Revive Your Salad

Hi Friends!

I feel like with the long weekend it's hard to know what day it is. But whatever day it is, let's make it a healthy one!

One thing that has always been important to me is eating healthy. It's no secret that I love salads but on occasion, I end up sticking to the same comfortable recipes and I get sick of them. This delicious fall salad recipe was not only tasty and filling but also SO easy! Use it this season to breathe a little life into your normal salad routine.

Healthy Fall Kale Salad

Kale

1/3 cup sunflower seeds

Handful of roasted sweet potatos and halved cherry tomatoes  

1/2 avocado

Red Pepper Flakes

Roast the sweet potatos for 25 minutes on 375, after they are done mix everything together and enjoy with your favorite salad dressing!   

Heres to Wednesday! I hope both your coffee and will power are strong enough to get you through the day!  

These Are The Days

These are the days that we will tell our kids about, the days we will all too soon refer to as “the good ol’ days”. The days where we will say remember when we would sit outside and have dinner and just talk about our day as fresh cut grass wafts through the air.

There are many reasons I love to cook. Am I great at it? Probably not. Do I know what I’m doing? Only sometimes. But my main reason stems from something much deeper. Food is what you gather around as a family, as friends, as acquaintances that will end up friends before the nights end. Food is what unites us. Therefore, that’s why I love to make it and entertain a crowd.  

Sometimes I love a challenge when it comes to recipes but the only challenge with this one was my baby who wanted held the whole time I was cooking. I thought it would be great to share my delicious chicken recipe with you. It’s healthy and easy. 

Lemon Chicken with Herbs

1 whole chicken

1 tsp fresh thyme

1 tsp fresh rosemary 

2 lemons (zest from one)  

3 tbsp butter

1 tbsp minced garlic

1 small red onion

salt

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.  

Mix together the thyme, rosemary, garlic, zest and butter with a little salt. 

Put chicken in a roasting pan, cut up one lemon and stuff it in the cavity along with a couple onion wedges and a little bit of thyme and rosemary.

Brush the chicken with your butter mix, squeeze the other lemon over the chicken. Then just bake for an hour. 

Enjoy!

Pair this with Sauvignon Blanc

A Tasty Tart

Sweet, sweet summer time...

One of my favorite things about summer is cooking with all the veggies that are in season. Fresh green beans are everything this time of year and I never met a squash I didn't like. This exceptionally fun (and easy!) tart combines fancy with delicious and I had so much fun making it.  

One pack of puff pastry

One pack of cream cheese

2 zucchini

2 yellow squash  

Bag of carrots  

fresh herbs of your choosing

Preheat oven to 350. Press the pastery into the greased pie pan and put it in the oven for 10 minutes just to get it set. Then add the cream cheese to the bottom of semi cooked pastery and add fresh herbs. I used a vegetable peeler to make the strips and allmyou do is start off with a tightly wound middle and simply make circles in both directions to make this pretty rose look. Throw a little olive oil and garlic salt on it and bake another 30 minutes or so, enough to be golden brown. Best served warm!

Have a great Wednesday!