This Watermelon, Jicama and Cucumber Salad is light and refreshing for a hot summer day. Really quick to put together, a great side for just about anything you put on the grill! With fresh mint, Feta cheese and lime juice, this would be great to bring to a potluck, picnic or the beach. It’s basically summer in a bowl, enjoy!
White Chicken Chili My healthy, white Chicken Chili is a twist on traditional chili, using white beans and chicken instead of the usual red beans and beef. It’s lighter, like a soup and a chili in one, packed with flavor, easy to make, and can be customized to suit your taste preferences. My trick to create a creamy consistency without adding cream is to blend the veggies. Serve this dish with your favorite toppings, I like it with avocado, sour cream and red onion....
Yogurt Chocolate Chip Muffins My ricotta cheese chocolate chip muffins have been so popular, they inspired me to try a Greek yogurt version. These yogurt chocolate chip muffins were such a hit with my daughter Madison! She said they are the BEST muffins she ever tasted! That’s huge considering she’s pretty picky, and perfect as I found a new make-ahead breakfast recipe to add to my rotation. I put the leftovers in the refrigerator after the second day, then popped them in the microwave a few seconds to get the chill out....
Zucchini chocolate chip cookies are just as delicious as they sound. These cookies are delightfully soft and ooey-gooey. If you love cookies some other recipes to try are this no-bake, these delicious s’mores, or these amazing pecan cookies. Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies These zucchini chocolate chip cookies are the BEST! I always have a few extra zucchini lying around at the end of the summer that I don’t know what to do with....
Slather this icing over sugar cookies or use it to decorate your gingerbread cookies to perfection. It is simple to make and tastes delicious! Royal Icing Recipe There are some recipes I make so often I have them memorized because they’re either classics or ones I truly can’t live without and this royal icing is one of those recipes. Hello, everyone, this is Aimee Mars and I’m excited to celebrate the holidays with as much food as possible and plan on never running out of cookies to decorate....
Indian food has a reputation for being complicated and difficult, but once you understand some basics, it’s actually pretty straightforward. Sure, there are some recipes that can take 3 hours (like this vegan dal makhani – so worth it, by the way), but there are many others that be made in under 45 minutes (like my red lentil curry). Below I’ve rounded up over 40 fantastic vegan Indian recipes from yours truly and other fabulous South Asian bloggers, along with a few tips you can use to veganize almost any Indian dish....
Bring the party to your mouth with this Mango Salsa! Best Blender Salsa (5 Minutes), Mango Lime Avocado Salsa or Fresh Fruit Salsa are fun salsas that we love to make regularly. Fresh and Easy Mango Salsa Mangos are in season and I needed them in my shopping cart! I love the texture and flavor of a good mango. Combining all the ingredients together, you get a sweet, spicy and savory party in your mouth....
Get organized with your breakfasts, lunches and dinners with these easy meal prep recipes. Whether you want to stay on top of health goals or want to spend less time in the kitchen, meal prep is the key to succeeding! Check out all my top tips and favorite meal prep recipes! If you don’t look forward to meal times and are always asking yourself, “what should I make for dinner tonight” then meal prepping could be the answer you’ve been looking for!...
I love all the things you can make with pumpkin, it’s so versatile. Try these recipes for some pumpkin inspiration; Soft and Puffy Pumpkin Snickerdoodles, Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins or this Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Cake. Perfect Pumpkin Bread The hardest thing about this super easy loaf is waiting for it to cool enough so you can eat it. This is so easy to make you’ll want to make it every day....
Fish Sticks in Air Fryer Forget the frozen aisle – Make healthy fish sticks in the air fryer with cleaner, fresh ingredients that taste so much better than packaged ones. They’re delicious and taste even better with tartar sauce flavored with dill pickles, lemon juice, and dill. These homemade fish sticks in the air fryer are great for meal prep too. Double the batch, and have one for dinner and freeze the other for another night....
