'Awesome-sauce' recipes for every day of the year!
Between warmer temps and increased vaccines summer cookouts are back! And so is the need for easy sides. So coleslaw is...fine. But it's often bland and never really good for you either. But we need sides for game days and potlucks and picnics and cookouts. So here we go with a new side and some light stats! This coleslaw-based salad is high in protein, high in crunch, high in color, and most importantly high in flavor!
Ah breakfast. People say it's the most important meal of the day but who has time to cook a full breakfast during the week? Enter these egg cups! I love making these on Sunday because they're so easy and I can just reheat them throughout the week for a healthy easy protein breakfast.
Summer is here! Which means that once again it is just too hot to turn on a stove or an oven or anything else that generates heat. Enter this great salad recipe! No cook, easy to make, and filling enough to be dinner recipe! It's a great source of protein and wonderfully colorful to serve on a summer's day. Enjoy!
So you want a baked pasta recipe that won't ruin your week but still has a flavor profile? Or it's a Friday in Lent and you're looking for something a little better than fried fish and chips (as delicious as that is!)? Or maybe you just need an easy casserole that you can pop in the oven while getting ready for company to come over? Bring in the tuna casserole! The tuna gives you a protein boost with just enough mayo to make it a comfort dish. Toss in some veggies and garlic and you're ready for dinner.
So what do you do when you have an extra can of pineapple and an afternoon of free time? Throw it in a skillet with some other fresh ingredients and see what comes out! That's where this stir fry recipe comes from. Lots of prep needed in the chopping department but all prepared in one large skillet for easy cooking and clean up! Full of fresh vegetables and delicious pork, this meal is delicious served with rice or great by itself as a low carb option. Enjoy!
Enchiladas. We all love them. At least I do. And while making them once in a while is fun, the 2 hours spent prepping, chopping, cooking, mixing, wrapping, and baking is not always feasible. And the heavy overload of carbs and cheese is not always feasible either! Since the inside of the enchilada is where all the goodness is happening, this recipe just focuses on that - saving time and calories but never sacrificing flavor (courtesy of my Mexican Spice Blend - link included below). Enjoy!
Time for another goodness filled salad to fit your budget! Recently I was out with my cousins picking blueberries...and we went a little overboard! So after freezing a pound, (and snacking on a pound on the plane ride back to the twin cities!), I wanted to experiment with a blueberry vinaigrette - which means I needed a salad to go with it!
Thanks to a lovely trip blueberry picking with my cousins, I have more blueberries than I know what to do with! So I decided to give a blueberry vinaigrette a whirl and (if I do say so myself) - it turned out delicious! Enjoy and let me know what you like to put in your homemade dressings!
Salads and dressing go together - no arguments here! But I struggle with some of the dressing I see on the shelf at the store. We often see extremely high sodium, sugar, and (of course!) calories. It takes more effort to make your own dressing, but it pays dividends and gives you much more freedom to customize your dressing to better match your personal flavor profile along with the flavor profile of whatever salad you're serving.
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