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Chicken Fajita Pasta | quick family meals

October 29, 2013 ·

Chicken Fajita Pasta is a healthy and quick family meal made delicious using a Kraft Recipe Makers meal kit!

After a long day of juggling two kids, their activities, naps (or no naps), the big question is ‘what’s for dinner tonight?’ While we often have big ideas of recipes to try, what we really end up needing is a quick, easy meal. We want something healthy too. This Chicken Fajita Pasta is just that – healthy, easy and delicious! It is made with fresh chicken, vegetables, cheese and a delicious sauce, which is actually my new secret weapon. This little secret of mine is Kraft Recipe Makers!

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Filed Under: Admin, cbias, healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes Tagged With: #kraftrecipemakers, chicken, dinner, easy, Mexican, quick, vegetable

Candy Corn White Chocolate Pretzels #SundaySupper

October 27, 2013 ·

Candy Corn White Chocolate Pretzels are a fun, easy, salty-sweet treat that is perfect for Halloween!

With Halloween only a few days away, I thought it would be fun to put a Halloween twist on one of my favorite holiday treats ~ Pretzel Kiss Candies. These treats are perfect for holidays or special occasions. They have that sweet-salty thing going on, which is wildly popular, and they can be decorated to coordinate with any occasion.

By using a candy corn instead of an M&M candy for the topping, Candy Corn White Chocolate Pretzels are a Halloween treat that is adorable, festive and fun for all ages. They are very quick to make, and so easy that the kids can easily get involved as well. The result is an easy Halloween treat that is always a crowd favorite!

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Filed Under: dessert, kid-friendly, Recipes Tagged With: candy, easy, halloween, holiday, pretzels, quick, snack

Frosted Pumpkin Cake

October 23, 2013 ·

Frosted Pumpkin Cake is a classic pumpkin sheet cake topped with cream cheese frosting. Delicious and made on the lighter side!

In case you haven’t noticed by now, I love baking with pumpkin! While it is always fun to get creative, there is something to be said about the classics. This Frosted Pumpkin Cake is absolutely a classic. The moist cake is filled with pumpkin and warm spices of cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice ~ the epitome of Fall pumpkin baking. Topped with a cream cheese frosting, Frosted Pumpkin Cake is a favorite classic combination…and it is made on the lighter side! …

Filed Under: dessert, healthy, kid-friendly, Recipes, vegetarian Tagged With: 12 weeks of Christmas Treats, cake, christmas, cinnamon, easy, entertaining, holiday, light, pumpkin, quick, whole wheat

Barbecue Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes from Alida's Kitchen

Barbecue Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potato #WeekdaySupper #FamilyDinnerTable

October 18, 2013 ·

Barbecue Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potato is a delicious combination of tangy-sweet barbecue chicken with a sweet potato, topped with green onions (and optional cheese). This super easy dish is perfect for a weeknight!

One of our favorite summer meals is to grill barbecue chicken, served with a side of sweet potato fries and a green vegetable or side salad. Barbecue Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potato is kind of a spin on the meat and potatoes of that meal, only simplified. Instead of peeling and cutting the sweet potatoes, just scrub, poke and bake. For the chicken, I typically utilize one of three go-to options: 1) The easiest option is to use any leftover Baked Barbecue Chicken; 2) Poach and shred chicken breast; or 3) Pick up a rotisserie chicken from the store and shred it. With whichever method is used, just toss the shredded chicken in a sauce pan with additional barbecue sauce to warm up and moisten the chicken.

Last Sunday, the Sunday Supper Movement partnered up with American Family Insurance as they launch their Back to the Family Dinner Campaign. The theme was big Sunday Supper meals that make leftovers to be reinvented into Weekday Suppers. Barbecue Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potato is one of my favorite recipes for using up leftover Baked Barbecue Chicken, and I am pleased for the opportunity to share this with you for this Weekday Supper!…

Filed Under: gluten free, healthy, main dishes, Recipes Tagged With: barbecue, dinner, easy, quick, sweet potato

Pudding-Filled Cookie Cups from Alida's Kitchen

Pudding Cookie Cups

October 16, 2013 ·

Pudding Cookie Cups are chocolate chip cookie dough baked in a mini muffin tin and topped with your favorite JELL-O pudding. These fun treats are easy to make and can be decorated for any holiday or occasion.

With all the decorations, the costumes, the pumpkins and the spooky edibles, Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. With Halloween only two weeks away, I wanted to share some fun treat ideas that are easy to make and great for kids. These could be for a Halloween party or simply to treat all those neighbor kids paying your house a visit….

Filed Under: dessert, Featured, kid-friendly, Recipes Tagged With: chocolate, christmas, cookies, easy, entertaining, halloween, holiday, pudding, quick

Honestly Good Meals

October 14, 2013 ·

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With Fall schedules in full swing, between school and activities for Adam, and Greta’s new favorite hobby of walking all over the place (with assistance, but yikes!), life is bizzzzy! Add in Mike traveling for work, and it can be downright exhausting. By the end of the day, sometimes it is hard to muster up the energy to cook a dinner for one. While I have a long list of quick and easy dinner recipes, it seems like a lot of work to cook for just me (especially since Mike typically does the dishes). It is important to set a healthy example for the kids, however, so frozen pizza (or just ice cream!) just won’t do.

