Recipes

In this week’s meal plan, fall is still in full swing and you’ll find some of our favorite recipes this week.  Plus, those friendly cold and flus are upon us, so we’ve got a smoothie recipe to fill you with nutrients! Notes from this week’s meal plan: 5 ingredient cinnamon coffee This recipe can be made hot or iced 5 ingredient healthy slow cooker buffalo chicken and quinoa Great for meal prep, so make it on a Monday and enjoy for lunches throughout the week. I like to use these meal prep containers. Adding Greek yogurt in this recipes helps to...

1. Fall is the time to plant brassicas, also known as cole crops or crucifers, in the vegetable garden. Cole means cabbage in German and crucifer refers to the fact that all brassicas (and all members of the mustard family to which they belong) have four flower petals arranged in the symmetry of a simple cross. Brassicas include cabbage, kale, collards, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kohlrabi, bok choy, mustard greens, and watercress. Whichever ones you plant, it is highly advisable to stretch floating row cover over your seedlings. Otherwise, they will be visited by white cabbage butterflies that lay their...

I love making an elaborate meal from scratch, but that’s not in the cards every night of the week. Sometimes you’re in more of a quick stir-fry or one-pot-meal type of mood–but just because you want to make something speedy doesn’t mean you should settle for bland or basic. A wave of  great sauces and meal-starters have hit the market lately, made by brands with a commitment to using natural ingredients to create flavorful, sophisticated products. Several of them come in portable little pouches and packets—great for making a nice meal in an Airbnb kitchenette or on a camping stove—and...

Leafy greens really flourish in North Carolina during the fall. On my last trip to the Charlotte Regional Farmers Market, I was awed by the abundance of lettuce and kale varieties, chard and other greens like collards and bok choy. I brought home a beautiful bunch of lacinto kale and immediately got to work prepping and autumn-themed kale and quinoa salad. AUTUMN KALE AND QUINOA SALAD This salad combines massaged lacinto kale and fluffy cooked quinoa with roasted butternut squash, pepitas, dried cranberries, goat cheese and pears. A maple apple cider vinaigrette is the perfect finishing touch. LACINTO KALE IS...

This easy-to-make green shakshuka recipe is packed with leafy greens, as well as green and black ripe olives, and feta cheese. Jump to Recipe This post was sponsored by California Grown. I was compensated for this post and developing this recipe. However, all opinions below are my own. If you’ve followed my blog at all, you know I absolutely love olives. They’re one of my secret ingredients that I try to sneak into a lot of dishes because the salty briny flavor gives dishes extra punch. The earthy, umami-packed flavor works well in my olive tomato hand pies, a quick chop makes...