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These easy refrigerator pickles should live in your fridge. Bored with the same old food – add pickles!
I make these pickles for my husband who then devours them and attempts to drink the pickle juice (which has become a thing).
These fresh strawberry recipes will inspire you to buy pounds and pounds of fresh strawberries.
The easiest fresh strawberry dish is – wash and eat! (I guess that isn’t really a recipe).
Desserts with strawberries will be instantly healthier than your regular chocolate cakes or crème brulees because you are using fruit. Fruit is naturally low in calories, low in sugar, and higher in fiber than almost any dessert item that I can think of.
These fresh asparagus recipes will help shape your cooking for the next month. When I walked into my local grocery store, there was a wall of asparagus greeting me.
I said, “Hello, asparagus!”
It did not reply.
This healthy shakshuka recipe is for those who have never even heard of shakshuka.
I hadn’t heard of it either until I encountered it on a brunch menu in Mexico (over a year ago). What is this mysterious “shakshuka”? I did know I was going to like it because it has tomatoes and eggs (a great combo).
This chocolate chia pudding recipe is for those people who LOVE Jello pudding but need a healthier alternative.
One tablespoon of chia seeds has more calcium than a glass of milk, more Omega-3s than Salmon, and more antioxidants than blueberries!! Take that Jello!
These gluten free peanut butter cookies can be made with ingredients in your pantry. Nothing fancy here!
I have literally a ton of peanut butter. Peanut butter is one of those foods that my family cannot go without and it is incredibly nutritious.
This is the best vegetable soup recipe on my whole block! Or maybe in this house?
You are probably thinking that you need to figure out a way to move on from all that butter from the holidays. Don't feel guilty!! You enjoyed yourself. Now, pick up your game and start the new year with this soup.
There is nothing fried about instant pot refried beans - but it sure tastes like heavy, luxurious food.
This is one of those magical recipes that sounds like it would be really high in calories but isn’t! You don’t need lard to make these beans into something special but an Instant Pot will help.
Do you know how to brine chicken breast? It is like magic!
I know I could use some magic right now.
The alchemy here is using a technique called “brining” to transform bland, rubbery chicken breast into something wonderful. It doesn’t take very long and it ensures your chicken will be moist.
