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    Winter

    22 Super Bowl Snack Ideas for 2022

    January 26, 2022 by Lindsay 5 Comments

    More than 22 DELICIOUS, easy Super Bowl 2022 Recipe Ideas! Whether you're doing a few cheese and cracker types of things or a full chili bar, here's all the best Super Bowl recipes in one place.

    Gray plate of guacamole topped with cucumber relish and crushed peanuts.

    ...because otherwise tbh football is a waste of damn time. (don't. it's fine.)

    So! Let's plan our party snacks for Super Bowl Sunday. I love a theme sometimes, like tacos with tons of toppings, pasta, or chili with ALSO ton of toppings, but I also love making a few really good snack foods that don't necessarily go together.

    I mainly like Super Bowl recipes that can be made in advance and can be eaten at room temperature or warm-ish. Nothing that has to be straight out of the oven, although there are a few dips and chilis in this list that are great kept warm in the slow cooker.

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    Cheddar Jalapeno Cornbread (Jiffy!)

    January 24, 2022 by Lindsay 13 Comments

    It's a box of Jiffy, a few pantry flavor ingredients, and suuuuper elevated jalapeno cornbread in just 30 minutes! I love these for dunking with no bean beef chili or vegan chipotle sweet potato chili.

    close up jalapeno corn muffin on wire rack.

    Years and years ago, I made chili on a weekend to eat throughout the week, and one night Jay made these delicious corn muffins to go with it. How's THAT for a succinct "everyone hates food blog stories" story?

    The mix is regular old less-than-a-dollar Jiffy, but the add-ins are what makes it really special! You can add almost anything you like to a baking mix like this to change it up and make it your own!

    Boxed cornbread mix is so convenient to keep around: homemade cornbread is so special and delicious, but there are definitely times where we need cornbread FAST without a lot of thinking. Enter: Jiffy.

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    Whole30 Beef Stew

    September 27, 2021 by Lindsay 8 Comments

    This easy beef stew is whole30 compliant, gluten free, and DELICIOUS. One of the most delicious beef recipes for dinner, make a big batch of this and serve it all week for a delicious meal prep dinner! If you AREN'T avoiding gluten, a batch of no-knead Dutch oven bread should be in the plans as well!

    white bowl with beef stew, potatoes, and carrots in front of a yellow dutch oven.

    OK, here's your plan for the next snow day, sick day, chilly day, comfort-needing day:

    This beef stew works with all of those situations and then some, why don't we have more beef stew on Christmas Eve? For Halloween dinner right before or right after trick-or-treating? I adore it; the simplicity of the flavors with the "well, yeah, I simmered it for awhile" satisfaction that makes it feel slightly fancy but totally unpretentious. 

    The method is simple: sear a bunch of beef chunks until they're really crispy on the outside. Toss some veggies in those drippings, then everything goes back into the pot together with tomato paste, garlic, spices. Broth makes it soupy, then it simmers covered for a bit, then uncovered to finish the dish and thicken the sauce.

    The potato here breaks down a bit to thicken the sauce (so we don't need flour), and the end result is just SO delicious. I adore super soft cooked veggies in dishes like this, soaked in the broth mixture and just YES. Someone please make this for me asap, I think I feel a sore throat coming on (not really just want food brought to me). 

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    Easy Crockpot Butter Chicken

    May 12, 2021 by Lindsay 14 Comments

    Indian butter chicken in a slow cooker! This super delicious crockpot chicken curry has just 10 ingredients and no searing or extra chopping. The end result is luscious, creamy, delicious butter chicken with hardly any effort.

    indian butter chicken served with rice

    Hello, HELLO. I have been dying to tell you about this, 90s-sitcom-drama style.

    The thing about Indian curry dishes is that they are not known for their ease of making. The really good ones have lots of ingredients, whole spices, hours of simmering, and generally lots of things that making cooking really fun, in my opinion.

    BUT. Sometimes we want curry tonight. Now. Fast. Not a lot of fuss. The crockpot is an ideal cooking vessel for long-cooked stuff that needs time to develop flavors, and I love it because it can (probably, mostly) be left on while we leave the house or wander off to do other things. No checking, stirring, adjusting liquid levels, just easy crockpot chicken curry with 10 ingredients.

