How To Create Healthy and Delicious Meals
Roasted eggplant mixed with yogurt, lemon, mint, and a little spice makes for a refreshing and tasty dip. I use this for dipping veggies. It would also taste fabulous on a wrap. Recipe adapted from Food Network Ingredients: 6-8 small white and green eggplants ¼ …
Vegetables are amazing and often the entire plant can be used. If you grow carrots or grow carrots with the greens attached you can use the greens to make a light pesto. I made my pesto nut free, but you can add pine nuts or …
If you don’t have a blackened spice blend on hand then you can make your own using the spices in this recipe. The tilapia was full of flavor with just the right amount of spice.
Recipe adapted from Food Network
Ingredients:
6 tilapia filets
½ lemon juiced
1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
Blackening Spice Mix-
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
½ teaspoon salt
½ tablespoon onion powder
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ teaspoon ground thyme
1 teaspoon dried oregano
½ teaspoon garlic powder
Directions:
My family loves to eat shrimp. These BBQ shrimp are spicy, sweet, and disappear quickly. This recipe was so easy to make my 8 year old did most of the work. Recipe adapted from Food Network Ingredients: 2 pounds shrimp peeled and deveined 3 tablespoons …
Roasted carrots and radishes fresh from the garden with some olive oil and chili lime seasoning are easy to prepare and packed with flavor. Ingredients: 1-2 pounds carrots and radishes peeled and halved Zest from 1 lime 1-2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon …
I eat fresh veggies with hummus almost every day. This eggplant hummus is light, delicious, and easy to prepare.
Recipe adapted from Food Network
Ingredients:
6-8 white and/or green eggplant
1 ½ cups cannellini beans
3 tablespoons tahini
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon fresh flat leaf parsley
¼ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 clove garlic diced
Directions:
I love how well coleslaw pairs with fish and other main courses. I made this strawberry lime balsamic coleslaw to accompany blackened tilapia and BBQ shrimp. Ingredients: 1 bag shredded cabbage/coleslaw mix ½ red onion diced 1 long pepper diced 1 lime juiced and zested …
This dish makes everyone happy. Veggie lovers will like the eggplant and meat lovers will enjoy the chicken parm. You can even eat a little of both. This can be a meal on its own or served over pasta, veggie noodles, or sauteed vegetables. Recipe …
Cheesy and creamy baked macaroni cheese is a dish I often make for big family dinners. My kids don’t like a breadcrumb topping so I focused on the cream and cheese in this dish.
Recipe adapted from Food Network
Ingredients:
1 pound elbow macaroni
2 ½ cups half and half
8 ounces reduced fat cream cheese at room temperature
2 8 ounce bags shredded macaroni and cheese mixture
Directions:
One morning I was craving peanut butter and really needed an energy boost, so I decided to make two mixes for energy balls and then smash them together into one delicious bite. Ingredients: Peanut Butter Half- 1 cup old fashioned oats 2 tablespoons powdered peanut …