Here’s a recipe for a Mexican flavor-inspired grilled branzino recipe. Branzino, also known as bronzini, is a Mediterranean fish that is small enough to grilled whole on a grill. It’s really delicious grilled with a slice of lime or lemon inside and then served with a flavorful salsa, since branzino is a fairly mild white fish. Make this recipe when you’re looking for a Mexican fish recipe!
…Lunch & Dinner Recipes
Main courses - heartier portions, proteins, pasta, rice, salad, and more
Keto Lamb Meatballs with Salsa Verde
Here’s a recipe for keto lamb meatballs, seasoned with cumin and coriander, and serve on a yogurt moat with salsa verde and fresh arugula. This lamb meatball recipe is a really good party appetizer, shared dish, or snack. This keto lamb meatball recipe is low carb friendly, with 5 net carbs per serving.
…Orange & Rosemary Roasted Salmon (Healthy, Easy, Low Carb)
This orange and rosemary roasted salmon recipe is so easy and you can use any citrus and any herb you want. I used cara cara oranges and rosemary, but you could use lemon and thyme, or meyer lemons and marjoram, or lemon/lemon verbena — the combos are endless. Make this super easy roasted salmon recipe when you want to prepare a flavorful salmon dinner that is impressive + requires little effort.
…Keto Friendly Chili Oil Noodles
If you’re a chili oil noodle lover but are trying to cut down on net carbs, here is a keto/low carb chili oil noodle recipe to satisfy your cravings. Using shirataki noodles and your favorite chili oil, this dish is spicy, cool, and crunchy with the addition of cucumbers and peanuts. One serving of these has 2 net carbs.
…One-Pot Indian-Inspired Chicken and Rice
This recipe for one-pot chicken and rice is inspired by Indian flavors, using garam masala as its primary seasoning. This chicken recipe comes together in about a half an hour and serves 4. Make this super easy one pan chicken and rice dinner any time you’re looking to extend your pantry ingredients and make Indian food at home!
…Melt-in-your-mouth Braised Potatoes
These braised baby new potatoes are tender, melt-in-your-mouth, dead-easy to make and versatile in so many ways. I love to make these braised baby new potatoes and serve as a side dish with chicken, or as part of a nicoise salad, with a fried egg on top, or on their own as a snack.
…Rigatoni with a Classic Vodka Sauce
This is a classic, indulgent vodka pasta sauce with rigatoni recipe made with butter, onions, tomato, vodka and heavy cream. This recipe would be perfect for date night, a family get together, or any time you’re craving a classic pasta with vodka sauce.
…Miso Chicken and Rice Soup
This recipe for a miso chicken and rice soup uses pantry basics to create a nourishing, warming, healthy soup. With ginger, miso, rice, and chicken broth, you can have an easy soup for 6-8 people ready in less than an hour.
…Healthy Chickpea, Tomato and Cucumber Salad
This easy, healthy chickpea salad is a great vegetarian lunch option! Inspired by fattoush, but omitting the croutons, this chickpea, tomato, and cucumber salad is endlessly scalable, perfect for meal-prep or anytime you need a quick healthy lunch or snack.
…Date Night/Valentine’s Day Dinner Menu
For all of you lovebirds out there, now would be a good time to start planning your Valentine’s Day dinner menu: February 14 is coming very soon. Here are some Valentine’s day dinner ideas, from a modern kale caesar to my foolproof method for cooking steak, to a roasted cauliflower dish, to a perfect flourless chocolate cake for dessert. Impress your boo on valentine’s day, or any date night, with this easy, foodie menu!
…Lemon, Leek, and White Bean Soup (Avgolemono)
This lemon and leek soup is inspired by avgolemono, a Greek lemon-egg soup that is light-tasting yet hearty and filling. In the wintertime, this avgolemono recipe is perfect for when you feel a little scratch in the back of your throat – the citrus is refreshing and the addition of egg to the broth makes it just creamy enough to help. I’ve literally made this soup twice in the past two weeks and it’s gotten a rave review from my whole family!