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    Chicken Tater Tot Casserole

    April 1, 2020 by Lindsay 4 Comments

    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.

    close up portion of skillet with chicken pot pie filling and tater tots on top.

    Oh oh  oh oh HELL YES.

    I am so excited for you to eat this.

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    Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti Casserole

    January 24, 2019 by Lindsay 14 Comments

    Super yummy chicken spaghetti casserole that is a perfect make ahead weeknight dinner! Creamy cheesy sauce, noodles, and veggies chopped up with tender chicken for an all-in-one casserole meal. Add an extra veggie with my favorite lemon kale salad, if you'd like!

    Have you watched Ugly Delicious?

    This is kind of that. It's the food we're supposed to turn our noses up at, food of a different era, the dirty little secret of food. It's a casserole with cream of mushroom AND cream of chicken soup, it's not particularly attractive, and it's utterly delicious.

    I've made this off and on for the last ten or so years, usually pulling it out for family vacations or special events that call for easy comfort food. Specifically, I froze a batch of this when I was pregnant with both of my kids, and we had it on our first night home (the day they both were born) with each of them. So, to say that this casserole holds some meaning to me is an understatement.

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    The Best White Bean Kale Sausage Soup

    November 20, 2017 by Lindsay 5 Comments

    One of my favorite soups ever, sausage kale soup! This gluten free soup is perfect for meal prep and comes together in just half an hour or so with 8 ingredients. Leftovers are EVEN BETTER, so make a double batch and enjoy this soup all week! PS - not terrible with no-knead bread. Not terrible at all.

    white bowl filled with sausage kale soup topped with parsley and parmesan flakes.

    I have been SO excited to tell you about this soup. It's my new fall signature dish, and I haven't met a single person who doesn't like it. 

    It's simple, first and foremost. The ingredients are easy to find, there aren't too many of them, and they all add a ton of flavor to the finished dish. The whole soup can be made in about 30 minutes, and you can eat it right away or let it simmer for a little while, whatever works. 

    This soup is gluten free and can be dairy free with the cheese on top omitted, and I use local sausage and kale because the flavor is SO much better. You can use any sausage you like, hot or mild, any kind of kale you can find, even pre-chopped bagged stuff to save even more time. The kale and sausage combine with stock, tomatoes, onion, garlic, and that's IT. Throw in some white beans (or skip them for a lower carb option), blanket the whole thing in parmesan, and good to go. 

    I love this for nights when people are kind of coming and going, which seems to happen so much more in the fall, and I love it for holiday weeks where you definitely need to eat but making multiple dishes for a meal isn't as much fun when Thursday involves SO many dishes and steps. Let's do it!

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    Red Lentil Dahl

    October 16, 2017 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

    Creamy red lentils cooked with spices and stock until tender and delicious. This is one of my favorite red lentils recipes and is done in under an hour. This red lentil dahl (or red lentil dal) is vegan and gluten free.

    BECAUSE FALL SO ORANGE EVERYTHING. 

    Finally it is less than 90 degrees here, which means I've been freezing for most of the day, no joke. It was in the mid 80's all weekend, hit 90 more than once last week, and tonight is going to drop down to 47F, riddle me that.

    The temperature drop has made me wrestle internally with Beck's sleeping situation; she's old enough for blankets but I have irrational fears of EVERYTHING killing her, so is a sleep sack and our favorite jammies enough? The answer is of course yes because she 1. doesn't sleep outside and 2. sleeps perfectly soundly all night long, but that doesn't stop me from ruminating on the subject for no reason at all. 

    So we need some red lentils to warm us up and to help us sleep better? Nice transition there. 

    Indian food is one of our absolute favorites in almost any form; we eat something with Indian flavors (which is a huge range, luckily for me) at least once a week, and one of our favorite things to do on super busy nights is to order Indian takeout knowing that we'll have a delicious dinner asap and leftovers for a day or two.

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    Clementine Mustard Vinaigrette

    January 17, 2017 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

    A yummy orange mustard vinaigrette made in the blender using seedless clementines! This is a thick and flavorful dressing made almost creamy without any dairy. It's also delicious as a chicken or shrimp marinade for grilling.

    cup of mustard vinaigrette

    We are having a very serious citrus moment in our house.  But everyone is, right?  It's citrus SEASON, after all!  It's kind of hard to remember to eat seasonally with everything being available all the time, but I find that when we do eat seasonally the produce tastes SO much better, and is usually cheaper.  So.  Everyone wins!

