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Creamy Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad

Creamy Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad is completely delicious and comes together in just a few minutes. The creamy caesar pesto dressing shines paired with tender tortellini pasta. This is a family-favorite, served as a side dish or a main course. When the warm weather comes around I turn into a pasta salad junkie. I've shared tons of pasta salad recipes, (this Spinach Avocado Pasta Salad and this Teriyaki Bowtie Pasta Salad being two top favorites!) and lately I've been really into View the Recipe

Pesto Pasta Salad

Pesto Pasta Salad with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella and pesto. An easy summer side dish with only 5 ingredients! Happy Memorial Day! Hopefully you're spending the day with family, remembering loved ones who've passed on and enjoying beautiful weather and BBQ's! Side dishes like this Pesto Pasta Salad become staples throughout the summer months, don't they? When we're grilling burgers and hot dogs I'm always a fan of having something light and fresh to accompany them. Some of my other View the Recipe

Pesto Chicken Caprese Flatbread

Pesto Chicken Caprese Flatbread with shredded pesto chicken, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil, mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Lately I feel like I barely have time to keep my family fed and in clean clothes. Five O'clock creeps up so fast and I'm scrambling to think of a quick dinner everyone will love. I have a firm policy that the kids eat what we eat. Period. I'm not making more than one dinner. And to make this happen, I keep an arsenal 30-minutes dinner ideas close by so that dinner View the Recipe

Lemon Pesto Pasta

Lemon Pesto Pasta is a fresh and healthy pasta dish with spaghetti noodles with cherry tomatoes, zucchini, squash, kale, pesto, cheese, and lemon. There's nothing better than the start of spring and summer where you can find tons of fresh produce at the Farmer's market. My happy place! This dish is full of fresh veggies, and it's completely customizable-- just throw in what you have on hand. I love to use fresh kale in this dish, and then make some delicious Garlic and Parmesan Kale Chips View the Recipe

Pesto Veggie Pizza

Pesto Veggie Pizza has a homemade (no-bake) crust topped with pesto sauce, mozzarella cheese, and any of your favorite vegetables! If you've followed my blog at all you may already know how much I love homemade pizza. Let's face it, most American's love pizza, but by making it at home you control what goes in it! Homemade pizza is way better for you than take-out and you can totally make it restaurant quality! I'm constantly coming up with new pizza ideas (like this Garlic-Ranch Chicken View the Recipe

Chicken Pesto Sandwich

Shredded chicken salad mixture with homemade pesto, served with mozzarella, tomato, and spinach on a crispy roll. I just can't get enough of fresh basil during the summer time! There are too many yummy things you can make with it--like this pasta salad, or fresh pesto for this Pesto Chicken Sandwich or a million other yummy dishes! I like to make a large batch of pesto and keep it in the fridge or freezer so I always have some on hand! This sandwich is great for lunch or dinner time. It's View the Recipe

Chipotle Pesto Pasta

Chipotle pesto pasta with black beans, corn, pine nuts, avocado, and tomatoes is a family meal that everyone will love! Of two things I'm certain: 1. Carbs are my weakness, and 2. I could eat some form of Mexican food every night of the week! With that equation, this Chipotle Pesto Pasta is my kryptonite! Fresh chipotle pasta, combined with penne, tomatoes, black beans, avocado, corn and cilantro! Amen. This is my kind of meal! The Mister likes me to throw some grilled chicken on his to View the Recipe

Steak and Tortellini Salad with Creamy Pesto Dressing

This sounds like a fancy meal but right? Steak and Tortellini Salad with Creamy Pesto Dressing--my mouth is watering! Seriously this salad is SO easy to make and it has been one of our favorites! If you're looking for a good way to get your husband to eat his greens, this salad will do the trick. And if you're husband is like my mine, and doesn't consider a salad to be a complete "meal" you will prove him wrong with this salad! Mine used to think this, until he tried my Applebee's Oriental View the Recipe

Honey Mustard Chicken Salad

Honey Mustard Chicken Salad is crispy baked cornflake chicken served on a bed of greens and topped with a simple honey mustard dressing. I love salad recipes that also function as a main dish, and this honey mustard chicken salad recipe is one of my favorites! If you are in the mood for other main dish salad recipes, check out my Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad or Healthy Chicken Pasta Salad. Honey Mustard Chicken Salad I LOVE honey mustard sauce on basically anything, and this chicken salad View the Recipe

5-Minute Pizza Sauce

An easy homemade Pizza Sauce recipe made with basic pantry staples and ready to use in just 5 minutes. Before you make your pizza sauce, you should definitely consider making Perfect Pizza Dough! It's sooo easy. I also recently developed a recipe for Wheat Pizza Crust and it's equally delicious! I love to make this pizza sauce recipe for traditional pepperoni and cheese pizza. Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce Making homemade pizza is one of my favorite childhood memories! My mom used to View the Recipe

