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Meal Prep Chicken Grain Bowls

February 16, 2021 by Lindsay 7 Comments

Meal prep chicken grain bowls with all of your favorite toppings! We're going super easy for meal prep with one dressing for the chicken marinade and salad, a few chopped veggies, and lots and lots of time saved during the week now that your meal prep lunches are made!

Mmmmmmm meal prep ideas for lunch, aka something I think about almost every week. It's been one of the hardest things about quarantine for me; very few opportunities to leave the house for lunch and very little desire to have leftovers since we cook 7 dinners per week now too.

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Gluten Free Chocolate Cake (with quinoa!)

February 3, 2021 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

This gluten free chocolate cake is a BLENDER CAKE that has just a few ingredients and comes together in under an hour! It's totally foolproof and doesn't taste like it's trying to be healthy at all. Instead, think "is it a brownie, is it a cookie, do I care because it's covered in chocolate ganache frosting?"

It's here, it's here! ....Valentine's Day? To be clear, we celebrate very minimally on V-day, maybe make a big fancy meal, although we technically celebrate our dating anniversary on Valentine's Day - TEN YEARS, where did the time go.

Oh, I know, the time went into the pandemic vortex like the rest of my soul.

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Hibachi Sweet Carrots

January 28, 2021 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Just like the kind you find on hibachi plates, Japanese sweet carrots to level up your homemade Japanese fusion food! Make these sweet glazed carrots a meal with my favorite hibachi steak, hibachi shrimp, and hibachi vegetables!

More hibachi! This time my favorite little nibbly side dish, the sweet carrots that come on the side of hibachi meals, mainly of the takeout variety.

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Cabbage Roll Soup

January 20, 2021 by Lindsay 10 Comments

Cabbage roll soup is a low carb soup version of traditional cabbage rolls; ground meat, cabbage, sweet, tangy tomato sauce. This recipe has just a few ingredients and comes together in half an hour or so. It's a great soup for freezing or meal prep - leftovers are delicious!

It's time for a super easy new cabbage and beef soup recipe.

One of those recipes that is comforting, cozy, filling (with bread dunked into it obviously), but requires no last minute rushing around to get food hot + crispy. It's 2021 on the last day of DJT's presidency in the middle of a pandemic and honestly we need food that just stays, you know? No emotional fortitude necessary, just an easy soup recipe.

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Favorite Grilled Chicken Salad

January 11, 2021 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Featuring our favorite marinade for grilled chicken, this salad with goat cheese and walnuts is one that we make often for main dish salad dinners or for meal prep! The combo of tangy dressing, maple marinade, and creamy goat cheese is just the best ever. No boring main dish salads here!

Hello and hi! How are we managing in this pandemic coup? Are we being gentle with our New Year's Resolutions? Please say yes.

One thing that we have been trying to do for a few months is making one "lunchy" item during our meal prep. Not focusing only on dinners helps us stay away from takeout (which I'm such a sucker for especially on days where I don't have anywhere to go), and having super yummy foods in the fridge to grab just overall makes our workdays at home feel more enjoyable.

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One Pot Chicken Parmesan Pasta

January 7, 2021 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

One of our absolute favorite weeknight family dinner recipes, this 5-ingredient one pot chicken parmesan pasta is done in about half an hour. If you're looking for easy chicken recipes for dinner with few ingredients, you've come to the right place! For a low carb version of chicken parmesan, my one skillet chicken parm is a forever-favorite with super easy no-knead bread.

easy chicken recipes for dinner with few ingredients

Happy 2021! Don't say it too loudly.

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Sheet Pan Sausage and Veggies

October 28, 2020 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Hey hey, fall sheet pan dinner recipe! This sheet pan sausage and root veggies comes with its very own warm spinach salad made right.on.the.freaking.pan. The ingredients are simple, the method is foolproof, and the salad dressing is seriously, drinkably delicious.

Omg how is it Halloween week. Like seriously.

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Easy Black Beans and Rice

October 6, 2020 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

This gluten free black beans and rice recipe has just 8 ingredients and is done in about half an hour! I love rice and beans for a quick vegetarian dinner, and make these black beans in advance often for an even faster meal-prepped dinner.

Weeknight vegan dinner idea, here we go! Weeknight vegan/dairy free/gluten free/BUT NOT SAD dinner, to be exact.

Free of some things people avoid, not free of joy, etc.

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Basic Lemon Vinaigrette

September 28, 2020 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

This easy lemon vinaigrette recipe has just 5 ingredients and is done in under 10 minutes. I love to make a batch of this each week to have for easy salads. Bonus: use any kind of sweetener (honey, agave) or mustard you like to switch this dressing up each time!

Hey hey hey, lemon dressing!

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3-Ingredient Basic Chicken Marinade

September 22, 2020 by Lindsay 3 Comments

Super cinchy basic chicken marinade that we use for everything! This is my favorite kid-friendly chicken recipe, and it couldn't be easier: three ingredients, cook the chicken however you'd like, and enjoy! We use this easy chicken marinade often for grilling, but this is also a delicious way to make seared chicken breasts or broiled chicken thighs indoors. Mainly: yum.

Maple marinated chicken, HELLO.

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The Best Way To Cook Salmon (per me)

August 26, 2020 by Lindsay 1 Comment

This is our absolute favorite way to make salmon! A doubled-up method; we sear the salmon in a cast iron skillet until the skin gets super toasty and crispy (salmon bacon, HELLO), then broil to finish. The result is a flaky, medium-well salmon that is perfectly cooked every time.

