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Homemade Green Chicken Enchiladas

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Homemade Green Chicken Enchiladas Recipe

 I’ve been living off these Homemade Green Chicken Enchiladas ever since I first came across the recipe. They’re so easy to make and a great way to use leftover chicken. More importantly, they’re super scrumptious.

The enchilada sauce adds the green color and a tangy flavor. Make them mild to hot depending on your pain tolerance, and they taste just as fantastic the next day as leftovers.

Plate with 2 chicken enchiladas, rice and beans.

What a great way to use leftover chicken. Add to that some Monterey Jack cheese, diced green chilies, a couple spices, and wow. It’s dinner time at my house. I can smell the oregano and cumin now smothered in that green enchilada sauce. …

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Really Good Turkey Meatloaf

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Really Good Turkey Meatloaf Recipe

All kidding aside, this Really Good Turkey Meatloaf is delicious. It’s not just great tasting with a little zing from the crushed red peppers, but it’s also healthy for you – an added bonus. Is there such a thing as guilt-free comfort food?

Really Good Turkey Meatloaf

Easy to make, this  recipe for Really Good Turkey Meatloaf is loaded with flavor and a healthy alternative to a beef/sausage meatloaf. To add to the flavor, there’s a great calorie-free BBQ sauce made by …

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Turkey Sausage Spaghetti Frittata

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Turkey Sausage Spaghetti Frittata Recipe

Perfect for any meal of the day, this Turkey Sausage Spaghetti Frittata tastes delicious and is easy to make. Enjoy the bold flavors of healthy turkey sausage combined with sauteed onions and mushrooms. Fresh zucchini and diced tomatoes keep this dish moist, while eggs, spaghetti, and cheese hold it all together.

Turkey Sausage Spaghetti Frittata

Let’s cook

Start by cooking your pasta according to the package directions. In another large skillet or dutch oven, saute the onions and mushrooms. I like to add garlic powder to just about anything I’m sauteing, simply because…

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Cheesy Potato Ham Chowder

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Cheesy Potato Ham Chowder Recipe

Perfect for those chilly nights, enjoy this delicious Cheesy Potato Ham Chowder made with shredded cheese, red potatoes, ham, and sweet corn. And might I recommend some bacon crumbles and more cheese on top? Look how pretty the diced green onions are. Pretty, but more importantly, great tasting.

Bacon sprinkles over chowder in blue bowl.

Hello there. I was inspired to make my Cheesy Potato Ham Chowder as summer faded away and the nights got colder. I love the Autumn transition, don’t you? This has been one of my all-time favorite recipes, which has earned it the coveted “VVG” in my recipe book. VVG stands for “very very good.” This was my mom’s system, and that always makes me smile. For the record, if the …

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Tilapia and Asparagus Foil Packets

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Tilapia and Asparagus Foil Packets Recipe

Baking fish and veggies in a foil packet doesn’t get much easier than this. Perfect for busy nights, try these Tilapia and Asparagus Foil Packets for an easy dinner that’s full of delicious flavors. The tilapia has paprika, salt, and a splash of lemon juice to perfectly compliment the tender white fish.

Meanwhile, fresh asparagus, yellow squash, and mushrooms get steamed in melted butter. Now imagine all this tasty goodness topped with bold beautiful little capers. It’s a quick and easy recipe to throw together while staying low calorie.

Making Tilapia and Asparagus Foil Packets really is easy. Get out the foil and either eyeball it, or measure out about 2 feet of foil per serving. Layering from the bottom up and off center on the…

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Onion Chicken and Veggies Foil Packets

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Onion Chicken and Veggies Foil Packets Recipe

Super happy to be sharing this healthy recipe with you, it’s one of my favorites. Low calorie Onion Chicken and Veggies Foil Packets is an easy meal to make and it’s great every time. Sealing and baking the meal in foil allows the chicken to stay moist and the bold flavors of the onion soup mix blends beautifully together with fresh veggies. The added bonus is that there won’t be much to clean up when you’re done…just throw the foil away. Yay!

