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Sheet Pan Miso Glazed Salmon with Broccoli (30 Minutes)

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Say hello to your new favorite go to weeknight meal. 30 minutes. 1 pan. YES please! Say hello to your new effortless date night in. 30 minutes.1 pan to wash. Goes well with wine. YES again! GAH! I love when I land on a recipe that's easy and simple enough for busy weeknights, yet special enough for a good date night in! Because let's be honest, who wants to do a ton of dishes on either of those nights?! Oh, sheet pan miso glazed salmon you are amazing!!!! Here's the deal … [Read more...]

Brussels Sprouts Eggplant Buddha Bowl

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This is a popular recipe that was previously published on Robust Recipes. I have updated for a better experience. Enjoy! Hey friends, anyone else here struggle with eating salads during the winter? Give me all the salads all summer long please! But come winter the last thing I want is a pile of cold leaves and veggies. Yet, my body still craves all of the veggies a good salad provides. Let's re-think that cold salad situation and instead roast some veggies and pile them on top of … [Read more...]

Quinoa Crunch Chocolate Bark with Cherries

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  You know Crunch candy bars with the puffed rice? That's exactly what this quinoa crunch chocolate bark is like. Chocolate with a good crunch mixed in...and some dried cherries because why not? It's Valentine's day!!!! But seriously, I had no idea that if you toast some raw quinoa in a pan for a few minutes that it will become super crunchy. Food. Is. Magic. Plus, it's a lot of fun! The quinoa starts popping a little. Here's how you make quinoa crunch chocolate bark. It's so … [Read more...]

Healthy Smoked Salmon Sushi Bowls

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Who else loves sushi?! We love sushi so much that we drive 30 minutes across town to the best sushi place we have found. Okay, we don't really know if it's actually the best but we never seem to want to venture away from it. I tried to make a vegetarian sushi once with my mom. We even used those bamboo sushi rolling mats that's supposed to make everything easier. Nope, not doing that again. It was a mess. Everything was falling apart. It stressed me out. Probably also the same reason I … [Read more...]

Immune Boosting Orange Green Smoothie

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  Immune boosting orange green smoothie is here to help you get over that cold or stop you from getting one! It truly works! Paul had a bad cold for a week and a half and I stayed healthy!!! This is very exciting for me because I usually catch whatever is going around. I drank this orange green smoothie twice while Paul was sick and I stayed healthy! Victory was mine!!! Okay, this orange green smoothie wasn't the only reason I didn't get sick. I took all of the multi-vitamins, ate … [Read more...]

Nourishing Miso Soup with Mushrooms

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I'm sorry. You lose 3 points. Because you both played a miso soup. Oh wait, we're not playing Sushi Go Party? That's right, we are talking about how to make miso soup. My mistake. And if you're like, "um what are you talking about?" Sushi Go Party is a fun game that's designed around sushi and Japanese foods. There is a miso soup card that when two people play it at the same time they can't use that card to score points. Anyways it's a fun game to look into. One that makes me … [Read more...]

2 Healthy Sauerkraut Recipes

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Hello friends! Now that you know how to make sauerkraut  - the classic flavor where all you need is cabbage and salt and caraway seeds, if you'd like, let's mix things up shall we? Sometimes all cooking (or in this case fermenting) is is knowing the basics of how to make something and then adding different flavors to mix things up a bit, create your own signature flavor of a recipe.  That's exactly what I've done with this sauerkraut! We've got 2 healthy sauerkraut recipes: … [Read more...]

Favorite Cranberry Apple Pear Sauce

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Hello November. Hello holiday season. Hello Thanksgiving sides!!! Today I share a family favorite Thanksgiving/Chrismtas side, cranberry apple pear sauce. This isn't your average cranberry sauce. It's much more than cranberries and sugar with maybe a little orange juice simmered into a sauce. No, my friends this cranberry sauce has crunchy apples and pears and juicy raisins, it's got a touch of cinnamon and is spiked with a hint of orange liquor at the end!!! It's literally THE BEST … [Read more...]

Banana Sweet Potato Bread (GF)

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  This was a popular recipe that was previously published on Robust Recipes. I have updated it for a better experience. Enjoy! Another recipe update? YES! Although, I won't ever get to updating all of my old posts, I have been seeing a few that deserve a little face lift. No botox here...but the photos were not so great because I published it when I was still learning how to photograph food. AND the instructions in the recipe were a little too wordy. Practice and time really helps … [Read more...]

Roasted Butternut Squash and Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate

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This is a popular recipe that was previously published on Robust Recipes. It has been updated for a better experience.  Halloween is two days away!!! So let's talk about Thanksgiving sides ha! Actually this roasted butternut squash and Brussels sprouts are great anytime during the fall or winter. As in, anytime you can find butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, and pomegranates in season. Which is pretty much right now until the end of December. Pomegranates have a short season, at … [Read more...]