If you are on the hunt for a simple and micronutrient-dense recipe (aka packed with good vitamins and minerals) you’ve come to the right place! This Mediterranean Quinoa Salad is delicious, healthy and super easy to make. It’s the sort of salad that you’ll make for the first time and wonder how you’ve made it …
Side Dishes
Our side dish recipes bring your meals to life with nutrition, flavor, and balance. Check out our side dishes for yummy veggie eats, meal add-ons and more!
Roasted Carrots with Dill and Feta
Roasted vegetables are my absolute favorite thing. I roast veggies multiple times a week and can’t believe I haven’t shared more recipes like this roasted carrots with dill and feta recipe on my blog! There will be plenty coming in the new year, because roasted veggies are such a perfect food to meal prep. As …
Nut Butter – Make It At Home
My friends, there is NOTHING as delicious as homemade nut butter. I’ve been making it at home for years and it is just as splendid every time I take the first bite of a fresh batch, as the first time I tried this! Below I break down all the things you need to know to …
Baked Garlic Home Fries
I’ve posted about this a couple times on Instagram recently, so some of you may already know that making home fries is my current obsession… specifically garlic home fries. Some days I make them with sweet potatoes, some days with regular white potatoes, and some days with different seasonings. There are all sorts of variations …
Bacon & Blue Cheese Brussels Sprouts
IDK about you, but roasted brussels sprouts are my absolute favorite thing to find on a restaurant menu. Whether they are crafted with a balsamic glaze, an orange glaze, a szechuan glaze, or any other sort of glaze, I am down for all of it. When crafting this pan of brussels in my own kitchen, …
Top 7 Picks: Healthy Comfort Food Recipes
We’re all stuck at home these days and let’s be real, comfort food sounds good. A lot of the time. If only we could find a way to make healthy comfort foods! Maybe some recipes with better ingredients, less sugar, a little more protein, you know… the things that few comfort foods have. Well would …
High Protein Taco Chili Bean Salad (Vegan)
I am currently in the middle of the Daniel Fast so I have been experimenting with all sorts of vegan recipes these last couple weeks! This High Protein Taco Chili Bean Salad was a brain baby of this restricted eating plan and boy oh boy will I continue making this even when I’m no longer …
Sweet Potato Fries with Garlic Yogurt Dip
We Just Took Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes to the Next Level Move over mashed sweet potatoes… the ones topped with marshmallows that always show up at the Thanksgiving feast. (Apologies to anyone who loves those) BUT WHO EVEN CAME UP WITH THAT IDEA?! Seriously who? If you’re like me and cringe at the thought, be the …
Instagram Recipe Round Up
Whipping up simple recipes is a total passion of mine – easy & tasty is the name of the game! Whether it is a recipe I share on my blog or my Instagram account, I always promise y’all that it will be simple to prepare and nourishing for your body. As much as I LOVE …
Honey Balsamic Roasted Peaches
Have you ever roasted fruit? Life changing. Roasting vegetables is life changing enough – quite the way to up your meal prepping game, but fruit, my friends, is a whole new experience when glazed to a caramelized perfection, as you pull it out of the oven! These Honey Balsamic Roasted Peaches are no exception to …
Mango Kiwi Salad with Honey Lemon Vinaigrette
I know it’s MN State Fair season because my entire Instagram feed of friends & family back home has blown up with images of pronto pups, corn on the cob and all the latest, weirdest creations Minnesotans have managed to come up with. In the name of balancing out the bucket of Sweet Martha’s Cookies, …
Garlic Rosemary Hummus
I’m about to up your snack game, your potluck game and your “I’m having friends over” game, in the easiest. possible. way. Hummus is a total crowd and palate pleaser. This silly simple recipe is perfect for both entertaining and your weekly meal prep. Because let’s be real… everything tastes better with a little hummus …