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Ground Chicken with Garlic, Onions, and Parsley

This is a remake of an old favorite, it’s easy, and I love it. I switched the meat and some of the spices, but the cooking method is the same as my Garlic Beef and Onions with Green Beans. This rendition has the tastes of Chicken Kiev but is way easier to make and no breadcrumbs needed. Enjoy!

Ground Chicken with Garlic, Onions, and ParsleyIMG_20191223_182701

  • 1 tablespoon avocado oil
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 5 cloves of fresh garlic, minced
  • 1 pound ground chicken
  • 1/2 cup chicken stock
  • 2 tablespoons parsley
  • 2 teaspoons salt (or to taste)

Add avocado oil to a skillet on medium heat. Then add the onion and cook for 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add the ground chicken and crumble. When the chicken is almost white, pour in the chicken stock and turn up the heat to medium high or until it begins to simmer. Add the salt and parsley. Cook until the broth cooks down or about 20 minutes.

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Garlic Beef and Onions with Green Beans

This crumbled meat mixture is so easy and has such a great flavor. Plus, you can add it to anything. It’s also Keto, Paleo, Whole 30, and just plain healthy, but beyond that, so delicious!Garlic Beef and Onions with Green Beans.jpg

Garlic Beef and Onions with Green Beans

  • 1 tablespoon avocado oil
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 10 cloves (or 1 head,) skinned and minced
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1/2 cup beef stock
  • Black pepper

Add avocado oil to a skillet on medium heat. Then add the onion and cook for 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add the ground beef and crumble. When the beef is almost browned, pour in the beef stock and turn up the heat to medium high or until it begins to simmer. Cook until the broth cooks down or about 20 minutes. Add black pepper the taste.

Serve over steamed green beans or broccoli, rice, noodles, roasted or mashed potatoes, or just eat it alone!

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Salsa Chicken

Being on the road is pretty great, but there are some things that I miss. A crock-pot is one of them. Whenever I have access to one, you better believe I’m pulling that thing out, coming up with a meal, and trying something new.

I ate this salsa chicken over rice and added a little bit of white cheddar cheese and Greek yogurt. It was delicious. I also ate it plain today for lunch and it was salsa chickengreat on its own as well. Plus, it’s easy and quick, and who doesn’t need more of that this season?

Crock-Pot Salsa Chicken

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 2 cups mild salsa
  • 2 cups frozen corn
  • 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed

Simply add everything to a crock-pot and cook for 3 hours on high. Remove and shred chicken. Add chicken back in and stir to incorporate.

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Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Peppers

What is your favorite Hamburger Helper boxed dinner from back in the day? Apparently, I’m not the only one who LOVES the Chicken Enchilada Chicken Helper. So after I made my own version, I stuffed the mixture into peppers, and called it a win.

This recipe has a lot of ingredients but it’s easy enough to throw together and the taste is just like back in the day, but homemade and (mostly) healthy!

Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Peppers

  • 2 tablespoons avocado oilChicken Enchilada Stuffed Peppers
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 peppers, heads cut off and deseeded

Cover the peppers in oil and sprinkle on salt and pepper. Roast in the oven at 400 for 20 minutes.

Chicken Enchilada Mixture

  • 1 tablespoon avocado oil
  • 1 onion, diced
  • the tops of the peppers, diced
  • 2 chicken breasts, diced
  • 3 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 tablespoon onion powder
  • 1/3 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1/2 tablespoon cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1/2 cup half and half
  • 1/4 cup Greek yogurt
  • 2 cups cooked rice
  • 3/4 cup cheddar cheese

In a skillet, add the avocado oil, onions, and peppers. Cook for 3 minutes. Add the chicken and cook until white and beginning to brown. Add the tomato paste, honey, and spices, and stir. Add in the chicken stock, half and half, and Greek yogurt and cook for two minutes. Add in the rice and stir, and lastly, add in the cheese. Let everything simmer on low for 15 minutes.

Scoop the mixture into the peppers and enjoy. (You will have extra chicken enchilada to eat, too.)

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Where Are We Now: Beech Mountain NC

We just got here and I’m so excited. The weather is perfect, the sites are beautiful, and we will be here for a whole week. Eeeeeek!

But let me back up. Where have we been? Everywhere! In Wisconsin, that is. We spent the last two months visiting friends and family, and it was the best.

