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.
…Lunch & Dinner Recipes
Main courses - heartier portions, proteins, pasta, rice, salad, and more
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 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 seafood boil 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 cold noodle salad 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
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.
…Steak with Rosemary Butter
Here’s a recipe for a perfectly seared steak with rosemary butter. This is the easiest, most foolproof steak recipe — all you’re doing is pan searing it and topping it with butter and rosemary.
…Spring Salad with Fresh Herbs
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 Asparagus, Pea, and Herb 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 creates a light and lovely spring soup that is dairy free. If you’re looking to take advantage of spring produce, make this soup!
…Soy-ginger glazed salmon and green beans
This soy-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 and cucumber zoodle bowls (whole30, pescatarian)
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.
…Bok Choy Shirataki Noodle Soup
This bowl of brothy noodle soup – that has both Vegan and Whole30 friendly versions – is warming, light, healthy and clean! If you’re looking for a perfect soup for when you have a cold coming on, when you’re looking for something revitalizing, or just want a nourishing bowl of yummy soupy goodness, this bok choy noodle soup is it.
…instant pot risotto with winter squash
I’m in love with my Instant Pot in the winter time – making hearty, warming meals in a fraction of the time is a lifesaver. Risotto is one of those things that can take forever on the stove – and your arm gets tired from stirring forever! This Instant Pot risotto is made with butternut squash, but you could make this Instant Pot risotto with any type of winter squash. In the hall of butternut squash Instant Pot recipes, this one is definitely up there. It would be a great Thanksgiving side dish if you’re looking to do something a little different this year!
Instant Pot Short Rib Ragu Pasta Sauce
Here’s an Instant Pot ragu recipe that, stand-alone, is Paleo and Whole30 compliant *and* is super filling, savory, and big on flavor. You can make this Instant Pot pasta sauce with tagliatelle, rigatoni, or zoodles, and it would be a delicious dinner. Cooking this short rib ragu in the Instant Pot majorly cuts down on the cooking time — your dinner will be ready in no time.
Chili Oil Noodles
Here’s an incredibly easy recipe for making spicy noodles at home – easier than takeout and so, so good. Using chili oil, soy sauce and pretty much any noodle you want – this spicy noodle recipe is delicious and cures that spicy carby craving you might be having.
…summer peach burrata salad
This summer peach burrata salad is luxurious, silky, sweet and tart. It’s naturally gluten-free and is just such a celebration of summer produce that you get at the farmer’s market. It comes together so quickly and is perfect for warmer weather. This summer peach burrata salad is perfect for a dinner party or just a date night in with your honey!
