Lemon Dill Chicken Skewers

Lemon Dill Chicken Skewers are super simple weeknight meal to throw on the grill. Chicken marinated in lemon juice and zest, fresh dill, garlic, salt and pepper. Packed full of citrusy flavor.

With warm weather upon us, it’s time to fire up your grills. These Lemon Dill Chicken Skewers use simple ingredients which yield crazy, delicious flavor all grilled to charred perfection. This post contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my full disclosure here. **Update: this post and recipe have been updated since its original

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Pasta Carbonara

Pasta Carbonara

Pasta Carbonara is a simple, delicious pasta dish that the whole family will gobble up. Cream cheese, smoky bacon, parmesan and garlic all combine to create the most decadent pasta. *EDIT: The text and photos in this post have been updated since it’s original publication in 2011. There was a lack of text and the

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Crockpot Ravioli Lasagna

Now that school is back in session, I’m sure everyone is looking for quick and easy weeknight meals that the kiddos will love. And I have a new one to share that will be an instant hit. Growing up, our traditional 1st day of school meal was always lasagna. Back then, I didn’t realize how

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Applesauce Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

If you are a regular follower of my blog, you will already know that my little man turned two recently. We had a big yellow party for him the weekend before his birthday but I still couldn’t bear the thought of him not having another little celebration on his big day. I made chocolate cupcakes

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Sesame Shrimp Stir Fry

It seems like I am always on the hunt for quick, easy and healthy weeknight meals and I definitely found all those things in this Sesame Shrimp Stir Fry. It literally only takes 20 minutes because while the rice cooks, you can prep and cook the stir fry. Can’t get much better than that! We

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Banana Cake

Have a handful of speckled bananas lying around? Grab them and make this super moist, totally incredible banana cake with them immediately. 

Have a handful of speckled bananas lying around? Grab them and make this super moist, totally incredible banana cake with them immediately.  Ok, I have a weird confession to make. I love banana muffins, bread or cake but actual straight up bananas I could totally do without. I enjoy the flavor but the texture is

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Brown Sugar Balsamic Pork Loin

Now that summer activities have started up, life is getting busy busy busy! On Wednesday’s Joel has softball at 6:30 but has to leave the house by 5:50 and usually doesn’t get home from work until 5:30. That leaves very little time to get dinner on the table, especially with a busy toddler that wants

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Grilled Zucchini

I don’t like a whole lot of vegetables but the ones that I do enjoy I totally love. And zucchini is one of those vegetables. I could probably eat it every day. I love grilled zucchini but I usually had trouble preparing it. I used to slice it into bite size chunks, place it in

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Cucumber Dip

This cucumber dip is by far my absolute favorite dip EVER! And I mean it! It’s actually one of my favorite foods/dishes ever. It’s cool, refreshing, creamy and to die for slathered on a cracked pepper and olive oil triscuit. It is always my go to dip when I need a quick and easy crowd

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