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Veggie Quinoa Cakes

April 10, 2018 By Holly 14 Comments

I’m not gonna lie, sometimes feeding my daughter is tough. She is the sweetest, funniest little girl in the world but at 18 months old, she’s also a tiny tyrant when it comes to food. If it isn’t a fruit, yogurt, bread, or cheese, she isn’t having any of it. I’m fairly certain that if it weren’t for those handy pouches with veggies mixed in, she wouldn’t get within 10 feet of a vegetable. It breaks my food blogger/veggie loving heart just a little. So, in an attempt to get my daughter to eat something other than cheese, I recently came up with these delicious little Veggie Quinoa Cakes. They’re easy to make (and freezable!) and packed with protein and veggies, making them a great option for the entire family!

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Good Food Reads: Quinoa Recipes

March 9, 2018 By Lane 26 Comments

Quinoa. Keen-wa. High protein, gluten free, versatile. We love quinoa and think you should too! This edition of Good Food Reads: Quinoa Recipes will give you 20+ of the best and most diverse quinoa recipes! Looking for some new powerfood recipes to add to your meal planning? Look no further than our ODE TO QUINOA!

Many fabulous bloggers have been kind enough to share their quinoa recipes with us, and are allowing us to share their recipes with you (along with their drool worthy photography!). We’re excited to show you what we have planned for our quinoa!

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Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup

December 26, 2017 By Lane 6 Comments

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! …

Good Food Reads: Thanksgiving 2017 Part 2

November 17, 2017 By Lane Leave a Comment

Who is ready for another helping of the recipes that are going to brighten your Thanksgiving 2017 table? If you are looking for appetizers, turkey, potatoes, stuffing, or bread, please head to Good Food Reads: Thanksgiving 2017 Part 1. So many good things to be had! Today’s edition will round out your Thanksgiving celebration with salads, vegetables, cranberries and dessert! And don’t forget to tell us what your favorites are in the comments below! …

A Moveable Feast: Pimento Cheese Smashed Potatoes

July 4, 2017 By Lane 10 Comments

We’ve gone on and on about these dinner parties. And we want you to feel like you were there…our goal at the end of revealing all of our recipes is to give you a whole menu. Then you can grab your friends and start this amazing tradition with your own fabulous group of foodie friends. (No fabulous group of foodie friends? No problem, invite a few people over and be their foodie inspiration!) No need to tell them where you pulled your menu from! Our secret right? (OK, really we want you to feel free to send them right on over to our little corner of the internet-we’d be ever so grateful!) Where did we leave off last week? The brisket? After several different side dish musings, we settled on these Pimento Cheese Smashed Potatoes to pair with our Beer Braised Brisket-and boy are we glad we did. …

Good Food Reads 5.2.17

June 2, 2017 By Lane 14 Comments

It has been a crazy busy week, as most of them are towards the end of the school year. My kids don’t have their last day of school until next week, but the past two weeks have been chock full of end of the year parties, teacher gifts, graduation festivities, end of the year orchestra concerts, dance recitals, and let’s not forget the never ending soccer games! When you put that on top of a full time work schedule, well…whew, I’m starting to get tuckered out! And I must admit my belly is growing very tired of all of the fast and fast casual food we’ve been eating (not to mention guilty) as we fly around from one activity from another. It’s time to reintroduce vegetables and clean eating to our diets. These salads we’ve found all over the internet will be a great way to start that process…and they are anything but boring! So keep reading for a Good Food Reads dedicated to salads!…

Asian Chicken Salad with Grilled Vegetables

May 30, 2017 By Lane 32 Comments

My teenaged daughter. Don’t you love when a post starts with “my teenaged daughter”? I’m sure all of you with teenagers know what is coming next. My teenaged daughter has a complicated relationship with food. Loves all sweets, but historically she’s much more picky when it comes to food with any nutritional benefit. (Read on to learn all about where we went wrong with teaching her to eat!) So when she recently found a salad at a local restaurant that she liked, I raced to recreate it so she could eat it at home. And although it’s not exactly the same, Asian Chicken Salad with Grilled Vegetables was a hit with everyone, but especially with my teenaged daughter. #momwin

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Roasted Broccoli

October 17, 2016 By Lane 13 Comments

As all of you who follow our Instagram feed (@withtwospoons) already know, I’ve been in the Mediterranean for the past two weeks. Traveling through Spain, Italy and Greece was AH-MAZING!!!! For sure, this awesome trip will color my next few culinary choices for this blog, but for now, re-entry is HARD. I’m jet-lagged, trying to catch up with the kids and their activities, and trying to stock an empty refrigerator. I need quick, simple and healthy. I need Roasted Broccoli….

Veggified Sloppy Joes

September 5, 2016 By Lane 36 Comments

Who doesn’t love Sloppy Joes? And these may be the best Sloppy Joes ever! These easy sandwiches are packed with lean ground beef, a delicious sauce and healthy vegetables!

Are you looking for a delectable way to get more veggies into your kids? Yep, me too. In a never ending battle to get more nutrition into the foods my kids eat, I developed a sloppy joe recipe brimming with extra nutrition. I knew Veggified Sloppy Joes were a winner when both of my kids asked for seconds. (and shhh…I found my teenager eating the leftovers the next day!)…