Robust Recipes

Healthy, Flavorful Food

Sheet Pan Pineapple Shrimp Fajitas with Avocado Crema

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Who's ready for some sheet pan pineapple shrimp fajitas topped with dollops of avocado crema?!?! The shrimp + the pineapple + the avocado crema = a tropical vibe fajitas. It's snowing/sleeting here today after a few sunny 50 degree days...tease...I'm so on board these warm weather vibing fajitas! Alright March, let's do spring! I have a love for Mexican food, but ever since my time in San Antonio and Arizona where a lot of Tex Mex food our Midwest Mexican food kind of seems drab in comparison. … [Read more...]

Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Pasta + A Virtual Baby Shower

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Hi, friends! Guess what today is?!?! It's my blogging friend Katherine's virtual baby shower!!! She runs the blog Love in My Oven, where she shares nutritious and occasionally decadent recipes that she creates for her family. How cool is it that we get to throw her a virtual baby shower?! Thanks Internet, you are pretty awesome! A big thank you to Kelly from Sweet and Treats for organizing the entire baby shower. So many bloggers came together to create recipes in Katherine's honor - you'll … [Read more...]

Easy Salmon Cakes with Greek Yogurt Horseradish Dip

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Easy salmon cakes with Greek yogurt horseradish dip is on the menu this week! AKA, the most delicious gluten free salmon cakes you'll ever eat! The outside of the salmon cakes gets a nice golden crust and then you bite into the center and it's creamy and delicate, the perfect salmon cake texture studded with sauteed veggies! Then you dip it in that tangy, spicy Greek yogurt horseradish dip that goes so perfectly with the salmon cakes. You will be licking up every last crumb and schemer of … [Read more...]

Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad with Chickpea Croutons and Shrimp

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Are you ready for THE BEST  Caesar salad of you LIFE?! Okay, maybe not the best ever, but it's my current obsession! Meet Brussels Sprouts Caesar salad!!! Here's what's in Brussels sprouts Caesar salad: Shredded Brussels sprouts as the base rather than lettuce - hearty and delicious Chickpea croutons - crispy, garlicky, salty goodness Creamy caesar salad dressing, HOMEMADE - healthier (no raw eggs), and rediculously delicious Sauteed shrimp - light, buttery, the perfect easy … [Read more...]

30 Minute Plantain Breakfast Hash with Runny Eggs

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Happy Monday, friends! Let's start our day off with a little plantain breakfast hash, shall we? Okay, the total time it takes to make this plantain breakfast hash is 30 minutes...so it may be a little lengthy for your Monday morning! BUT I love to make it Sunday morning and then have a few days of leftovers. For the leftovers we simply cook a few fried eggs up and heat the leftover plantain breakfast hash in the microwave. That's my kind of meal prep...if you can call it that! My first … [Read more...]

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

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Buffalo chicken stuffed sweet potatoes!!! I mean, just forget the buffalo chicken wings and give me these babies. Who would have thought buffalo chicken goes so well with sweet potateos?!?! It so does, my friends. Tender baked sweet potatoes are stuffed with pre-cooked chicken, crunchy celery, salty blue cheese all in a creamy buffalo sauce made from Greek yogurt and hot sauce - Frank's red hot to be exact...because that's how buffalo chicken is done! (But of course, use the kind of … [Read more...]

Spicy Chipotle Honey Meatballs with Cooling Cilantro Lime Sauce

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MEATBALLS, MEATBALLS we all scream for MEATBALLS!!! Isn't that how it goes?! Ummm. Regardless, who doesn't want meatballs in their life? Especially when they are coated in a sticky spicy chipotle honey sauce and dipped into a cooling lime cilantro sauce. Yup. I thought so! Someone told me that the Super bowl is coming up...is this right? February 5th or something? Obviously I'm not too concerned about when the Super bowl is or who is playing. I do care about the food that's at the … [Read more...]

Chickpea and Mushroom Stir Fry with Fried Eggs

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Chickpea and mushroom stir fry with fried eggs!!!! YASSS! This is happening! A healthy and easy vegetarian stir fry with a fried egg on top!!!  I mean the sauteed mushrooms, bell peppers, and chickpeas are already in a super tasty salty, sweet, and slightly spicy sauce. How could that situation get any better?!?! With adding a fried egg on top of course! A fried egg with a runny yolk so that the moment you cut into that egg the runny yolk mingles with the saucy veggies and the soft fluffy … [Read more...]

Thai Curry Soup with Crispy Tofu

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Our very first TOFU recipe is coming at ya!!!! And our 2nd recipe of 2018. I'm kinda digging the beautiful golden color of turmeric! Last recipe was my favorite golden granola with turmeric as the star. Now this Thai curry soup has a lovely golden hue due to the curry powder that has turmeric as it's base!  Not planned BTW. Maybe I should keep the theme going?! All golden recipes for January?! GOLDEN POWER! Moving on. I don't know why it's taken me THIS LONG to start working with tofu … [Read more...]

Super Easy Asian Marinade

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Are you ready for a super easy Asian marinade to flavor all your your steaks, and fish and pork, and maybe chicken?! I say maybe chicken, because when I tested this recipe with chicken breasts the marinade charred onto the chicken because it needed to cook for so long. BUT I imagine that it would do great on chicken that is first cut into bite sized pieces, or pounded to be a thinner cut of meat...BTW I don't really love pounding chicken, or any meat for that matter, it's kind of scary and kind … [Read more...]