A few months ago I began a subscription to my favorite meal kit service – also the best value IMHO: EveryPlate.com. This meal kit service offers your choice of three dinners, for two or four people, from a selection of eight different meal options with a range of proteins and sides. Since my kids can… Read More Chicken Fajita Feast
This is a quick and delicious dip to enjoy at your 4th of July cookout with vanilla wafers, pretzels or fruit. Vanilla Pudding Cheesecake Dip Ingredients: 2 boxes vanilla pudding 4 cups cold milk 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar 1/2 cup fresh blueberries 1 cup diced fresh cherries 1/2… Read More 4th of July Dessert Cheesecake Dip
This light, easy spring brunch was delicious, and was made possible by Aldi’s sale on hams (50% off). The refrigerated ham came with glaze for baking. It was pretty quick to bake, then glaze during the last 15 minutes of baking. My trick is to wrap the dish or tray you use to bake your… Read More Perfect Spring Brunch
This delicious breakfast was created by my husband, who mixed one up for me this weekend 🙂 You can use egg whites (which is how my husband made ours) or whole eggs. Ingredients: 5 eggs or equivalent amount of egg whites 8 oz. crab meat or imitation crab meat 4 oz. crumbled goat cheese dash… Read More The Chesapeake Goat Omelette
This was so quick and easy I had to share! Cook a box of fusilli or other small pasta (the pasta I used was gluten-free). While that was boiling, I chopped a cucumber, half of a red onion, artichoke hearts, tomatoes and some cooked chicken and tossed them into a big bowl. I added a… Read More Greek Chicken Pasta Salad
This was such a delicious and easy way to enjoy fajitas for dinner from the crockpot. I grabbed some steaks from Lidl (about a pound worth) sliced it up and added it to the slow cooker with a bunch of green and red peppers and red onion and my two secret ingredients: homemade fajita seasoning… Read More Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas
Today was #SlowCookerSunday, and I wanted to make something warming and hearty, but also healthy, for family dinner. Into the slow cooker went two pounds of diced sirloin, two diced large sweet potatoes, one diced medium white onion, three sliced large carrots, three diced celery stalks, one carton of beef broth, one teaspoon of rosemary,… Read More Slow Cooker Steak and Sweet Potato Stew
As a busy mom, my meal planning and prepping is constantly evolving. I find that it’s hard to prep too many days of the same meal at one time because I like variety in my meals. I’ve also spent whole Sundays cooking food for the week and then ended up making a frozen pizza for… Read More Meal Prep Hack
With three kids, a husband and a full-time job, finding quick and easy dinner recipes is super important. I’ve found the quickest options include frozen or pre-packaged items. My go-to’s are store brand organic frozen veggies. For this skillet, you’ll need a pound of raw frozen shrimp, a package of frozen green beans, some oil… Read More Shrimp and Green Bean Skillet
I’m always looking for quick, easy, meal-prep options that are also healthy. For a while, my go-to breakfast was some egg whites, salsa and cheese nuked for about a minute and a half in the microwave to cook the eggs. Then I discovered Green Giant’s veggie spirals, especially the zucchini spirals. The quick-cook package makes… Read More Quick, Healthy Breakfast
Dogwood Dispatches 