles, broth, water, butter, parmesan, salt and white pepper to the pressure cooker and stir.
  2. Place the lid on the pressure cooker and double check to make sure that it is on securely and that the vent is in the the "seal" position. Cook on high for 6 minutes.
  3. Perform a quick release to release the pressure.
  4. Gently stir the noodles to separate them from each other. Add the velveeta and stir until the velveeta is melted and the noodles are evenly coated. Add the milk, sour cream and shredded cheddar or gouda and stir until the cheese is completely melted. Sprinkle with parsley if desired. Serve immediately.
Cafe Style Vanilla Latte

Cafe Style Vanilla Latte

Creamy, smooth and perfectly frothy, this cafe style vanilla latte is the perfect hot drink to warm you up on these cold winter days. This latte is made without a coffee or espresso maker, so if you are like me and do not have either in your home, this recipe will come in handy when your coffee loving friends or family members are visiting.

BBQ Sauce – paleo and Whole30 friendly

BBQ Sauce – paleo and Whole30 friendly

This savory BBQ sauce uses Medjool dates to give it the sweetness you would expect, without the sugar. This recipe is delicious and is also Paleo and Whole30 compliant.

Hello World!

Hello World!

When I was a young girl, my grandmother had a bakery. Some of my fondest childhood memories include summers spent in Hazelton, Idaho, by my grandmas side, as she taught me my first lessons in the kitchen. It was there that my love for food and baking sparked. Into my adult life, a small piece of me dreamed of following in my grandmothers footsteps and opening a bake shop of my own. Although, that dream has never come to fruition, my love for cooking has continued through the years, but it has also merged onto a different path. My memories at my grandmas bake shop are still very vivid. I can still smell the maple glaze from her maple bars and the fresh baked cinnamon rolls coming out of the oven. Her amazing baked goods were loved by everyone that lived in that small town. I was her best “taste tester”… so good in fact that by the end of the summer, I could no longer button up my pants, but I will save that story for a different post. Long story short, that undeniable sweet tooth still haunts me, but I have learned the hard way that my diet needs to consist of much more than creations made from flour, butter and sugar. Although I still occasionally splurge and my love for baked goods is undeniable, I also realize that healthy, quick meals need to be a staple in every household.

Fast forward 30+ years, since my childhood days spent in the bakery, and you will probably find me to be a lot like you. A busy mom to two, extremely busy teenage boys. A full time employee, who struggles to balance the demands of work and home. A wife to a man that is my everything. Life is busy, too busy! Although it would probably be easiest to eat out EVERY SINGLE WEEKNIGHT, rather than come home and prepare a home cooked meal, I value the time that my small family spends gathered around the dinner table, sharing the details of our day. I have a very strong belief that this small daily task has a huge impact on our families. For this reason alone, I am finally taking a leap of faith and creating this page, where I can share healthy, quick recipes for the busy family. I hope you will follow along, but more importantly, I hope you will find delicious recipes that your family will love and that you will be able to spend more time with the ones you love, gathered around your kitchen table.