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20 Minute Sweet and Spicy Noodles

These Sweet and Spicy Noodles are a Thai inspired fast, easy weeknight dinner that can be ready and on the table in just 20 minutes!
These Sweet and Spicy Noodles are a Thai inspired fast, easy weeknight dinner that can be ready and on the table in just 20 minutes!

 I don’t know what it is but I am all about sweet and spicy, lately!  These 20 Minute Sweet and Spicy Peanut Noodles are so easy and so spicy with a lovely hint of sweet.  As my husband described it, they’re damn delicious.  After the success of our Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Thighs, I knew I wanted to use a similar sauce in a Thai noodle.  And the hubby was right, damn did it turn out delicious!

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Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Thighs

A honey, hoisin, and Sriracha sauce make these Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Thighs exactly that: a little sweet and a little spicy and also a whole lot easy!A honey, hoisin, and Sriracha sauce make these Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Thighs exactly that: a little sweet and a little spicy and also a whole lot easy!

Here’s another quick and easy one for you guys!  I am obsessed with these new Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Thighs!  Not only were they super easy / fast to make, but the combo of honey and sriracha was soooo good.  

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No Cook Homemade Pizza Sauce

Making your own Homemade Pizza Sauce is ridiculously easy, so much healthier, flavorful, and completely customizable! 

Making your own Homemade Pizza Sauce is ridiculously easy, so much healthier, flavorful, and completely customizable!  Even better, no cooking required!

Have you ever met a person who doesn’t like pizza?  Right, me neither.  I’m sure they exist, but I just don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.  Hell, pizza is so important to, after decades of trial and error, the Natick Soldier Systems Center has finally made a decent pizza MRE (meal ready to eat)!  Yup.  It’s that important.  And a crucial element?  The sauce, duh.  Which is why I’m sharing with you all our go-to, no fail, always make, No Cook Homemade Pizza Sauce!

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Enchilada Skillet Pasta

This Enchilada Skillet Pasta is loaded with flavor and cheese making it a delicious, easy and comfort food at it’s finest!

This Enchilada Skillet Pasta is loaded with flavor and cheese making it a delicious, easy and comfort food at it's finest!

Hi!  Well, we survived travelling cross country with a 2 year old and a (now) 8 week old!  It solidified the fact that somehow we won the kiddo lottery as both handled two loonngg travel days incredibly. We definitely have future little jetsetters in the making!  It was such a lovely trip to Virginia celebrating my youngest brother-in-law’s wedding and finally getting to meet and stay with another brother-in-law and sister-in-law I hadn’t met yet.  But man, it’s always good to be home.  Except for the fact that we came home to an empty fridge and sooo much unpacking, un-winding, and time zone adjusting to do.  Which meant for dinner I needed easy and comforting since I’d been up at 4 am multiple days with a 2 year old who was still operating on East coast time.  Welcome this Enchilada Skillet Pasta! 

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One Pot Cheesy Kielbasa, Broccoli, and Rice

This One Pot Cheesy Kielbasa, Broccoli, and Rice is not only fast and easy to prep, make, AND clean up after, but it’s a delicious weeknight dinner, too! This One Pot Cheesy Kielbasa, Broccoli, and Rice is not only fast and easy to prep, make, AND clean up after, but it's a delicious weeknight dinner, too! 

Here’s a quickie for you, friends!  Not only is this One Pot Cheesy Kielbasa, Broccoli, and Rice a quickie, but I’m currently surrounded by not one, not two, but three large half packed suitcases as we get ready to take our first family vacation with not one, but two kiddos.  So this’ll be quick, too.

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Asian Sesame Ginger Slaw

This Asian Sesame Ginger Slaw isn’t your average slaw!  It’s heartier due to the addition of quinoa, but also mayo free and lighter with a delicious sesame ginger dressing!

This Asian Sesame Ginger Slaw isn't your average slaw!  It's heartier due to the addition of quinoa, but also mayo free and lighter with a delicious sesame ginger dressing!How is it the end of August already?  Didn’t summer just start?  I feel like I say this every year and that I was just complaining about the heat and dreaming of cooler weather.  Ha.  Well, we’re cramming in as much summer fun as we can while it lasts with not just one but two outdoor weddings to go to still and we have BBQs on our calendar until Sept. 30th.  That means that I plan to have all of my favorite summer salads on rotation for another month!  Our Arugula Watermelon Mint Salad, German Dill Potato Salad, Grilled Corn and Pepper Salad, Avocado Pasta Salad, and now this Asian Sesame Ginger Slaw!

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Sweet Sriracha Chicken Tacos

Try a new twist on your tacos by balancing sweet and spicy with one of our new favorites: Sweet Sriracha Chicken Tacos!
Try a new twist on your tacos by balancing sweet and spicy with our new favorite Sweet Sriracha Chicken Tacos!

Guys. Are you looking for a new taco to toss into your Taco Tuesday rotation?  Then these Sweet Sriracha Chicken Tacos are exactly what you need. 

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Garlic Parmesan Zoodles

Swap out the pasta for fresh zucchini noodles and add garlic and Parmesan for Garlic Parmesan Zoodles, an easy and delicious side dish or light dinner that’s ready in less than 15 minutes! Swap out the pasta for fresh zucchini noodles and add garlic and Parmesan for Garlic Parmesan Zoodles, an easy and delicious side dish or light dinner that's ready in less than 15 minutes!

Zucchini season is here!  Is anyone else pulling baseball bat sized zucchinis out of their gardens?  We were a teeny tiny bit busy leading up to this summer (read: baby #2), so our garden is a little bit smaller this year.  But we still have a ton of gorgeous zucchinis that we’re making some Sweet Zucchini Relish with and now also one of my new favorite zucchini dishes, these Garlic Parmesan Zoodles!

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Copy Cat Recipes

Strawberry Fruit Roll Ups – No Added Sugar!

Make your own Strawberry Fruit Roll Ups with just a couple of ingredients and no added sugar! It’s the perfect fun from scratch treat for the kids! Make your own Strawberry Fruit Roll Ups with just a couple of ingredients and no added sugar! It's the perfect fun from scratch treat for the kids!

Oh hey!  I’m coming to you from a household of 5 now!  Our little K2 made her grand appearance a couple of weeks ago!  I’ve been sooo incredibly blessed to have fast, easy, safe births and even more blessed to now have two very healthy baby girls.  Since Baby Clara was a surprise gender, I’m still wrapping my mind around being a mom of two girls; especially two girls who are so close in age.  My husband may still be in a little bit of denial since this is our last baby, but we’re all doing extremely well.  We even went out to dinner as a family the other night – Baby C’s 9th day outside the womb and we got ourselves together to go out to dinner.  Life is good, to say the least.  

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Avocado Pasta Salad

This Avocado Pasta Salad is one that’ll be different than all the others on the cookout table.  It’s creamy, bright, packed full of (hidden) spinach, and it just happens to be vegan friendly!This Avocado Pasta salad is one that'll be different than all the others on the cookout table.  It's creamy, bright, packed full of (hidden) spinach, and it just happens to be vegan friendly!

I love it when I’m looking for something quick and easy to make that’ll also be crowd pleasing and I stumble upon a recipe like this.  This Avocado Pasta Salad was fast to make and wonderfully different than your standard cookout side.  Plus, it’s packed full of nutrition without tasting like it’s trying to be healthy!

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