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Impressively high in protein and fiber and flaunting some serious Mediterranean flavor flair, these powerhouse patties are fresh, filling, and exactly the meal you should make this week. My biggest, erm, beef with most of the quinoa burgers recipes I’ve tried is that they are so inexcusably meh. Even Trader Joe’s quinoa burgers don’t quite meet my expectations. If a recipe makes the sacred claim of being a “burger,” it best live up to the designation: a mighty-flavored, two-handed, can’t-stop-won’t-stop affair....

No need to draft a guest list, send out invitations, or stress over all of the impossibly perfect Pinterest ideas that make your thoughtfully planned soiree look like a low-budget PTA trivia night. Instead, throw some waffles on the iron, layer them with fresh juicy strawberries, and smother the whole shebang in fluffy maple whipped cream. These strawberry shortcake waffles take less than half an hour to put together and are perfect for a whole host of occasions such as:...

Need gift ideas? A cookbook with easy, nutritious, DELISH recipes would be the gift that keeps on giving! (Be sure to check out my complete holiday gift guide too.) The Well Plated Cookbook is filled with 130+ brand new recipes. They are the best I’ve ever created, and you love them too. This book has nearly 900 5-star reviews and counting (THANK YOU!). Every recipe has a gorgeous photo, so this book is a feast for your eyes as well....

While going on a “cleanse” isn’t exactly my style (short-term detoxes of the smoothie variety or otherwise have never been sustainable for me), I do love the idea of using the start of the week as a healthy reset, particularly since on Friday night, we had a family food/bar crawl through downtown Milwaukee that started with cocktails, reached a midpoint with tater tots and wings, and ended with ice cream....

As an elementary school student, I looked forward to the end of summer, because it meant the beginning of a new school year. Anything was possible. I had a brand-new Lisa Frank trapper keeper to prove it. As an adult, the transition between seasons is less defined, but still present. Although I no longer have a first day of school to signal summer’s end, I can sense the arrival of fall....

Loaded with blackberries, feta, and avocado, this salad epitomizes summer cooking. It’s fresh and healthy.It celebrates seasonal ingredients.Best of all, it requires hardly any cooking at all. How to Make Balsamic Chicken Salad Like Steak Salad, this perfect summer salad couldn’t be easier (or more delicious). Simply marinade, grill, slice, toss, and enjoy. The Ingredients Balsamic-Honey Marinade. One of the best parts about this salad is the chicken marinade which does double-duty as the final salad dressing too....

My first chocolate hummus review was at a friend’s house. She’d bought a container from Trader Joe’s (apparently it has a bit of a cult following), and I took a tiny bite out of pure curiosity. My verdict was a progressive one. First it tasted different, but not in a bad way. Then it was quite enjoyable. Then I started piling it onto my plate with what would probably be regarded as bad manners, but this was a chocolate hummus moment, and I was in it....

This recipe came to me by way of a friend’s mom in a time of culinary need. About to graduate from college with student loans, I had the creeping realization that, while I could bake a killer pan of Mexican Cornbread, making food that was socially acceptable for dinner was a skill I had yet to acquire. A small group of friends called our moms to help us put together a cookbook featuring recipes we loved from our own families that were cheap, semi-nutritious, and (this was key) basically impossible to mess up....

Forget the hockey puck pork chops you’ve suffered in the past. After perfecting Grilled Pork Chops, Air Fry Pork Chops, and Stuffed Pork Chops, I have another recipe for tender, saucy chops. Today, we’re talking about how to make crock pot pork chops. We’ve all been there: dry pork chops are a meal we’ve all suffered through at least once. It’s not easy to feign enjoyment when your chops require that you grind your knife across the tough, lackluster meat to score a bite....

As in…. I just ate peach pie for dinner. Twice. Oops. What? We’re out of cheese dip, and I’m the only one standing by the bowl? Oops. The wine is empty. Oops. If your last week (er, month) been anything like mine, “oops” moments are a familiar event. I’m not going to say I regret them. After all, why labor over a homemade fruit pie, then deprive yourself of enjoying a slice after lunch and dinner…and a small sliver at breakfast too?...

