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1 Week Meal Plan (5 dinners)

December 10, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Meal Plan + grocery list for one week of meals! Includes 5 dinners.

Hey friends! Do you meal plan? I am not usually a huge planner with things - more of a "fly by the seat of my pants" kinda gal, BUT if I don't meal plan, and I try to go to the grocery store without knowing exactly what I'm buying groceries to make that week, you'd think I was there to rob the grocery store versus buy food based on how anxious I feel. It's not good. I get super overwhelmed trying ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Dinner, Extras, Meal Plans Tagged With: grocery list, meal plan, meal plan guide, meal plan with grocery list, planned dinners, week of meals

A Shift

December 7, 2020 by Annie Chesson 6 Comments

Happy Monday, internet friends! Please enjoy this picture of my painfully adorable baby + a side of under-eye mascara residue from the day before. Coming at you today with something different. I'm just going to jump right in and share my heart a little bit in regards to this blog. The Garlic Diaries is six years old as of this past September (which is crazy to think about), and it has brought ...

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Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken

November 27, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken Bowls - This chicken could legit not be easier OR more delicious! Insanely tender, coated in lots of sweet, savory teriyaki sauce - it’s heaven!

Happy day-after-Thanksgiving, friends! I hope you had an amazing holiday week. I'm comin' atcha today with a SUPER easy, no-fuss recipe that is just what you need after a whooooole lot of cooking. So - introducing THE BEST INSTANT POT CHICKEN. For reals. It is SOOO tender, the sauce is SOOO flavorful, and it seriously could not be easier to make. No browning, no sauteing, it's just a dump and go ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Dairy Free, Dinner, Lunch, One Pot Meals Tagged With: chicken instant pot recipes, dairy allergy, dairy free instant pot, easy instant pot recipes, easy teriyaki chicken, instant pot chicken, instant pot teriyaki chicken, teriyaki chicken

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Meaty Vodka Sauce

November 24, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Meaty Vodka Sauce - The al dente spaghetti squash, the hearty, flavor-bomb (and also easy!) vodka sauce, the tender bites of sausage - it’s a dream combo!

This takes your traditional spaghetti dinner to THE NEXT LEVEL, fam. The spaghetti squash is such a fun/extra healthy alternative to the traditional spaghetti (and is a GREAT way to sneak in some veggies), the sauce is loaded with insane amounts of flavor, there are tender morsels of delicious sausage in every bite, and the whole thing just comes together to form THE best bite! This is a ...

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Dairy Free 5 Minute Hot Cocoa

November 17, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Dairy Free 5 Minute Hot Cocoa - THE BEST dairy free hot cocoa in the world! It’s rich, it’s soooo chocolatey, and it tastes zero percent like it’s dairy free - you’ll never know the difference!

Ohhhhhhh man, you guys, I have been so excited to post this. I recipe tested this dairy free hot cocoa SO many different ways before landing on the perfect version. I tried it with cashew cream, cashew cream/almond milk mix, just almond milk, almond milk and coconut milk, just coconut milk, coconut milk/oat milk mix - SO MANY DIFFERENT COMBOS. And then I tried it with just oat milk, and it was ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dairy Free, Dessert, Drinks, Gluten Free Tagged With: dairy free, dairy free chocolate, dairy free hot chocolate, dairy free hot cocoa, dairy free recipes, easy dairy free hot chocolate, homemade hot chocolate, homemade hot cocoa, hot chocolate, hot cocoa

Date Night Creamy Roasted Vegetable Risotto

November 12, 2020 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

Date Night Creamy Roasted Vegetable Risotto - The risotto is creamy and loaded with flavor, there’s a tender, roasted vegetable in every bite, and the combination of everything is a date night dream. Bonus - it’s dairy free! TheGarlicDiaries.com

Date-night-ins are wonderful for a few reasons: If you have kids, getting a babysitter can be expensive and a little complicated. I know that for us - especially now that we hvae 3 kids, one of which is still super young - we don't leave a babysitter to handle bedtime on her own. Less because we are worried about the kids being okay and more because I don't really want to strap a solo ...

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Pumpkin Pancake Bites

November 10, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Pumpkin Pancake Bites - These freezable little bites of pumpkin muffin goodness are the perfect quick fall breakfast! Make a big batch and munch on them for weeks! TheGarlicDiaries.com

Alright people (especially parents), say hello to your new morning bestie! Make one batch of these, and you'll have a gallon freezer bag full of ready-to-microwave pancake bites. They are fluffy, there is pumpkin spice in every bite, and they are preeeettttyyyy dang cute IMO. My kids love these - I give them a little pool of maple syrup to dip them in, and they just nom them right up. But even ...

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Vegan Peanut Stew

October 29, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Vegan Peanut Stew - This flavor bomb bowl of goodness will have you dreaming about the leftovers all week. It’s perfection! TheGarlicDiaries.com

Listen. LISTEN. This Peanut Stew is the epitome of life giving beauty in food form, people. I - cannot - rave - enough - about - what - is - happening - here. First of all: the flavor. We've got delicious aromatics in the form of red onion and garlic. We've got power flavor builders like curry paste and peanut butter. And we've got creamy richness + savory flavor coming from the coconut milk ...

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Sheet Pan Marinara

October 27, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Sheet Pan Marinara - This is the ultimate easy pasta sauce! It all goes down on a sheet pan in the oven, and then you just blend it up, toss with pasta, and you’re ready! TheGarlicDiaries.com

Say hello to the ULTIMATE easy homemade pasta sauce, fam. It's a sheet pan dinner in pasta sauce form. We roast a sheet pan of cherry tomatoes, onion, and garlic low and slow - a whole hour in the oven. The flavor in all the veggies deepens and they get nice and caramelized, and then we blend it up with some raw cashews and water (which is the dairy free version of adding a big glug of heavy ...

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Brown Sugar Butter Roasted Acorn Squash

October 22, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Brown Sugar Butter Roasted Acorn Squash - The ultimate fall veggie prep right here, people. It’s salty and sweet, it’s tender and crunchy from the roasted seeds - SO unreal good! TheGarlicDiaries.com

Squash, let me introduce you to my blog readers. Blog readers, allow me to introduce you to the most insanely delicious, salty/sweet, tender/crunchy veggie dream that you'll ever meet. I think you two will be very, very happy together. Let's talk about the perfect balance of everything that's happening in this roasted acorn squash: The salty/sweet. We season the squash with olive oil, salt, ...

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Annie Chesson
I am a passionate Christian, wife, cooking addict, and mom to the two sweetest boys in the world! Join me in my journey to create delicious, flavorful food. More About Me...

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