A Healthy Life For Me

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Best Chocolate S’more Cookie

How to make the Best Chocolate S’more Cookies is the perfect combination of butter, sugar, dark chocolate and toasted marshmallows. 

Easy Italian Wedding Soup with Chicken Meatballs

This Easy Italian Wedding Soup with Chicken Meatballs is packed with healthy delicious ingredients. It is a lean, hearty recipe that is perfect for eating healthy. I love this recipe for meal prepping for myself.  I make individual containers to heat up for lunch or dinner.   I think this recipe is better on day two. […]

Chicken Meatballs

The easiest quickest and most delicious chicken meatballs. Perfect with a simple marinara sauce or used to compliment other recipes.  These meatballs are great for meal prepping.  Low calorie without sacrificing flavor. Packed with protein with a great macronutrient balance.  They are great for your healthy lifestyle. 

Radish Goat Cheese Sweet Potato Toast with Microgreens

Radish Goat Cheese Sweet Potato Toast with Microgreens recipe is the best way to enjoy a snack, lunch or serve to your friends as an appetizer. Take a break from the usual chips and try this fun, healthy and satisfyingly delicious snack.

What are Microgreens

What are Microgreens? Are you looking for something new and healthy to add to your stay at home menu? Try Microgreens! They will become your new food addiction! Microgreens are baby veggies. Vegetables harvested when they are 1-3” tall. Somewhere between a sprout and a green. What is the difference between a Microgreen and a […]

Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Popcorn Bars

These gluten free dark chocolate popcorn bars are over the top sweet crispy, chewy treat. Quick to make, quick to disappear. Why do you want to make these Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Popcorn Bars? Chocolate, popcorn and brown butter in one packages give you a bit of classic chocolate chip cookie flavor with your favorite […]

Gluten Free Blood Orange Cake

Gluten Free Blood Orange Cake is a sweet, tart and dense cake.  A delicious way to enjoy the seasonal and nutritional Blood Orange. Why do you want to make this Gluten Free Blood Orange Cake? I love blood oranges. They are beautiful, delicious and healthier than basic oranges. The red color of blood oranges is […]

Spring Mix Salad Recipe with Blueberry Pistachio and Champagne Dressing

This easy Spring Mix Salad Recipe with Blueberry Pistachio and Champagne Dressing is the perfect way to enjoy your vegetables. This recipe takes minutes to prepare and is nutrient rich, paleo friendly, vegetarian and perfect for plant based diet.  Why you want to make this Spring Mix Salad Recipe with Blueberry Pistachio and Champagne Dressing. […]

Cannellini Bean and Radicchio Salad

Cannellini Bean and Radicchio Salad is tangy, refreshing, crunchy and dense. Perfect on its own or a side dish to a grilled mean or fish.  If you are on a plant based diet, vegan, vegetarian, or gluten free this salad will work. Loaded with so many good for you ingredients, that nourish and satisfy.  I […]

Roasted Cauliflower Coconut Soup

I was quite surprised at how delicious this Roasted Cauliflower Coconut Soup turned out. There are limited flavors in this recipe. Cauliflower itself doesn’t have a ton of flavor, but adding the spices, and browning the cauliflower along with the coconut milk, really produces a delicious soup I am sure you are going to love. […]

Tuscan Braised Cannellini Beans with Sausage

Tuscan Braised Cannellini Beans with Sausage is a slow-cooked sauce, which produces beans with deep, rich flavor. Pair with Italian sausages for a homey, stick to your ribs satisfying meal.

Gluten Free Pumpkin Desserts

I thought I would share with you a group of my most popular Gluten Free Pumpkin Desserts. Perfect for you to serve this Thanksgiving.  No worries, no one will know they are gluten free, but you. They are all delicious and beautiful desserts. Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Squash Kale Date Salad

Squash Kale Date Salad is a wonderful tribute to everything fall.  A hearty delicious salad that is flavorful and nutritious.  Using fall squash, and the beautiful crinkled kale that is ending its season in the garden as the snow starts to fall.

Italian Almond Pear Cake

Italian Almond Pear Cake is the perfect way to enjoy fall pears.  A dense cake with the sweetness of fresh pears and the crunch of salty almond. You can serve this cake in the morning with cup of coffee or tea, or after dinner.  Pears are such a symbol of fall.  They ripen on trees […]

Apple Fig Baked Oatmeal Cups

Apple Fig Baked Oatmeal Cups are perfect for a fall over the top breakfast or dessert. This recipe has limited ingredients to highlight the fall fruit, and super simple to assemble. Perfect to pair with yogurt for brunch, or vanilla ice cream for dessert. While I was in Tuscany my group went on a hike. […]

Lamb and Pork Meatballs Stuffed with Goat Cheese

Lamb and Pork Meatballs Stuffed with Goat Cheese are a delicious twist on a classic favorite. Lamb, Italian sausage and hearty spices surrounded by a creamy goat cheese center.  Its like Italy wrapped around France in your mouth.  I know that sounds dirty, but it is delicious. You can make your own marinara here, or […]

Ribollita

Ribollita is a Tuscan bread soup that is hearty, nutritious and fills your belly full of good stuff.  It is a simple comforting dish that will feed an army. It is great warmed up the next day. It can ben frozen to enjoy later when you want something to warm you up. Dreaming about the […]

Arugula Blackberry Radish Feta Salad

Arugula Blackberry Radish Salad is spicy, creamy and sweet.  It will make your tastebuds very happy, and your body an immunity boost.  This is a great salad and you can easily add a protein. Grilled chicken or salmon would work beautifully! This summer I have been heading to Findlay Market every Sunday.  If you are […]

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