Creamy Tuscan Sausage and Kale Chowder with an Herb, Garlic, and Parmesan Dinner Roll

It was a cold, rainy day today, so I felt like making comfort food.  Aside from the apple cinnamon streusel muffins I made in the previous post, I made a creamy sausage chowder and some dinner rolls. I’ve made dinner rolls before, but haven’t been entirely satisfied with the consistency or flavor.  This recipe, though,…

Apple Cinnamon and Walnut Streusel Muffins with Bacon Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting

These little guys have all the components of happiness:  Bacon, Cream Cheese Frosting, Apple-Cinnamon-ness, Nuts, Caramel, it’s pretty awesome.  I based it on a blueberry streusel muffin recipe from the popular blog “I Breathe, I’m Hungry.”  You can check out the original HERE. Being more of an apple fan than blueberry, I have been craving…

Perfectly Crispy Chicken Wings with Parmesan Garlic Butter Sauce

The quintessential bar food, wings, is something that reminds me a lot of working at the cabinet factory when I lived in Upstate NY.  It was one of my favorite jobs I have EVER had, and one of the few I’ve held outside the culinary industry.  I think what made it so awesome for me was…

Baked Cauliflower “Mac” and Cheese

This has to be one of my all-time keto favorite foods now.  I am not even exaggerating.  Not only is it super cool looking because I made it with purple cauliflower, but it reminds me so much of my mom’s mac-and-cheese I grew up with.  Listen.  I know a lot of keto followers don’t like…

Stuffed Meatballs with Bacon and Parmesan Broccoli

Today, my husband, Steve, and I were pretty out of sorts.  I woke up at about 5 am with a panic attack (you know how it is, worrying about things you legitimately can do NOTHING about) and felt off for the rest of the day.  I was grumpy, which caused Steve to become grumpy.  Then…

Chicken Pot Pie

One of my favorite winter and fall dishes in the non-keto world is Chicken Pot Pie.  We have an amish market around here that makes STUNNING variations of this using these fantastic hand-rolled noodles, and that variety is one I have yet to keto-ize.  But I did decide to keto-ize the more traditional, Marie Calendar’s…

Chicken Kiev with Braised Baby Bok Choy

I’ll be honest, this was not dinner last night.  I’ve been slackin’ on posting on time.  I don’t mean to, but I’ve been busy with Jute trying to get her back on track.  So now, I’m trying to wake up early to pound out some of these recipes QUIETLY before the girls wake up!  Oh,…

Orange Chili Chicken and Broccoli

They’re forecasting snow here in New Jersey, and in this house, that used to mean takeout, because momma and poppa don’t go NOWHERE in crap weather unless the house is caving in.  This will, in fact, be the first snow storm for us where we are breaking that tradition, because apparently, Chinese restaurants don’t know…

Spaghetti Squash Carbonara Tossed with Baby Arugala and Served with a Garlic “Bread” Bun

So I’m going to make this post short, because I’m legitimately EXHAUSTED.  I had a long, drawn out day of cleaning and cooking and chasing a particularly peevish eighteen month old with a six month old strapped to my body.  The struggle was real today, folks, and I was soooo happy I decided to make…

Fried Tomato Portabello Stacks

Last night was glorious.  I’ve been itching to start experimenting with keto-friendly breading because fried foods have always been off-limits for me on more conventional diets I’ve been on in the past.  Not that anyone out there in internet land over the age of 28 knows this feeling…. I noticed, last night, as I was…

Smokey Chicken Spaghetti Squash Pancit

I have never been to the Philippines, or anywhere else in Asia for that matter, but from what I understand, it is home to a people after my own heart, because they looove them some noodles.  In fact, the vermicelli traditionally used in pancit supposedly symbolizes long life and good health (See that?! These people have SYMBOLS…

Creamy Chicken Zoodle Soup

Lately, I’ve been DYING for a good, hot bowl of chicken noodle soup.  Here in south Jersey, the weather this time of year has the habit of being cold, but with legitimately NO redeeming winter qualities like a picturesque, white, sparkling blanket of snow.  It shouldn’t even be physically possible for unfrozen precipitation to fall here….