Start with the foil

I eyeball the foil when I tear it out, but plan on approximately 15″ per packet. The idea is to load the items off center so that you can…

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Shredded Chicken Tacos

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Shredded Chicken Tacos Recipe

Is it Taco Tuesday yet? I love good tacos with lettuce, avocado, tomatoes, a sprinkle of cheese, and guacamole salsa! So good! Super easy! Totally satisfying! Shredded Chicken Tacos are the perfect meal to make when you have leftover chicken. In another post I talk about cooking the chicken. I used half of the chicken making Easy BBQ Chicken Sliders, and here we’ll use the other half to make Shredded Chicken Tacos. It’s nice to have something cooked that can be used multiple ways during your week so you don’t get tired of the same thing night after night.

Shredded Chicken Tacos

Taco Toppings

Wow…there are probably enough taco toppings to write a book about. Keeping it simple is my motto, so I buy fresh ingredients that I find locally and that are in season. It’s also about personal preference. I don’t care for raw onions, but you might love them. Listed are my personal favorites are, but please let…

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Turkey Spinach Stuffed Bell Peppers

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Turkey Spinach Stuffed Bell Peppers Recipe

You’ll love this easy-to-make meal of healthy turkey with spinach, brown rice, and salsa. Serve with a side of fresh avocado and Greek yogurt for a delicious meal. The Turkey Spinach Stuffed Bell Peppers can be made mild or hot, depending on your preference, and it heats up nicely the next day for leftovers.

Turkey Spinach Stuffed Bell Peppers

We all need to eat healthy, but it shouldn’t taste like warmed up cardboard. The turkey in the Turkey Spinach Stuffed Bell Peppers is moist from the salsa and flavorful from the peppers spices. I prefer using green bell peppers because they have a stronger flavor than the sweeter red, orange, yellow, or purple…

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California Chicken Salad 4-ways

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California Chicken Salad 4-ways recipe

I love a good chicken salad sandwich on a hot day and my California Chicken Salad 4-ways fits the bill. It’s great on toast, as a lettuce wrap, on a croissant, and as a salad topper.

Why 4 ways? It was lunch time and I only had one piece of sour dough bread left, so I decided to toast it with a little butter and put my chicken salad on top. YUM!

Come dinner time I wanted some more, but now what? Well, I found out how good it was as a lettuce wrap. I would have preferred romaine or butter lettuce, because of their shape, but I had iceberg so I went with it.

The next day I was thinking about how good the chicken salad would be on a buttery croissant and oh, yes it was!

Lastly, I had some baby spring mix lettuce, but I was out of my ranch dressing and thought it might be good using the chicken salad instead. Another success.

There are probably lots of interesting ways of serving this chicken salad, but I stopped when I realized I had eaten it all.

2 croissants filled with chicken salad.

Making Chicken Salad

Use fresh ingredients. It will look better, taste better, and stay down better. Ha! Ok, so I went the easy route and bought a cooked chicken from my local market. I started with the breast meat and added dark…

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Homemade Cheese Enchiladas

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Homemade Cheese Enchiladas

If you’re looking for an easy cheese enchilada to make from scratch that’s also healthy, you found it. I love serving these Homemade Cheese Enchiladas to my friends because they’re fool proof; hence they’re one of my “go to” recipes. I served these beauties up with some margaritas to my Bunco ladies last month when I hosted at my house. A fun night with amazing friends and great food. More on my menu later.

Homemade Cheese Enchiladas

These Homemade Cheese Enchiladas are made primarily with fat-free cottage cheese, so YAY! I’ll have seconds! If you’re working on cutting out fat, you can leave out the cheddar/jack cheese. In addition, you

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Turkey Chili

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Turkey Chili

I’m at the gym with some of my girlfriends working out (and talking a lot!) and it’s finally winter. The day was cold and windy and all I wanted for dinner was comfort food that would smell good into tomorrow. Hmmm…this sounds like I’ll be having Turkey Chili for dinner. I like this meal because I don’t always need the recipe to remind me of what I need from the store to make it, plus I keep some canned foods on hand for occasions like this. So, I stopped at the store on the way home for some fresh cilantro, avocado and the ground turkey, plus whatever else I thought I might need. I lucked out and ended up with extra cans of kidney beans. Yay! Time to start cooking.

Turkey Chili

In the recipe I mention you can substitute ground chicken for the ground turkey. I haven’t tried it yet with this recipe for NO reason at all except does ground chicken EVER go on sale? If any of you try it with the ground chicken (or see it on sale) please let me know how you like it. When it comes to food like Turkey Chili I like it to look pretty and colorful, so you can use one color bell pepper or three like I did. The red and yellow peppers are bit sweeter than the green, but that’s a win/win in my book….

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