Easy Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts! Â – These beautiful brussels will make you forget your eating your veggies! Let’s start this new year off right with a beautiful, Â healthy, easy to make veggie dish! I spent the last two weeks in Maui with all my favorite people. Â I am in need of some serious veggies in…
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Easy Roasted Lemon Chicken with Potatoes and Rosemary
Easy Roasted Lemon Chicken with Potatoes and Rosemary! – A complete dinner in one dish including the potatoes! One Pan Easy Oven Roasted Chicken with Lemon, Potatoes and Rosemary! When I say easy, I mean really easy, super easy…like you won’t even remember making it, it was so easy! Â Â You will be sitting down…
Mojo Marinated Grilled Chicken
We love this quick grilled chicken!  A quick marinade made of easy to find ingredients served along side grilled red onions.  So simple but the flavor is so big! Mojo chicken baby!  An orange, a lime or two,  some cumin and garlic, so simple.  Give your chicky a quick 20 minute bath in that stuff and…
Hearty Beef and Mushroom Shepherds Pie
Hearty Beef and Mushroom Shepherds Pie! – A favorite around here ! I really racked my brain trying to figure out what to call this dish besides just ‘Shepherds Pie’. Â ‘Fabulous’, ‘Ultimate’ and ‘The Best’ were all contenders. But when I think of this dish…I think ‘Hearty’ all the way. Â In my world of lightened…
Thai Chicken Coconut Curry Skillet
This comes together really fast and best yet- all in one skillet. Â No clean up or fuss, just really good food… the way we like it around here! Â It is also Paleo and Whole30 friendly. Â Serve over rice or cauliflower rice if desired. But..it’s delicious just on its own, too! This is sooo out of…
Oven Baked Crispy Chicken Thighs with Garlic, Lemon and Scallion
Baked Crispy Chicken Thighs! Â A simple rub of garlic, green onion, lemon and olive oil is all it takes to bake up these crispy yummy chicken thighs! Be still my fried chicken loving heart! Â Check out these crispy little beauties! Â Baked on a rack to ensure that every last bite is all crispy and crunchy!…
21 Fast and Fresh Whole 30 Recipes!
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…
Herb Stuffed Turkey Breast Wrapped in Prosciutto
Herb Stuffed Turkey Breast Wrapped in Prosciutto is the perfect dinner when a full turkey is just too much!  Incredibly easy to make! I am a huge klutz…cute, but klutzy 🙂   I have the most horrible photo shoot set up.  I actually set my tripod in my sink and broke a lens when making this, so forgive…
6 Easy and Fresh Sheet Pan Dinners!
Get your dinner on the table quick with my Super Easy and Fresh Sheet Pan Dinner recipes! Roast Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner Savory roast chicken with potatoes (sweet or white will work!), carrots and herbs. Chicken Fajita Sheet Pan Dinner The king of all sheet pan dinners!  Grab some tortillas and your favorite taco…
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…
Sheet Pan Salmon Fajitas
Easy Sheet Pan Salmon Fajitas! Â A super fast and fresh way to get a healthy dinner on the table in a snap! Why didn’t I ever think of this before? Â It’s soooo good and soooo easy! It’s prepared exactly like my Sheet Pan Chicken Fajita’s but I swapped out the chicken for…
4 Fresh and Fabulous Burgers!
Burger central! Â My most popular burgers all in one place….one click burger town! Â You can add your favorite buns and condiments to get your summer started! Chicken Avocado Burgers – Ground chicken with chunks of fresh and creamy avocado mixed right in! Tropical Burgers – Chopped mango, peppers and seasoning. Salmon Burgers –…
Sheet Pan Roast Chicken Dinner
All the comfort and health of a roasted chicken supper with half the work and time!  Winner, winner, sheet pan dinner! I’ve become a bit obsessed with easy sheet pan cooking.  So far I have shared Sheet Pan Fajitas,  Crispy Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner and Chocolate Cherry Sheet Pan Cake. I threw in parsnips, carrots and…
Chicken Avocado Burger
It’s a big day for Laughing Spatula.  You see this is my 200th post!  I know, I know, it’s a pretty big deal.  Banners are flying, confetti is falling, the paparazzi are hovering outside. It’s like the freakin’ Oscars or something!  Red carpet, little gold men…oh wait, that’s just my neighbor.  He’s a bit…
Lime and Garlic Salmon
Salmon topped with lime and garlic then baked for a super healthy fast and fresh dinner.  Did I mention easy?  You can have this ready to eat in less than 30 minutes! I have become a morning cook. I like to get all my cooking done in the a.m. When I worked at a ‘real job’,…