Carlsbad Cravings
Lighter ONE POT Chicken Fajita Pasta has only minutes of hands-on cooking time! It’s smothered in cheesy, creamy salsa infused sauce bursting with your favorite fajita spiced chicken, onions and peppers! The pasta cooks right IN the sauce for simple prep, minimal cleanup, and extra flavooooor! Pull out a chair because this one pot dinner is about to become a regular at your kitchen table!
EASY Baked or Grilled Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Foil Packets bursting with juicy chicken and tender, flavorful potatoes and broccoli all smothered in cheddar and dipped in Ranch Crema! These chicken foil packets are SO addictingly delicious and a meal-in-one that are quick to throw together and even quicker to clean up!
These easy Baked OR Grilled Greek Beef Kabobs (Souvlaki) with tomatoes, zucchini, bell peppers and onions are crazy juicy, exploding with flavor and a complete meal in one, not to mention an impressive crowd pleaser! And the refreshing, creamy Whipped Feta Tzatziki Dip is positively heavenly!
Phenomenally juicy, flavorful Thai Orange Peanut Chicken (Grilled or Baked) is is one of my favorite sweet, tangy savory chicken recipes ever! The Thai Orange Peanut Sauce is so out of this world you will want to put it on everything!
15 MINUTE fresh and bright Avocado Caprese Chicken Wraps are your favorite summer salad in easy, portable wrap form! These phenomenal wraps are loaded with pre-roasted balsamic chicken, juicy tomatoes, milky mozzarella, creamy avocadoes, crunchy romaine, fresh basil and crispy bacon all cocooned in a soft flatbread for the ultimate healthy, satisfying lunch/dinner or grab and go beach/picnic/road trip meal!
Baked or Grilled Italian Mozzarella Chicken Foil Packets bursting with astonishingly juicy, flavorful chicken and tender, seasoned Potatoes, Carrots and Zucchini all smothered with Mozzarella Cheese! These foil packets are meal-in-one that are quick to throw together and even quicker to clean up!
Mildly sweet and tangy, savory Slow Cooker Honey Balsamic Beef is fall apart tender (literally!), crazy juicy, packed with flavor and smothered in the most delectable honey balsamic sauce you will be licking your plate! This wonderfully easy Slow Cooker Honey Balsamic Beef won’t heat up your house this summer and is great for crowds. It makes an ideal make ahead filling for sandwiches or serve it with rice and potatoes. Any way you serve it, this Honey Balsamic Beef is destined to become your new go-to beef!
Simple yet jaw dropping delicious Spice Rubbed Steaks with Herb Butter (grill or pan seared) with a caramelized seasoned crust and the most amazing rich and bright Herb Butter are destined to become a family favorite! The Steak Spice Rub alone is out of this world! I’ve included tips and tricks and detailed directions to achieve melt in your mouth, juicy, grilled or pan seared steak right in your own home even if you have never made steak before!
I hope you all had an awesome 4th of July! I had every intention of posting these incredible Tandoori Chicken Kabobs with Cilantro Yogurt Dip plus the best Spice Rubbed Steak with Herb Butter (coming soon) all before the 4th and was giddy at the thought of you feasting on them with your family and friends but sometimes life doesn’t go as planned. Instead, I have been in the hospital for over a week with pneumonia with almost constant fevers for over 6 days. Or in other words, a smelly, nauseous, hot and cold, pathetic limp noodle.
Typically, when I’m hospitalized with pneumonia (due to being immuno-suppressed due to having a lung transplant because of cystic fibrosis), I feel better almost right away and can go home a couple days later to continue IV antibiotics myself. But after almost 18 years of post-transplant pneumonias, my body isn’t responding as quickly to the now one IV antibiotic I still show sensitivities to.
I’m not going to lie. Its kind of scary.
Incredibly juicy and flavorful Old Bay Shrimp (Grill or Stove top) is so wonderfully easy and on your table in 30 minutes (20 minutes of which is marinating time)! Serve it as an appetizer or add some sides and call it dinner!
Honey Chipotle Chicken Tacos stuffed with wonderfully juicy, flavor packed Honey Chipotle Bacon Chicken (yes BACON chicken!), piled with crispy BLT Slaw and creamified with Cilantro Lime Crema! A flavor and texture explosion you will crave for days!
These easy Brazilian Steak Kabobs with potatoes, bell peppers and onions are so crazy juicy and exploding with flavor in every mouthwatering bite! Quite possibly the most delectable steak kabobs you will ever eat!
Transport you and your loved ones to Hawaii with Grilled or Baked Huli Huli Chicken! Its bursting with sweet and savory Hawaiian teriyaki deliciousness from a dynamite pineapple, soy, ginger garlic marinade that doubles as your sweet and sticky glaze (no double work!) and a spice rub that elevates this chicken to a whole new level of jaw dropping delicious. With the marinade, spice rub and glaze, this might just be the best Huli Huli Chicken ever. But I’ll let you decide.
Warning, these customizable, set it and forget it, LOADED Slow Cooker Italian Beef Sandwiches are crazy tender and a flavor and texture explosion in every mouthwatering bite! They not only make the easiest dinner or party food, but a super fun (make ahead!) sandwich bar to feed a crowd!
Obsessive worthy Sheet Pan Asian Chimichurri Salmon is wonderfully juicy, tender, and flavorful all baked with crisp tender snap peas and fresh sweet pineapple in ONE PAN for an easy, satisfying meal-in-one. that tastes totally gourmet! You will fall in love with this sheet pan wonder! (plus NEW VIDEO OF RECIPE!)
The BEST Greek Chicken Salad loaded with crazy delicious Pita Croutons and creamy guilt free Tzatziki Dressing! Its like a deconstructed gyro you will crave for days!
Incredibly juicy, tender, flavor exploding Greek Chicken made with an EASY marinade will become one of your favorite go-to chicken recipes! Its’ my husband’s all-time favorite marinated chicken and perfect to have on hand for salads, gyros, sandwiches, pasta, rice/veggie etc. It just makes everything better (and easier)!
The absolute BEST tender, juicy Grilled Steak Fajitas bathed in a tangy, rich marinade AND a spice rub for the most flavorful meat and veggies ever! Serve with a stack of warm tortillas, guacamole, sour cream, salsa and a side of rice/black beans and you might just have the most perfect Mexican meal ever.
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Budget friendly 30 Minute Korean Beef Bowls are my favorite last minute dinner! They are bursting with flavor and one of the absolute easiest meals you will ever make!
