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Beef Street Tacos
First recipe of my meal planning series with shredded beef brisket cooked in the instapot. These street tacos are addicting! I had a hard time stopping myself at just 2 tacos…and I’m already looking forward to eating more tomorrow. This recipe is super easy and quick after you’ve already roasted the beef brisket in the instapot. Takes 30 minutes or less. The original instapot beef brisket recipe is linked below. Beef Street Tacos ingredients: Shredded beef brisket, at least 2 cups (click for link to brisket recipe) 2-4oz diced green chilies 1 cup low sodium beef stock Street taco shells Mexican blend cheese Mango Pineapple Salsa Fresco directions: Place the…
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Mango Pineapple Salsa Fresco
Mr. Man would do just about anything for fresh pineapple. If I have a fresh pineapple and need it for a recipe, I have to chop it up and prepare it before he knows what I’ve done. Otherwise, it disappears faster than a fart in a fan factory. So when I decided to refine my pineapple mango salsa recipe, I had to do it while he was at work. Don’t worry, I shared the end results with him…and he loved it. I loved it…no, cooking, a lot of chopping. AND…it’s heart healthy, dairy-free, gluten-free, paleo, whole 30, vegetarian…you name it…well except keto. This recipe is definitely now in our regular…
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Shredded Beef Brisket
Sometimes when I meal plan for a week, I like to make it as easy as possible. Which means cooking a large amount of a protein and then divvying it up between several meals. One of my favorites is to roast a beef brisket in my instapot. Whenever I do this I make sure I roast enough protein to be able to use in at least 3 meals. This last week we had a meal with brisket sliced up, roasted sweet potatoes, and fresh spinach and strawberry salad. The next meal I made with the brisket is Loaded Cauliflower Bowls, and the last one was Beef Street Tacos. I had…
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Oven-Baked Zucchini Chips
Zucchini is a vegetable that I wish I loved. Mushy zucchini makes my skin crawl. Well…this super easy recipe not only checked all of the boxes for my taste buds, but it was also a huge hit with the boys. I have made these in the oven and in an air fryer. Both turned out equally yummy. Yellow squash and summer squash also work great in this recipe as well. Do you have any recipes with zucchini that I should try? Oven-Baked Zucchini Chips ingredients: 1 zucchini, can also use yellow squash 2 eggs 1/2 cup heavy cream 2 cups gluten-free Panko breadcrumbs 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese 1/4 tsp salt 1/2…
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Honey Garlic Shrimp with Quinoa
I grew up on seafood, every summer we would trek to Oregon to visit grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. More often than not, we would spend some time on the coast, usually bouncing between Newport, Florence, and the sand dunes. Grandpa Harold taught me how to fish, we would spend the whole week playing on the beach, fishing, catching crabs and clams. I loved every minute of it. Mr. Man, on the other hand, his version of seafood is…well, it’s steak. He tolerates some seafood, but mostly if it isn’t battered in coconut and deep-fried, he doesn’t like it. Still, we are trying to be mostly heart-healthy, and frankly,…
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Roasted Heirloom Tomato and Garlic Marinara
I found gorgeous baby heirloom cherry tomatoes at my local Costco last week and just had to snag them. I have to say I am not a tomato lover…I seriously desire to like raw tomatoes, I will eat them on a salad, but overall I avoid them like the plague. I think my dislike stems from when my parents would stew and can tomatoes almost every year as I was growing up and that smell…that smell rivals baby poo. It…well it scarred me for life. BUT I love to figure out how to add them to recipes and spice them up so they don’t dredge up memories that I probably…
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Chocolate Banana Protein Muffins
One problem I have on a weekly basis is overly ripe bananas. I will not eat them once they are completely yellow. And unfortunately, the amigos are the exact same way. So each week, we have 2-3 bananas that are too ripe for anyone to eat. I quickly grew tired of banana bread and the amount of frozen banana bits in our freezer is rather embarrassing. A few weeks ago I noticed a recipe at the bottom of the Kodiak Pancake mix. Since then, the ripe banana epidemic has been abolished. I did make a few changes to the original recipe to make it a little more heart healthy. Also,…
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Chicken Fried Quinoa
I’ve been wanting to incorporate quinoa into my diet, but I was afraid because the last time I tried to make something with it the taste was awful. I even soaked the quinoa before I cooked it and it still tasted like bug spray. That was several years ago, and now there are a lot more options when it comes to quinoa. Quite a few of them don’t require presoaking before cooking which is a huge win for me. Tonight I decided to do chicken fried rice, but with quinoa instead, and guess what…it was SO SO yummy. I will say, although I love me some cauliflower rice, I think I…
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Health Fads
I began struggling with my weight in my early 20s. I gained 50 or so pounds within a year. I hadn’t made any major lifestyle changes, but the weight was not going anywhere. Then my menstrual cycle stopped, so I sought medical help. I received the diagnosis of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). PCOS is a disorder that attacks the ovaries. The pancreas works in overdrive producing too much insulin which then, in turn, creates little cysts on the ovaries that look like a strand of pearls have been wrapped around them. This causes the ovaries to behave abnormally and don’t always ovulate on a regular basis. While PCOS can be…
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Summertime Avocado and Corn Salad
I have a major addiction…to avocados. Just about anything with avocados in the recipe, I will dive in head first no questions asked. We go through 1-2 bags of avocados from Sam’s Club or Costco in a week. I think we end up going through more avocado bags than gallons of milk. So when a friend posted this recipe link on her facebook, I just had to run out and get all of the ingredients immediately. SO YUMMY! So satisfying, so easy! I omitted the hard boiled eggs the first time I made it because I was going to be taking it to a Fourth of July BBQ and I didn’t want…
