Easy Corn and Jalapeño Chicken recipe. This healthy dinner idea is ready in under 30 minutes making it a quick weeknight meal. This Corn and Jalapeño Chicken is evidence that you don’t need fancy ingredients (or many ingredients at all) to make a delicious dinner recipe. And also, that some of the uglier dishes are…
30 Minute Meals
Chicken Pasta with Greek Yogurt Sauce
Easy Chicken Pasta with Greek Yogurt Sauce recipe. This super quick healthy dinner idea is the perfect weeknight comfort food. Anyone feel like they have so much work to do lately that they don’t even want to think about Thanksgiving? Yeah.. that’s me too. But maybe because I am Canadian I can get excused from…
Ground Beef and Broccoli
Easy Ground Beef and Broccoli recipe. This healthy keto bowl is the perfect quick and simple weeknight dinner idea. Everyone seems to be on edge right now. This is my first year living in the US, and it might be the strangest and most uncertain election yet. Teaching right now seems weird, because some students…
Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese Casserole
Easy Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese Casserole recipe. Made with ground beef, cheese and topped with diced pickles, it’s the ultimate comfort food. Fall dinners are all about the comfort foods. Don’t give me any of your fancy salads. I want all the cheese and the carbs. I want something that will stick to my bones….
Penne Alla Vodka
Easy Penne Alla Vodka recipe. With a super creamy sauce, this pasta idea makes a great last minute weeknight dinner using pantry essentials. When you bought too much alcohol during the early days of the pandemic.. you cook with it! Actually, is there really such thing as buying too much? Maybe I just want an…
Instant Pot Sweet Potato Soup
Easy Instant Pot Sweet Potato Soup recipe. Made with pantry essentials, this dinner idea makes for great weeknight comfort food. I’m sure I’m not the only one who is fully embracing fall now that it’s September, while totally ignoring the non-fall weather we are having. It’s just that, I’ve been waiting for this season ALL…
Lemon Dill Salmon
Easy Lemon Dill Salmon recipe. Made with only 6 ingredients, this simple dinner idea is perfect for a quick weeknight meal. Wow, it is HOT in Chicago! We have the air conditioner running all night and all day, and I am still feeling extremely warm. Making this recipe was the first time I have turned…
Parmesan Turkey Meatballs
Easy Parmesan Turkey Meatballs recipe. A healthier version of meatballs baked in the oven, perfect served on spaghetti or with mashed potatoes. Another reason I am so happy that our sugar free week is over: we can now eat pasta! Pasta has been a staple around here during the quarantine. So maybe it was a…
Summer Squash and Lemon Quinoa
Easy Summer Squash and Lemon Quinoa recipe. A quick and simple light dinner idea, it also works well as a gluten free side dish. Summer means I am making the most of the seasonal produce. And right now, summer squash is at the top of my list! My husband asked me what the difference between…
Homemade Hamburger Helper
Easy Homemade Hamburger Helper recipe. Made with ground beef and macaroni, this tastes way better than the stuff you get from the box. This might be the recipe that I make the most often. Whenever I have a pound of ground beef in my fridge waiting to be used, I almost immediately turn to this…
