CINCO DE MAYO RECIPE COLLECTION These Mexican recipes in my Cinco de Mayo Recipe Collection are healthy, quick and easy, you’ll be serving them up in no time for your celebration — but I’ll let you in on a little secret, I don’t really need a special day to eat Mexican food! I can eat…
30 Minute Meals
Better-than-Panera Broccoli Cheese Soup
Delicious, better-than-Panera Broccoli Cheese soup. Fresh broccoli, shredded carrots, in a flavorful, beautifully balanced, all-natural, creamy broth; with delicious, melted, gooey, sharp cheddar cheese. And it’s SO easily converted to be gluten free and/or vegetarian. Better-than-Panera Broccoli Cheese Soup Nothing gets me going like a great soup! What about you? I think you are either…
Easy Chicken Parmesan {30 Minute Meal}
Easy Chicken Parmesan is another delicious and hearty 30 minute meal. Lightly breaded chicken breasts, quickly pan fried, simmered in marinara sauce, topped with creamy mozzarella and parmesan cheese, served over your favorite pasta or zoodles. I love easy, peasy dishes that look gourmet! Do you have meals like that? I’ve made this dish for years, I…
Zuppa Toscana Soup {Tuscan Soup}
Zuppa Toscana, a soup made in the “Tuscan style!” The whole family will love this healthy and hearty soup with creamy potatoes, savory Italian sausage, colored with bright red swiss chard in an amazing rich, smooth, chicken based broth, topped with a handful of crispy cooked bacon and shaved parmesan. Oh and it’s ready in…
Easy Grilled Chicken Shawarma Bowls
Easy Grilled Chicken Shawarma Bowls are out of this world! Engaging all the senses with chicken marinated in bright, healthy spices, then grilled to tender tasty perfection. A low carb, delicious and filling meal. Served atop a bed of couscous (or keep it gluten free using quinoa or rice) and topped with crisp cucumbers, tomatoes,…
Slow-Roasted Veggie Pasta
Slow-roasted veggie pasta with a garlic, olive oil and butter sauce, drizzled over angel hair pasta and topped with shaved parmesan cheese, toasted pine nuts and fresh basil. An amazingly simple meal that will taste like you spent hours in the kitchen; good enough for company, simple enough for everyday! {{PIN IT NOW FOR LATER}}…
Sherried Chicken Salad
Creamy chicken salad, bursting with fresh grapes, toasted crunchy almonds, fresh green onions in a flavorful sherry dressing. Why is it that I feel as if Chicken Salad is reserved for Spring and Summer? For some reason, this is the time of year that I start to crave this creamy, chunky, crunchy and satisfying salad! But…
Cheese Enchiladas (The Cheesiest)
Restaurant style enchiladas — at home! My favorite are the very simple, yet sublime cheese and onion enchiladas! Soft corn tortillas bursting with melting shredded cheese, topped with a few diced onions, finished with more sauce and more Mexican cheeses, mmmm the cheesier the better in my book! PIN NOW FOR LATER, but please keep…
Spanish Rice (or Mexican Rice)
This recipe for restaurant style Spanish-Mexican rice is the perfect side dish; it’s simply spiced, mild, and fluffy, this rice is simple to put together and goes wonderfully with any Spanish-Mexican dish. RINSE YOUR RICE First, check to see if your rice needs to be rinsed, it should give instructions on your package. I admit,…
Easy Tortilla Soup
Do you have spring fever? I think I do, I’ve been in a bit of the doldrums with our crazy weather; cold and snowy one day, bright and 79° the next. One day I am cleaning and purging like a crazy woman, the next I am sitting by the fire reading a good book, watching…
