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These Gyro Burgers are inspired by several things: For the love a good burger! My family has been experimenting with traditional gyro recipes lately, and I just had to make an easy weeknight version. And finally, it’s the start of another grilling season! My main goal for this recipe was all the fantastic gyro flavors without the 1 hour baking time and all the dishes to cleanup. Instead, the spices are added to the meat, grilled in burger patties, and placed on a bed of lettuce....

Goat cheese paired with veggies is a summer tradition for my sister and I. I think it started with homegrown Brandywine tomatoes (where we made a Caprese Salad of sorts), and the combination was so good, it just sort of spiralled from there! Mini sweet peppers turn even sweeter when you put them on the grill, and they make the best sort of appetizer when stuffed with herbed goat cheese....

Every time the temperature shoots through the roof, I find myself making a frosty! Last summer I was all about this Strawberry Watermelon creation, but this year I can’t get enough blueberries, (and now local huckleberries). This version is easier to make for year round enjoyment because it’s made with frozen berries, (whereas watermelon in January just isn’t quite right)! When I hear the word frosty, I always think of a variety of sugary drinks from childhood, (anyone remember Mr....

I can’t even remember the last time I got out my sushi mat to make homemade sushi. I used to do it fairly often, but life happens, and it just seems like too much work most of the time! Enter sushi bowls… all the goodness of sushi without any of the hassle of actually making rolls. Since we live a very long ways from the ocean, I make veggie sushi bowls or cooked seafood sushi bowls at home....

All Italian food is pretty much amazing in my book, seriously I really love it all! But we all know that ravioli completely from scratch is most definitely a labor of love. Not that the labor doesn’t have it’s rewards with silky fresh pasta enveloping your favorite filling, it’s just one of those things you tend to do on the holidays when you have a few days off! So… today we’re breaking the rules again, taking the classic butternut ravioli dish, and turning it into a veggie pasta that’s easy enough to make on a weeknight....

I started this recipe with the idea to use up leftover holiday ham. But instead, I’ve found myself buying ham specifically to make this soup! It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s incredibly satisfying. I think the recipe dates as far back as the Great Depression. So I wanted to start the same concept but with a bit more flavor and protein added. Enter some ham, veggies, and cream in place of the milk to make a comforting soup you’ll want to make again and again!...

Imagine having a simple stir fry sauce that works for any stir fry you’d ever make? Well, this is it, and it’s so simple with just 3 ingredients. From there you can customize it for several different flavor variations you’ll find below. How to make this recipe step by step I really hope you enjoy this Stir Fry Sauce recipe! If you do get a chance to make this recipe, I’d love to hear from you in the comments....

My mom used to make a chocolate zucchini bread when I was growing up. And while I’d never turn it down, I always secretly wanted brownies instead because they were so much fudgier. So when I set out to make a healthier version of this childhood recipe, I decided to amp up the chocolate to be truly worthy of any chocoholic (and it’s mom approved!). The zucchini bread itself is chocolate, and then there’s chocolate chips mixed in....

Imagine a sauce so good you build your entire dinner around it! We make this tasty aioli at least 2 times per week all summer long when we have an abundance of basil. And in the winter months, we still make it whenever I get a good deal on store-bought basil because it’s just so good. This easy-to-make aioli is so tasty I always get asked for the recipe. So I’ve finally written it down to share with you!...

Sweet juicy grapes, crunchy celery, and toasted almonds all combine together with the chicken and savory dressing to make the best chicken salad ever! I already have an Avocado Chicken Salad recipe on the blog which is super tasty. However the avocado doesn’t keep as well, and so we definitely need the classic recipe here too. It’s one of those recipes that’s super simple, and everyone loves it. It’s elegant enough for things like bridal or baby showers....

I love comfort food with a twist, and butternut noodles are one of my favorites in the winter months. Zucchini noodles are great, but butternut noodles have my heart with their addictive flavor. They also pair incredibly well with tomato sauces. So I decided to take my classic spaghetti recipe, and change it up with some chorizo and fresh thyme. It turned out to be out new go-to meal, with it’s slight spiciness and rich tomato sauce, all over sweet butternut noodles....

Meanwhile… back to reality in the great white north, it’s been in the negative temperatures and snowing by the foot here! So… it’s not like I need a cold drink, I just need a sunny memory! We celebrated our 5th anniversary this weekend with lots of great meals and no electronics, which was the perfect break from everyday life. Since we’re no where near the tropics this year, we made these smoothies and reminisced while we started plotting our next travel adventures!...

I hope you’ve all been well lately, and pardon my absence for the last 6 weeks or so. I’ve been scrambling to put out as many healthy pantry staple recipes as possible with current world events. But we’re back today with the next instalment of our Canadian road trip. When we left off with Part 2 of the Conrad Kain Hut we had just cleaned up an epic mouse mess in the back of our truck....

Bring on the sauce, and what are we having for dinner again? Just kidding a bit, but we’re pretty big on sauces around here, and it doesn’t seem like a meal unless there’s sauce involved. Perhaps one of the most classic ‘sauces’ ever is gravy! And everyone needs a gluten-free gravy recipe, it’s a kitchen basic perfect for so many meals. So we’re talking about gluten-free gravy and how to make sure no one ever knows the difference....

It’s jam packed with juicy tomatoes, cucumbers, crumbed feta cheese, and it’s all doused in an herbed vinaigrette. There’s also some bell pepper and red onion in there to add depth of flavor, which really makes this hard to stop eating. We love packing it along for picnics as well as packing it up a mountain to have a first rate lunch at the top. You can check out a picture of my other pasta salad at the top of a mountain in Glacier National Park, it’s about halfway down the page of my Piegan Mountain Scramble post....

Is there anything better than pizza?… I’m thinking not, unless it’s pizza followed by ice cream! I saw a saying the other day that said, ‘If you had to choose between eating tacos everyday or being skinny for the rest of your life – would you choose hard shell or soft shell?’ Well it would definitely be soft shell for the record, but this saying could also work for pizza....

It’s hard to believe that with over 600 recipes and counting, I don’t have a recipe for Pico de Gallo yet! You’ll find it as an add-on of sorts in my Mexican recipes like my Chipotle Shrimp Tacos. But it’s way past time I shared with you my specific recipe for a good pico along with all my tips! There are a few things that make a Pico de Gallo authentic....

Potstickers used to be a staple lunch for me when we lived in Calgary. You could get the best locally made wrappers, and I would make huge batches of them to freeze. Then for an easy lunch, I’d cook a few, and dip them in soy sauce, which was my favorite way to eat them. I’d kinda given up on potstickers as a thing of the past when we changed the way we ate....

As I took my first bite of this frittata, the flavors of roasted red pepper and feta cheese exploded in my mouth, and my first thought was ‘frittata where have you been my whole life’!?! The obsession is real and not going away anytime soon, even as I was trying to take pictures of this deliciousness, I kept cutting little bites because I just couldn’t stay out of it. I don’t know how it is that I’ve never made a frittata up until now, but they’re now a weekly feature on our meal plan....

This easy-to-make pasta hits our table on the regular. It’s a tasty combination that never gets old. And I make this dish for everything from a weeknight dinner to date nights, and for your company as well. We all need dinners that come together quickly, there’s no doubt time feels very limited for everyone these days. But it’s even better when your dinner tastes just as good as something you’d order in a restaurant!...