After leaving Nick’s BFF and fam in De Pere, WI, we went to

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My dinner helper Ava, and a fellow lover of eating frozen,  frozen corn=)

Sheboygan and enjoyed a night of dinner and dancing. A wedding, we went to a wedding. It was so fun and pretty with shimmery rose gold and navy blue. Congrats to the Riste’s!Screenshot_20180916-201514

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Go Brewers!

Next it was off to the Brewer’s game with some of my favorite fans. These girls and I have been causing mischief for almost 20 years together and we always will. Cheers to the next 20 and Go Brewers!

Next was a whirlwind week in the Milwaukee area. There was trivia, lots of trips to the library for work, more work for my mystery shops, Nick had lunch with an old work buddy, and then golfing and lunch with another, and I even helped someone move! Well not move, but I did organize a closet.

After that we spent a weekend with my nanny family, the Bowes, in Hartland. We went to see Jameson, the oldest child and the one I used to nanny for, play flag football.

They even won! Then it was off to apple picking and spending the rest of the night together. The next day the Bowes hosted a Packer party so we got some good eats, drinks, and fun with the other Packer lovers.

Then it was a day in Lake Geneva for another (work) library and some more shops. I went hiking and loved it. Lake Geneva has a public path around the whole lake. If you’ve never been and you love hiking, you must go. We spent a couple last days in Beloit, a dinner out with friends and then a dinner in with friends and we were out! (of Wisconsin that is.)

For the last two nights we were in Cinncinati, living it up! )In reality, we went to the gym IMG_20180928_213157and worked a lot.) But we also did our monthly wine tasting and I cooked in the hotel. One hand-sized skillet and a hot plate is all you need to make a meal from scratch. Ha. It’s true and it totally worked, but I had to do everything in about 5-6 different batches when I normally would have done it all in one. It was fun thought and tbh, I impressed myself.

Well that’s about it for now. We’re officially back on the east coast time and still sleeping until 8 AM. Sometimes you just need more sleep! I for one cannot wait to hike, cook, nap, explore, and have some full work days this week.

I think the only other time I spent in the mountains was in Panama and I loved it. I cannot wait to see what this week brings, yay! Thanks for reading, you’ll hear from me again soon. Have a great week!

(Written on Sunday 9/30)

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You Are Going To Love This Veggie Pasta

Wait!

This is NOT veggies, spiraled, claiming to be pasta.  There IS pasta in this dish. And..there are veggies that are spiraled and sliced, too.

The thing is… I.love.pasta. I love all the things you can add to pasta. Protein and sauce and cheese, oh my! It takes me right back to my Midwestern roots. Meat, starch and cheese LOL.

Anyhow, this pasta dish has pasta, zucchini that has been zoodled, and onions that have been sliced. This way, you get more flavor, a little bit of color, and an all around healthier dish.

Veggie Pastaveg noodles

  • 2 tablespoons avocado oil
  • 1 red onion, sliced
  • 1 yellow onion, sliced
  • 2 zucchinis, zoodled or cut into long, thin strips
  • a quarter-sized diameter of gluten-free spaghetti

Boil the noodles per package directions.

In a separate skillet, add the oil and the onions. On medium heat, cook bout 5 minutes. Remove the onion and set aside. Add the zucchini into the skillet and cook for about 3 minutes or until slightly softened. One the zucchini is done salt and pepper it and add the onions and pasta. It’s done!

You can top this with a cheese sauce, spaghetti sauce, garlic, and so much more! Yum!

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Chicken and Vegetables with Red Curry and Coconut Milk Sauce

Do you ever make a recipe you love, but then you kinda forget about it and don’t make it again for a while? That was this recipe for me.

My husband was the first to make this Chicken Curry dish and I loved it so much. After what we made was gone, I made the recipe again that week, because it was so good.  It was my new fave. But..then it wasn’t? I forgot about it!

Then, I thought of this recipe, for some reason on the way back from our Mexico trip, and I just had to have it. This time, I put my own spin on the recipe, including throwing it all in the crock pot, and it came out great. It was so good, I had my leftovers for breakfast.

