I have made both chicken and rice bakes and chicken tortilla casseroles. They are both very good. While I was thumbing through a list of recipes for chicken and rice, I saw a recipe from Half-Baked Harvest that combined the two. This recipe for Skillet Salsa Verde Tortilla Rice Bake uses salsa verde, the green [...]
One of the things I'm learning with cooking at a lower calorie level is sometimes a dish doesn't turn out as large of a portion as I would expect. I know this with beef stews, but I've also learned this with recipes that just use chicken thighs as a protein. In stews, there is a [...]
We love spaghetti squash here at home. This week I needed something simple that I could throw together without a lot of fuss. I saw a recipe for spaghetti squash toss and instead of just adding a few things to the recipe, I decided to change it up. Spaghetti squash is as versatile as pasta, [...]
Raise your hand if you love buffalo chicken wings. I'm right along with you. The spicy, tangy sauce is SO good. However, if you look at how much sodium is in these recipes, it'll make your blood pressure go up just thinking about them. Then I ran across a recipe from Better Homes and Gardens [...]
Since I am at home this week, I like to do recipes that I don't have to freeze. This week one of the recipes that I thought of and I haven't done in a while is Chicken Taco Salad from Chow.com. It's a fairly healthy recipe, but it needed some work because the last time [...]
I was watching America's Test Kitchen and their gumbo recipe. It is as authentic as it gets. However, it uses high sodium ingredients and a roux, which is not gluten-free. I am also really busy this weekend and I need the slow cooker to do the work for me. I decided to develop my own [...]
This is an oldie but a goodie recipe. I've made Chicken Paprikash or a version of it most of my adult life. There's something about the paprika-laden creamy sauce that just screams comfort food. This is the national dish of Hungary. For good reason. It's a very flavorful dish. It's not also a light dish [...]
I saw Tabasco in the title of the recipe and I couldn't help but check it out. Yes, this recipe from Foodie Crush was sponsored by Tabasco for a challenge. That doesn't make it bad. Tabasco sauce is a hot sauce I love because it adds just the right amount of heat and flavor. I [...]
I decided to go Mexican style with this recipe. Chicken thighs smothered in a peanut-based sauce. YUM!!! It had a lot of flavor and punch from the ancho chili and using thighs over boneless, skinless chicken breasts. However, it lacked the vitamins we needed make this a more well-rounded meal. Here is the original recipe [...]
Original Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens: Slow Cooker Indian Chicken Stew This was another interesting recipe from Better Homes and Gardens. I love Indian-inspired dishes. This one just needed a few small changes to make it fit our diet a bit better. Here are the original stats for the recipe which serves 8: 295 [...]
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