Sharing what our busy family of four loves to eat!
Crab cakes are the one food Trevor likes to eat out when we go to a nice fish restaurant. They’re hard to ‘get right’ at home. I’ve tried a few times and they are usually dry and tasteless. Then I realized that not all crabmeat is equal. Having a really good quality, fresh lump crabmeat …
I’m starting this recipe post by saying YOU HAVE TO MAKE THIS THE NIGHT BEFORE YOU WANT TO EAT IT. Ok there, I said it. I kept forgetting to make this the night before and the next day, I was SOOL. Luckily I finally remembered last night, so I’ll be eating this for lunch instead …
I wasn’t feeling well this week, so we changed around what recipes we were making this week and had this Risotto for Valentine’s day instead of the steak we planned on making. Making risotto is very hands on – you can’t really leave the pots side for a minute or you risk the rice drying …
When you think Valentine’s Day, soup isn’t the first thing that comes to my mind. Well, maybe it is but some would say I’m not normal. 🙂 With my love of soup at an all time high, I wanted to make a soup that really screamed romance or sexy or Valentine’s Day! So, I made …
I don’t eat pasta very often, but when I do, I like it smothered in vodka sauce. It’s so creamy and the best comfort food for me. You can of course buy some good vodka sauces out there, this is a super easy one to make and having it fresh is like nothing else! Tonight, I …
My day was just insane today – how about yours? Crazy, I know. I don’t have time to do anything, let alone think about what I want to make for dinner. Thankfully, I planned for an easy dinner knowing today was going to be hectic. Sometimes, breakfast for dinner is just easier. But, just because I’m …
Normally when I’m eating on a budget, it means lots of carbs and not much meat. But I wanted to try to find a way around that, especially given all the hard work I did last month on Whole30! I found pork is generally a good, cheap option when you’re on a budget. Since ground …
For meatless Monday, I wanted to make a healthy dish that’s also budget friendly. So, it screamed cauliflower to me. It’s cheap and can be made into just about anything. You can mix cauliflower into smoothies, into desserts and it can transform just about any kind of dinner (especially this one)! In addition to using …
It’s the last day of my whole30 month journey and I have mixed feelings about it ending. On the one hand, I’ve never felt better from all the clean eating. And, I’ve lost all the baby weight from Matilda (and then some!). But on the other hand, I desperately miss bread! So, while I plan …
I’m not sure if it’s the time of year or just the fish stores in our area, but every time I go to buy salmon, it looks awful. I finally went to a speciality fish store to get some and I don’t think I’ll ever buy fish anywhere else every agin. It was BY FAR …
I’m on a coconut milk kick this month and it’s so weird for me because for most of my life, I thought I was allergic to coconut. Here’s why… when I was a little girl, my gram took me to get ice cream from the ice cream truck. I picked a coconut ice pop and …
Every once in a while, I crave tacos. It’s a funny thing to crave, I know. But it set in this weekend while I was making my shopping list. So, I wanted to make sure I had a whole30 way of eating these this week. I used lettuce as the taco shell, stirred up a …
When I was pregnant with each of my girls, all I wanted was a turkey sandwich even though I don’t eat them very often (you’re not supposed to eat deli meat when preggers for fear of listeria infections). Apparently, you always want what you can’t have! So, I started roasting my own turkeys, freezing the …
It’s been raining here in the Northeast for nearly 24 hours. It’s been cold, then warm, then dry, then rainy. all week It’s all over the place! So I wanted something stable that I love to eat. But it meant I had to change the order of the week around and making tomorrow’s dinner tonight. So …
A few months back, my friend Jill told me about this amazing dinner she made with moroccan vegetables. I keep a running list of food ideas of things I want to make and quickly added this one. I forgot about it until recently and realized it’s the perfect whole30 dinner with some of my favorite …
I used to live in Buffalo, NY many years ago. I was there for my undergrad and graduate degrees for a total of 6 freezing cold years. At every event I went to, there was some form of a Buffalo chicken dip served, typically in a slow cooker with veggies, crackers & bread. It was …
There’s an amazing falafel restaurant here in Hoboken called Mamouns. It originated in NYC and lucky for me, opened a location close to my home so I didn’t have to keep traveling into the city to get my falafel fix. That’s how good the falafel at Mamouns is. When I started out on this Whole30 …
A big snow storm is coming our way this weekend, so I wanted to make sure we had a big pot of hearty soup to keep us warm. Nothing says warm then a glorified chicken soup! I had chicken sausage and chorizo on hand, so I used both to make up the hearty, meaty part …
Tumeric gives food such a beautiful yellow color (and flavor)! And using it with chicken is the perfect canvas because it sucks the tumeric right up! Add in some other warm and spicy flavors and you have the perfect weeknight whole30 dinner. And it was! I made this for our family tonight in between feeding …
If I had to pick my favorite dinner ever, it would be spaghetti and meatballs. I’ve loved it since… forever! I cook it and eat it quite often for either lunch or dinner. So, with this whole30 month, I’ve been really missing it. Spaghetti squash was never that appetizing to me because of how much …