For my latest dinner for one, I was standing in the frozen foods section at Target trying to find something quick and easy, but healthy too. One of my friends recommended Lean Cuisine’s new collection of Lean Cuisine Honestly Good meals. Having been underwhelmed by frozen meals before, I admit I was skeptical. But I was willing to take her word for it. Since they are full of 100% all natural, wholesome ingredients with a sauce you add yourself, it was worth a try!

There are six different varieties to choose from: Honey Citrus Chicken, Lemongrass Salmon, Pineapple Black Pepper Beef, Plum Ginger Grain-Crusted Fish, Pomegranate Chicken, Roasted Red Pepper Chicken.

I chose Roasted Red Pepper Chicken, and in just 5 easy minutes, I had…well look at the picture first, then I will tell you about it….

Filed Under: Admin, review Tagged With: dinner, easy, quick

Baked Barbecue Chicken ~ easy and healthy!

Baked Barbecue Chicken #SundaySupper #FamilyDinnerTable

October 13, 2013 ·

Baked Barbecue Chicken is a quick and easy recipe for enjoying a classic favorite, made in a healthy way. For some reason, Barbecue Chicken always makes me think of summer, but we enjoy this dish no matter what the weather is outside – even when there are several feet (!!) of snow on the ground! Perhaps it’s a little too early to be discussing snow…

The concept of Baked Barbecue Chicken is not new to the blog. I have made a few tweaks to the previous recipe to simplify the process and yield a shorter cooking time ~ all with great results. This recipe is very easy. You can make your own barbecue-style sauce (like this easy pantry sauce or this one if you like some spice). If you prefer, a store-bought sauce also works great. The recipe can easily be adjusted to yield more or fewer servings to fit your needs. I like to make plenty of extras because barbecue chicken is so versatile and leftovers can be transformed into something different for a quick and easy weeknight supper….

Filed Under: Admin, gluten free, healthy, main dishes, Recipes Tagged With: baked, barbecue, chicken, dinner, easy, quick, spicy

Snickerdoodle Cookie Bars

October 9, 2013 ·

Snickerdoodle Cookie Bars have the classic taste of a buttery, cinnamon-y snickerdoodle cookie in a quick and easy to make bar.

While I love to make (and eat!) cookies, the simplicity of turning a cookie recipe into a quick and easy to make bar is very attractive. Especially when life gets busy or you get a last minute request for goodies, it is so nice to be able whip the batter together, pour it into a pan and bake. No portioning, scooping, rolling required. Just bake, cut into squares and serve.

These Snickerdoodle Cookie Bars are a wonderful treat for the holidays, or any time. They are buttery and cinnamon-y, like their cookie cousins, yet can be made in minutes. I thought this recipe would be perfect for Week #3 of the 12 Weeks of Christmas Treats. Snickerdoodle Cookie Bars offer a little variety for your holiday cookie platter and are loved by many!…

Filed Under: dessert, Recipes Tagged With: 12 weeks of Christmas Treats, bars, brown sugar, cookies, easy, holiday, make ahead, quick

Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili #SundaySupper

October 6, 2013 ·

Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili is a chunky, spicy chili with a hint of sweetness that combines two superfoods into an easy, healthy, one-pot meal. {vegan, gluten-free}

As the temperatures get cooler, we tend to gravitate toward warm comfort foods, such as baked pastas, soups, and chili. This is one of the many reasons that Fall is my favorite time of year for cooking and baking! On Sundays, I love to make a big pot of chili or a pan of baked tortellini to have leftovers for lunches or easy dinners throughout the week.

While I have several favorite old standby recipes, I am am always looking to find new recipes to try. This Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili will definitely become part of the regular rotation. Sweet potatoes and black beans are two of my favorite superfoods that go so well together; there are lots of vegetables; there is plenty of spice to warm you up; and this recipe is very simple to make in under 45 minutes using just one pot. (which also means easy clean up!)

The theme for Sunday Supper this week is one pot recipes. Since one pot meals are typically easy recipes, this theme is right up my alley! The group is sharing recipes for slow cookers to desserts and everything in between that can be made in one pot or pan or dish, you get the idea. Be sure to check out what everybody made below. …

Filed Under: gluten free, healthy, main dishes, Recipes, soup, vegan, vegetarian Tagged With: black beans, chili, dinner, easy, low fat, quick, sweet potato, vegan, vegetable

English Muffin Grilled Cheese

October 4, 2013 ·

English Muffin Grilled Cheese sandwich is a fun twist on a traditional childhood favorite…and a clever solution for my picky eater!

Kids’ tastes in food are one of life’s great mysteries. Take cheese, for example. For the first three years of Adam’s life, cheese was one of his favorite foods. He had cheese broiled on an English muffin for lunch almost every day. These days, he has a ‘thing’ about cheese. He says he doesn’t like cheese, but sometimes he wavers. He still loves English muffins though. So I decided to try an experiment….