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.
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Savory BLT Yogurt Bowl with Chili Oil (Low Carb)
Here’s a recipe for a savory yogurt bowl, with bacon, lettuce, tomato and a drizzle of chili oil on top. It’s a low carb breakfast recipe and has such unique flavors. It will definitely break you out of a rut if you’re sick of eating eggs for breakfast! You’ll love this yogurt with chili oil recipe.
…Spinach and Tomato Frittata
Making a frittata is one of the easier, more impressive, things you can do with eggs. With about 6 eggs, any combination of vegetables you like, and about 20 minutes, you can have a tasty brunch recipe or breakfast-for-dinner recipe on your hands. This recipe for a spinach and tomato frittata is an endlessly customizable palate for your enjoyment!
…Whole Roasted Chicken with Lemon & Onion
This easy roasted chicken recipe is a staple you must memorize how to make. All you have to is stuff is with lemon and onion, season it with salt and pepper and then roast it in the oven for 1 hour at 425F. That really could be the whole blog post! If you want, save the bones for bone broth. This roast chicken recipes together in just over an hour, and is an easy chicken recipe for weeknight cooking.
…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.
…Breakfast Sandwich Recipe (copycat: Fairfax from Eggslut)
These breakfast sandwiches are fancy! A copycat of the “Fairfax” sandwich from Eggslut here in LA, this breakfast sandwich recipe has a fluffy brioche bun, soft-scrambled eggs, fresh herbs, melty cheddar cheese, and homemade caramelized onions. You can make them individually or create a party-sized platter of them anytime you want to serve an impressive dessert.
…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!
…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.
…Bacon, kale and hashbrown egg bake (whole30, paleo, meal prep)
Here’s a breakfast recipe you’ll put on repeat: a bacon, kale and hashbrown egg bake that feeds a crowd. It’s so filling and hearty! This bacon, kale and hashbrown egg bake is a budget-friendly, paleo, and Whole30 breakfast. It’s also a great breakfast meal prep idea or a brunch idea for a group – it feeds 8. I even ate it for dinner last night!
…Seared tuna and cucumber zoodle bowls
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.
…Chorizo Breakfast Casserole
Here’s a chorizo breakfast casserole recipe – it’s a protein-forward breakfast recipe that’s filling, savory, and big on flavor. With hash browns, spicy chorizo, onions, and eggs all baked into one dish, this is one of my favorite make-ahead breakfast recipes! The secret is the frozen hashbrowns — it makes this hashbrown and chorizo breakfast bake come together so quickly.
…chicken shawarma dinner for two
This homemade chicken shawarma dinner for two is the easiest weeknight meal, and tastes like the chicken you get from the Halal cart in NYC. Using a simple spice mix, this chicken goes from tame to fame in just 20 minutes in the oven. Combined with some chicken-fat roasted onions + fresh veggies – and maybe some homemade hummus + pita – here’s your next easy, quick dinner for two.
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roasted salmon, kale, and lemon potatoes with green goddess dressing
This roasted salmon, kale, and lemon potatoes dish with green goddess dressing recipe is a deceptively delicious and Whole30, paleo, and AIP friendly. It’s a perfect healthy dinner party menu! This entree is loaded with protein, healthy fats, anti-inflammatory greens.
al pastor carnitas (whole30, paleo)
These carnitas are a mind-meld between traditional carnitas, with its slow-roasted, citrusy, buttery, fall off the bone tenderness, and al pastor, with its spicy and sweet notes. I love slow-roasted pork in all of its formations – Nom Nom Paleo’s kalua pork is on high rotation, and I’ve posted a previous Instant pot carnitas recipe – and we’re going with an Instant Pot again here for expediency. After going to Mexico City last month and eating al pastor tacos every day, I became determined to figure how to make al pastor at home. Alas, you may need a kebab-style rotating spit and gigantic amounts of pork to truly get the effect… so for me, this is the next best thing. If you too are trying to figure out how to make al pastor at home, this Instant Pot carnitas recipe brings al pastor-inspired flavors home.
ponzu roasted salmon with pear and sweet potato
Here’s a recipe for roasted salmon that will hit the spot any weekday or even any dinner party. Roasted salmon with ginger, sweet potato, Asian pear, and celery is such a great flavor combination. This healthy salmon dinner idea is a winner every time.
trove kimchi pork dumplings
Here’s a recipe for kimchi pork dumplings – although nothing will compare to the dumplings that you can get at a wonderful Chinese restaurant or handmade by someone’s grandma, it’s surprisingly easy to make kimchi pork dumplings at home. This is a copycat recipe from the beloved, now closed, restaurant in Seattle, Trove.
bun ga nuong
one of my favorite restaurants in seattle, ba bar, makes the perfect vermicelli bowl recipe. called bun, vietnamese cold noodle salads combine sweet, salty, savory, crunchy, and vinegar-y flavors into a really satiating and healthy-ish lunch. This is a copycat recipe of Ba Bar’s vermicelli bowl recipe – as best i could reverse engineer it!
ba bar copycat vermicelli noodle bowl
Gjusta steak and eggs
This steak and eggs recipe is a California take on a classic hearty meal. It can be made paleo, and the chimichurri is loaded with anti-inflammatory and alkaline ingredients like herbs, lemon juice, and spices. It comes together so quickly and is perfect for any meal. This steak and eggs recipe adapted from Gjusta in Venice, CA to the best of my memory!
apple cider braised cabbage
This apple cider braised cabbage turns a few cheap staples – apples, cider, cabbage, bacon, onions – into a really lovely dish. You can serve it as a side at a dinner party or make it for two as a main course.
Enchilada Soup
This enchilada soup recipe is super easy to make, is paleo and also Whole30 compliant. It’s made with yesterday’s Instant Pot carnitas — which makes having cheap/tougher cuts of meat doable in a short amount of time, and this recipe will feed a crowd!
