21 Fast and Fresh Whole30 Recipes! – You won’t believe you are on a healthy eating plan while eating these fabulous dishes! 21 Whole30 Meal Recipes that are incredibly Fast and Fresh! What is a Whole30?  Whole30 is a short-term nutritional reset, designed to help you put an end to unhealthy cravings and habits, restore…
Salad recipes
Salads do not have to be boring! We love salads as a side but also as a meal!
Corn and Avocado Salad with Lime Honey Vinaigrette
I can’t get enough of this stuff! This Corn and Avocado Salad with Lime Honey Vinaigrette is just delicious- fresh, crunchy, and super flavorful. I first made this to go with my Grilled Mahi but found it’s just as yummy on it’s own.  We serve it with simple grilled chicken and it’s fabulous with Fajitas. …
Fresh and Easy Taco Meat
Easy to make and so versatile!  You will love this recipe for Fresh and Easy Taco Meat. Using fresh spices, crunchy fresh vegetables and any ground meat of your choice, this recipe works for tacos, enchiladas, soups, and more. Best part? It only takes  about 20 minutes. This is a staple in our house…
Rice and Cashew Salad with Lightened Up Asian Dressing
A nice little change up from your regular pasta or potato salad.  Served chilled,  the combo of crunchy cashews and water chestnuts are addicting!  And of course, easy.  It’s gotta be easy or it just doesn’t show up here! This recipe is from my Mom.  She made it up years ago and we have been making it ever since.  It is one…
Fresh Tomato Vinaigrette
This easy, fast and fresh vinaigrette boasts fresh tomato and herbs . Â A healthy and easy dressing! Looking for something different to kick up those #Paleo and #Whole30 salads you been munching on the last 8 days or so? Â This is so fresh and so easy! Throw all the ingredients into a blender, food processor…
Spinach, Bacon, Feta and Mandarin Orange Salad
This spinach salad is an old family favorite; Even the salad haters in our family LOVE this! That includes my son in  law who usually only eat things that are between 2 slices of bread. With feta, mandarin oranges, and bacon – who wouldn’t love it? This spinach salad is a winner for everybody, and…
Fresh Raspberry Vinaigrette
All dressed up in pink and ready to party!  Fresh Raspberry Vinaigrette – comes together in a minute and will brighten up your same old, same old salad! I am not sure what took me so long to make this – could have been the lack of raspberries in the fridge I suppose :)….but never the less – once…
Bean Salad with Tomatoes and Feta
Crisp Bean Salad with Tomatoes and Feta, all tossed together in a simple vinaigrette!  This dish is the first one to go when I serve it at BBQ parties! If I could go back in time, I would have watched my diet a little more.  Less cheese, less wine, less cheese, less wine, less cheese, less…
4 Healthy Vinaigrettes!
These 4 Healthy Vinaigrettes will keep you out of the salad dressing aisle at the grocery store! Â Super easy to make with tons of flavor. Â Not to mention incredibly affordable compared to store dressings ! 4 Healthy Vinaigrettes….10 ways to lose 10 pounds…. 8 ways to improve your love life….15 ways to keep from going…
Salmon Nicoise Salad
Bunco Garden Party! Bunco, a long standing tradition and a great excuse for girls to get together and well, do what girls do! Eat some good food, drink some wine and chat for hours. Not once, since I have been part of this group, has anyone busted out a deck of cards! I am…
Fresh Corn Salad!
A summer staple! All you need is fresh corn, peppers, maybe some onions…a little sour cream and you have a crunchy yummy summer salad! I used Polano and Red Pepper but you could substitute most anything. Avacodo would be nice too! I’m keeping this commentary simple…just like this salad! Ingredients 6 ears of shucked fresh corn 1 Poblano pepper…
Skinny Caeser Dressing
Personally, I love Blue Cheese Dressing…Marie’s Blue Cheese Dressing to be exact. However,  there comes a time when you have to make a change for the sake of your waistline and arteries….and up until now, I really couldn’t find anything that was a decent substitute. But this stuff is good…really good! 2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil in…
Watermelon Salad with Feta and Mint
If you have ever flown Alaska Airlines then you know they have the nicest Flight Attendants ever! Do these people ever have a bad day? I can’t possibly imagine serving 130 people stuffed into a tube and never getting a bit cranky! But these guys rock it…every day! (okay I’m a bit prejudiced having worked…
BLT Pasta Salad
Crisp, refreshing and easy! This recipe calls for store bought Ranch Dressing…yes, I said it, ‘Redneck Ranch’. Personally, I am not a huge fan of Ranch,  (because I am so cultured an’ stuff),  but in this recipe it works. I bought the higher end brand in the cold food section, I paid more, so I am sure it is…
Spinach, Feta, Bacon and Mandarin Orange Salad
I am twirling, I am skipping, I am dancing and singing and why? Because I love, love, love, my new camera! I bought a Canon Rebel T21 Kit with two lenses (the large lense is still in the box…someday, sighhhhh). I can hardly figure out how to take a picture with my new camera, but the pictures…