Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
Weeknight meals can sometimes be the most difficult to come up with. We tend to make the same things over and over again and then get bored with them. To keep from hearing “spaghetti, again?” too often, I try to change things up while still keeping our weeknight meals easy to make. One of my newest favorites is lemon paprika chicken.
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Do you love snack bars? We’re huge fans and like to have a variety of different types around the house. Recently, though, I started making my own because it allowed me to control the ingredients that went into them and really customize them to what my family likes. These gluten free no bake granola bars are my most recent attempt and they are my favorite ones to date.
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The weather is starting to warm up and, for me especially, that means I love having salads for lunch. The hardest part about making a great salad though is finding a salad dressing that tastes great but isn’t full of sugar or bunch of other additives. My friend and I were talking one day and decided that we definitely needed to find a paleo green goddess dressing. After scouring a few stores and coming up empty, we decided to make our own instead.
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For years, we’ve done movie nights on Fridays. It is the best way to end the week. Of course, there are three Ps that are necessary for a successful movie night: plot, pizza and popcorn (dark chocolate sea salt is a sweet favorite). For our most recent movie night, I created taco ranch popcorn for the perfect hit of spice and a little change from our usual movie theater butter version.
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I had a flashback the other day to my days after school coming home to have a snack. Little bagel pizzas were my absolute favorite. We’ve bought them from time to time but H has way more fun creating her own freezer friendly pizza bagels.
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Between doing Whole30 and trying to eat Paleo the rest of the time, we eat a lot of cauliflower rice on our house. I like to do most of our meal prep on Sundays to make getting dinner done much easier during our busy weeknights but cauliflower rice was one of those that I just never could do ahead of time. Cauliflower just plain stinks once you cut it. I saw all over Facebook how Trader Joes had frozen cauliflower rice but none of our local stores EVER seem to have it. So, I decided I would figure out how to freeze cauliflower rice at home so I could still do my meal prep on Sundays but not have my house stink all week.
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I am always in search of easy recipes that taste great and go from a weeknight to a dinner party with little to no changes. Recently, we visited a local restaurant owned by former Top Chef contestant, Mike Isabella, where we had the best pork ragu. {If you remember that season, I can attest to the pepperoni sauce being as AH-MAZING as the judges made it seem on the show.}
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I was looking through my calendar the other day {scheduling Girl Scout cookie booths} and couldn’t believe how close we are to March! Of course, with March, comes St. Patrick’s Day and all the green beer, Guinness {cupcakes} and Irish food your heart could desire. One of our favorite meals to enjoy for St. Patrick’s Day is one pot Irish stew.
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Easter is coming up and for us that means carrot cake. I am not sure how carrot cake became such a staple in our Easter celebrations but I am certainly not complaining. You just can’t beat the combination of the spiced cake and cream cheese frosting!
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Mornings here are crazy. I’m sure the same goes for any household that is trying to get multiple kids up and out the door for school by 7:15am every day. Breakfast can be a real challenge because there is just no time to actually MAKE breakfast. Pancakes and sausage are reserved for weekends or days we are all home. Weekday mornings require something a little easier but also has to be something the kids will love. Right now, everyone is so excited about the newest cereals in our pantry because they get to be Super Heroes in the mornings!
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