…Seafood Boil with Tajin Seasoning
Most seafood boils — which are composed of shrimp or langoustine or crab, alongside potatoes, corn and sausage, — call for Old Bay seasoning. This recipe, however, leans into Tajin for its seasoning, the beloved limey salty seasoning that’s super popular here in Southern California. Make this Tajin seafood boil anytime you’re hosting a summer dinner party and want to make a hearty seafood meal.
…Vietnamese-Inspired Cold Noodle & Pork Salad
If you are as obsessed with Vietnamese flavors as I am, you are going to love this cold rice noodle salad with caramelized pork crumbles and herbs. Sauteeing ground pork with fish sauce and brown sugar makes the pork taste salty, umami, caramelized and savory all at once, and combined with cold rice noodles and fresh herbs, plus cucumber and lime and some little gem lettuces, this is your summertime dinner savior.
…Spaghetti with a Fresh Tomato Sauce
This summer pasta recipe takes fresh tomatoes and creates a lovely, light tomato sauce, that’s just barely spicy, which pairs perfectly with spaghetti and fresh herbs. Make this spaghetti with a brothy fresh tomato sauce at peak tomato season and whenever you’re looking for a healthy pasta recipe.
…Instant Pot Spring Herb Risotto
Here is a recipe for risotto made in the Instant Pot, and served with a ton of fresh herbs. This easy risotto recipe is sophisticated enough for date night or entertaining, and also is affordable and easy to make on any weeknight. Make this Instant Pot herb risotto any time!!
…Fried Chicken Salad that’s “unhealthy”
This is a fried chicken sandwich that changed its outfit from a sandwich into a salad. It has all the crunchy, briny, fried-y bites of a fried chicken sandwich, but made slightly lower carb by eschewing the bun for increased salad greens. This fried chicken salad is perfect for summertime and is my new favorite unhealthy salad. I make this one all the time!
…Steak with Rosemary Butter – Foolproof
Here is a recipe for a perfectly seared steak with rosemary butter. This is the easiest, most foolproof steak recipe I could give you. All you’re doing is pan searing the steak and topping it off with butter and rosemary. Really, that’s all there is to it! This no fuss recipe also requires very little prep! Done in no time!
…Fresh Herb Spring Salad Perfect Any Time of Year
This is the perfect spring salad with sweet herbs and a creamy vinaigrette. It has cucumber and radish in it, too, so is crunchy and cooling. This perfect, basic salad recipe is great for any time of year!
…Spring Herb and Asparagus Soup
Here’s a recipe for a paleo cream of asparagus soup. It’s spring in a soup form — blending together asparagus, peas, mint, and onion and topping it with a bit of coconut cream that’s light and lovely and is dairy free. If you’re looking to take advantage of seasonal produce, make this spring herb and asparagus soup!
…A Soy-ginger glazed salmon recipe with green beans
This soy-ginger glazed salmon bowl recipe is so easy for weeknight meals and pairs perfectly with dry roasted green beans. To boot, you’re roasting everything on one sheet pan, so cleanup is easy! Make this soy salmon and green beans recipe tonight!
…Turkey chili verde (whole30, paleo, keto)
This turkey chili
3-ingredient Buttermilk Roast Chicken for Two
This is a roasted chicken recipe scaled down for two, with only 3 ingredients – chicken legs, buttermilk, and salt. While buttermilk is normally associated with fried chicken, here it is a tenderizing, marinating force for dark meat chicken. This buttermilk roast chicken for two is an easy, healthy weeknight dinner.
…“get your shit together” chicken soup
Ok. Putting on my tough love, Tony Robbins/Rachel Hollis/Melissa Urban-esque life coach hat here. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER! If you don’t know how to make homemade chicken soup, you need to figure out what’s going on with your life because that is a MISS. This chicken soup is the most basic, essential life skill 101 that you need to know how to make.
…Seared tuna bowl with cucumber zoodle
This Whole30 Friendly Seared Tuna and Cucumber Zoodle Bowl is your new favorite lunch! It looks fancy, but really comes together quite quickly. With cool and crunchy cucumbers, topped with savory tuna, creamy avocado, zesty nori strips and a ginger-lime-sunbutter dressing that will be your new favorite dressing – this tuna and cucumber bowl is the deconstructed sushi bowl of your dreams.
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