    We cut up some clementine wedges into little bits for Beck a few weeks ago, and holy hell, you'd have thought I offered her a glimpse of Joseph Smith's golden tablets.  There was yelling, and clapping, and inhaling....it went really well.  Now every time we walk by the bowl of clementines in our house there is much cooing and pointing and squealing, which probably makes the citrus feel really good about itself, you know?  

    I used 2 clementines to whiz up a salad dressing in our blender, and it turned out gloriously.  Not too citrusy like if you were to use concentrated juice, not too sweet at all, just wonderfully orange-ish and slightly bitter and spicy from the mustard.  

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    Quick Broccoli Slaw Soup

    January 19, 2016 by Lindsay 6 Comments

    One of my favorite super easy recipes, originally published in 2016 right after the birth of our first child. Easy broccoli cheese soup using broccoli slaw for no-fuss vegetarian soup in a hurry. If you think about it in advance, make a batch of the easiest no-knead bread for dunking!

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    I thought about calling this New Mom Broccoli Cheddar Soup, but that seemed....I don't know, people need quick-cooking food whether or not they have kids, right?  

    This, I have to say, is one of the more inspired things I've done recently in a recipe.  Jay is all about the chopped salads, as you know, and is always buying these random bags of pre-chopped veggies but then we never quiiiite eat them in time.  I hate throwing away food, and this bag of broccoli slaw was looking really sad to me a few weeks ago, so I made it into soup.  The thing is, though, is that since the broccoli is pre-chopped there is no blender involved, we just end up with a really legit texture to our soup.  AND there are carrots in the mixture which add some nice flavor and color to the whole shtick.  

    You do have to chop an onion and garlic but...you could totally skip those two ingredients and just use the broccoli, I won't tell anyone.  

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    Crock Pot Vegan Moroccan Vegetables

    March 31, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

    This super easy Moroccan vegetable stew is vegan, dairy free, and made in the slow cooker for a super easy and healthy weeknight dinner option! Try it with some quinoa or couscous on top for some added protein and nutrition.

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    In an effort to try to maintain some kind of cognitive ability in this world where we don't have to memorize anything anymore, if a word comes up as misspelled when I'm writing I don't right click to see the correct spelling.  Instead, I backspace and type the word again until it's spelled right.  

    Except for Moroccan.  I tried three times and just failed.  

    So, the point is that I suck at spelling but I try and that's half the battle?  

    Cognitive failures aside, this vegan Moroccan vegetable stew is a WINNER.  It's healthy, easy, and full of flavor.  I love meals like this that are light but still somehow cozy at this time when the seasons are still changing but there are definitely still some cold mornings and nights BUT we start to realize that a whole winter of comfort food means JUST SAY NO TO BATHING SUITS so we really need to eat our veggies.  And this is a happy medium!  Ridiculously healthy but not straight up raw veggies.  

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    Easy Loaded Baked Potato Soup {vegetarian}

    February 19, 2015 by Lindsay 19 Comments

    Loaded baked potato soup is the best! This version uses baked potatoes and just a few ingredients for an easy potato soup recipe that comes together in just a few minutes. Tip: make a batch of crock pot baked potatoes to double up on meal prep: some in this soup, some for later in the week!

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    So, so good.  

    So, you know it's cold.  My friend Amanda makes fun of me when I say it's freezing here, but it is currently 13 degrees outside and is supposed to get down to 8 or below tonight, so my all measures it's effing freezing.   And so we need soup!

    There was a restaurant we used to go to a TON in undergrad; it was right near campus but was kind of a legit restaurant instead of one of the fake Aramark restaurants that take your meal plan and have kind of the same foods at every location.  This was locally owned and had this baked potato soup that was just ridiculously good.  Now, I've spent years trying to recreate it and am definitely not there yet, but this version of baked potato soup is REALLY good.  I cheat time by "baking" the potatoes in the microwave, and this soup is done even quicker by using leftover baked potatoes.

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