At only 170 calories per serving, Crispy Baked Carrot Fries are the perfect healthy side dish to satisfy your french fry cravings without the guilt. These surprisingly delicious, seasoned carrot fries are made without the hassle (and excess oil) of deep-frying, and they taste like sweet potato fries! FRIES MADE FROM CARROTS? If you had…
Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad with Greek Yogurt Poppy Seed Dressing
Something strange happened last week that I’m still trying to wrap my head around. James and I went to a cook-out where the hosts totally (and deliciously) went overboard with the food: there were sausages of every sort, kebabs piled so high on platters that it looked like they’d topple over, racks upon racks of ribs,…
Fluffy Old Fashioned Pancakes
More times than not, my breakfast consists of coffee.  Just coffee.  Maybe a granola bar, too, if we’re getting crazy.  Sure, I’m a food blogger.  Sure, breakfast is “the most important meal of the day”.  Sure, I live in a state filled to the brim with diners.  I should probably be ashamed. But the issue with…
Cucumber-Wrapped, Feta-Stuffed Meatballs
Please do not ask me to detail what I have eaten in the past couple of weeks. Â The holidays have turned me into a walking garbage disposal for all things fried, fatty, or fudgy, and just trying to remember exactly what that entails gives me a bit of a stomach ache. Â I’m not saying that…
Spicy Baked Jicama Fries
Fellow french fry fiends, fear not. Â I’m not about to ruin your diets with pictures of deep fried potatoes. No, really, I’m not. Â These “fries” aren’t fried at all, and they’re definitely not potatoes. Â Instead, these fries are made of a different tuber called Jicama (pronounced hee-ka-ma), which is most often found in Mexican…
Mom’s Sloppy Joe Stuffed Peppers
When I first posted this recipe for Sloppy Joe Stuffed Peppers years ago, I knew it would become a favorite with my readers because it was already a favorite of mine. Of all of the recipes that I post on this blog, this one is undoubtedly the one I make most often. It’s the perfect…
Crock Pot General Tso’s Chicken
There are a lot of things that I’ve experienced over the years that I thought would be amazing but wound up being terrible ideas, like pregaming open bars, volunteering to do favors that I can’t possibly fit into my schedule, or watching Juan Pablo be this season’s Bachelor. (Seriously, by the end of the Finale…
Cannoli Dip
A few years ago, my then-roommate Allison and I were broke college students who could barely afford to pay our rent and cable bills, let alone buy anything for anyone else. When we realized Father’s Day was just around the corner, we panicked a bit. Dads are hard enough to shop for in the first…
