As soon as we made this recipe from Blue Apron, I knew I was going to be modifying it for Cooking Club! So easy and delicious… and a simple swap of Edamame & Mung Bean Fettuccine for the fresh pappardelle gives it big boost of extra protein and fiber!
Another bonus: using just the leaves of the Brussels sprouts leaves you all sorts of extra sprouts to do something delicious with.
When people tell me they can’t cook or they hate to cook or they’re scared to cook, the first thing I ask is “Do you have a crockpot?” Seriously, buying and using a crockpot (or, more accurately, “slow cooker”) is the easiest way to feel like you’ve got healthy cooking within your grasp. And it’s not even really cooking.. I think of it more like “combining” or “compiling” or (the much less appetizing) “dumping.” I mean, c’mon… 3 ingredient Chicken Cacciatore that takes about 5 minutes to put together?! Continue reading
I am NOT a morning person. I’m always running late, I’m usually cranky… and I’m hungry. I had a Costco order coming from Instacart so, on a whim, I added 3 dozen eggs (it *was* Costco ;)) and decided to figure out something to do with them for breakfast for the week.
I love a fritatta… and they’re relatively easy… but I was feeling too lazy even for that. Then i remembered a recipe I’d pinned from thekitchn.com for an oven omelet and decided to start there and just make it as easy as possible. Continue reading
I’m so excited to finally post this recipe! We’ve made it about a dozen times in Cooking Club and I think we finally perfected it! I also love that it’s a good demonstration of how you can take a recipe and use it as a starting point to really make it your own… whether you’re tweaking it for taste or specific nutritional concerns, etc. This is actually adapted from a recipe on Skinnytaste.com (one of my very favorite places to get recipes) which was in turn adapted from a recipe in Bobby Deen’s cookbook From Mama’s Table to Mine: Everybody’s Favorite Comfort Foods at 350 Calories or Less. Continue reading
This is one of the easiest and cheapest recipes ever. 3 ingredients… around $15 for 5 servings! Continue reading
One of the things I like about making chili or stews or casseroles is you don’t have to worry about following a recipe exactly. Have some roasted corn? Use it! Don’t have roasted corn? Use a can of plain corn. Making 2 different recipes? Split the corn!
I was at Trader Joe’s and saw that they had lean beef already cut into cubes and I was feeling lazy and wanted the quickest, easiest thing to throw in the crockpot so I picked up a couple packages of the beef and a couple of bottles of their Cowboy Caviar and went from there… (if you can’t get to a Trader Joe’s, here’s a copycat recipe for the salsa).
So here’s the version of Cowboy Chili I happened to make last night… I’m sure it will be a little different next time. 😉 Continue reading
A day in front of the TV (Lord of the Rings marathon FOR THE WIN!) is a great excuse to make something in the crockpot. My roommate was baking it up in the kitchen so I needed something really easy that wasn’t going to take much space to put together. I had pork in the fridge I’d bought with the intention of making pulled pork, but, since we made that the day before in Cooking Club, I didn’t want any more… so I settled on pork chili (I never actually knew there *was* such a thing until a business trip last week where I had it in a little hole in the wall Mexican restaurant!).
This was delicious! It may be one of the best chilis I’ve ever made… and SO EASY. Continue reading
