Savory pork sausage with herb flavored mushrooms and pops of diced apples stuffed into roasted acorn squash halves then topped with melty gruyère cheese, all for only 304 calories per serving! (7 SP) This stuffed acorn squash is the perfect taste of fall! I'm pretty sure I slept through fall. One second I was driving to the pool with my Jeep top down and the next I was standing in snow and thinking about Christmas presents. I'm not really sure what happened there...I might have missed fall ... continue reading...
Italian Orzo Soup
A healthy, hearty, veggie-packed, Italian orzo soup that is only 182 calories (4 SP) per serving! With pops of flavor from the fire-roasted tomatoes, this soup will have you saying "chicken noodle, who?" 'Tis the season for soups! My 30 Minute Feel Better Chicken Soup from last flu season had me aching (not physically, I'm not infected with anything....yet...) for some new go-to soup recipes for this winter. Pinterest is full of all the standards. Chili. Chicken noodle soup. Broccoli and ... continue reading...
Creepy Halloween Hand
A flavored cream cheese dip shaped into a creepy hand and wrapped in prosciutto to make a disturbingly realistic Halloween appetizer! Sometimes I worry about my brain and the crap it comes up with. This recipe is part of that crap. You should have seen my friend's faces the first time I made this and excitingly set it down in front of them and told them to dig in. No one touched it. They all grimaced and then looked at me like I was a psychopath.Once I finally got some of them to start ... continue reading...
Smoked Spatchcock Chicken
This smoked spatchcock chicken is a whole chicken, split open and flattened then smoked to crispy perfection in just 2 hours! **Post written by The BBQ Brothers. For all meat prep, grill set up, temperature and humidity control, recommended tools, and techniques for The BBQ Brothers recipes, check out The BBQ Brothers Beginner’s Guide To Grilling first, then get to cookin! Who doesn’t like chicken right?!? But we all have our favorite parts; some of us like the breasts, some like the ... continue reading...
Rice Krispie Treats Pumpkins
Easy and adorable rice krispie treats pumpkins dyed orange with a kit kat stem, M&M leaf, and cute candy faces! Perfect as a Halloween dessert! How cute are these little pun'kins? I love festive food, especially when it has a face. I'm like a child in that way. And too many other ways. But I digress.I recently bought candy eyeballs planning to make hocus pocus brownies, but ended up having enough time to order in the super pretty ones from Amazon. This left me with a surplus of ... continue reading...
