This week has been crazy busy. Not enough time to cook my usual weekly meal. I did realize that I had not shared my new cold lunch. I love having a go to recipe that I can make quickly and ahead of time when I need to take my meal on the go. I don't [...]
This week's recipe hails from Ghana. This is a West African dish that uses black-eyed peas. It only has a few ingredients that makes a great stew. I started with a recipe from Camellia, which sells dried beans. Not sponsored, BTW. Red-Red is a recipe that stews the beans in a tomato sauce with smoked [...]
I am working on more ways to use beans. This recipe totally transforms them. This is loosely based on Chicken Danielle, but when I looked at the recipe, it was as unhealthy as it comes. Canned soup, lack of vegetables, sky high calories and sodium, low macros. The healthiest thing about the recipe was the [...]
I haven't made our recipe for Hoppin' John for a while because we have moved to becoming vegetarians. Traditional Hoppin' John contains pork. I love pork, but there had to be a way to make a vegetarian version. Leave it to Connesserus Veg to get a solid recipe to start with. There are black eyed [...]
No rest for the wicked! I am putting in a floor in one of our small rooms this weekend, so I needed a recipe that would not take too much time to prep and cook. I had a recipe from Jamie Oliver for Mushroom Curry that fit the bill. It's based off of mushrooms with [...]
I was inspired to find a vegan Swedish meatballs recipe by one of my favorite YouTube Chefs: Alex the French Guy. Alex is a...french guy. He lives in France and mixes his engineering talents with cooking. Alex is publishing a series on making the perfect meatball. Not just perfect tasting, but perfectly shaped. On his [...]
I had never heard of Haluski until this week. I was watching a clip from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives from the Food Channel and came across a simple dish called Haluski. The version of haluski on the show was made from egg noodles, onions, bacon and cabbage. It sounded interesting. So I decided to see [...]
I decided to go for comfort food this week. A nice creamy dish that make me happy and reminds me of what mom used to make. Alexandra Barnett at Taste of Home had a recipe for Paprika Pork that reminded me a lot of Chicken Paprikash. I decided to make my own take on this [...]
Since I did a holiday meal last week, I decided to give the big cooking a rest this week. Something simple and vegetarian. That's when I came across a recipe from the MyFitnessPal Hello Healthy Blog for Vegan Chickpea Fritatta. I love fritatta and it's an easy way to use up ingredients. The recipe was [...]
I decided to make a second holiday meal this year that was for sure healthy, vegetarian, low sodium and dairy free. The bad part of other people cooking for you is that they may not understand the intricacies of your diet. For example, my sister in law made these wonderful chicken bites. She did everything [...]
