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Who doesn’t love butter? I mean, really. It is delicious on just about anything. Life doesn’t get much better than a warm piece of fresh bread with a healthy pat of butter spread on it. Or does it? For some applications, there may be a better way — and that way is herb butters. Be [...]
Creamy Chicken Enchiladas This is a quick and easy dish to fix for those busy weeknights, or this can be prepared ahead for the freezer and then cooked later. The ingredients are simple, easy to store, and most likely will be things you already have on hand. Let’s begin! You will need: 3 cooked chicken [...]
Ignore the ingredients that go into this; it’s an amazing treat that tastes like the real thing. It packs a whollop of nutrition, protein, good fats, and vitamins. This is something you can feel good about giving the kids or indulging in yourself. Ingredients: 2 scoops Garden of Live Raw Vegan Sprouted Protein* [...]
You have your olive oil, you have your garlic and now you think you’re ready to make garlic infused oil. Maybe you are. However, if you’re like me, you might not really know what you’re doing. You see, I used to think you simply put some cloves of garlic into some olive oil and let [...]
To say that I get a tad frustrated cooking for 4 children with varied palates is an understatement, but I know I am not alone. I want to broaden their culinary horizons, but at the same time, I do not want to have to throw out an amazing beef bourguignon because they don’t [...]
The key to the delicious salad dressing from the hills of Tuscany is the high quality ingredients that must be minced and blended by hand. In the years that I spent traveling and studying in Italy, every time I tasted this delicious dressing, it was prepared in the most simple way with simple tools. [...]
This rice casserole was very filling and flavorful and gave me a way to add some nutritious foods to my family’s diet in a way that was easy for the kids to enjoy. Naturally meat-free and gluten-free, it is a great side dish, or if you make it in larger portions like I did, a [...]
Nothing goes better with spaghetti sauce than meatballs. It’s even better if said meatballs are Florentine Turkey Meatballs! These are so scrumptious that you might want to double this recipe so you will have leftovers. And it is a great way to introduce more veggies into your children’s meals. My kids didn’t complain at the [...]
Spaghetti sauce is very personal. Everyone has their favorite sauce, the way their grandmother made it every Sunday after church, or the way their father taught them while they stood on a step stool next to the stove, but without hesitation, I can say that homemade sauce will always be better than store-bought sauce. [...]
When my oldest asked to have pizza at his birthday party and requested cheese-only pizza for himself, he was extra sweet and said, “but you can put vegetables on everyone else’s!” and I laughed. So thoughtful of him, no? I then suggested we have a make-your-own pizza party and explained that we could have personal [...]
