At our house, breakfast is our big family meal of the day, but breakfast pizza is a new thing. Up until recently, we kept the first meal of the day pretty standard – eggs scrambled with some cheese or chopped greens, bacon or sausage, tea for me and a glass of raw milk or kombucha for
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Gluten Free Cassava Pizza Crust – Paleo & AIP Friendly
I’ve got a thing for junk food makeovers, so naturally I’m a bit obsessed with pizza. Today’s new love is cassava pizza, but my pizza adventures have been vast. First I found that I could make a good classic crust with a simple recipe and sprouted flour – a healthier alternative to white flour. Then I
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Mexican Street Corn Salad
Late summer is one of the best times of year for recipes laden with sun-ripened fruits and veggies. This Mexican street corn salad is one of my favorite ways to eat one of my favorite foods – summer corn. When I was a kid, school never started in August, and summer most certainly didn’t end then either.
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Zucchini Spinach Salad with Chicken
I often hesitate to post about anything other than fantastic desserts, because it seems as though most readers prefer the fantasy of sweets over dinner ideas. But this simple yet flavorful zucchini spinach salad is too good not to share. I spent the last four months working on getting healthier and slimming down for summer. Along the
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Grilled Peaches And Halloumi
Summertime is my favorite time of year by far, and nothing beats fresh, ripe summer fruit that tastes of the hot sunshine and earth that grew it. This recipe for grilled peaches with halloumi cheese combines some of the best things in life – summer bounty and grillable cheese. YUM. Growing up we grilled the standard
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Greek Chicken Burgers with Tzatziki
Just in time for barbeque season and summer staycations, you’re going to LOVE these Greek chicken burgers with homemade tzatziki. I admit, I’ve been known turn my nose up at chicken and turkey burgers. I typically find them dry and tasteless. They are often touted as a healthier option because they are lower in fat
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Paleo Pizza on Portobello Caps
Whether it’s gluten-free deep dish pizza or grain-free cauliflower crust, I love dreaming up ways to make a healthy pizza recipe that satisfies my standards for comfort, fun, and flavor. My most recent adventure has been perfecting paleo pizza – a task that proved to be harder that it first seemed. When it comes to grain-free
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Salmon and Asparagus Bake
You know when you try a new recipe that you think is going to be just “meh” and then are blown away by how delicious and perfect it is? This salmon and asparagus bake is one of those dishes. I had a similar experience with my chicken Florentine over acorn squash too. A few weeks ago, I
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Homemade Pho with Zoodles
Have you seen my post about making zoodles? Homemade pho is a great way to enjoy zucchini ‘noodles.’ Zoodles are truly one of my favorite ways to get the function and joy of pasta without feeling like I’ve devoured several fistfuls of starch. While there’s nothing wrong with carbs, sometimes the mood or the season calls for something lighter. I
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Roasted Cauliflower with Fennel and Sausage
Some dishes are so simple they don’t need a recipe. Instead the recipe serves to inspire the combination of flavors that you haven’t yet considered throwing together. This roasted cauliflower dish is one of those creative kitchen ah-ha moments. It’s around this time of year that I start to grow weary of the same winter veggies
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Chicken Florentine over Acorn Squash
Running a meal planning business, I test LOTS of recipes – some flops, some with room for improvement, and some that are just knock-it-out-of-the-ballpark good. This recipe for chicken florentine over acorn squash is one of those winners. When I first started playing with this recipe, I wanted to create a casserole that was reminiscent
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Chili Colorado For Dinner Perfection
I tried to tell my husband and kids that this dish was a flop, but once they got a whiff of the delicious smell wafting out of the slow cooker, there was no way to fend them off of my precious chili colorado. Drat. Now I have to share. “Colorado” here means red, so essentially this is
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