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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Summer Quinoa Bowl with Ground Sausage, Tomatoes, and Zucchini

Summer Quinoa Bowl with Ground Sausage, Tomatoes, and Zucchini

It’s summer. You don’t want to waste a lot of time cooking, but you still want to prepare meals that are healthy and nutritious. There’s a quinoa bowl for that! This Summer Quinoa Bowl with Ground Sausage, Tomatoes, and Zucchini contains fiber-packed whole grains and veggies and the protein kick of ground sausage that will keep you and your family feeling full – and avoiding that dreaded post-meal crash.

Pesto Pizza

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Subbing pesto sauce for tomato sauce on a pizza is a definite must-try! There are few things better in life, in my opinion, than homemade pesto. It makes for such a rich and flavorful pizza sauce that complex toppings are not necessary. The lovely little grape tomato more than suffices. 

Two-Ingredient Banana Oatmeal Cookies with Raw Cacao Nibs and Sliced Almonds

Two-Ingredient Banana Oatmeal Cookies with Raw Cacao Nibs and Sliced Almonds

You may have heard of the two-ingredient banana oatmeal cookie. It’s the easiest baked good to make: Take some bananas. Mash them. Add some oats. Mix and form into cookies that you bake in the oven and Bam! The healthiest cookies ever are born.

Black Bean Ricotta Gnocchi with Pancetta and Garlic Butter Sauce

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I’ve been doing some experimentation with using alternatives to standard wheat flour lately. It’s been real!

Apricot and Sliced Almond Muesli with Cinnamon- and Lemon-Kissed Yogurt

 Apricot and Sliced Almond Muesli with Cinnamon- and Lemon-Kissed Yogurt
While I was cooking this weekend, I was listening to an entrepreneur-focused podcast where both speakers started bonding over their love of make-ahead yogurt breakfast parfaits that they put together in Mason jars. I thought, how fun! What a great idea!