Tag: healthy

Grilled Summer Salad Bowl

Grilled Summer Salad Bowl

Grilling is synonymous with the summer. It’s so versatile too. I had all of these foods leftover from grilling the night before and thought it sounded good to throw together as a bowl of salad type meal for lunch at work the following day. This …

Summer Berry Salad

Summer Berry Salad

Does anyone else’s taste change depending on the season?! In the winter I crave warm, comforting foods. In the summer, I crave cool, fresh, bright flavors. It must not be just me. I came across a new salad dressing at a local market and bought …

Perfectly Simple Potato Salad

Perfectly Simple Potato Salad

I love a potato salad with bells and whistles like the rest of us, but sometimes, simple is better. It is a no-frills, easy and quick recipe. I especially enjoy this at cookouts because there are often so many flavors happening. This offers a refreshing, …

Roast Split Chicken

Roast Split Chicken

I was slightly perplexed when my husband came home with split chicken this past week. I had never cooked that before. We often cook chicken breast or a whole roast chicken, so admittedly I didn’t really know what to do with it or what it …

Best Roast Chicken

Best Roast Chicken

Yes, I’m biased, but this is good! And let me apologize for my terrible photos. A whole chicken, especially raw, just does not photograph well! Roast chicken is a staple in our house. As a busy, full time working mom, I need to be thoughtful …

Pumpkin Oat Pancakes

Pumpkin Oat Pancakes

As you may notice, we’re big on breakfasts here. So naturally, I wanted to share my pumpkin oat pancake recipe. It’s now September, which means summer is over & all things fall are happening. One thing that is great about these is that they are …

Healthier Double Chocolate Muffins

Healthier Double Chocolate Muffins

One of my 5 year olds favorite breakfast foods is chocolate muffins. Particularly McDonalds (yes, they do have muffins at ours!). I don’t blame him one bit. They’re good. But not exactly something I want him eating often. So I save those for special treats. It …

Meatloaf

Meatloaf

Can I say I sometimes struggle with what to title posts? And not to mention how I struggle with photographing dinners! Desserts are easy. Meats and meals? Ugh. There’s just something about photographing meals that I just really struggle with. I guess I find it …

Apple Pork

Apple Pork

  Every fall we go apple picking. Living in New England, it’s a must. There are countless orchards in Massachusetts! I prefer the smaller orchards, as opposed to the large ones geared towards families that have a farm as well. Which, I’m not against, I …

Autumn Quinoa Salad

Autumn Quinoa Salad

  You may notice that I love quinoa salads. Salads aren’t just for the summer, though! We had what seemed like an endless amount of apples from apple picking, so I wanted to use them before they went bad! It just so happened my husband …