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CHICKEN WITH ROSEMARY BUTTER SAUCE CHICKEN WITH ROSEMARY BUTTER SAUCE — Sauteed chicken breasts smothered in a creamy rosemary butter sauce. Ready in 20 minutes or less! I know it’s been said before, but you really can’t have too many chicken recipes. Especially chicken recipes like this Chicken with Rosemary Butter Sauce. This delicious dish can be made in about 20 minutes and only dirties one pot! And a sauce made with butter and cream–how could you possibly go wrong there? This chicken is nice enough for company, but easy enough for a weeknight meal. My kind of dinner! I recommend a side of rice, potatoes or pasta to go with the creamy rosemary and butter pan gravy. In fact, it’s not a bad idea to double the sauce so you have some to spoon over your chosen side dish. Sauteed chicken breasts smothered in a creamy rosemary butter sauce. Ready in 20 minutes or less! INGREDIENTS 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves 4 tablespoons butter, divided 1/2 cup chicken broth 1/2 cup heavy w...

AVOCADO AND TOMATO SALAD Fresh and bright, this Avocado and Tomato Salad is a perfect side dish alongside any Mexican themed meal. It’s also a great pot-luck salad! This recipe is actually one that I made first back in 2008, alongside these Steaks with Mexican Spices and Chile Con Queso. This Avocado and Tomato Salad is the definition of simple – which is why it’s so good. I love when you can take so few ingredients and turn it into something so delicious and packed with flavor. And even though it’s April, and super flavorful, in-season tomatoes are no where to be found, this salad still packs a punch. You can bet that I’ll be making this all summer long when the local tomatoes start showing up. Want more Super Side Salads? Check out this Black Bean, Corn and Tomato Salad (great as a salad or a dip!), this Zucchini and Tomato Salad Recipe (perfect for summer zucchini) or this fresh but hearty Tomato and Black Bean Quinoa Salad. Or check out these other salads from around the web: Brocc...

AVOCADO AND TOMATO SALAD Fresh and bright, this Avocado and Tomato Salad is a perfect side dish alongside any Mexican themed meal. It’s also a great pot-luck salad! This recipe is actually one that I made first back in 2008, alongside these Steaks with Mexican Spices and Chile Con Queso. This Avocado and Tomato Salad is the definition of simple – which is why it’s so good. I love when you can take so few ingredients and turn it into something so delicious and packed with flavor. And even though it’s April, and super flavorful, in-season tomatoes are no where to be found, this salad still packs a punch. You can bet that I’ll be making this all summer long when the local tomatoes start showing up. Want more Super Side Salads? Check out this Black Bean, Corn and Tomato Salad (great as a salad or a dip!), this Zucchini and Tomato Salad Recipe (perfect for summer zucchini) or this fresh but hearty Tomato and Black Bean Quinoa Salad. Or check out these other salads from around the web: Brocc...

HOMEMADE COOKIE MONSTER ICE CREAM Creamy (no churn!) vanilla ice cream loaded with 2 different kinds of cookies. A cookie lover’s dream come true! I don’t want to sound like an old fogey, but Sesame Street these days is just ridiculous. Apparently Cookie Monster eats vegetables and says that cookies are a “sometimes” food?!?! WHAT?! Pfffttt. If you’re like me and believe cookies are one of the main food groups, then this ice cream is for you! It’s loaded with 2 different kinds of cookies and I mean loaded! No 1-2 cookie pieces per bowl on this blog uh-uh! One thing to note here is the use of store bought chocolate chip cookies. I adore store bought sweets as much as the next guy (okay probably even more, looking at you store bought cupcakes!). However, packaged chocolate chip cookies are not my favorite. However, they work really well here because their crunchy texture stands up to the ice cream.You may be able to substitute a very crunchy homemade one instead. If you’re looking for ...

The 28-Day Shrink Your Stomach Challenge Banana Dessert Sushi This recipe is part of the 28-Day Shrink Your Stomach Challenge. Eat and plank your way to a slimmer waistline! See instructions to get started with this challenge, and find more 28-Day Shrink Your Stomach recipes Ingredients 1 banana 2 tbsp unsweetened natural nut butter (such as cashew butter, peanut butter, or almond butter) 1/3 cup total of your favorite crushed or chopped nuts and seeds (such as almonds, pistachios, sesame seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds, unsweetened coconut flakes, etc.) Directions Spread a thin layer of nut butter on the entire banana. Spread chopped nuts and seeds on a shallow plate and roll banana over it, pressing lightly so that the nuts and seeds stick to the banana. Slice covered banana into 1-inch thick slices. Eat immediately or place in the freezer until solid and then transfer to a zipped bag to store. Optional additions: unsweetened cocoa powder, ground cinnamon, raw cacao nibs, sea salt Note...

