Easy, Nutritious Recipes to Fuel an Active Lifestyle
This strawberry salad with poppyseed dressing includes fresh, juicy berries, feta, & pecans atop crisp lettuce, and it’s drizzled with a sweet dressing, perfect for summertime. I’m still in New York City, and I look forward to doing a life catch-up post soon! For now, here’s one of my favorite light summer recipes. A couple weekends ago, my mom and I went strawberry picking. We left with about 10 pounds
This lightened up mac and cheese is creamy and decadent, with high-quality ingredients. I’d like to think that I’m a good multitasker…but then I think of times like when I was making this mac and cheese. Picture the scene: I’m taking careful notes so I can share it with you (I came up with the method a few years ago and have made it a bunch
I love ordering burrito bowls at restaurants but also appreciate that burrito bowls (and especially vegetarian burrito bowsl!) are a super easy meal to make yourself. I have just one problem: as a college freshman, I don’t really have a kitchen. Technically, there is a kitchen in my freshman dorm building…on a different floor…and the stove kind of works…if you have 20 minutes to wait
This hearty, filling sweet potato chili has lots of protein from lentils and black beans! It’s the perfect cozy meal to curl up with on a cold or rainy day. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over my years of cooking, baking, and well, eating, it’s that you can’t always judge a dish by its cover. Sometimes, the not-so-pretty foods are the most delicious. Case
As much as I like local, hole-in-the-wall Mexican places, nothing beats making Mexican food at home. It’s easy to leave a Mexican restaurant feeling overly stuffed and loaded down by all of the fried chips, heavy ingredients, and huge portions, but at home, it’s easier to keep your meal on the lighter side without compromising any of the yum factor. I love making a huge spread of toppings
