High protein egg salad made with cottage cheese and Greek yogurt is the perfect healthy lunch for meal prep and beyond. It’s creamy and satisfying with a lighter, fresher feel, and it’s absolutely irresistible! This high protein egg salad has become famous in my kitchen and it makes an appearance in my lunch rotation every […]
Author: Amara Catherine
Chicken Burrito Bowl Instant Pot
This Instant Pot chicken burrito bowl is made up of tender shredded chicken, perfectly seasoned rice, and black beans all topped with your favorite fresh burrito fixings. It’s easy to make, incredibly flavorful, and sure to be a hit with the whole family! If you’re searching for a weeknight dinner that’s as quick to make […]
Blueberry French Toast Casserole
You’ll love the delicious combination of thick-cut bread soaked in vanilla custard with juicy blueberries and a crunchy brown sugar streusel in this blueberry French toast casserole. It’s perfect for your holiday brunch table! I absolutely adore French toast for special mornings, but standing at the stove flipping individual slices when you have guests is […]
Apple Crumble with Oats
This warming, tender, and flavorful apple crumble with oats is a great dessert for holidays, other special occasions, or really any night of the week! Maybe you’re looking for a cozy fall dessert, or maybe you’re too intimidated to make a complicated pie with homemade crust, whatever reason you have for wanting something simple and […]
German Potato Pancakes
Here’s how to make perfect German potato pancakes (Kartoffelpuffer)! In this post you’ll learn the essential techniques for creating crispy, golden pancakes that are tender inside and shatteringly crunchy outside. Use your favorite potato pancake recipe, or feel free to use my go-to traditional German recipe with grated potato and onion. You can’t go wrong […]
Strawberry Party Desserts: 16 Make-Ahead Summer Recipes (Crowd-Feeding)
There is a very short window every year when strawberries are the specific kind of ripe that makes them worth building a dessert around. Not the winter strawberries that are pale inside and taste like slightly sweet water. Not the ones that have been refrigerated so long they’ve lost whatever they were trying to be. […]
19 Impressive Dairy-Free Summer Desserts (Dinner Party Worthy) Recipes
The dairy-free dessert has an image problem that it doesn’t deserve. The phrase conjures something diminished: a dessert that’s trying to be what it’s not, made with substitutes that approximate real ingredients without quite achieving them, eaten with the quiet resignation of someone who has accepted that good dessert is not for them. That version […]
Peak Summer Fruit Desserts: 23 Kids Ideas (Seasonal Eating) Recipes
Summer and dessert were made for each other in a way that no other season quite achieves. The heat creates the craving. The fruit is at its peak. The days are long enough that dessert can happen outside, which improves nearly every dessert by approximately forty percent through the simple mechanism of eating it in […]
Easy Egg Lunch Ideas: 21 Fast Recipes (Workday-Friendly) Meals
The egg is the most useful protein in your refrigerator and also the cheapest. It cooks in under ten minutes in any of its forms. It pairs with essentially everything. It is the ingredient that saves lunch on the days when there is nothing else, and the ingredient that elevates lunch on the days when […]
15-minute Chicken Nugget Lunches (20 Fast Ideas) Busy Schedule Meals
Let’s say something that cookbooks and food blogs don’t say often enough: chicken nuggets are a legitimate ingredient. Not a capitulation. Not a parenting failure. An ingredient. One that is reliably available, universally accepted, protein-rich, and versatile in ways that most people never explore because they stop at “nuggets and dipping sauce” and call it […]
