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FavoritePinShare Chicken Lombardy is an insanely delicious cheesy version of Chicken Marsala baked to perfection with mozzarella and scallions. Ready in about 30 minutes! The combination of mushrooms in a creamy sauce is delicious over top any protein. Try this Creamy Chicken Marsala or Creamy Garlic Pork Marsala for more family meals. Easy Chicken Lombardy Hi guys! Natasha from Salt & Lavender here with my monthly guest post. Rumor has it that Chicken Lombardy was a dish served at the Olive Garden restaurant....

With summer just around the corner, I wanted to share one of my favorite easy low carb lunch ideas. Enter this easy avocado tuna salad recipe! It’s light and refreshing and takes all of 10 minutes to throw together. Plus, avocado and tuna salad uses ingredients that I often have sitting around, making it a great last-minute idea. Making avocado tuna salad paleo is super simple, because all the ingredients are naturally paleo....

FavoritePinShare Homemade Buffalo Sauce is spicy, zingy and so much better than store bought! You have to try making it yourself, it will change everything! Making your own sauces is the best way to go, they’re fast, delicious and oh so good! Try these favorites, Fry Sauce, Cheese Sauce and Alfredo Sauce! Buffalo Sauce Recipe Homemade buffalo sauce is simple to make and great for many recipes to come! Buffalo sauce is combination of bottled hot sauce and a fat, and in this case butter, to create a delicious creamy sauce you are going to love....

FavoritePinShare These honey buffalo chicken wraps are so healthy and delicious! They’re loaded with a sweet buffalo sauce, ranch, bleu cheese, and all of your favorite veggies for a lunch you’ll love! Wraps are so easy to throw together and work with so many different flavor combinations! Chicken Caesar salad wraps, Asian turkey lettuce wraps, and cilantro lime shrimp wraps are more yummy recipes to add to your list. Easy Buffalo Chicken Wrap Recipe I think this became one of my favorite meals of all time....

This classic Irish/British recipe is delicious year-round, but also a great way to celebrate St Patrick’s Day if you didn’t have time to make Corned Beef and Cabbage or Guinness Beef Stew. It’s quick, easy, and made with ingredients you probably have on hand! Craving comfort food but don’t have time to simmer or braise something for hours? Cue to this easy shepherd’s pie, which is a meal in itself and can be made ahead!...

Roasted eggplant is one of my favorite things to make during the summer, and I’m always finding new ways to incorporate it into full meals. One of my favorite ways is this low carb eggplant lasagna recipe with ground beef and ricotta. If you’re worried that you’ll miss the noodles, don’t be. This dish has all of the flavors of a great “real” lasagna, I promise you won’t even miss the noodles one bit!...

For a crispy crunch and lots of satisfying fiber, look no further than these flax seed crackers! If you keep a well-stocked pantry, you probably have everything you need to make homemade flax crackers in about 30 minutes. Once they’re baked, pair these salted flax crackers with cheeses and fruits, or pile them onto a charcuterie board! For more crispy crunch, try my almond flour crackers or baked cheddar parmesan crisps next....

Looking for a new and different dessert to bake? Try these absolutely irresistible Flourless Orange and Almond Cakes! We had orange and almond cupcakes as our wedding cake so they hold a very special place in my heart. We never intended on having them as an option but were given a sample from our cake maker and it was love at first bite. I think about those cupcakes at least once a week and I knew I had to try and recreate them....

Forget the store bought stuff! This French Onion Dip is made from scratch and is super creamy, rich and full of big flavors. Perfect for game day or any party, really! Even better if you pair it with a glass (or a bottle!) of Woodbridge Wine. Wanna keep in touch? Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest to stay up to date with my posts! If you end up making one of my recipes, I would love to see it!...

FavoritePinShare Steamed asparagus is the perfect addition to any meal! All it needs is a squeeze of lemon and freshly cracked salt and pepper to be a knockout side! Everyone tells you to eat more vegetables, but with these recipes, you’ll actually want to! Roasted garlic broccoli, lemon potatoes, and cauliflower steaks are all so tasty and easy to throw together! Simple spices enhance their naturally delicious flavor. Easy Steamed Asparagus Recipe Asparagus is hands-down my favorite vegetable to make as a dinner side....

