This Spicy Green Bean Stir Fry recipe is one of the easiest and most flavorful side dishes! So much flavor with just a few ingredients. 76 calories and 1 Weight Watchers Freestyle SP When you’re looking for a quick, flavorful side dish, nothing beats a stir fry recipe! I’ve now made these spicy green beans…
Easy Green Beans with Prosciutto & Pistachios
These Easy Green Beans with Prosciutto and Pistachios are a fantastic side dish for your holiday meal! So much flavor with so few ingredients and little effort! 91 calories and 2 Weight Watchers Freestyle SP At the risk of offended half of the Thanksgiving-celebrating world, I have a confession to make. Are you ready? I…
One-Pot Chili Lime Chicken & Quinoa
This One Pot Chili Lime Chicken with Quinoa recipe is a healthy, delicious weeknight dinner with almost no clean-up. Bliss! I’ll be honest – my motivation level for cooking this past week could rival that of a sloth’s. And that’s being unfair to the sloth! Really, I have no excuse. We just went on a…
Chicken Pasta Salad with Green Beans, Tomatoes & Feta Cheese
This healthy chicken pasta salad takes advantage of the season’s fresh green beans and tomatoes. It’s the perfect potluck salad for the summertime! 163 calories and 4 Weight Watchers Freestyle SP There are some meals that are meant to be eaten al fresco, and pasta salads definitely fall into that category. As soon as I…
Green Beans with Lemon & Toasted Almonds
Lighten up your summertime meal with these fresh and healthy greens beans, with the brightness of lemon and crunch of almonds. When I was a kid, our vegetable garden was nothing fancy. A few tomato plants, a row of strawberries and a pumpkin plant or two graced the modest square of dirt in our backyard….
Thanksgiving Recipes: From Turkey, Gravy, Side Dishes & Desserts
Pull out this fantastic list of Thanksgiving recipes and “how to” posts to make your Thanksgiving feast one that your family will remember for years. Thanksgiving in the United States is almost here and home cooks everywhere are making their shopping lists and checking them twice. Most people have their tried-and-true family recipes at the…
Fresh Green Beans with Bacon, Mushrooms & Herbs Recipe
Fresh green beans are tossed with crispy bacon, sauteed mushrooms, shallots and fresh herbs. This is a wonderful, bright side for your Thanksgiving feast. This post is a two-fer. If you are looking for a side dish for your Thanksgiving feast, then these fresh green beans will do the trick. Bacon, mushrooms, shallots and fresh…
Pasta in Lemon Cream Sauce with Chicken, Green Beans & Red Peppers Recipe
Well, the New Year’s resolution to eat healthier is going well. Yep, I made it to day 4 of 2010 before making a cream sauce. Excellent effort, wouldn’t you say? Of course, I managed to justify this indulgence by packing the dish with fresh green beans, red peppers, and skinless chicken breasts. Even as I…
Israeli Couscous with Grilled Summer Vegetables
My husband almost had to bring out the straight-jacket. He pretends he doesn’t know me when I start to do my happy-dance in the middle of a grocery store aisle. We were in California for a holiday and, as one must do when in California, we made a stop at Trader Joe’s. Why, oh why,…
Asian-Style Green Beans
My kids begged me to cook one of their favorite dinners last night – potstickers. Lucky for me, they absolutely adore the frozen ones from Costco. It’s actually rather amusing to watch them stab at their potstickers with chopsticks. They skills are improving, but occasionally a stray potsticker will fly across the table. It always…