This version of chile relleno casserole is made with ground turkey in one skillet and has just a few ingredients! I love this for a low carb Mexican dinner, or serve this with my favorite red rice for a yummy burrito bowl variation. This tastes like a chile relleno in a bowl and is SO yummy and easy to make!
Definitely the easy weeknight dinner we have been waiting for: blanket it with melty cheese and call it GOOD.
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This creamy, cheesy baked broccoli has just FIVE INGREDIENTS and comes together in under an hour. It's my favorite GF Thanksgiving side dish for this year and is absolutely replacing traditional broccoli casserole (much as I love all casseroles!). This cheesy broccoli wins the side dish game again and again.
Well, HELLO. We're starting Thanksgiving side dish recipes!!
(no one asked, I realize this)
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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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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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Well, we are still here. Is it normal yet?
Honestly, it feels a little bit normal. I keep reading that humans are not made to withstand crisis for extended periods of time, that ambiguous fear and loss will wear on us.
I think it is wearing on us, and I think we are adapting to that by getting used to the way things are. Which, when it comes to getting used to staggering loss of life, is fairly depressing.
...GOOD MORNING and yes you are in the right place.
It happened! This blog has a new name, which means we can talk about it today and then never again, because I never ever hang on to things forever and replay them in my mind over and over again.
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This brown butter blondies recipe is the best ever! With a gooey, nutty center, crackly crust, and chocolate slightly melted and swirled into the batter, you won't find a better potluck dessert recipe! These easy blondies are super rich making them the perfect small dessert. The recipe is from food52 and we can't get enough!
I have great news for introverts.
...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.
...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!
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.
...Baby gear baby gear! (baby products for sleep!)
I am obsessed with baby gear, let me just start right there with that. Even though, no, I do not technically have a baby anymore, wahhhh time please slow down.
I got a lot of questions and comments after my post on why I think sleep training is so important for mental health. Lots of people like sleep training for babies! Lots of people think sleep training is bad for babies!
And, mostly, LOTS of you had questions about how we sleep trained, the sleep training programs we liked the best (I read them all, it feels like) and what baby products for sleep we used, what products were wastes of time, etc.
...These are my thoughts on sleep training. There are LOTS of opinions on whether or not sleep training works, is necessary, or is harmful. The science tells us that sleep is usually really, really good for parents and babies. How and when to sleep train depends on a variety of factors, and there are tons of great methods that can work for lots of families.
It happens with 90% of new clients that I see.
We work through how things have been going, how pregnancy and childbirth went, why and how they came to be sitting across from me, either in a gray chair, on a green couch, or through a screen, these days. They are probably nervous. Sometimes I'm nervous. Meeting new people can be nerve-wracking.
...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!
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.
...This copycat Cracker Barrel hashbrown casserole copycat recipe is the perfect cheesy, tangy, make-ahead hashbrown casserole from the popular chain restaurant! This can be made in advance and baked in the morning for brunch, or eaten as a side dish all week long! Pro Tip: This is really really really good with Cajun Glazed Bacon on the side!
Oh, hey.
How are you doing on restaurant food? Back in restaurants? Outside? Inside? More takeout than you've ever imagined?
...Mark Bittman's no-knead bread (easy dutch oven bread) is the easiest, most foolproof path to artisan-style bread at home with just 4 ingredients and a little time. No special equipment, no kneading, this is the best homemade bread ever! Leftovers are perfect to use in your own homemade GARLIC BUTTER CROUTONS, yep yep.
Mark Bittman does it again! I have been waiting and waiting to show you this.
Much like my favorite pancakes that we make at least weekly, this homemade no-knead bread recipe was a real game-changer for me.
It of course started in quarantine, as so many carb endeavors have, but I waited a few months to write about it because I wanted to be sure it worked every.single.time.
...This ultimate Mediterranean hummus board has your favorite cheese board elements with the best ever hummus with spiced meat, tzatziki, grape leaves, pickles, olives, and pita. It's mostly no-cook and make-ahead for the perfect party meal!
IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS MORNING. I just love this so much.
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Hi and HOW ARE YOU? Are you OK? Is everything terrible? Fine? Normal-ish?
I, like most of the adult American (world?) population, waver between totally fine, empowered, even, to I can't do this I hate everything make them go away sad weird little person who wants to hide in a corner.
Official scientific memes tell me that this is normal.
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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.
...This is the easiest strawberry pie without jello! Just 5 ingredients, a little bit of sugar, and this is the easy, rustic, foolproof strawberry pie you've been waiting for.
Here's a story.
(you're like, we hate food blogger stories)
...Oh, hello!
I'm checking in to see how you are. We are GREAT, honestly loving life and cherishing this precious time together in which we are front and center to all of our children's developmental picadillos and developments. They are both at SUCH a fun age.
Although, honestly, what ISN'T a fun age to be quarantined with?
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This chicken pot pie with a tater tot crust is super easy to make, and is the best comfort food for weeknights or weekends! Midwesterners call this hotdish, we call it chicken tot pie.. The filling can be made in advance for meal prep and frozen tater tots take all the guesswork out of making your own pie crust for chicken pot pie.
Oh oh oh oh HELL YES.
I am so excited for you to eat this.
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