Flourless Chocolate Brownie Cookies {naturally gluten free recipe} Crispy and chewy at the same time, intensely chocolatey and rich, these cookies are closer in flavor to a brownie than a traditional cookie. I was craving something sweet and chocolate this weekend, but I didn’t want to spend a whole lot of time baking. I’ve had this recipe saved to try for a while now and this was the perfect opportunity to try it out. It only took a few minutes to whisk the batter together and these cookies were in the oven in very little time at all. For the chocolate lover in your life, these cookies are the ultimate treat! Ingredients 3 cups powdered sugar 3/4 cups dutch process cocoa powder 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 large egg whites 1 large egg 2/3 cup bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate chips Instructions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together the dry ingredients and add the eggs. Whisk again until smooth. (Using an electric mixer will make this even easier, but it's simple enough by ...

Turkey Cupcakes – Thanksgiving Cupcake Decorating Christmas, Halloween and Valentine’s Day have a ton of fun dessert decorating ideas, but I think Thanksgiving gets a little gypped. After all, we spend most of the day making food, so why not make it cute?! Don’t panic, I didn’t put actual turkey in these cupcakes! They just look like adorable little turkeys 🙂 These Turkey Cupcakes are chocolatey and have some Reese’s Pieces as the feathers, so it’s the perfect decorating activity! If you’re allergic to peanut butter, just use 1 row of candy corn instead and have it fan out like feathers would! There are also lots of substitutions to making the little turkey faces, so check for those in the notes below! Ingredients 20-24 unfrosted cupcakes 20-24 Hershey Kisses 1 C. white chocolate chips-I used white Melts, divided Orange gel food dye (see notes below) Mini chocolate M&Ms Chocolate frosting (or chocolate peanut butter) 1 bag Reese's Pieces Directions First you'll make the tu...

HAM AND POTATO SUPREME When you want something warm and comforting this Ham and Potato Supreme is just the answer. The velvety cheese sauce blankets the ham and potatoes making it the perfect cool weather comfort food! Some days can be just brutal. The to do list seems to get longer instead of shorter. Crazy unforeseen roadblocks create havoc on productivity. On those days I like to pull out some of my favorite recipes like this Ham and Potato Supreme from my Mom. They provide comfort in a way that just seems to take all the stress away. Classic ham and potato supreme is comforting, simple to make, easily doubled (to freeze for the next stressful day) and the most important thing…… delicious! I’m originally from Nebraska, we call this dish a casserole, but where my husband is from (Minnesota) they call it a hot dish. Its meat and vegetables mixed together with a sauce (in this case a light cheesy velvety sauce wrapped around ham and potatoes.) The French call this sauce a Béchamel. Yep...

Turkey Cupcakes – Thanksgiving Cupcake Decorating Christmas, Halloween and Valentine’s Day have a ton of fun dessert decorating ideas, but I think Thanksgiving gets a little gypped. After all, we spend most of the day making food, so why not make it cute?! Don’t panic, I didn’t put actual turkey in these cupcakes! They just look like adorable little turkeys 🙂 These Turkey Cupcakes are chocolatey and have some Reese’s Pieces as the feathers, so it’s the perfect decorating activity! If you’re allergic to peanut butter, just use 1 row of candy corn instead and have it fan out like feathers would! There are also lots of substitutions to making the little turkey faces, so check for those in the notes below! Ingredients 20-24 unfrosted cupcakes 20-24 Hershey Kisses 1 C. white chocolate chips-I used white Melts, divided Orange gel food dye (see notes below) Mini chocolate M&Ms Chocolate frosting (or chocolate peanut butter) 1 bag Reese's Pieces Directions First you'll make the t...

MANGO PIÑA COLADAS {MOCKTAILS OR COCKTAILS} Cocktail or mocktail? This mango piña colada recipe uses fresh fruit and coconut milk. With just a few ingredients, you can whip this refreshing drink together in no time. My strawberry piña coladas have been such a hit that I decided we needed more fresh drinks that can be made mocktail or cocktail. I thought, why not create an even more tropical drink with my favorite tropical fruit, the mango? And with that we present the refreshing mango piña colada. I know you can buy premixed drinks at the store but have you read the ingredients? And some of them are so syrupy sweet they just don’t taste that great. Since I am a huge proponent of making as much of my food and drink from scratch as possible, I hit the produce section for fresh mangoes and pineapple. By the way, if you find working with fresh pineapple a hassle, here is an easy tutorial on how to cut pineapple easily. There is something so satisfying about making deliciously bad for you t...

KETO SOFT PRETZELS All of the delicious chewiness of a real soft pretzel, but low carb and keto friendly. The keto soft pretzels are sure to impress.  KETO SOFT PRETZELS Is there anything that can’t be made low carb? To that, my answer is no! With a little patience and creativity, the sky’s the limit. These low carb soft pretzels taste so close to the real deal. It really is quite amazing what you can make with different variations of fathead cheese dough. This infamous dough is amazing for sweet and savory recipes. For more ideas, check out this recipe round-up of 24 Fathead Cheese Dough Recipes. Soft pretzels reminding me of walking into the mall as a teenager and passing the pretzel stand in the food court. It was like the aroma followed me all through the mall, calling to me. Well now I can have my low carb and gluten free soft pretzel and eat it too! I love to dip these in spicy brown mustard or nacho cheese sauce. They are also really great dipped in my Three Cheese Garlic Ma...

