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I am normally not one for ‘skinny’ desserts. If I want brownies or chocolate cake, then I am going to eat brownies or chocolate cake. Not smashed black bean brownies (anyone tried those?) or that chickpea healthy cookie dough I’ve seen floating around Pinterest lately.  No mixer needed! Combine the ingredients for the cake in a bowl and pour into your baking dish. You’ll end up with a puffy and thick chocolate cake. Let that cool completely and then frost and of course, add some sprinkles or other toppings. THIS healthy chocolate cake is delicious too. I’m not going to say it tastes exactly the same as the 6-ingredient gooey Swedish chocolate cake, because that wouldn’t be true. Even the sweet potato part is easy. I just cook a medium sweet potato in the microwave until soft, then I split open the skin and scoop out the flesh. It mashes really easily with a fork, or if you’d prefer to get it completely smooth you could pulse it for a few seconds in your food processor. This healthy cho

Easy Skillet Lasagna Recipe.  This family dinner dish only takes 30 MINUTES and ONE POT to make! This ultimate comforting and cheesy meal is so much easier than making a conventional lasagna.  After you try this version you will never need another lasagna recipe!  Hey y’all.  This Easy Skillet Lasagna Recipe is kind of the epitome of the type of recipes I strive to create.  Lasagna is one of those meals that is known for pure comfort.  Probably due to the massive amounts of cheese that is usually loaded up into it. Although it’s comforting and one of my favorite meals, I don’t tend to make it.  Why?  It takes a lot of time.  All the work of layering and do I precook the noodle or not? I never know. When I don’t they come out crunchy and just not so pleasant. I use lasagna noodles when I make this.  It feels more authentic and a little fun.  Admit it, you like the look of lasagna noodles too!  Just break them into pieces over the pot and toss them in.  Press the noodles down into the sa

Lately I’ve been on a real chili making binge. Can’t stop, won’t stop. I cooked up two batches last week and froze one for evenings when I don’t feel like cooking or simply don’t have the time. Sometimes I work out in the evenings and by the time I get back home my desire to start chopping vegetables and doing dishes is negative 1 million. On the second night of eating my black bean chili for both lunch and dinner, I decided that I wanted to do something else with it. Certainly chili for lunch and dinner wasn’t the most versatile. Eating it plain again on the third day would have been just boring. I mean still tasty, but who wants to eat the same thing 3 nights in a row? I glanced around the kitchen and realized I had some sweet potatoes begging to be baked. Now I could have just added them to the chili for a unique flavor, but then I realized that they would basically be even more awesome if I stuffed them with awesome things like chili, cheese and cilantro. And OMG you guys… I wish I

This Pulled Tandoori Chicken is a really easy Indian dish, a “dump-and-go” type of Instant Pot recipe. The resulting shredded meat is not only tender and flavorful but also versatile in its many uses. Typical tandoori chicken is marinated before cooking. This recipe skips that step, and instead all of the ingredients the chicken, marinade, and spices are combined together in the pot and pressure cooked simultaneously. Much simpler, with very flavorful results. This Instant Pot version is all about soft and tender meat, in a rich coconut-based sauce with Indian spices. I adapted it from my traditional tandoori chicken made in the oven, which in contrast has a crisp and charred finish. Pulled chicken, pulled pork or pulled beef- Hell, if there was pulled shrimp or pulled crab, I’d be a huge fan (although I don’t think my wallet would be). With Summer ending in Australia, it means that slow cookers and hearty stews are going to be pulled (ha) out of the depths of the pantries, kitchen dra

Creamy Skillet Chicken Cacciatore has the most amazing creamy red sauce with peppers, mushrooms, and fresh basil.  The chicken is tender and juicy and on the dinner table in 30 minutes!  Warm your home with this flavorful dish that brings out all the feel goods. The wonderful smell will draw everyone to the kitchen within minutes. Unstuffed Pepper Skillet, Italian Orzo and Sausage Skillet or Cajun Shrimp and Sausage Vegetable Skillet are a few one skillet meals for you to enjoy! Right now we have both of our girls bedrooms next to each other but one of the rooms is used as a playroom.  All of this will move to a playroom that we made in the basement and we will be able to put the babies room together.  We are cutting it really close but that seems how life is!  I ordered the babies furniture finally and I am starting to envision this sweet little girl that will be coming to our home.  It is starting to feel more real! I just love one skillet meals! Fall, football games and hearty comfo

My husband has been asking me to make fish in tomato sauce for some time. He wanted it to taste like the canned sardines in tomato sauce that he had growing up in Ukraine. Of course this Cod Fish in Tomato Sauce recipe is far better since it doesn’t come from a can! He agreed. The fish is flaky and juicy and the sauce is legit. It can be served warm or cold.  The sauce is lightly tangy and sweet – we modified the sauce portion of this recipe from The New Ukrainian Cookbook. Oh p.s. have you tried capers? If you haven’t, don’t be afraid of them. For a loooong time I thought capers were scary – I’m not sure why, but it kept me from discovering them. They taste like salty mustard flavored pickles and they are a great addition to this dish. You can buy a small jar for $1-something. This super easy and tasty Cod Fish in Tomato Sauce is perfect for pairing with rice, grits, or pasta. Your meal will be ready to serve in about 30 minutes. You definitely don’t want to skip this recipe, friends.

One skillet lemon pepper shrimp and orzo comes together in right around 30 minutes and is sure to become a family favorite. Life has been a total whirlwind since getting back from Italy a little over a week ago. I knew taking 10 days off work and basic adult obligations would have some side effects (poor me, right?), however is it crazy to say that I feel like I already need another vacation? Amidst the craziness of life and, therefore, minimal brain capacity allotted to weeknight dinners, I’ve been all about big flavor with minimal cleanup lately. Can we talk about how amazing one pot meals are? Years ago, I would never go near a one pot meal with a ten foot pole – I just had this suspicion that a one pot meal had major taste deficiencies. It was just too easy and too good to be true. But now – well, let’s just say that I’m only living off of one pot meals for the rest of my life. After all, why would you ever want to live in a world where you have dirty up all these dishes when you o

I seriously think I shaved ten years off my life and sprouted a few gray hairs. First of all…I know zero about basketball. I never played it, and didn’t watch much of it when I was in school. Second of all…when you run the scoreboard in basketball, you have to keep track of score, fouls, which player got the foul and how many he/she has had so far, and time!! I don’t know how much you know about basketball, but you have to start and stop the clock each time the ref blows the whistle…which is constantly. And then to top it off, we had Friday off as well for this big annual basketball tournament! A three day week, woop woop! I will say, however, that the carefree-ness of this long weekend was marred by my attempt to keep score for a few hours each day at the basketball tournament. So last week was pretty awesome. We had a snow day on Monday…say whaaaaaattt?!? A snow day! Well, really it was an “ice” day…there was barely any snow. After driving a looooooong time over Thanksgiving break, t