Like Sweet Potato Souffle, these glazed sweet potatoes are a tradition in my family. They feature hunks of sweet potatoes, bathed in a spicy-sweet honey glaze. We make this recipe every year, and then we fight over the leftovers. The morning after Thanksgiving, and you’ll catch me munching them cold out of the fridge, for good reason: they are nothing short of sensational. If you don’t finish them right away, someone else will!...

Destined to be topped with ice cream, I have no doubt EVERYONE (no matter their diet) will fancy this gluten free apple dessert! With so many past stops along the fruit crisp, cobbler, and crumble highway, I like to think of myself as a well-traveled connoisseur. You might be thinking that after creating a scrumptious Vegan Apple Crisp (which is dairy-free and features the addictive addition of coconut) and the spectacular Everyone’s Invited Apple Crisp from my Well Plated Cookbook (which has a surprise ingredient addition that you’ll need a copy to discover!...

As much as we like to think that we know something about Greek food – we generally don’t. Pastitsio is a very good example. This dish is widely popular in Greek cuisine but I knew nothing about it until fairly recently. I saw a pastitsio recipe online – the final dish looked very appetizing – and I saved it in my ‘things to try’ bookmark folder, only to forget about it for months....

FavoritePinShare My two favorite things in a recipe. Salmon and pistachios. For Christmas last year, I had one box under the Christmas tree from my parents. It was a gift card and a bag of Costco pistachios. Best.Christmas.Ever. My parents know me a little too well. And it was my dad who got our family addicted to pistachios. And sunflower seeds. But that is a whole different obsession. Hmmm sunflower seed salmon....

Juicy grilled steak tumbled with arugula, cherry tomatoes, and blue cheese in a tangy honey vinaigrette, it’s the kind of breezy-yet-exquisite recipe I envision myself serving to my pretend celebrity friends at a casual summer soiree. Cooking steak makes me feel fancy, but this steak salad is anything but pretentious. It’s satisfying (thanks steak!), without being over the top (look at those greens!). If you are new to cooking steak and feel intimidated, I did too....

Swordfish tastes mild, slightly sweet, and not “fishy” (it’s not as strong as Baked Salmon in Foil, for example). It’s firm, moist, and dense, in a good way—the name swordfish “steak” is befitting. It was the first fish I loved as a kid. Other than rare occasions when my grandma treated us to Red Lobster (where I filled up on biscuits and then ordered Cajun Shrimp Pasta Alfredo), I didn’t grow up eating much seafood....

If you are looking for a healthy dinner to add to your greatest hits list—and I think we could all do with more recipes that the members of our household embrace with unanimous enthusiasm—this appealing hamburger casserole is it! I based this hearty hamburger casserole off of my Homemade Hamburger Helper, which so many of you have told me has become a weekly staple. Kids, adults, even picky toddlers think it’s all the rage....

FavoritePinShare This healthy banana bread is made with NO sugar and it tastes absolutely divine! After you bake up this delicious bread the serve yourself up a slice or two, It’s SOO GOOD. I love adding bananas into recipes. It’s a strong and delicious flavor and as a bonus, my kids love it! Try out this banana pudding, smoothie, and coffee cake. They all use bananas and are insanely delicious....

FavoritePinShare I am excited to have Ruthie today visiting my blog. We met at a blog conference and she is really the sweetest person I have met! I absolutely adore her blog, and I especially love her cooking tutorials. Her recipes always look delicious and I can’t wait to try out these cookies! I guess it’s that time of year when we’re all trying to shred a few of those winter pounds… I’ve written about my weight loss story AND even though I am a foodie- I try to make my recipes as healthy as possible without sacrificing any of the flavor These moist and flavorful Healthy Oatmeal Apple Raisin Cookies are a delicious example…...

Or autumn. I think it sounds very fancy to call it autumn, don’t you? Today is the first day of fall (or autumn—you do you), a season that I don’t mark so much with a date on the calendar as I do a certain, telltale feeling in the air. I’m not one to rush into pumpkin season (after all, we still have the scrumptious Every Day Apple Cinnamon Pancakes in my cookbook to make), but I will admit to feeling a prickle of excitement the first time I leave my house and think I could use a chunky sweater right about now....