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Skinny Pumpkin Cheesecake Mousse

September 29, 2017 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

It's the first pumpkin recipe of the season!!! Ah, fall food makes me so happy. Pumpkin, caramel apple, cinnamon, nutmeg - doesn't it all just make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? What is it about fall that makes you feel that way? It's like a feeling of nostalgia, but I don't even remember doing anything particularly special during fall while growing up. Who knows - it's a mystery. But one that I ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dessert, Fall Recipes, Gluten Free, Snacks, Thanksgiving, Vegetarian, Weight Watchers Tagged With: cheesecake, Dessert, Fall, fall dessert, Gluten Free, low calorie, mousse, Pumpkin, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin mousse, weight watchers

Dilled Cream Cheese and Cucumber Bagels

June 23, 2017 by Annie Chesson 5 Comments

Have you guys ever tried the combo of dill, cream cheese, and cucumber together? Oh my goodness - it is flavor heaven. I'm going through a dill phase right now. I want dill in everything that I eat...everything. It is just so yummy and SO summery! I haven't ever gotten into using dill in the past, but suddenly I'm all bout that life, yo. I bought a spiralizer from Amazon recently. Well, ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Brunch, Lunch, Sandwiches, Vegetarian Tagged With: bagel, bagel sandwich, bagels, cream cheese, cucumber, cucumber and dill, cucumber and dill cream cheese, cucumber bagel, dill, dill cream cheese, everything bagel, Lunch, sandwich, Sandwiches, spiralized cucumber, Vegetarian

The Trick to THE Juiciest Chicken Breasts

June 19, 2017 by Annie Chesson 9 Comments

Chicken breasts are so blah. I am just not a huge fan...they almost always turn out dry and boring. I don't mind using chicken in things, but I almost never ever just sear up a chicken breast for dinner. So this recipe didn't come about from me experimenting - the creds for these babies go to my husband, Seth. We got hungry SUPER late at night this past weekend (because we had had popcorn a few ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, Lunch, One Pot Meals Tagged With: 30 Minute Meals, baked chicken, Chicken, chicken breast, chicken breasts, easy dinners, Gluten Free, Healthy, the best chicken

25 Minute Tortellini and Veggie Saute

June 16, 2017 by Annie Chesson 4 Comments

Anyone who comes up with recipes (like a food blogger!) finds random inspiration from various things. Something you eat at a restaurant, something you see on the Food Network, Pinterest (🙌🏻), a dish a friend or family member cooks for you, or other completely random things. This dish has a strange inspiration. A Lean Cuisine...fancy right? I got several frozen meals at the grocery store ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Lunch, Vegetarian Tagged With: 25 minute meals, 30 Minute Meals, asparagus, broccoliq, parmesan cheese, pasta saute, squash, stir fry, Tomatoes, tortellini, tortellini and veggies, tortellini saute, tortellini stir fry, Vegetarian, veggie saute, veggie stir fry, weeknight meals, zucchini

S’mores Rice Krispies Treats

June 2, 2017 by Annie Chesson 8 Comments

I am sitting in a super cute coffee shop right now sipping a drink that I'm not even sure you could call "coffee" with its amount of sugar. It's called a Snickers Mocha...and it tastes like a melted snickers bar. And I get it so often that this one was free since I built up so many rewards. Something to brag about? Probably not...but it's so addictively delicious. For those of you who work from ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dessert, Fall Recipes, Game Day, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: Chocolate, Dessert, Desserts, graham crackers, marshmallows, rice krispies, rice krispies treats, S'mores, S'mores rice krispies, S'mores rice krispies treats, treats

Twenty Minute Refried Beans

May 30, 2017 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

OH MY GOSH LIFE. I have been hardcore absent from my blogging world for so long. We were in the last few weeks of the school year, and it was my last year of teaching since the baby is coming soon (yay!), so I really wanted to soak up those last few weeks and stay totally focused on enjoying every minute of them. Also, I was busy - hi, making finals for four different grade levels is time ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Condiments, Game Day, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Sides, Vegetarian Tagged With: beans, cilantro, garlic, homemade beans, jalapeno, mexican, onion, pinto beans, queso fresco, refried beans, Sides, tacos

Cinnamon Cheesecake Stuffed Crescent Rolls

May 9, 2017 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

Ah, crescent rolls. I love you an extra ton because baking is not one of my strong suits. Number one: I make a massive, giant, huge, kitchen-earthquake of a mess. Number two: my stuff never turns out right. Number three: it's not as much fun as cooking because you have to stick to the recipe and get out a billion and one measuring cups and spoons. Whoops, sorry...a billion and two. BUT - then ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Brunch, Christmas, Dessert, Vegetarian Tagged With: cheesecake, cheesecake crescent rolls, cinnamon cheesecake, crescent, crescent roll cheesecake, crescent rolls, dessert crescent rolls, rolls, sweet crescent rolls, sweet rolls

Creamy One Pot Spring Vegetable Fettuccine

April 19, 2017 by Annie Chesson 5 Comments

Remember when I discovered one pot pasta (I know...way late to the game), became obsessed, and said I was going to experiment with a billion different one pot pasta recipes? Hiiiii. This is that. And this is wonderful. I, once again, am very much in love with one pot pasta. It's just so easy! I know all the legit Italians out there are rolling their eyes so hard at me, and the Italian ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Lunch, One Pot Meals, Vegetarian Tagged With: 30 Minute Meals, 30 minute one pot meal, 30 minute pasta, asparagus, fettuccine, leeks, One Pot, One Pot Meals, one pot pasta, Pasta, peas, Spring vegetables, Vegetarian

Fifteen Quick and Simple 30 Minute Meals

April 13, 2017 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Even those of us that love, love, looooove cooking are fans of 30 minute meals. Meals that are that quick and easy but still pack so much flavor and yumminess are just so much fun to make. Not to mention, MUCH needed on crazy weeknights when you've either been dealing with a pack of crazy kids all day, dealing with a crazy day at work...or both...yikes. So, this roundup is for you, busy ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, Extras Tagged With: 30 Minute Meals, Easy, fast, Quick, quick and easy, simple

Blueberry Butter

April 11, 2017 by Annie Chesson 6 Comments

Blueberry butter. It's a thing. And it's upping breakfast's game hard. Not that this delicious butter has to be served with breakfast or anything, but...I'm just sayin'...smeared across a biscuit or across a toasted slice of cinnamon bread in the morning? Heaven. H-e-a-v-e-n. When I have stumbled across fruit butters in the past, they always seem to use jam as the fruit ingredient. I considered ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Breakfast, Brunch, Condiments, Gluten Free, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: blueberries, blueberry, blueberry butter, butter, condiment, fruit butter, spread, topping

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