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
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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
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
Apple Pecan Salad
This delicious Apple Pecan Salad is made with bacon, chicken (optional), and light balsamic dressing. Serve it as a side or add chicken and make it a meal! This is a copycat of Wendy's Apple Pecan Salad and I love to serve it along side a bowl of soup or with some homemade breadsticks to make it a more filling meal. Apple Pecan Salad I often get inspiration for recipes while eating out and a trip to Wendy's craving a juicy hamburger resulted in me ordering their apple, bacon, pecan View the Recipe
Weekly Meal Plan (52)
Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! Browse all of my free meal plans which include a grocery shopping list and tons of meal planning ideas including healthy and kid-friendly meals. 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 View the Recipe
Week #2 Vegetarian Meal Plan and Shopping List
A 5 day Vegetarian Meal Plan with easy and healthy vegetarian dinner options and a free grocery shopping list; perfect for cooking on a budget. The hardest part of 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 already have on hand, and you View the Recipe
Creamy Tomato and Spinach Tortellini Soup
Creamy Tomato and Spinach Tortellini Soup with fresh basil, diced tomatoes, and spinach is healthy comfort food that's easy and delicious! This recipe was inspired by my Creamy Tomato and Spinach Tortellini pasta that has been so popular. And if you love tortellini, I've got several other tortellini recipes. Tortellini Soup I'm a big fan of dinners like this that you can make ahead of time, or throw together in 30 minutes, right before you're ready to eat. That way I can buy what I 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
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
Weekly Meal Plan (45)
Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! Browse all of my free meal plans which include a grocery shopping list and tons of meal planning ideas including healthy and kid-friendly meals. 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 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
Weekly Meal Plan (35)
Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! Browse all of my free meal plans which include a grocery shopping list and tons of meal planning ideas including healthy and kid-friendly meals. 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 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
Weekly Meal Plan (30)
Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! Browse all of my free meal plans which include a grocery shopping list and tons of meal planning ideas including healthy and kid-friendly meals. 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 View the Recipe
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. If you love Thai food, make sure to check out my popular Pad Thai and Thai Basil Beef or Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps! 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 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
Cucumber Onion Salad
This simple Cucumber Onion Salad is one of our summer favorites. Perfect for picnics and potlucks or even for a yummy, healthy snack. I've come to learn that sometimes the most simple recipes, are the best. Take French toast, for example. Most of the ingredients are pantry staples, but together they make a simple piece of bread, magical! And how about this grilled chicken marinade. Super easy, and makes the tastiest chicken ever! I will happily add Cucumber Onion Salad to the list of simple, View the Recipe
