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Overnight Crock-Pot Pumpkin Apple Butter

October 10, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

If you are from an area of the country/world that doesn't have apple butter, and you've never heard of it/don't know what it is, allow me to please explain to you the beauty of this delicious item. Apple butter. There's actually no butter, but "butter" is in the title because of the smooth, velvety spreadability of the final, pureed, slow cooked apple product. It's like jam in the way that you ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Breakfast, Brunch, Christmas, Condiments, Crock Pot, Fall Recipes, Gluten Free, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: apple butter, apples, breakfast, Condiments, Fall, fall eats, fall recipes, Gluten Free, Pumpkin, pumpkin apple butter, pumpkin butter, snacks, spread, Vegetarian

Hidden Veggie Marinara (great for kids!)

August 17, 2018 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

You may only enter this post if all children under the age of ten aren't in visual range of your computer screen. You must answer TWO secret questions to pass the mom test and prove that you are not, indeed, a small child. The questions follow: How many days has it been since you have showered? How many goldfish and/or other cracker crumbs are in the back seat of your car currently? If ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Condiments, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: food for kids, Gluten Free, Healthy, healthy sauce, kid food, marinara sauce, paleo, paleo recipes, pasta sauce, primal, primal recipes, recipes for kids, red sauce, Sauce, Vegan, Vegetarian, whole 30, whole 30 recipes

Watermelon Salsa

May 21, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

One million percent inspiration for this recipe goes to my bestie, Megan. I have two AMAZING best friends that I've known since I could barely read (aka forever), and to this day they are still two of my favorite people in the entire world. More family than friends at this point. Anyway, they both live in North Carolina, so we try and visit each other whenever we can. Recently, I went there and we ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Condiments, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Sides, Snacks, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: condiment, Gluten Free, Healthy, paleo, primal, salsa, tacos, topping, Vegan, Vegetarian, watermelon salsa, whole 30

Creamy Vegan Cashew Curry Sauce

March 2, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Hold the phone, I just died. THIS SAUCE GIVES ME ALL THE FEELS. It is... Impossibly creamy Rich Loaded with warm, spiced curry flavor Literally delicious on anything and everything your mind can fathom pouring it on Here's the thing - I enjoy dairy a lot. I like the richness that cream, milk, and cheese brings to a dish. So I was thinking that part of paleo and Whole 30 would be a ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Condiments, Gluten Free, Paleo, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: cashew sauce, cashews, Curry, curry sauce, dairy free, Gluten Free, paleo, primal, Sauce, Vegan, Vegetarian, whole 30

Curry White Bean Dip

November 10, 2017 by Annie Chesson 4 Comments

Are you ready for quite possibly the easiest little appetizer/party food/snack ever? This white bean dip takes TOPS five minutes to make. Everything just gets dumped into a food processor and whirled around to smooth, mouthwatering perfection. SO easy it’s not even fair! What will you use your extra not-prepping-complicated-appetizers-and-snacks time doing? Sitting down with a cup of coffee? ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Condiments, Game Day, Gluten Free, Snacks, Vegetarian, Weight Watchers Tagged With: 30 Minute Meals, Appetizers, bean dip, coconut milk, Curry, curry dip, curry powder, dip, Gluten Free, Healthy, snacks, Vegan, Vegetarian, weight watchers, white bean dip

Roasted Sweet Potato Hummus

October 6, 2017 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

Welp, I basically just had the best day of my life. Why am I posting this at 9:30 pm? Because I was busy having the best day of my life. Allow me to elaborate. Let us travel back to Tuesday morning. My doorbell rang, and there was a lady delivering flowers to me for my birthday. I take them from said lovely flower lady, go inside, and read the note. They are from my husband, and the note says for ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Condiments, Fall Recipes, Game Day, Gluten Free, Snacks, Vegetarian, Weight Watchers Tagged With: Fall, Gluten Free, Healthy, healthy snacks, hummus, nutmeg, sage, snacks, Sweet Potatoes, weight watchers

Twenty Minute Refried Beans

May 30, 2017 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

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

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

Homemade Green Enchilada Sauce

March 15, 2017 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

If you ever have the chance to make something homemade as a substitute for canned/jarred/premade ingredients, it is ALWAYS the best option! The only exception I can think of is Crescent Rolls. I've never had homemade bread as good as crescent rolls...there is some sort of strange black magic within those little cans that make the most delicious, buttery, and flaky bread that exists on this ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Condiments, Gluten Free, Vegetarian Tagged With: enchilada sauce, Enchiladas, green enchilada sauce, salsa, salsa verde, Sauce, tomatillo

Kale Pesto

January 30, 2017 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Pesto is just one of those things that makes anything taste awesome. If you are looking for a way to flavor up a boring dish, throw some pesto in there, people! The uses are endless...a few spoonfuls in your stir fry, a dollop on top of your bowl of soup, an addition to cream sauce, eaten straight out of your fridge with a spoon...ENDLESS! One of my personal favorite ways to use pesto is in a ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Condiments, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: Condiments, kale, kale pesto, Pesto

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Annie Chesson
I am a passionate Christian, proud Army wife, cooking addict, and mom to the sweetest baby boy ever! Join me in my journey to create delicious, flavorful food. More About Me...

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