10/52 Pizza is one of my favorite ‘cheat’ meals. If I could I’d eat pizza every day! I had a bit of marinara and cheese left at work so I picked up some zucchini at the store so I could have zucchini pizza bites for lunch. Ingredients: Zucchini, marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, olive oil, red… Read More Recipe #10: Zucchini Pizza Bites
9/52 A friend was visiting for the weekend and we decided that dip would be perfect to eat while watching basketball and sipping beer. I’ve made spinach artichoke dip with just artichokes, cream cheese and a seasoning packet but I decided to make it more from scratch this time. Ingredients: Jar of artichokes (will not… Read More Recipe #9: Spinach Artichoke dip
8/52 Craving something a bit different a few weekends ago. Decided to make a baked pasta dish. This recipe is quick and easy and could be versatile with any sort of pasta or vegetable you have handy. Ingredients: 1 lb Asparagus 1 box Penne ¼ Cup Olive Oil 1 lb Chicken ½ Cup Shredded Colby… Read More Recipe #8: Asparagus Chicken Penne
7/52 Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. In the last two weeks I’ve made two whole bags of potatoes for a variety of things. This winter Robb and I have been doing homemade brunch on most Sundays. It’s not usually too crazy and involves eggs, bacon and some sort of ‘special’ side like hashbrowns. This Sunday we realized… Read More Recipe #7: Skillet home-fried Potatoes
6/52 For Valentine’s day this year (yes I realize I’m posting this late, whoops) I wanted to make something sweet but not too unhealthy. I also wanted to make use out of the few bananas we had left that were starting to get a tad bit brown/spotty. This is a fairly flexible idea that could… Read More Recipe #6: Chocolate covered banana sandwhiches
5/52 Breakfast food is my favorite kind of good (if you couldn’t tell by all the breakfast recipes so far!) I was sitting at work and CRAVING pancakes. I’m trying to eat ‘cleaner’ until vacation at the end of the month so I wasn’t sure how I’d satisfy my craving, then I remembered a recipe… Read More Recipe #5: Simple (no flour) Banana Pancakes
4/52 Chipotle is one of our (my fiance, Robb and I) favorite fast food cheat meal. We haven’t had it in a bit and were craving it. He suggested making our own version. I looked through several recipes and adapted my own recipes. This is EXTREMELY simple since the two main part of the dish… Read More Recipe #4: Copycat Chipotle Burrito bowls
3/52 Recipe: Original recipe/ made several times before 5 weeks until our vacation to Mexico. In an effort to eat a bit better I wanted to add some more green veggies and protein to my diet. I’ve made these so many times and looove them. It’s a basic scrambled egg with toppings and mixings of… Read More Recipe #3: Breakfast egg cupcakes
2/52 I LOVE Apple pie. It’s gooey and filled with great flavors and of course lots of butter. I wanted to find something I could have for a quick breakfast or for an afternoon snack with a similar flavor but not all the fat amd sugar. Another challenge I added for this week was to… Read More Recipe #2: Apple Pie bites
1/52 For week one I decided to make a mexican taco bake that I can take for lunch everyday. I absolutely love mexican and tex mex food. I could eat it everyday maybe even twice a day. I searched on pinterest for a quinoa chicken taco bake and found this recipe. Ingredients used Not in… Read More Recipe #1: Chicken & Quinoa Mexican Taco Bake
A year long cooking adventure! 