Celebrating life with food and a sprinkle of fun
by Jenna
Beef and Quinoa Taco Skillet This beef and quinoa taco skillet is an easy one pan meal that turns taco into an easy stove top skillet casserole. Flavorful, filling, and nutritious, this meal will happily feed the family. It is a lighter take on comforting taco casseroles. Welcome to the third installment of my grief…
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Winter Citrus Salad with Roasted Broccoli and Quinoa This is what happens when a foodie goes on a diet. Plain and simple. Because here we are in January and I find my pants unhappy with me after indulging a bit too much through fall and the holidays. And I flat out refuse to suck on…
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Sweet Garlic Chili Chickpea Salad with Roasted Broccoli Happy New Year! Can you believe the holidays are over? And are you ready for some salad? Sweet garlic chili chickpea salad with roasted broccoli to be exact. How you feeling about that? Sad? Happy? Indifferent? Normally I’m all sad about it. I hate the Christmas lights…
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Balsamic Pomegranate Chicken Skillet A few things happen this time of year. The days get ridiculously busy. So does my kitchen. But my kitchen gets busy making all kind of indulgent treats like the no bake chocolate peanut butter bars, stuffed cookies, and salted caramel chocolate chip butter bars. So I need some quick, easy…
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Tomato, Chickpea, and Quinoa Salad I am super lucky that one of my best friends has a daughter my daughter’s age. Better yet? They are best buddies and love to hang out with each other. Even better? Because our kids like each other so much, we see each other a lot. And the icing on…
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Lemon Chicken and Asparagus Skillet I like to learn new things. Really I do. And let me tell you, I learned a lot of new things after we had this lemon chicken asparagus skillet with quinoa for dinner the other night. For example, I learned my that my picky 2 year old will gobble this…
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Sometimes I just feel like a salad. I need it to to balance out things like no bake chocolate cheesecake or brown butter lobster pasta. Let me tell you, this blood orange salad is a real winner. It feels special you know. Maybe because of the blood oranges. Or maybe because it is absolutely gorgeous….
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Weird but true: growing up vegetable soup was one of my favorite foods. I mean, what little kid wants to eat veggie soup when they could be noshing on things like chicken nuggets? Apparently, me. And this vegetable soup with quinoa is a take on my childhood favorite. My Nana lived with us while I…
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Life is all about balance you know? After living off of chipotle pumpkin cheese dip for 2 days and chips, I felt like I should probably put some actual healthy food in my body. Enter this parmesan pumpkin quinoa with asparagus and shrimp. Healthy and delicious. And even better? The Goose eats the pumpkin parmesan…
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Thai Fried Quinoa Bowls. I know I’ve told you all before I love Thai food. Like OMG I can’t get enough of it L-O-V-E it. Multiple that love for it by approximately 5 million and that’s how much I loved it when I was pregnant with the Goose. It was kind of bad. I ate…
