Ginger Ale Carrots

Ginger Ale Carrots is probably one of the simplest recipes, ever. All you need are carrots and a can of ginger ale. MAYBE top is parsley if you want to be fancy. But that is all there is to it!  The ginger ale is a great way to cook and also season the carrots, the …

Crispy Thai Fried Eggplant

Although eggplant parmesan gets a lot of the attention when it comes to fried eggplant dishes, this version using thai eggplants is sure to broaden your horizons.  Crispy, crunchy and filled with flavors of ginger, sesame and a touch of spice, it’s a perfect appetizer, side or vegetarian star.  The small size is especially nice …

Instant Pot Apple Sauce

After making your own apple sauce you’ll never want to buy store-bought again, especially when the instant pot makes it so easy!  I never liked store-bought applesauce to begin with, I was spoiled as a kid and lucky enough to make homemade apple sauce with my grandma every year.  Her apple sauce is still my …

Creamy Snap Peas and Pancetta

This Creamy Snap Peas and Pancetta dish is a “snap” to make. Its easy as 1,2,3. 1. prep the pancetta, 2 cook the peas, 3 add in the sauce. Its that easy! If your local grocery store doesn’t have pancetta or its too expensive for your liking, you can swap for bacon. Pancetta is a …

Apple Dijon Bacon Spinach Salad

Salad. Wow. Exciting. Groundbreaking. These were my exact thoughts as I attempted to make this salad. People tend to dismiss salads as boring or too simple. But this recipe is anything but boring. However it is simpler than it looks!  What I love about this salad is that you can make a lot of it …

Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce

Hollandaise Sauce is famous for complimenting and topping eggs benedict, salmon or, in this recipe, asparagus. The challenge and technique of making it the right consistency with the right balance of lemon, butter and egg yolk.  For this recipe we place the ingredients in a metal bowl over a boiling pot of water as a …

Garlic Lemon Roasted Potatoes

So often can potato recipes feel greasy, unfulfilling and just all around bleh. This recipe is colorful, healthy, and fresh. The garlic is good for lowering cholesterol and gives it a hearty kick. The lemon adds a refreshing twist and cuts the heaviness of the potatoes.  All while the parsley bonds the two flavors.  Just …

Peanut Butter Stout Beer Bread

Who doesn’t love bread?  But, who doesn’t know what to do with yeast, it scares them, or it sounds like too much effort?  I typically answer yes to all of these. I love bread, as most people do, but I also don’t usually have the patience to deal with yeast.  So what’s the answer to …

Zesty Carrot Cheesy Tots

Appetizers, they’re fun, bite sized, packed with flavor and usually fan favorites aren’t super healthy.  Some of my favorite appetizers or snack foods include tater tots, mozzarella sticks, fried mac n cheese balls.  You know, all those super nutritious things.  I typically don’t devise as many appetizer recipes, but this one just came to me. …

Kalamata Olive Tzatziki Dip

I love Greek food.  It all started when a Greek Resty opened up in my hometown when I was in grade school.  I’m from a pretty small town, so at that point Greek food was new to me, but after trying it out with my mom it quickly became my favorite restaurant in town!  Years …

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon

As a kid I didn’t like Brussels sprouts. It’s not that I didn’t like the taste. I really just didn’t like them because they were smelly.  Every time my mom made them, she’d heat them in the microwave and the whole house would get that funky cabbage smell. As the mature child I was this …

Quinoa & Cauliflower ‘Mac n Cheese’

This Non-Mac ‘Mac n Cheese’ actually is the best thing since since sliced bread. And it can even be gluten-free too!  It’s cheesy and satisfying and even has veggies in it so you feel less guilty. I’ve always been a huge Mac n Cheese fan, ever since I was a kid. But as an adult, …