helping you cook better, smarter, faster
This squash is nothing short of miraculous. Honestly, a vegetable that turns into spaghetti once it’s cooked? I reluctantly gave this a try a few years back, and now I’m hooked on the amazing spaghetti squash.
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I’m always up for a snack…crunchy and savory things are the best. When I had my frozen shoulder, corn was keeping me inflamed – so no more popcorn. When I went Whole 30 and found that grains cause me trouble, goodbye crackers and pretzels. How would I feed that savory snack craving? That’s when I learned about nut mixes.
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By now you know, I love a good menu plan I can use over and over. And I love soups…big comfort food for me. But when it’s hot outside, no one wants to crank up the oven and heat up the inside, too. I start looking for cold dishes to put in my menu plans and cooking methods that will help me beat that heat. Enter summer entrée salads.
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There are certain spice mixes I use over and over. But when I look at the commercial packets, I get a little scared. How can I know what’s in there? My gluten-free friend might be coming over…is this taco seasoning okay to use? There’s really only one way to know what’s in it…make it yourself!
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Taco Chicken and Veggies is as easy and fast as it gets, plus it’s a crockpot recipe so you pretty much fix it and forget it. What could be better when you want something hearty with no real time to cook?
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If you’ve ever thought “Cooking’s too hard” or “Cooking takes too long,” or “Eating healthy is too expensive,” THINK AGAIN. What if I told you my supper last night was Whole 30, took 35 minutes to prepare and cost under $1.75 per serving??? Does this change your mind?
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Cooking takes time, yes, but YOU control how MUCH time it takes. Your skills and your choices of ingredients and methods are the “shortcuts” to faster cooking.
My first time through the Whole30 was excruciating. It’s all whole foods so I spent hours shopping, prepping and cooking all new recipes. They were foreign to me and frankly, not to my liking always. Nothing is more frustrating than spending 2 or 3 hours in the kitchen only to not like what you cooked!
So, let’s talk about some things you could do to take “shortcuts” with your own recipes…making something you already know you love but FASTER!
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Once you start really reading food labels, you find all kinds of things you can’t pronounce and don’t have a clue what they really are (do you really wanna eat that?) AND sugar or sweeteners in EVERYTHING. I mean seriously why would I want sugar in my breakfast sausage?
Several years ago, my son contracted the alpha gal 3 allergy from a tick bite. The doctor instructed me to not feed him any red meat for a calendar year. Oh boy…
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Ghee (or its close sibling clarified butter (see Whole30 book for the difference) is simply a way to get the rich taste of butter without the milk solids. If you have trouble with dairy in general or you’re doing the Whole30 to test for sensitivity, using this allows you to still have “butter” as an option for your healthy fat for cooking and eating.
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“I could do this better.” That’s exactly what I thought the first time I saw this recipe at Publix (here’s the Aprons recipes link, but they no longer have this recipe online). I gave it an overhaul as it originally included 6 cups of challah bread (and bread wasn’t even in the title!)
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