Tater tots are the perfect side dish to these air fryer Chicken, Shrimp and Salmon recipes. Air frying is insanely delicious with so many recipes to try! The Best Air Fryer Tater Tots Tater tots from a fast food restaurant are simply the best. And I have never been able to replicate that incredible crunch and hot delicate insides at home until now. These air fryer tater tots are just as good if not better than your favorite place to get them....
Short ingredient list. With only 5 ingredients (plus berries and powdered sugar for topping), you might have almost everything to make this cake in your pantry already! Simple. Don’t let the long list of instructions scare you! This cake is very easy to make. Moist and fluffy. Beating the egg whites and gently folding them in ensures a moist almond cake with a light texture. Lightened up. Since almond flour has more fat than regular flours, there’s no need to add oil or butter....
Are you guys ready for one of the best salads that you will ever make? Seriously though. You guys know me all too well by now and my love for asian foods and salmon. So when you combine the two I am in h-e-a-v-e-n. Some of my top posts are asian inspired recipes. I literally buy soy sauce by the truck load. Having a good quality soy sauce is important when creating asian recipes....
Avocado Toast with Egg This healthy, avocado toast recipe is made on whole grain toast with mashed avocado, and your favorite egg. You can make this with a hard boiled egg, sunny side up, scrambled, or poached. If you’re like me, you make even want to add a few dashes of hot sauce! Adding egg to avocado toast is an easy way to add protein to breakfast toast. If you want a vegan option, you might also like this avocado toast with lemon and kale....
If you love creating different dips to entertain your family and friends, you are not alone! For a recipe with flavors and layers similar to this 7 layer dip, but with a slight twist in presentation, try Individual 7 layer dip. Awesome 7 Layer Dip Layering these tasty ingredients one on top of the other makes dipping into all the delicious flavors at once possible. Not to mention the beautiful colors that are displayed when you make it in a clear dish....
Baked Pasta with Sausage and Spinach If you don’t want to make such a large amount, you can easily halve this recipe. Italian turkey or chicken sausage works great, use whichever is available near you. For a meatless version, try this Baked Ziti with Spinach recipe. This is also easy to make ahead, then pop it in the oven when you are ready to eat. If you like to freeze meals ahead for the month, this freezes well after baking....
Cake is amazing, it’s versatile in both flavor, taste, and texture, it is the perfect dessert every time. Try these other favorites, Tiramisu, Red Velvet and Cake! Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe This is the best sour cream pound cake I have ever tasted! It is moist, soft, and has the most perfect flavor with a blend of butter, vanilla, and tangy sour cream. Pound cake has such a rich flavor you do not need a bunch of fancy toppings or sauces to make it taste better....
I stuff the chillies with mixed masalas, jaggery and besan (chickpea flour). Each one is like a hot little flavour bomb. This recipe is inspired by and based upon my mother’s Gujarati Bharela Marcha. What are Bharela Marcha? In Gujarati Bharela = stuffed. Marcha = chillies. So is this a curry? No. Bharela Marcha (Stuffed Bullet Chillies) are more of a side dish than a main. They’re sauce-less because we serve them alongside other dishes....
Potlucks are the perfect place to bring a pasta salad! After you try this one, you must try my incredible bacon ranch pasta salad, this shrimp pasta salad and this tortellini pasta salad. BLT Avocado Pasta Salad Recipe Last week we had a fun little gathering and I made this delicious BLT Avocado Pasta Salad. I put a little spin on the classic BLT and added some pasta and my favorite…....
BLT Macaroni Salad Dads like bacon so I thought a bacon, lettuce and tomato summer pasta salad would be a perfect side dish for your Father’s Day picnic. The L in this BLT salad should really be an S but I didn’t like the sound of a BST. If you’re a fan of a good BLT you might also like my Breakfast BLT Sandwich or my Breakfast BLT Salad. I am really trying to like whole wheat pasta and used it today to give it another chance, but next time I am sticking with what I like for the same amount of points, either Ronzoni Smart Taste or Dreamfields as a lower carb option....