CHEESY MASHED POTATOES CASSEROLE This AMAZING Side Dish Takes Mashed Potatoes To A New Level! Cheesy Mashed Potato Casserole Is Filled With Potatoes, Cream Cheese, Sour Cream, Butter, Cheese, Bacon And More. No Other Casserole Is As Creamy, Cheesy, And Delicious As This Cheese Potato Casserole! Twice Baked Mashed Potatoes with Cream Cheese Have I mentioned my love for potatoes?! The starchy vegetable is my favorite, and it’s probably a favorite of yours too since I haven’t met a person who doesn’t like potatoes. Ever since I was little, mashed potatoes have been a favorite and is something my mom made at least once or twice a month. Surprisingly, I’ve only made mashed potatoes a handful of times for my own family but I do make several other versions to change things up to where we have them at least once or twice a month as well. A few months ago, I decided to try even another way to make potatoes using a recipe for Cheesy Mashed Potato Casserole. How did they turn out?? This mashed po...

Pecan Pie Cheesecake Cheesecake and Pecan Pie together in one dessert. How could anything be better? This outrageously good Pecan Pie Cheesecake has a crust made from vanilla wafer crumbs, a nutty and sweet pecan pie layer topped off with a cool and creamy cheesecake layer. I’ve become obsessed with the Crock Pot Dulce de leche I made recently so I drizzled that on top. This was the first cheesecake I’ve made in eons. I’m surprised I even still had my springform pan. Note: The recipe (from Taste of the South) did not call for a water bath and I didn’t use one. I thought about it, but I didn’t have any aluminum foil to wrap around the bottom of my springform pan. When I took the cheesecake out of the oven, it looked absolutely perfect. Completely smooth on top. But when I walked past it about 10 minutes later, it had a giant crack down the middle. Easily fixed with some Dulce de Leche. But if you don’t want a crack, try using a water bath. Although I’m not sure how much they really help...

LOW CARB TACO CUPS {KETO FRIENDLY} This recipe is so easy to make. It’s especially easy if you’ve got left over taco meat. If you don’t, before beginning to make the taco cups brown a pound of 80/20 ground beef. Once meat is browned, add taco seasoning. You can use a packet of taco seasoning, or use my Keto friendly homemade taco seasoning (recipe here) for less carbs. Once the taco meat is ready, go ahead and begin making the batter for taco cups. See photos below for a quick picture tutorial. I spooned about a tablespoon of batter into each muffin cup (it made 14). Then, I sprayed my hands with cooking spray and used my fingers to pat the batter up the sides of the pan to form the taco cup. Bake for 8 minutes then remove from oven. Different baking powders can make this rise more than others. If your cups rise quite a bit, simply use the back of a spoon to push the dough back down before adding the taco meat. Spoon taco meat generously into muffin tins. Top with a tablespoon or so of...

Pasta with Chicken Broth, Butter and Parmesan This Pasta with Chicken Broth, Butter and Parmesan is pure comfort food! It is a bowl of wonderful, warming, healing amazingness. One spoonful and you know the world is going to start looking brighter. A whole bowl and you feel restored. This Pasta with chicken broth will become your new favourite simple dinner. The pasta is cooked in the chicken broth (stock) so it takes on all the delicious flavours. (For a more substantial dinner you can add shredded chicken) Usually when you cook pasta you use plenty of boiling water and keep it at a rolling boil. With this recipe to ensure the pasta packs a flavour punch, you want to use the lowest simmer possible. If the broth/stock starts to boil, it will evaporate out of the pan and there won’t be enough to cook your pasta fully. So use a low simmer and you will be rewarded with a comforting bowl of pasta! The majority of the flavour in this dish comes from the chicken broth (chicken stock) so it ne...

PHILLY CHEESE STEAK CASSEROLE This Philly Cheese Steak Casserole is such an easy delicious dinner! Full of the Philly Cheese Steak flavor you love, but baked up in a delicious noodle casserole! PHILLY CHEESE STEAK CASSEROLE: A DELICIOUS TWIST Since I can’t have Chuck E. Cheese’s Philly Cheese Steak pizza every day, I made this Philly Cheese Steak Casserole! It’s got all the delicious flavor of the pizza but loaded into a casserole. This casserole could not be easier, and you start by cooking the noodles in beef stock so that adds a ton of flavor to it right off the bat. You throw some cream cheese in with the ground beef and melt some provolone on top and you get the most dreamy melty delicious casserole. Its the type of casserole that you want to put in a big bowl and curl up in your jammies on the couch and watch a movie. No? Just me? Philly Cheese Steak Casserole This Philly Cheese Steak Casserole is a delicious weeknight meal that your family will love! Prep Time 20 minutes C...