The Best 30-Minute Meals

A round-up of fast dinner ideas that are all 30-Minute Meals. This list of easy dinner ideas includes healthy, chicken, ground beef, low carb, kid dinners, and more. 30-Minute Meals Nothing beats dinner that you can throw together in just thirty minutes! This time of year can be incredibly busy and most people would do anything for a little extra time in the day. Thankfully, I have compiled some of my favorite 30 minute meals to take the pressure off preparing a fancy dinner! These fast View the Recipe

25+ Leftover Turkey Recipes

I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving! Leftovers from the Thanksgiving feast could be my favorite part. We usually enjoy leftover pie for days, I love leftover turkey because you can use it to make so many more meals throughout the week. From sandwiches, soups, and pastas, to hashes and pies--the options are endless! View the Recipe

Italian Pasta Salad

Everyone always loves this cold Italian Pasta Salad recipe made with a simple homemade Italian dressing, rotini noodles, tomatoes, olives, mozzarella, pepperoni or hard salami, onion, and pepperoncini. It's the perfect pasta salad recipe to serve as a side for a BBQ or potluck. Italian Pasta Salad This simple and classic pasta salad is the perfect side to just about any meal, vegetarian side (leave out the salami) or even as a main dish. I love a good cold pasta salad as a side with anything View the Recipe

Week 45 Meal Plan and Printable Shopping List

Week 45 meal plan and printable shopping list with easy and family friendly dinners so that you always have an answer for that nagging question, "What's for dinner?!" The hardest part meal planning is finding the ideas, and creating a shopping list, so I’ve done that for you! Click the link below to print out your shopping list, and you’re ready to go! **NOTE: You’ll notice the shopping list includes categories like “pantry staples”, and “spices”. Hopefully those are items you View the Recipe

25+ Pasta Salad Recipes

A round-up of more than 25 pasta salad recipes! This list has something for everyone! I love pasta salad because it seems like a perfect compilation of healthy and hearty! These pasta salads are filling in enough to serve as a main dish and they are yummy enough to bring as a side to a party. And best of all, they are so simple to make! I hope you find a few family favorites from this list of pasta salad recipes! Spinach, Chicken, Bowtie Pasta Salad with Teriyaki Vinaigrette from View the Recipe

Instant Pot Lentil Tacos

You really wont miss the meat in these flavorful, filling, and healthy Instant Pot Lentil Tacos! Ready in 20 minutes, and easily adaptable to use ingredients and toppings you already have, this vegetarian instant pot recipe is a WINNER. I'm a big fan of mixing up our dinners with some meatless meals. I'm not a vegetarian (far from it :-) ) but I also don't like my family eating heavy servings of meat every single night. One of my favorite vegetarian meals is black bean burgers -- so dang View the Recipe

Week 35 Meal Plan and Printable Shopping List

A 5-day meal plan with easy and family friendly dinners as well as a free printable shopping list so that you always have an answer for that nagging question, "What's for dinner?!" The hardest part meal planning is finding the ideas, and creating a shopping list, so I’ve done that for you! Click the link below to print out your shopping list, and you’re ready to go! **NOTE: You’ll notice the shopping list includes categories like “pantry staples”, and “spices”. Hopefully those are items View the Recipe

Roasted Butternut Squash Salad

Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with pecans, bacon, onion, dried cranberries, parmesan cheese and a simple balsamic vinaigrette. Hooray for cooler weather and all things FALL. This roasted butternut squash salad has been one of my go-to's for two years now (in close tie with this Brussels sprout salad). I'm a little obsessed with the flavor combination here. It starts with a bed of greens. I love serving it over kale, a spring mix, or spinach. You could use a combination of any of those, View the Recipe

Week 30 Meal Plan and Printable Shopping List

Thai Quinoa Salad

Quinoa tossed with a medley of fresh, crunchy veggies and drizzled with a delicious peanut sauce. Everyone always loves this fun and delicious and easy Thai quinoa salad. This Thai Quinoa Salad has been a favorite of mine for years! I first shared this recipe in January 2014, and, even though it already has great reader reviews, I thought it was in desperate need of being pulled out of the archives for those of you who haven't tried it yet! Not only is this Thai quinoa salad recipe View the Recipe

Healthy Chicken Pasta Salad

Healthy Chicken Pasta Salad loaded with spinach, mandarin oranges, craisins, almonds and parmesan cheese, tossed together with a light and healthy creamy citrus dressing. I'm trying to be better at making meal plans for the week, but it's hard during the summer months when our schedule is so much more relaxed. We play hard, and I often forget to make a dinner plan. We've been going to the pool a LOT. My two littles are becoming awesome little swimmers, thanks to our favorite puddle View the Recipe