yield: 6 servings prep time: 10 minutes cook time: 30 minutes This Southern girl loves casseroles! This dish is a favorite around here for sure. How can you go wrong with a casserole that has a creamy cheese-laden white sauce in it? • 1½ pounds ground beef • ½ cup...
yield: 4 servings prep time: 5 minutes cook time: 20 or 40 minutes This dish isn’t fancy, but it sure is flavorful and quick to prepare on a busy weeknight! Growing up, I ate a lot of Hamburger Helper meals. When I first got married, I gravitated to those easy,...
yield: 10 servings prep time: 10 minutes cook time: 3 to 4 hours Who doesn’t love a good slow-cooker meal? What I like about pulled pork is all the different ways you can use it: in lettuce wraps, on salads, and even on Barbecue Pulled Pork Pizza (here). The...
yield: 8 servings prep time: 10 minutes (plus time to marinate, if desired) cook time: 3 hours 30 minutes You won’t believe how easy it is to make fall-off-the-bone ribs at home! Don’t let the cooking time deter you from making these ribs; they’re worth it! My...
yield: 6 servings prep time: 10 minutes cook time: 30 minutes I grew up eating sloppy Joes on hamburger buns. For many years, I used canned sloppy Joe sauce to make them. Homemade sloppy Joes are so much better! This is another one of those meals that makes great...
Note: Most rice vinegars have sugar added to them, so please read the labels. The brand STAR’s rice vinegar has no sugar. INGREDIENTS: • ½ cup coconut aminos or organic tamari (soy) sauce • ⅓ cup Swerve Sweetener (Confectioners Style) • ¼ cup rice vinegar • 2 cloves...
INGREDIENTS: • 1 head Boston or Romaine lettuce • 1 pound organic ground beef • ½ cup sliced red and green bell peppers • ½ cup sliced onion • Guacamole • Salsa • Organic sour cream (if not dairy-sensitive) FAJITA SEASONING • 1 tsp. chili powder • ¾ tsp. paprika • ¾...
MAKES: 6 servings · PREP TIME: 10 minutes · COOK TIME: 20 minutes This is seriously one of the most versatile dishes ever. You can eat it just as it is, pile it on top of a taco salad, or put eggs in it and call it breakfast. The sky’s the limit here. I love to buy...
MAKES: 10 servings (5 ounces per serving) · PREP TIME: 15 minutes · COOK TIME: 8 hours, plus 10 minutes to broil There is something uniquely wonderful about pork carnitas. It is crispy while also being incredibly juicy and flavorful. That is a hard combination to come...
MAKES: 4 servings · PREP TIME: 10 minutes · COOK TIME: 20 minutes Puttanesca sauce was a staple on the menu at both of the Italian restaurants I worked in over the years. In Italian, puttanesca literally translates to “whore.” That was always a fun thing to explain to...
