Oh the weather outside is frightful and the entire United States is in the tight grip of a bad influenza season. The kids are back to school after the holidays and most of the bleak winter is still ahead. But never fear, Good Food Reads: Soups to the rescue! Grab a blanket, grab a spoon, and curl up with a piping hot bowl of one of these. Whether you’re fighting a cold or just plan cold, we have the soup for you. …
Are you looking for a new one pot meal? Love farro? One Pot Farro with Chicken and Tomatoes is going to be calling your name!
Warmth, umami, comfort food. Healthy whole grains and lean proteins. All of that and more in this One Pot Farro with Chicken and Tomatoes. Need a vegetarian option? No problem, a few tweaks, listed in the recipe itself, will get you there! Keep on reading for your new favorite 30 minute meal….
Happy Friday, friends. I know we didn’t really fall in line with the New Year, healthy everything program on Tuesday (if you missed it, check out our Cheesy Artichoke Dip!) but we’re back today with a great list of some of our favorite recipes for those times when we really want to put extra focus on healthy, nourishing foods. The New Year is so often a time for great diet and fitness resets and it’s also a really busy time – coming back to work or school after the holidays is no joke! Combine that with needing to make healthy foods and fit in some exercise and I love to have a handful of easy to prepare, portable foods to make. This week’s Good Food Reads: A Healthy Start is packed full of recipes to take you through your day in a healthy, happy way!…
Happy New Year, friends! It’s hard to believe that the holidays have come and gone and 2018 is here already. I loved spending time with family and friends over the past few weeks and celebrating all the fun we had in 2017. Now, I know that for many people, January means new goals and intentions for the new year. If you’re anything like me, those goals or intentions often include health and fitness. Self promises to eat better, move more, and do something less. Well, if you came here looking for a healthy new year recipe, I’m going to break it to you gently: this isn’t it. And you know what? I’m not sorry in the least. Our Cheesy Artichoke Dip is a full flavor, comfort food treat that is worth every single calorie. …
It’s time, it’s time! The New Year is coming and it definitely needs to be celebrated. Gather your friends, open a bottle of bubbly, serve a few of these amazing appetizers, and you have yourself a party. Whether you’re having fancy cocktail party, or a low key jeans only type get together, we’ve got you covered for fabulous eats. Below is Good Food Reads: New Year’s Eve Appetizers, a round up of our tried and true, as well as those appetizers we’ve been dying to try.
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The easiest homemade slow cooker chicken noodle soup you will ever find (well, short of heading over to grandma’s house…)!
I don’t know about you, but I am so over all of the holiday indulgence (although I wouldn’t turn away a piece of homemade toffee-I just didn’t get around to making it this year). I’m looking forward to the lighter recipes of January. And we’ll get there, I promise. As life would have it though, influenza has hit Minneapolis hard and I know my friends and family are looking for an easy soup recipe to provide some comfort. Easy being the key word. Enter this Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup. Easy, homemade, real food. This may be the cure! …
It’s almost here!! The countdown is on, friends. We are only a few days from Christmas and I don’t know about you, but I’m knee deep in food planning, gift wrapping, and general holiday craziness. One of my favorite parts of the Christmas holiday is breakfast on Christmas Morning. In our house, it’s typically a simple affair, with good coffee, some eggs and a sweet treat of fresh waffles or (more typically) cinnamon rolls. We cook and eat in our pajamas and take our time easing into the hustle and bustle of the rest of the day. I have a few recipes that I turn to for this holiday morning, but thought I’d put together a collection of Christmas Morning Recipes in case you’re looking for just the thing to make for your family this holiday! …
If there’s one theme to my cooking this time of year it’s this: easy appetizers. The holidays bring so many wonderful gatherings of family and friends and I love having a few go-to recipes to make entertaining in this busy season just a little easier. I’ve gathered some tricks over the years: A good cheese board is always a winner and the former vegetarian in me will forever love a beautiful platter of crudité with a special dip. I also love to have simple but elegant options like these Whipped Goat Cheese Cups with Honey and Pistachios. They are simple to prepare, bursting with flavor, and require no extra silverware for serving! Win, win….
Tis the season for joy and cheer! Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukah or Kwanza or something entirely different, cookies are a great and fun way to get everyone into the kitchen! Not to mention, such a great gift to brighten someone else’s day! From the traditional to the unusual, here are the recipes that we want to be trying! Make a plate of these and bring them to your neighbors, your coworkers, your friends!
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The Instant Pot is my new favorite kitchen tool. This Instant Pot Maple Apple Steel Cut Oats will make it your favorite as well!
Remember that Quaker oatmeal? The kind that came in packets? The one that came in many different flavors? I was a particular fan of the Maple Brown Sugar flavor, but the Apple Cinnamon flavor came in a close second. It was always hard to choose! I don’t know if it’s still around, but I figured it would be probably be pretty easy to make at home. Always a girl to “want it all”, I decided that if I was making it, I sure wasn’t going to be choosing anymore, because truthfully Maple, Apple, and Cinnamon all worked perfectly together. Given my current obsession with the Instant Pot, the path was clear. Instant Pot Maple Apple Steel Cut Oats. Done and Done. …