Chicken and Vegetables with Red Curry and Coconut Milk Sauce

  • 1 pound ready-made gluten-free and soy-free chicken stripsChicken and Vegetables with Red Curry and Coconut Milk Sauce
  • 2 red bell peppers, sliced
  • 1 white onion, sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 8 mushrooms, washed and sliced
  • 1 can coconut milk
  • 1 1/2 cups chicken stock
  • 3 tablespoons Thai Red Curry
  • 1 teaspoon ginger powder

Add everything to the crock pot and let cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8. Serve it with cauliflower rice to keep the dish Paleo. Otherwise you could serve with rice, rice noodles or as a side to potatoes and a vegetable.

Enjoy!

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Paleo Swedish Meatballs

Who loves Swedish meatballs? I do, I do! And these are so good, really easy and one of my all time favorites!

I eat them alone. Nick likes them with noodles or rice. Heck, you could even make a Swedish meatball sub sandwich with them if you wanted to! I hope you love these as much as me, they are truly a comfort food and the flavor is just scrumptious.

Paleo Swedish Meatballs

  • 1 tablespoon avocado oilIMG_20180225_104118
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 1/2 onion, minced
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/3 cup Almond Flour (or breadcrumbs of choice)
  • 1 tablespoon parsley
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1/3 cup almond milk (or milk of choice)

In a large skillet pan, add the avocado oil and heat on medium. Mix the ingredients together with your hands, in a bowl, and add small, equal-sized meatballs to the pan. You want to give each meatball its own space, so that it can brown up. You will finish cooking them in the sauce so brown the outsides for about 5 minutes and remove from the heat. Set aside. Do not remove the grease from the bottom of the pan!

Sauce

  • 2 tablespoons tapioca starch
  • 1 cup almond milk (or milk of choice)
  • 1 cup beef stock
  • 1 teaspoon parsley
  • pinch of salt and pepper

Using the leftover grease from the bottom of the pan, whisk in the tapioca starch. Heat for 2 minutes and then add the rest of the ingredients. Heat 5 minutes before adding the meatballs back into the pan. Once you add the meatballs back in, simmer together 10 minutes and serve.

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Honey Chicken Chinese Dinner

I love homemade Chinese food. It’s easy and quick to pull together and healthier and more fulfilling than take out. Plus, if you don’t have good Chinese near you (we def don’t,) than not only is this the best option, but the only option.

But, honestly, this recipe is so good. I made it, I ate it and it was awesome. Nick thought so, too, and so will you. Enjoy!

Honey Chicken

  • 2 chicken breasts, cut up into 1 inch piecesIMG_20180216_142624
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil for frying
  • 2 tablespoons tapioca flour
  • Pinch of salt and pepper
  • 1 cup matchstick carrots
  • 1 scallion, chopped (to sprinkle at the end of cooking)
  • sesame seeds (optional)

Sauce

  • 2 tablespoons avocado oil
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon ginger powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1 teaspoon tapioca flour

In a medium-sized bowl, mix your chopped chicken, 2 tablespoons tapioca starch and a pinch of salt and pepper. Heat a medium skillet on medium heat with the avocado oil and add the chicken to the pan. Cook about 5 minutes on each side or until the chicken is browned and cooked through. Add the carrots and cook an additional 2 minutes.

In a separate pan, add the sauce ingredients together and whisk to combine. Add the sauce to the chicken and carrots and let cook about five minutes or until the sauce thickens a bit. Sprinkle with green onions and sesame seeds. 

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Homemade Western Dressing

If you know me, you know I love soup and salad. You also know I stay away from gluten and I don’t like soy. You know what else I don’t like? Store salad dressings. So, what to do?

Of course, I want to make my own. Like everything else, I figure, why not make a dressing exactly how I love it and also homemade and healthy. (Which is so different from the stuff you buy at the store!)

Also because, as a Midwest girl living on the east coast, with a BFF that lives on the west coast, I can tell you it is very hard to find the delicious, rich western dressing that I grew up loving. But, alas, you don’t have to look for it any longer because now you can make it. It’s so easy, so good and takes only a couple of minutes.

Homemade Western DressingIMG_20180223_084656

  • 2/3 cup organic ketchup
  • 1/4 cup avocado oil
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/2 tsp coconut aminos
  • 1/4 tsp onion powder
  • 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • Pinch pepper

Just mix everything together and chill.

The taste is spot on, and there’s no soy, no high fructose corn syrup and no chemicals! If you like western, this will be your new fave. I hope you love it as much as I do.

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