No-fuss recipes for the everyday home cook
This poached chicken salad has become a weekly staple. Poaching the chicken makes it velvety and tender while also delivering a clean chicken flavor. The fresh dill and parsley herbs, tangy olives, and sweet pickles in the dressing give it a jump of flavor. I love serving this on sourdough toast for an extra dose of sour flavor and some crunch!
This ultra fresh, tangy, herby, and healthy salad will become your favorite summer dish! Juicy summer tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, herby dill and parsley, briny feta, luscious olive oil, and tart vinegar. These ingredients (plus plenty of salt!) all marinate in the fridge and just get better and better with each hour. This is a just one take on the classic Romanian summer salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, and vinegar are always there!). I hope you make this one soon!
I love a good roasted vegetable salad. I am also a fan of damn good salad dressings and this maple mustard dressing is frickin’ TOPS. It is savory, sweet, complex, and stupidly simple to put together! There is no need to have that summertime sadness which has you say goodbye to salads, this recipe lets you have the best of both worlds. Crisp Fall weather and tasty, complex salads!
6 basic ingredients. A few additional minor ones and you’ve got this delicious chickpea and black bean salad that’ll last you the week and gets better day by day!
I had dreams of buttery, spicy, and sweet noodles and this recipe fit the bill! I initially wanted something that could be eaten like a meal in of itself but that would have meant cluttering up these simple noodles with unecessary flavors and textures and I just couldn’t stand for that. So I present these as a simple side which are quick as a flash that are perfect hot or cold, and would go along with just about any grilled protein and sauteed greens. Or heck, just make it for meal prep! [ 301 calories per serving, 46.4 g Carbs, 9.1 g Fat, 8.4 g Protein]
Add more protein packed lentils into your diet with this easy as heck pressure cooker recipe! 1/2 cup cooked gives you 110 calories, 0 g Fat, 19 g Carbs (and 8 g Fiber!), and 9 g Protein! These freeze wonderfully and are a great way to up the fiber and protein of any dish!
This roasted beet salad is a classic take on a winter salad. Warm roasted beets tossed with salad greens and surrounded by creamy goat cheese, crunchy walnuts, and juicy mandarins is both a healthy and comforting way to to continue enjoying salad in colder weather.
This healthier cheeseburger salad uses my chipotle chili meal prep ground turkey and in season summer tomatoes. It’s under 450 calories and it really satisfies those random cheeseburger cravings in a way that won’t sidetrack your progress!
So this cheeseburger salad came to me on a whim one day when I was craving a very specific burger from Izzy’s Burger Spa in South Lake Tahoe, California. I live in Sacramento which is about two hours away from Izzy’s and I have to occasionally remind myself that it would be crazy to drive two hours just to eat a burger, but this place has the best burgers I have had in my life. It’s a place with good prices and no frill burgers. I have to stop talking about them now because suddenly 2 hours doesn’t seem so far!
