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Are you eating clean, or on a whole 30 this January? These sweet potato curly fries are a must-have for your meal plan! When Gabe and I got married, I hated sweet potatoes. My mom only ever opened a can of candied yams at Thanksgiving, and Gabe likes to bake and mash them with butter and brown Keep Reading

In honor of Thanksgiving day coming up this week, I wanted to share my favorite ever sweet potato recipe. It’s seriously the best! In fact, it’s so good my husband often asks for it as dessert. I remember not liking sweet potatoes as a kid, but now I realize that it was because a). we only ever had Keep Reading

Every week, with few exceptions, I cook a big pot of beans to add to dishes throughout the week - mostly in the form of homemade refried beans, but occasionally also baked beans or calico beans. And less often than I’d like, homemade hummus, especially roasted garlic and red pepper hummus. Now that Keep Reading

This sweet potato salad combines maple syrup and bacon with sweet potatoes for fun and delicious twist on America's favorite summer barbecue side dish! I’ve loved potato salad ever since I can remember. Classic potato salad with lots of mustard is just the best! But unfortunately, my family never Keep Reading

We love pizza. I mean, who doesn’t? Seriously though, if you don’t like pizza, you may not want to come over to my house for dinner. Like ever. We have a fabulous gluten-free pizza recipe, and I ain’t afraid to use it. Buuuuut, recently my son had dairy removed from his diet (hopefully temporarily), Keep Reading

I have a soft place in my heart for good ol’ fashioned potato salad. It’s not just that tastes good - it does! - that goes without saying. It’s the family memories that go along with it. For years, whenever we had friends over for dinner, a special occasion, or just Sunday afternoon lunch, mom Keep Reading

I love low carb/paleo versions of normally high-carb recipes.  It’s not that carbs are bad. Heavens no! I love my doughnuts, and no-bake cookies, and breads, and pastas. Let’s face it, a world without carbs would be a sad world indeed.  No, my thing with these low carb substitutions is that they Keep Reading

I’ve spoken a lot about how much we love beans as a super frugal staple in our meal plan, but for some reason, I’ve never bothered to record one of our favorite bean recipes. How thoughtless of me! So, here’s the thing, I love refried beans, but I don’t love the whole “refried” part. I mean, it Keep Reading