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Summery Caprese Cobb Salad with Grilled Chicken

August 6, 2019 by Lindsay 1 Comment

A summertime recipe for cobb salad that includes grilled chicken AND corn plus caprese salad ingredients with fresh, juicy tomatoes, mozzarella, and a super easy basil pesto salad dressing that is out of this world delish. This is also a great meal prep kale salad!

Oh hello, here's a salad we can SINK OUR TEETH INTO. Finally.

I'm all about a main dish salad. I order them often in restaurants because I want to, not because I'm punishing myself for something or feel like I should. BUT, the salad's gotta be a good one. House made dressings, fun protein choices, crunchy things, etc. If salads on a menu don't look good, I'm heading straight for ordering a dinner entree during brunch because the smothered chicken is just always so legit, right?

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Chicken Kale Meatballs {gluten free}

May 15, 2019 by Lindsay 1 Comment

I almost called these Superfood Meatballs, but Mark Bittman says (and I agree) that there are no superfoods, so I'm trying to take that word out of my vocabulary.

Are Gluten Free Meatballs just as exciting? I have no idea. I wanted to make a meatball that was full of good things but also yummy, and to me that's what these are. I also wanted a chicken meatball that didn't inherently feel like it had to be paired with a marinara sauce. These chicken kale meatballs would be great with tomato sauce, for sure, but I paired them with a light brown gravy that was silky and savory and SO good.

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Our Favorite Kale Salad

March 21, 2019 by Lindsay 7 Comments

Happy birthday to me!

I'm 33 today. I had a lovely celebration with my family last weekend, and this week has been positively BRUTAL with sick kids and house showings and work and honestly all of our knees are really sore. That's not to say I'm not in a birthday mood, I am.

I'm just in a kale birthday mood. Don't really have time to stop and have a gazillion calories of sugar that will make me feel crappy in two hours. Need vegetables to avoid eating french fries aka my feelings at every turn. It's a very 33 birthday mood, for sure.

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Simple Kale Salad with Caesar Croutons and Roasted Tomatoes

February 26, 2018 by Lindsay 3 Comments

Welcome to the salad that makes my dreams come true via buttery bread cubes on top of a superfood.

This salad. It's definitely a new favorite, and the simplicity of the salad itself is one of the reasons I love it so much. I love salads that are dressed super simply to make way for really good toppings, and this is exactly that type of thing. The "dressing" is lemon juice and olive oil, full stop, but just wait for the croutons. I didn't want to do a kale Caesar because, while delicious, I feel like that's been done a lot. Instead, I wanted more of a make-ahead salad that just gets thrown together at the last minute.

Enter: Caesar croutons. They're made in a skillet with anchovy butter, which gives a promise-not-fishy super distinctive Caesar flavor. The croutons get all crispy in the butter with garlic and salt and pepper, and then right at the last minute we add parmesan which fries on the outside of the croutons and OMG. So you see why we don't need much in the way of dressing.

Roasted tomatoes add a sweet + warm element, and we have ourselves a salad. The tomatoes and croutons can be made in advance and served cold or at room temperature, so the salad can be done in five minutes once those two things are done. I love this as a side salad with spaghetti or pizza, but throw a fried egg or some protein on top of this and WHAT a delicious meal. Sliced rare steak sounds particularly delicious with these flavors.

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Creamy Sausage and Kale Rigatoni

April 12, 2017 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Literally 6 ingredients, not including salt and olive oil, which you probably don't even need. EVEN WITH THOSE THINGS, one of the easier pastas in all of the land.

I feel like I see a ton of kale and sausage recipes so I was hesitant to share one, but the reason I see them so much is that it's such a wonderful pairing, right? You know it is. This particular dish uses fire-roasted tomatoes for extra flavor (hence, only a few ingredients), local sausage that is super crumbly and not chewy like some sausage, and enough kale for you to feel as though you're making the right choice, which you clearly are.

Plus, 30 minutes or so is all this takes.

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