Risotto Is Real Comfort Food This easy curry vegan risotto is completely soul-warming. If you’ve ever wondered how to make risotto, this risotto recipe is totally for you. An easy vegan risotto recipe is just what cold and stormy days need to warm you up for the inside out. Next time you are in the …
Rice & Noodle Recipes
Rice recipes like the internet famous Spam Fried Rice and the Super Easy Curry Risotto. Plus, the Puerto Rican Dirty Rice that is perfectly spicy and delicious.
Noodle Bowls like the Chicken Curry Noodle Bowl or the Spicy Shrimp Noodle Bowls. My Aunt Donna’s Homemade Noodles are the best thing to ever hit soup.
Puerto Rican Dirty Rice – Rice and Beans
Easy Puerto Rican Rice and Beans Dirty rice is usually associated with Cajun food. But, I always like to put my spin on things. I wanted to show you how to make this version of Puerto Rican Rice and Beans. I like rice. Not only is rice comfort food, but it’s also a staple in …
The Best Homemade Noodle Recipe
We have my Aunt Jayne’s Homemade Dumpling Noodles every year around the holidays. It’s a family tradition! But these homemade noodles are too good to save for only once a year. Traditionally this is a Thanksgiving recipe in my family. My mom makes a batch of these super-simple dumpling noodles every year because she always …
Legit Hawaiian Mac Salad
This is just the recipe. I realized when I was sharing my email that I didn’t have this on the blog yet. The HORROR! I will be back to write more content here soon. But, I couldn’t wait to post this recipe.
Easy Cous Cous Salad with Black Lentils
Colorful and delicious This easy and veggie-ful couscous salad makes the perfect Easter side. I love making recipes that are also gonna be rockin’ leftovers. I’m kind of a leftover junkie. Although I love to cook – I also have a life too! When I’m creating a recipe it has to meet certain criteria. It …
Soup: Phó
What’s not to love about a bowl full of slurpy noodles? This Vietnamese noodle soup is easier than you might think. I was a little bit nervous about attempting this recipe. I love this soup so much and I’ve always wanted to make it at home but I felt like I might be disappointed with …
What To Do With All Those Thanksgiving Leftovers
You’ve cooked for days to feed the masses! Now it’s all over, but you still have enough Thanksgiving leftovers to feed a small country. How can you put these to good use? After carving up the turkey and setting all the meat aside for sandwiches, soup, and of course Thanksgiving Leftover Beast Bowls, I make a …
Thanksgiving Menu Tip Sheet
Thanksgiving is upon us! We’re officially one week out! Are you ready? Got holes in your menu? Still not sure what to make? We’ve got you covered! Let’s start with the bird, stuffing, and cranberry sauce… Spatchcocked and Dry Brined Turkey – Fun to say, even easier to make. This is the moistest bird you’ll …
Spicy Shrimp Noodle Bowls
Slurpy Noodles are one of my favorite things in life! These Spicy Shrimp Noodle Bowls are colorful and packed with all the veggies, plus aromatic herbs. They’re also 🌱Vegan Adaptable. My favorite thing about these spicy shrimp noodle bowls is the forbidden rice noodles. Life is always about moderation – and life without noodles just …
Easy Enchilada Pasta Bake
What’s better than a super easy bowl of pasta with all the delicious flavors of enchiladas? Super Easy Weeknight Dinner Working for a living, being a spouse, a parent and a gym rat (not necessarily in that order) can have it’s challanges. Because my schedule gets so tight sometimes, I take advantage of doing food prep …
Vegan Alfredo with Butternut Squash and Kale
The Promised Vegan Alfredo Recipe This recipe was created for my vegan daughter (we call her Bean). Her stance on eating has inspired me to create more vegan recipes. Creating recipes that are completely plant-based, yet still, taste like something that I want to eat, required looking at ingredients in a different way. Living in a family …
Butternut Squash Alfredo with Pancetta and Kale
A healthy bowl of comfort food 🍴🍂 This butternut squash alfredo pasta is a wham-bam-get-in-my-mouth-right-now comfort food. The sauce is creamy and savory, but the pureed butternut squash gives it just a hint of sweetness. Tiny golden cubes of salty, lightly caramelized pancetta add a flavor and texture bonus that make your tastebuds rejoice. Lightly browned, …
Coconut Rice with Mangoes
Coconut Rice with Mangoes 🍚 I experienced this coconut-rice-and-mango-magic for the first time more than 20 years ago. Little know fact about me (my friends like to call these 🍒fun facts🍍): I used to teach cosmetology – one of the seemly random life experiences that seems to have no apparent connection to where I am now, except …
Warm, Spicy, Yellow Curry Noodle Bowl
It’s the season for warm comforting bowls of slurpy, spicy yellow curry noodles. I’m a super busy working mom and always love a recipe that I can make a few meals out of or pack up for lunch, especially when you can make a big batch of these and have leftovers for days. Just be …
Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice
Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice is just one of the 25 ways I know how to cook with cauliflower. Who needs 25 recipes for cauliflower, you ask? Well probably no one really. But a conversation about this was the catalyst for me starting this blog.