When spring is inconsistent in its warm sunny days, this creamy chicken soup with spinach and artichokes, together with some homemade bread, make a perfect light supper.
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Category Archives: Main Dishes
Sheet Pan Cajun Smoked Sausage & Vegetables
I love sheet pan dinners for their easy preparation and even easier clean-up.
This smoked sausage and vegetable combination is very easy, and very adaptable. Use your preferred linked-style smoked sausage like kielbasa, andouille, or chorizo links (not loose raw chorizo). A combination of vegetables of various colors makes for a delicious and healthy dinner. I like using sweet potatoes and/or butternut squash, red peppers, zucchini, and onion.
Start cooking the longer-cooking vegetables first, then add the quicker cooking vegetables closer to the end of cooking time.
I season this with a premixed Cajun seasoning, but you can also use a combination of salt, pepper, onion and garlic powders, thyme, oregano, smoked paprika.
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Indian Chicken Fried Rice
An Indian rice dish that is completely adaptable to any protein and vegetable combination you have on hand. Made here with chicken, zucchini, snap peas, red pepper, carrots, and onion.
This is similar in flavor to a biryani, but a simpler preparation, and packed with more vegetables.
For a low carb version, use cauliflower rice instead of basmati rice.
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Grilled Nashville Hot Chicken
Grilled dry rub chicken, then glazed with a spicy hot sauce. I paired this grilled chicken with a sweet Peach Caprese Salad, which offered a nice contrast to the spicy chicken.
If you are making sandwiches with the hot chicken, top with sliced dill pickles, if desired
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Cheesesteak Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
A delicious low-carb alternative to a traditional cheesesteak sub. You can add any of your favorite cheesesteak add-ins to the filling: onions, peppers, jalapeños.
I like to use this pre-sliced shaved beef steak. It makes for a quick and easy dinner prep. I usually give this pre-shaved meat a coarse chop so that there are no large slices of beef.
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Instant Pot Ham & Cauliflower Chowder
Still have leftover ham? Here is a delicious and healthy low-carb way to use up some of that leftover Easter ham. This ham and vegetable chowder has half of the cauliflower blended with the stock to create a creamy base and the other half chopped into small florets to add texture to the soup. Adding a little cream and cheese makes for a hearty delicious soup. You can cook this in an Instant Pot, a crock pot, or on the stovetop.
Still have more leftover ham? Here are a couple of other ham recipes to try:
Southwestern Ham & White Bean Soup
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