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This super easy keto chicken cordon bleu gives me the wonderful flavor combination of the classic dish, without the hard work and kitchen mishaps. I created this recipe after a few failed experiments. When I tried to stuff chicken breasts with ham and cheese then bake them, the cheese managed to ooze out, leaving me with dry chicken and puddles of melted cheese on the pan. 😳 So I decided to coat the chicken breasts, bake them, then layer them with ham and cheese and return them to the oven just until the cheese is melted....

What is not to love about it, a great dish for a summer BBQ, picnics, or potluck and it comes together in under 30 minutes. Let me show you how to make it This tortellini pesto salad is not only great for picnics, potlucks,s or summer cookouts, but it is also perfect as a light lunch or dinner. So if you are looking for a new go-to salad recipe or a way to use up that leftover pesto, I highly recommend giving this one a try....

And if that wasn’t enough, this just happens to be made in ONE POT and is on the table in just over 20 minutes. It’s outrageous! GARLIC SHRIMP MAC AND CHEESE – A DREAM COMBO! The last time I wrote that I love Mac and Cheese so much it would be my Last Meal, I received alarmed messages from readers who thought I was on the way out. I quickly wrote back to assure them that I was only joking, that I was perfectly fine, and no I wasn’t secretly an incarcerated food blogger in the unfortunate position of having to start thinking about my Last Meal....

A weekend that I have no plans for. Bliss! I say I have no plans, but I’ll no doubt be tidying, doing the washing, gardening, thinking up and cooking some kind of Halloween treat for the blog, hoovering the car, and of course publishing my next hot smoothie recipe tomorrow. What I mean is, I have no plans where I have to get out of my tracksuit bottoms and hoodie....

Ready in just 20 minutes, they’re one of my favorite side dishes to make. They go well with so many main courses! Portobello mushrooms are amazing. Just like eggplants, they have a pronounced flavor and an almost meaty texture. I love stuffing them with fillings (these stuffed portobello mushrooms are great), and I also like simply grilling them. This is such an easy recipe. Bush the mushrooms with a tasty marinade, grill, and serve....

This easy side dish is ready in just 20 minutes. Pair it with a grilled main dish such as these grilled shrimp and you’ve got yourself the perfect summer meal! Zucchini is such a wonderful summer staple. I get so excited in June when the local farmer’s market starts carrying young, firm zucchinis! These days, in more and more places you can find this tasty vegetable year-round, so I do indulge in one of my favorite zucchini recipes - baked zucchini fritters - quite often....

Hot Buffalo Chicken Dip It will come as no surprise to you that this hot, creamy, cheesy, shredded chicken dip first came into my life during my time in the States. It will also come as no surprise to regular readers that it was love at first bite. While initially, the idea of chicken in a dip sounded kinda wrong, let me tell you that there is nothing wrong about how it tastes....

For Honey Soy drumsticks and bone in thighs, use this recipe. For boneless thigh and breast, use this recipe. Honey Soy Wings I’m generally a fan of any food you can eat with your hands and wings are pretty high up on my list. Add the word “sticky” and I’m all in! The key to making these really sticky in the oven without fussing with sauce reduction on the stove or cornflour slurries is to drain off the watery chicken juices partway through baking before adding the honey soy sauce....

This easy homemade butternut squash soup has got comfort written all over it. Thanks to an electric pressure cooker, this creamy soup can be on your table in no time. Serve with some crusty bread or crispy bacon Instant pot butternut squash soup recipe I only recently started cooking with butternut squash and I questioned myself for not trying it sooner. When my daughter who is now almost 2 years turned 5 months, I promised myself that I wouldn’t feed her any food from the jar....

This pressure cooker lentil curry is creamy, hearty and delicious. A vegetarian or vegan side perfect for a meatless Monday dinner, very comforting and filling. Serve with fluffy rice and warm naan bread. When I am too lazy to make or order Dal Makhani from a local Indian restaurant, I make myself a quick instant pot lentil curry. What’s not to love, it is quick, super creamy, comforting and delicious....

