One Pot Indian Lemon Rice with Chicken Recipe — Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly, and Easy

I was tired. My kids were going away for the weekend. I wanted a nice meal but I didn’t want to have to work too had to make it. I thought to make a one pot chicken and rice dish. I like chicken thighs and drumsticks all ways, but my kids only like them with […]

Delicious Pink Fish Salad Recipe — Easy, Frugal, and Allergy Friendly

When I first married, my then husband complained about the food I made, that it was weird, and why couldn’t I “just make normal food”. When I asked him what constituted normal food, he didn’t have many answers beyond pasta with mince meat and tomato sauce (aka bolognese). So I called up his mother and […]

The Perfect Chicken Soup Recipe — Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly, Paleo, and Delicious

Growing up, in my house we never, ever, ever had real chicken soup. We had mushroom barley, “seaweed and fungus” soup (aka shitake mushroom and wakame Asian soup), onion soup, hot and sour soup, mulligatawny, etc. Just not “plain old chicken soup”. Nothing as “boring” as chicken soup. Our school lunch had “chicken noodle soup” […]

Lamb, Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Tagine Recipe — Gluten Free, Paleo, Allergy Friendly Moroccan Spiced Lamb Stew

Every once in a while I buy lamb, and when I do, I think back to one of the first times I made lamb that was so finger licking good I couldn’t stop eating it straight out of the pot. It was a tagine, a Moroccan stew, typically slow cooked in a special clay pot […]

Best Kid-Friendly Air Fryer Recipes: Delicious and Healthy Meals

Air fryers are all the rage these days, and its not hard to see why. They are very versatile and easy to use, and since they get the texture of frying without the oil, they are healthier as well. But as a parent of kids, it can be even more tempting. Because there is no […]

Laksa Inspired Curried Southeast Asian Fish Recipe — Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly

  I had some fish fillets in my freezer that I wanted to make for supper, but I struggle finding recipes for white fish that I find are flavorful enough and not just bland and palatable but not specifically appealing. Trying to get inspiration, I saw some lemongrass in my freezer and got the idea to […]

Homemade Copycat Peach Fuze Tea Recipe – Easy DIY Iced Tea

A bunch of years ago, I shared my recipe for my homemade version of Lipton’s lemon iced tea I grew up with. It is great and refreshing, but, to be honest, I didn’t remember to make it for a long time. Lately, my kids have been really obsessed with Peach flavor Fuze Tea and I knew […]

Fresh and Easy Mango Salsa Recipe — Gluten Free, Paleo, Allergy Friendly, and Frugal

I wrote in my recent post that I really, really, really love mangos. I don’t think I ever tasted something with mango I didn’t like. When my sister Violet was younger, she hated mangoes, and I never understood it, didn’t understand what there was to even dislike about this luscious fruit. She eventually “came to […]

Grilled Pineapple Cilantro Chicken Recipe — Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly, and Delicious

I love mango season. (What does this have to do with a pineapple chicken recipe, you ask? Read on.) Mangoes are one of my favorite fruits, along with sweet crunchy grapes, blueberries, and juicy and sweet peaches (summer is one of my favorite times culinarily, if you can imagine) and I wait for the prices […]

Cheater Chicken Pot Pie Recipe- Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and Easy

I’m a little bit obsessed with this recipe. I make chicken frequently enough but I invariably end up with leftovers. While I will eat the leftover chicken as is, depending on how much I have left over, I can get bored with eating it plain, and chicken pot pie is by far the easiest way […]