Need a delicious meal for a holiday fiesta night? Maybe you’re just craving some chips and melted cheesy goodness! Jazz up your ordinary taco salad with some winter squash and black beans to create something extraordinary.

This dish is the perfect mix of deliciousness and nutrition. Top your tortilla chips with onions, bell peppers, butternut squash, black beans and spinach. …

Veggie noodles are the pasta lover’s healthy alternative. Some people could eat pasta every day, and now you definitely can with healthier benefits.

You can easily transform all sorts of vegetables into noodles. Some of the most popular are zucchini, carrot and squash noodles; the list could go on and on though. Using veggie noodles adds more vitamins, minerals, fiber and …

Chinese Take-Out — one of the easiest ways to “prepare” dinner for your family and by prepare we mean finding the number, calling the restaurant, placing an order, and driving to pick it up. Although it is easy, this quick dinner often turns into a food coma full of regret for those trying to make healthy eating choices. So, if you’re craving stir-fry, we have the perfect and …

Post and images by guest blogger, Rebecca White, of A Pleasant Little Kitchen. 

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Ahhhh, the thrill of the Thanksgiving feast…that quickly turns into the meal no one wants.

Isn’t it amazing how just a few hours post-Thanksgiving feast (the one that everyone oooed and awed over), the meal quickly turns into a “leftover” …

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Fry. Chop. Stir. Drop. Bake.

Then glory is yours. This is also knowns as homemade biscuit greatness.

Truth be told, I’m not much of a biscuit girl. I don’t know why though. Every time I make a batch I think, ”why don’t I bake biscuits …

Post and images by guest blogger, Rebecca White, of A Pleasant Little Kitchen. 

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I ate a lot of mashed potatoes growing up. Once a week our family would have a roast at Granny’s house and instead of roast potatoes she would serve mashed potatoes.

I still remember the hand held potato masher my grandfather would man as …

If you have a food allergy, eating out or going to dinner with family and friends can be a bit stressful. Did the person that prepared the food really make sure that the dish did not come in contact with something I’m allergic to? What if they didn’t even know? While these situations can be risky, a fool-proof solution would be to volunteer to bring your own dish. The salad …

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Roasting a turkey for the first time is a BIG deal.

Let me restart. Cooking a turkey, whether it’s your first time or 50th time is a BIG deal. There’s many reasons for the enormity of this project.

First off, a turkey is a large piece …