Quick and Easy Grilling Recipes

Steak Potato Kebabs

Do you love cooking on the grill as much as I do?  There’s nothing better than cooking a meal outside, except maybe eating your meal outside. Cooking on the grill is a huge time saver.  There’s not a lot of prep needed and clean up is so easy.  No pots and pans to wash, no [...]

Blueberry Pecan Oat Bars

Blueberry Pecan Oat Bars

If you know anything at all about me then you know that I’m on a mission when it comes to breakfast.  I’m constantly looking for ways to cram as much healthiness as humanly possible into something my kids will eat.  Just check out my breakfast section on the recipes page to see for yourself.  The [...]

Korean Barbeque Burgers

Korean Barbeque Burgers

A few weeks ago I made Koren Barbeque Tacos.  I’m not kidding when I say that I daydream about those tacos.  I crave them above anything else I’ve posted on this blog.  So when I came across a recipe for Korean Barbeque Burgers in the new cookbook Way to Cook: Grilling by the editors at [...]

Turkey Meatballs with Summer Pasta Salad – and a Giveaway

meatball closeup

A few weeks ago Plum Organics asked me to create a recipe using one of their products for their Little Foodies Cookbox.  You all know how much I love sneaking extra nutrition into the meals around here.  Using ready-made vegetable purees in your recipes makes it easier than ever to get your kids to eat [...]

Quick & Healthy: Sunflower Seed Spinach Pesto over Grilled Chicken

grilled chicken with pesto

Quick and Healthy Sunflower Seed Pesto Sauce over Grilled Chicken Spring is in the air, and that means one thing to me: time to break out the grill.  There is just something about cooking on the grill that invokes a feeling of immediate relaxation.  And that’s a welcome feeling after a winter spent standing over [...]

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins

oatmeal chocolate chip muffins

Muffins play an important part in the way we eat around my house.  We eat them for a quick breakfast, for snacks, at lunch time, and sometimes for dessert.  These Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins are perfect for any of those times. I love making muffins because they’re so easy.  It usually only requires a single [...]

Lighten up – General Tso’s Chicken Recipe

general tso chicken

General Tso’s Chicken Recipe It’s time to face the facts, most of the menu items at my favorite restaurants are calorie bombs, concealing more fat than I even want to know.  And even when I conjure the inner strength to order something lighter, the portion sizes are so huge that I have trouble figuring out [...]

Sweet Potato Blondie Bars with Maple Glaze

sweet potato blondies, Thanksgiving, holiday

Sweet potatoes are so much more than just a side dish.  Their texture and sweetly earthy flavor makes them perfect for baking.  If you love baking with pumpkin then you’ll really love baking with sweet potatoes.   These blondies are the perfect example.  They’re soft and moist, with that warm, familiar cinnamon flavor.  They really do [...]