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Avocado Chimichurri

June 4, 2019 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

I mean, on a scale of one to ten, how acceptable is it to slather avocado chimichurri all over your body like lotion? A hard six? I'll take it. This chimichurri is THE actual best. We have had it twice on grilled flank steak and once on roasted potatoes, and all times it was life giving. Like...I-want-to-eat-this-straight-from-the-bowl-with-a-spoon level of life giving. It's not only THE ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Condiments, Gluten Free, Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: avocado, avocado chimichurri, chimichurri, cilantro, condiment, Gluten Free, keto, keto recipes, keto sauce, paleo, paleo sauce, Sauce, Vegan, Vegetarian, whole 30, whole 30 sauce

Caprese Stuffed Avocado Cups with Balsamic Reduction (Keto)

April 19, 2019 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Well this is literally my obsession above all else. I eat it for lunch at least half the days of the week, and when I'm not eating it, I'm missing it. It is creamy and rich from the avocado, cheesy, smooth, and delicious from the fresh mozzarella cheese, bright and acidic from the tomatoes + the vinaigrette, and slightly sweet from the balsamic reduction. It hits every taste bud in your WHOLE ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Brunch, Dinner, Gluten Free, Keto, Lunch, Salad, Sides, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: 15 minute meals, 30 Minute Meals, avocado, avocado caprese, balsamic reduction, caprese salad, easy dinner, easy lunch, Gluten Free, keto, keto recipes, quick and easy, Vegetarian, vegetarian lunch

Meal Prep Quinoa and Black Bean Burrito Bowls

August 3, 2018 by Annie Chesson 4 Comments

Let me just paint a quick picture for you here, friends. It's a busy week day, whether you are at home or at work, and before you know it, your stomach is grumbling, you look at the clock, and it's already lunch time. You scan your mind for what you have in your fridge/what you brought to work for lunch, and - ding! - you remember that you did an awesome, wonderful thing for yourself and meal ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Gluten Free, Lunch, One Pot Meals, Vegetarian Tagged With: avocado, Black Beans, burrito, burrito bowls, cilantro, Gluten Free, Greek yogurt, meal prep, meal prep burrito bowls, Quinoa, quinoa burrito bowls, Sour Cream, Vegetarian

Smashed Chickpea and Avocado

May 9, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Aaaaand welcome to my obsession. My love language. My crack = ^^^^. I made this recipe FOR-EVER go, before my Instant Pot series and before Whole 30, so it has taken me this long to actually get around to posting it because I had to finish those two things out first. Now that I am done with my Instant Pot series and done with my Whole 30 recipes, this delicious little baby FINALLY has its time in ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Gluten Free, Lunch, Salad, Sandwiches, Sides, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: 10 minute meal, 30 minute meal, avocado, chickpea and avocado, chickpea mash, Chickpeas, dip, Gluten Free, Greek yogurt, Healthy, one pot meal, smashed avocado, smashed chickpea, spread, Vegetarian

Spiralized Sweet Potato Taco Skillet

May 7, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Tacos are life. I've been having a consistent taco craving fooorr...I wanna say...approximately 15 years. It's never ending - I'm always down for a taco. Luckily, on whole 30, a taco craving is actually pretty easily satiated. There are a lot of healthy substitutes where you ditch the cheese and tortilla but still get your taco fix. Lettuce wraps = perf. Taco bowls (with cauliflower rice) = ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Whole 30 Tagged With: 30 minute meal, avocado, dairy free, Gluten Free, ground beef, Healthy, mexican, mexican sweet potato, one pot meal, paleo, sweet potato, sweet potato noodles, sweet potato taco, taco skillet, whole 30

Blackened Chicken with Avocado Cream

May 2, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

I think the world would be a better place if we could eat some type of delicious sauce on everything. Are you with me on this? Sauces make everything SO YUMMY. Whether it be a chipotle sauce on your sandwich, a cheese sauce on your burrito, a bearnaise sauce on your steak (we just went so fancy [except I had to google how to spell bearnaise, so I think that disqualifies my fanciness there]), or an ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, Lunch, Paleo, Whole 30 Tagged With: 30 Minute Meals, avocado, avocado cream, avocado sauce, blackened chicken, Chicken, chicken and avocado, Gluten Free, Healthy, paleo, whole 30

How To: Dice Veggies

January 23, 2018 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

Our second post in the new "How To" series: dicing veggies! Seems super basic, but I have had a surprising amount of people ask me questions about this, and I got multiple requests on Facebook for this "how to" when I was putting my feelers out for what people wanted me to post about! I'm not claiming that the dicing techniques shown in the video below are the technical ways you would be taught ...

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Filed Under: Cooking Basics, Extras Tagged With: avocado, bell pepper, carrot, cooking 101, cooking basics, dicing vegetables, dicing veggies, how to, how to cut vegetables, how to dice vegetables, jalapeno, onion

Turkey Burger Lettuce Wraps

February 14, 2017 by Annie Chesson 5 Comments

CHEESEBURGERS OCCUPY 99% OF MY THOUGHTS. All day long. I'm at work...cheeseburgers. I'm teaching a class and someone mentions lunch...cheeseburgers. Someone mentions the color yellow...cheese...cheeseburgers. Someone mentions reading...cheeseburgers. It does not have to be remotely relevant, but somehow my mind finds a way to get to cheeseburger. Thank you, little human growing in my belly, for ...

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Filed Under: 21 Day Fix, 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, Lunch, Sandwiches Tagged With: 21 day fix, avocado, burger, Gluten Free, Healthy, healthy burger, lettuce, lettuce wrap, turkey burger, turkey burger lettuce wrap

Roasted Garlic and Avocado Toast

June 17, 2016 by Annie Chesson 11 Comments

Stop what you are doing right now. STAAHHHPPPP. Go to the grocery store, pick up fifty heads of garlic, roast every single one of them, and bask in the perfection that ensues. Do it. Because just one head of roasted garlic will never be enough. I could quite literally eat an entire head of roasted garlic plain, just completely plain and on its own, and be super content with life. Super stressful ...

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Filed Under: 21 Day Fix, All Recipes, Appetizers, Christmas, Game Day, Lunch, Sandwiches, Sides, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: 21 day fix, avocado, avocado toast, Easy, Healthy, roasted garlic, toast

Avocado, Arugula, and Tomato Toasts with Easy Balsamic Syrup

April 26, 2016 by Annie Chesson 8 Comments

Sooooo....I realized once I was DONE editing these pictures for tonight's post that I literally just posted a "toast" recipe last week. Myyyyyyy bad. Gettin' a little repetitive over here. Once I had that realization, I did recall a faint memory of thinking "Okay, it's alright to post another toast recipe as long as I publish it at the end of the week so it's not back to back." Brilliant thought, ...

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Filed Under: 21 Day Fix, 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Dinner, Game Day, Lunch, Sandwiches, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: 21 day fix, arugula, avocado, balsamic, balsamic reduction, Healthy, snacks, tomato, Vegetarian

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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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