This collection of simple, flavorful, and comforting chicken recipes will help keep your evenings running smoothly and allow you to slow down to enjoy a healthy, delicious meal at the end of a busy day. Chicken is universally beloved and as versatile as an ingredient can be. Chicken is mild enough to take on any flavor and pass picky eater inspection. It’s fairly inexpensive and widely available. While being low in calories and fat, chicken is also high in protein....

These chicken wings are crisp on the outside and juicy on the inside. The moment they hit your table, everyone in the room is guaranteed a good time. Unless you are at our house, in which case the wings never make it to the table—we eat them right off the sheet pan (adios, Black Pepper Garlic Chicken Wings!). The last few times I’ve made homemade chicken wings (Korean Air Fryer Chicken Wings were the most recent), Ben has quietly devoured the entire batch right in the middle of our kitchen....

Over the weekend, Ben and I were lucky enough to host five of our best friends from college, along with two of their little girls. Since no guest in our house is permitted to be hungry, I had a few of the larger meals planned and stocked the refrigerator with some anytime, make-ahead staples (such as this Mexican Pasta Salad), and my friends brought the rest. Whenever mealtime hit, we’d pull everything off of the refrigerator shelves, pile our plates high with a delicious hodgepodge of different dishes, and take them outside to our backyard to feast....

A quick, simple pie crust recipe made with oil, flour, and a touch of sugar and baking powder, the only tools you need to make it are a bowl and fork. Bye bye working butter into flour until it looks just so.So long dirty rolling pin.DONE battle to coax pie dough into a circle of acceptable diameter and uniform thickness! To make oil pie crust, you stir the ingredients together, gather them into a ball, then (after a bit of refrigerating), press them directly into your pie dish or tart pan with your fingers....

Just like Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies, this easy recipe also happens to be made with no flour, no sugar (the refined kind), and is naturally gluten free. The only equipment you need to make these peanut butter beauties is one bowl and a whisk. You probably have every ingredient for the recipe in your pantry right now. If you are looking for a healthy dessert recipe that legitimately satisfies your sweet tooth, these peanut butter banana cookies are it....

Ben and I moved to a new city last Wednesday, and as much as I’d love to tell you that 48 hours later, I was wearing a cute apron pulling a steaming coq au vin from the oven, in truth, we don’t even have Internet yet (hi from Starbucks!). We’ve been madly shopping Labor Day furniture sales, instead of unpacking silly things like real silverware. We are living off of Qdoba (eaten with plastic forks), and I suspect that my aprons are packed in a low-priority box marked “Christmas décor....

This recipe is sponsored by Stella Cheeses. My husband Ben likes to remind me that I “can’t please everybody. You’re not pizza.” WELL, after enough times of hearing this echo from him, I finally took his advice… to the dinner table. Combining the most popular protein for family meals (chicken) with the flavors of (conceivably) the most popular food (pizza) will have kids and adults alike chanting “huzzah!” I could happily eat pizza just about any night of the week....

A planner to the core, my mind constantly wanders to my next errand, the next season, or cosmic questions along the lines of, “What should I be when I grow up?” Late August, in particular, is bittersweet, and it is the bittersweet times when I most struggle to be present. These past two weeks, I have felt a strange dichotomy of desires to: Bake a Peach Shortcake—a cherished treat of high summer—then don an oversized college hoodie to watch a football game....

In addition to my southern belle alter ego (the one who made you Cajun Shrimp and Grits, Baked Fried Chicken, and Bourbon Buttermilk Pie), a part of me also longs to live on a farm. In my idyllic country world, I raise my own chickens, grow my own vegetables, and can the bounty of my fields. I long to fill mason jars with sacred summer flavors, then stow them safely for a dreary morning in February....

Exceptionally moist and stuffed with a mixture of herbs and breadcrumbs that reminds me of Thanksgiving stuffing in the best possible way, this homey recipe will have you asking yourself why you don’t cook pork chops more often. Over the last few months, I’ve been tinkering with proteins that carry the (often deserved) reputation of being bland, rubbery, and dry. My goal: unlock the secrets to transforming them into tender, pleasurable, healthy meals....