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3 Sandwiches to Make with Leftover Chicken

3 Sandwiches to Make with Leftover Chicken

When I make roasted chicken breasts, I make as many as my old roasting pan can hold, and then freeze the rest. That way when I feel like eating, but not cooking or going out, I have some options for quick, easy meals at home. Here are three of my […]

August 22, 2013 × 6 comments

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Ambrosia Fruit Salad

Ambrosia Fruit Salad

Reader Request: Summer is the best time for fruit. What are your favorite go-to summer fruit salads? Thank you for your question! I love fresh fruit, and although I usually eat it plain or blend it into smoothies, I recently tinkered with this recipe to make a must-add-to-the-rotation fruit salad 🙂 Ingredients: serves […]

August 15, 2013 × 4 comments

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Spinach Lasagna

Spinach Lasagna

Ingredients: 15 oz part-skim ricotta 2 eggs 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 32-64 oz pasta sauce (depending upon how saucy you like your lasagna) 1 package no-boil lasagna noodles 4 cups fresh spinach optional: 2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped 16 oz mozzarella, shredded 1 cup parmesan, shredded Preheat […]

August 6, 2013 × 4 comments

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Chicken Salad

Chicken Salad

Ingredients: makes about 4 servings (sandwiches, on spinach/arugula salad, or by itself :-)) 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon mayo 1 tablespoon sour cream 1 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 1/2 – 3/4 cup grapes, quartered 1/2 cup apples, chopped 1 tablespoon pecans, chopped 1 tablespoon walnuts, […]

July 9, 2013 × 0 comments

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Green Smoothie: Spinach, Romaine, and Fruit

Green Smoothie: Spinach, Romaine, and Fruit

I’ve gotten into the habit of drinking a green smoothie first thing in the morning 5-6 days/week, and here’s the recipe for the one I typically have, a version of the popular glowing green smoothie. To save time and help keep me on track with green-smoothie-drinking, I make and freeze a couple weeks’ worth […]

July 2, 2013 × 1 comment

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Smoothie: Creamy Banana Apple Grape

Smoothie: Creamy Banana Apple Grape

Hub and I had the best creamy smoothies at The Umstead a couple years ago, and I lucked up on making a surprisingly similar one while I was experimenting with smoothie recipes this past weekend. Remember that scene in The Best Man when Robin (a caterer, I think) was all excited […]

June 17, 2013 × 4 comments

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Breads, Cakes, and Cookies!

Breads, Cakes, and Cookies!

DISCLAIMER: Although bits and pieces of fruits/veggies may have wandered into be present in some of these images, this is NOT a health food post. Not in the slightest 🙂 True to his word, hub bought a waffle maker and got to work making some Wafles & Dinges-like waffles. The recipe literally took […]

June 11, 2013 × 3 comments

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Quick Tip: Produce Prep = Easy Healthy Eating

Quick Tip: Produce Prep = Easy Healthy Eating

When I first started trying to eat more healthily, I would buy tons of fresh fruits and veggies, and stash them in the fridge. Then, a week or two later, I would find myself throwing out all the mushy, moldy, overripe, and uneaten produce I’d spent good money on the […]

June 4, 2013 × 2 comments

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Buttery Oatmeal Cookies

Buttery Oatmeal Cookies

This recipe is an adaptation of this oatmeal raisin cookie recipe from Martha Stewart. Ingredients: makes roughly 18 large, thin cookies 1 1/2 cups rolled oats 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon fine salt 1 1/2 […]

May 16, 2013 × 2 comments

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Creamy Grits

Creamy Grits

Grits are one of those dishes people either love or can’t stand. I believe that a good percentage of those in the latter category feel that way because they haven’t tasted good grits (the ones at Prime, for example). Like, maybe they were forced to endure bland, gritty, made-with-only-water grits, […]

May 7, 2013 × 8 comments

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Good/Better: Oatmeal

Good/Better: Oatmeal

This bowl of oatmeal looks good… … and this one looks better! Adding a bit of color (sliced apples and pumpkin seeds) and texture (sprinkled leftover ingredients: nuts, raisins, sunflower seeds) takes this dish from good to better 🙂 Get the recipe for this homemade oatmeal here.  *I’m considering adding […]

May 2, 2013 × 6 comments

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Quick Tip: Smoothie Prep

Quick Tip: Smoothie Prep

What’s not to love about smoothies? When made with quality ingredients and without tons of extra sugars, juices, and empty calories, they’re the perfect portable, quick, easy, painless, and above all yummy fruit and veggie delivery systems. Some mornings are crazy hectic though – I don’t always have time to […]

April 25, 2013 × 0 comments