These Mexican Street corn potato boats are simple to make, use limited ingredients and are perfect for summer! Ingredients (Serving for 2, double recipe as needed) 5 golden potatoes 1 can of black beans 1 bag of frozen corn 1/2tbsp of mayo 1/4 cup red onion diced cilantro for garnish 1 lime or lime…
Category: Appetizers
Vegan Veggie Spring Rolls
Its spring and that means all the veggies! This recipe really encompasses the feeling of spring and the rainbow of veggies its packed with. This recipe is fairly inexpensive to make, packed full of nutrients and completely guilt free! It looks fancy but its actually pretty easy to make and only takes about 30 minutes…
Midwest Guacamole
In preparation of game day, we all need some snacks and my favorite snack is guacamole. This recipe is so easy to make and so addicting…you probably wont’ have leftovers. Ingredients 2 large tomatoes 1 sweet onion 1 bunch of cilantro 1 lime 4 soft avacados 1/4 cup of pickled jalapenos or 2 fresh jalapenos…
Cauliflower buffalo bites
Its almost time for the super bowl and sticking to a low carb diet isn’t going to be easy when you’re wanting all your snacks for game day…but these cauliflower buffalo bites hit the spot! They’re crispy, covered in sauce and honestly give me the good impression of chicken. These are super easy to make,…
Parmesan tossed Kale Chips
I’ll be the first to say…I don’t like kale. I try to avoid it as best I can ha. However, I’m breaking out and trying to new things! These kale chips don’t even taste like kale and are very addicting! Healthy, low carb and guilt free? Hmmkay now! These chips take less than 40 minutes…
Banh Mi chicken lettuce wraps
Not all sandwiches transfer perfectly into a lettuce wrap but this banh mi sure does! Instead of the traditional pork, I used seasoned chicken and then stayed with the traditional pickled veggies. Pickling your own veggies seems a little intimidating but it honestly takes like 10 minutes to do and a quick overnight marinating. This…
Baked mozzarella bites!
Ever have stuff in your fridge and think…what can I make with this?! I had some 80 calorie string cheese sticks in my fridge I needed to use up and there came the idea of mozzarella bites! This is a simple recipe, quick to make and they’re really good! Ingredients 3 mozzarella string cheese sticks…
Midwest Spinach and artichoke dip
I love this dip! My friends love this dip, my family loves this dip! This is a really simple recipe that takes no time to make and is cheap to make as well! Ingredients frozen bag of chopped spinach 1can of artichoke hearts ( diced) 1package of cream cheese 1 container of sour cream 1package…
Midwest French Onion Soup
I love French Onion soup…but I have never tried to make it. One of those things where I always thought this will be too difficult and take too much time. Well I proved myself wrong, I made it after work starting at 7:30pm and finished by 9:30pm…so if I had started it at 5pm like…
Oven baked chicken wings!
I originally was going to grill my chicken wings on my charcoal grill…but due to a windy afternoon I improvised with the oven…I do not regret this! These wings are crispy, juicy and honestly you’d thought they came right off the grill! Ingredients 1-2lbs of chicken drumettes or chicken wings Dry Rub seasoning: Garlic powder,…
Midwest Fancy 