Brown Rice Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya
White rice can be used instead of brown in this recipe, but you will need to reduce the water by 1/2- 1 cup and reduce the cooking time. -2 Tbsp…
Mexican Rice Bowls
This is an easy dish to set up a buffet for that can easily please meat eaters, vegetarians and even gluten-free eaters since everyone gets to assemble their own combination…
Chili Mac
Like chili? Like mac and cheese? if so, this dish is for you. This is a quick and easy week night dinner that is fairly heatlthy. Use any shape or…
Picadillo
Picadillo is a traditional Spanish, Cuban or Puerto Rican dish that is served either with tortillas, rice or plantains. It can also be wrapped inside of pastry dough to make…
Red Beans and Rice
This is one of the quintessential New Orleans dishes, right up there along with gumbo and jambalaya. You can leave out the meat entirely to make this vegetarian, but I…
Maple Balsamic Pork Tenderloin
This is yet another (slightly adapted) recipe from Shauna Niequist’s book Bread & Wine. On a side note, many of my current favorite recipes are from that book, they are…
Goat Cheese Stuffed, Bacon Wrapped Dates
These are one of my top 5 favorite things I’ve eaten. EVER. I really didn’t expect to like them, because I didn’t think that I like dates, but I am…
Gumbo
One of the things that makes this recipe different is the use of frozen veggies. I don’t normally take shortcuts like buying pre-chopped frozen veggies, but in this instance adding…
Meet Shannon
Hi - I'm Shannon! I'm a stay-at-home wife, mom to 3 boys and lover of all things culinary. I enjoy nothing more than a good meal paired with conversation with good people. With 3 kids and a busy home I like to prep dinner first thing in the morning (#dinnerdoneby9am) so that regardless of what happens during the day we have a delicious and nutritious meal ready to enjoy together. I want to provide you with simple techniques and nutritious recipes that will remove your dinnertime stress and free you up to enjoy healthy, delicious home-cooked meals with the people around you.
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