Welcome to the inside of my brain, wherein if something goes well a few times I declare it THE BEST with very little testing of other things, then do the same thing over and over in perpetuity because it works for me.

So if we're being honest it's THE WAY I cook salmon, but I'm calling it the best salmon recipe because it is so, so good.

This is our easy weeknight salmon. We have it at least once a week. We cook it the same each time BUT with different seasonings, which I think is a big key to "cooking well" without, say, culinary school. I can't cook all.the.things. but I have a few methods that I'm great at, so I change up the spices and BOOM variety.

You're like...this is not very inspiring it sounds like you only know how to do this one thing.

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Buffalo Turkey Meatballs with Smashed Cucumbers

August 18, 2020 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Gluten free buffalo turkey meatballs served with an easy smashed cucumber salad for a yummy low carb lunch or dinner! The gluten free turkey meatballs have tons of flavor and can be made as part of your meal prep for the week. They're also great meatballs to make in a big batch and keep in the freezer!

Buffalo Turkey Meatballs Low Carb Gluten Free Dinner

I made us lunch!

A really really yummy lunch. No story, really, just a way to showcase the gluten free turkey meatballs and smashed cucumber salad from a few weeks ago together. I threw on some easy "homemade" (not really) buffalo sauce because Buffalo all the things and call me happy.

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Gluten Free Baked Turkey Meatballs

July 29, 2020 by Lindsay 2 Comments

These easy baked meatballs are gluten free, made with ground turkey, and done in just about half an hour! They can be made in advance for a super easy meal prep, kept in the freezer, and don't have breadcrumbs or any extra binder. These are the yummiest healthy gf meatballs!

Basic Gluten Free Turkey Meatballs for Meal Prep

Gityer balls right here!

I'm sorry let's start over don't x out. I made you a yummy new meal prep entree and I hope you love it.

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3-Ingredient Smashed Cucumbers

July 22, 2020 by Lindsay 1 Comment

Easy, light, and refreshing, this 3-ingredient smashed cucumbers recipe is done in just 30 minutes. The result is the most delicious, juicy cucumber bites. These are vegan, gluten free, and dairy free.

Oh heyyyyyyy not really a recipe recipe!

That's honestly all the brainpower I have in quarantine week, 8,276 you're welcome.

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Easy 2-ingredient shortcut hummus

June 10, 2020 by Lindsay 3 Comments

2-Ingredient Shortcut Hummus is the easiest hummus recipe ever! Using the most delicious lemon tahini dressing as a base, just add garbanzo beans and BOOM, hummus.

Thissss is what I'm talking about.

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Gluten Free Orange Chicken

May 13, 2020 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

This easy gf crispy orange chicken recipe features pantry ingredients, a glossy sauce, orange juice for sweetness, and ginger and broccoli for a super easy weeknight takeout-at-home dinner. You'll love this sticky, crispy, gluten free Chinese dinner!

Hell. O. Pan. Try. Meal.

Cue all of the "in these trying times..." phrases BUT GUESS WHAT I made this months ago for a magazine I write for and it only is just now making it to your eye balls.

I can see the future, basically? OR, more likely, the best recipes are the kind that work all the time, even in pandemics.

What we have here is: A crispy chicken dealio, made gluten free because cornstarch, PLUS the cornstarch makes the chicken EXTRA crispy without any overly annoying breading, you're welcome for that.

Then we have a glossy sauce with orange juice, ginger, soy sauce, and stock. Broccoli for balance. Rice for ... more balance.

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Easy Broiled Salmon with Kimchi Fried Rice

April 21, 2020 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

One of our favorite weeknight dinners! Super delicious broiled salmon with a Korean-style sauce that can be made in advance, and quick fried rice with kimchi and whatever veggies you have in your fridge.

Hello and hi.

Are you doing OK? Are you loving or hating or nothing-ing this stay-at-home moment in our lives?

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Korean Broiled Salmon

February 26, 2020 by Lindsay 1 Comment

ON WEDNESDAYS WE EAT PINK FISH.

Yep. Super easy broiled salmon, comin' atcha. This recipe is a companion to the kimchi fried rice from last week, but I wanted to keep them as separate posts (and eventually together!) because they are so good together OR separately.

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7-Ingredient Kimchi Fried Rice

February 19, 2020 by Lindsay 2 Comments

Let's make the unbearable (not to me) story of why we're making this suuuuuuper short and get to the buttery, spicy goodness that is kimchi fried rice.

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Easy Homemade Baked Chicken Tenders

January 29, 2020 by Lindsay 3 Comments

My favorite kid-friendly meal prep dinner! This recipe for baked chicken tenders has just a few ingredients and is super easy to make. Bonus, you can freeze the breaded tenders and bake them right before serving for a quick + fun weeknight freezer meal!

THEY'RE JUST LIKE FRIED.

Ha. Ha. No, no they are not. Sorry, not here to lie to you.

Here are the ways that easy homemade baked chicken tenders are not like fried chicken tenders:

they do not stink up your house with oil smell or cause third degree burns.
they have fewer calories.
they are done quickly and are great for meal prep, freezer meals, or leftovers.
they have a parmesan coating that is just YUM but no batter to get all over everything.

So, what I'm saying is that MAYBE baked chicken tenders are better than fried chicken tenders? In like 3 cases, but I'd say that at-home no-frying situations are preferable from a mess standpoint FOR SURE.

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