It’s also very easy to make! With a prep time of 15 minutes and a baking time of another 15 minutes, it’s ready fast and requires minimum effort. Whenever I bake with almond flour fathead dough, I’m amazed at how wonderfully versatile it is. This recipe is a very good example. It doesn’t taste like the real thing. But it’s very very good. When you make bread out of mozzarella, cream cheese, almond flour, an egg, and baking powder, you don’t actually expect bread....

It’s an explosion of big, BIG flavours – and it’s a really quick and easy recipe. Kung Pao Chicken Kung Pao Chicken is a Chinese takeout favourite that is mouthwateringly good and highly addictive – so it’s a good thing it’s easy to make at home so we don’t need to order takeout every time we crave it!! We love the strong flavoured sweet-sour-savoury sauce with the signature tingle of numbing heat from the Sichuan pepper!...

COPYCAT QUESO DIP “I MUST try fake cheese dip!” I declared to Jo when I visited her in Calgary, Canada, earlier this month. “We don’t have it in Australia!” She wrinkled her nose and looked at me dubiously, trying to figure out if I was serious. Once she realised I was, she lead me to the astonishingly large range of fake cheese dips in the corn chip aisle at the supermarket....

This is a terrific quick and easy dessert for assembling ahead then popping in the oven while you’re eating dinner. Just don’t forget the ice cream! Today’s recipe is brought into this world courtesy of Modi Apples, bright red balls with a hint of yellow full of crisp juiciness with fabulous apple flavour! Baked Apples recipe I’ve been munching on Modi Apples obsessively since I discovered them which, admittedly, was only a couple of months ago when I was asked to try them....

BONUS: I’ve also included directions for how to make this using store bought Massaman Curry paste, including my tip for the BEST brand to use! Feeling inspired to make a Thai banquet? Try adding Chicken Satay Skewers, Thai Fish Cakes, Pad See Ew Noodles or Thai Fried Rice to your menu! Massaman Curry Peanuts, coconut, aromatic fresh and ground spices, potatoes and fall apart beef. What’s not to love about Massaman Curry?...

It’s ready in about 50 minutes, and the leftovers taste great, whether reheated or cold. This frittata is so wonderfully flavorful! I make many kinds of frittatas, but this is certainly one of the best. Even the kids, who normally don’t respond to mushrooms too enthusiastically, like it. I also like that it’s so easy to make. Yes, you have to go through the extra step of cooking the mushrooms before adding them to the egg mixture....

This butternut squash / pumpkin soup is made without chopping a single thing. And it’s also made without using the stove or a pot. It’s creamy and the sweetness and flavour of pumpkin is more intense than classic pumpkin soup. And it takes all of FIVE MINUTES of hands on effort. 🙂 As soon as you see the preparation photos, you are going to “get” how I make this, so let me cut to the chase and show you!...

The glaze is optional - they’re excellent with or without it. And the leftovers are great too! I first fell in love with meatballs as a kid. Who doesn’t like spaghetti and meatballs! As an adult, I learned to appreciate them all over again when, as a mom to young picky eaters, I discovered that if it’s meatloaf they’ll refuse it, but if the exact same mixture comes in the shape of meatballs, they’ll gobble it up and ask for seconds!...

No false promises – these french fries really stay crisp! There’s nothing more deflating than going to all the effort of making your own fries from scratch, only to find they start losing crispiness before they even hit the table. Which is what happens if you use the standard way of cooking homemade fries – soaking in water followed by a double fry. Well, it’s taken me years but with the help of the impressively thorough french fry research documented in Kenji López-Alt’s The Food Lab, Chef JB and I have finally nailed down the recipe for the perfect homemade french fries....

Let me show you how to cook perfect basmati rice in your instant pot at all times. This recipe uses Indian pure white basmati rice. With this easy and quick recipe, you are guaranteed fluffy rice at all times. No soaking is required for this pressure cooker basmati rice recipe and you get tender, fluffy and separate grains of rice every time. Serve this basmati rice with coconut chicken curry or shrimp stir fry....