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Sautéed Kale with Mushrooms and Tomatoes is the best healthy side dish. It whips up super quickly and easily and tastes fantastic! This also makes a satisfying vegetable main dish.

Sautéed Kale with Mushrooms and Tomatoes

Crescent Roll Veggie Pizza is a classic appetizer that is a fresh and delicious mainstay at any party! And best of all, it's super easy to throw together!

Crescent Roll Veggie Pizza

It's not a party without this classic 7 layer dip- it's one of those epic appetizers that people can't stop eating! Made with beans, guacamole, cheese, tomatoes and olives- you've got to make this for you next party!

Classic 7 Layer Dip

Sautéed Mushrooms in a wine reduction are an easy recipe that comes together really quickly. They’re a great way to use leftover wine!

Sauteed Mushrooms in a Wine Reduction

Need a delicious and satisfying detox meal? This Super Foods Kale Salad Recipe is just what you're looking for! And you won't want to miss my tips for making the kale much more enjoyable to eat raw!

Reader Request: Super Foods Kale Salad Recipe

Savory Sweet Potato Casserole

Savory Sweet Potato Casserole

Grandma's Baked Artichoke Hearts is one of my favorite holiday side dishes. This is such an easy recipe and can even be made ahead of time. This is made with Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs and garlic powder and is a delicious addition to your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner!

Grandma’s Baked Artichoke Hearts

These Baked French Fries are perfectly crispy and crazy easy to make! Made with potatoes, oil and seasoning salt, these are a great weeknight side dish!

Baked French Fries

This Mexican Bean Salad Recipe is a quick and easy throw-together salad that's full of great flavor! Made with beans, celery, cilantro, tomatoes, onions, peppers, lime and slices, this is a delicious side dish the whole family will love!

Mexican Bean Salad Recipe

Oven Fried Pickles are the game day snack that dreams are made of! They're super easy to make with dill pickle chips, panic breadcrumbs, eggs and a BBQ Ranch dip, baked to be perfectly crispy and seriously easy to make!

Oven Fried Pickles

Try this Beet Salad Recipe with Feta and Dill: it's an easy side dish recipe and is a great alternative to the usual dinner sides. Served cold with citrus and olive oil as a dressing it is a healthy and fresh option for any season!

Beet Salad Recipe with Feta and Dill

Greek Salsa

Greek Salsa

Honey Soy Glazed Carrots and Parsnips are a sweet and savory vegetable side dish that will please even the pickiest of palates! Made with carrots, parsnips, shallots, honey and soy sauce. This is the perfect addition to any holiday table (hello thanksgiving and Christmas!).

Honey Soy Glazed Carrots and Parsnips

Greens and Beans is a classic Italian recipe that's as delicious and healthy as it is comforting. Made with escarole, cannellini beans, chicken broth, garlic, crushed red pepper flakes and Romano cheese, you'll want to make this easy regional specialty again and again!

Greens and Beans

Marinated Vegetable Salad is a seriously delicious make-ahead salad option that will have everyone coming back for more! Made with cauliflower, carrots, celery, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and a seriously easy marinade.

Marinated Vegetable Salad

Italian Tuna Salad makes the perfect light and fresh lunch! This is a healthy (no mayo!) but satisfying option that is super easy to make and comes together in minutes so it's quick. Made with tuna, tomatoes, fresh basil and oregano, green onion, lemon juice and olive oil this will be your new favorite lunch option!

Italian Tuna Salad (No Mayo!)

What to do with that bumper crop of zucchini? Zucchini Pancakes! Made with Bisquick, Romano cheese, shredded zucchini, butter, garlic powder and onion, they are a super easy savory breakfast and are also a great make-ahead appetizer for a party!

Zucchini Pancakes

Pasta Pomodoro is a hands-down my family's favorite weeknight pasta! It's seriously quick and easy to make with the most simple ingredients like tomatoes, fresh basil, garlic and olive oil. We all fight for seconds in our house!

Pasta Pomodoro

Cajun Black Bean and Corn Salad is an excellent no-mayo salad option to bring to a picnic and a great meal prep option for a light lunch you can eat all week. Made with fresh grilled corn, black beans, tomatoes, peppers, green onion and avocado with a lightly spicy cajun lime dressing, this is a new family favorite recipe!

Cajun Black Bean and Corn Salad

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20 Minute Lemon Dill Baked Salmon Recipe

Meet your new favorite easy weeknight dinner: Baked Coconut Shrimp Recipe with Spicy Apricot Dipping Sauce. A little bit sweet. A little bit spicy. A whole lot of delicious.

Baked Coconut Shrimp Recipe with Spicy Apricot Dipping Sauce

Garlic Green Beans are a family favorite side dish recipe. They're super easy to make with a few simple ingredients like fresh green beans, garlic, butter and fresh parsley and are pretty quick to! Easy enough for weeknight dinner but special enough to serve for holiday dinners as well!

Easy Garlic Green Beans

Chili Lime Baked Salmon with Chunky Avocado Salsa is the perfect light and healthy dinner for a weeknight! Made with fresh, simple ingredients and tons of flavor that the whole family will love!

Chili Lime Baked Salmon with Chunky Avocado Salsa

This Chunky Avocado Salsa recipe is made with a few super simple fresh ingredients and is so quick and easy to whip up last minute. You'll be making this allllll summer long!

Chunky Avocado Salsa Recipe

Need some insanely delicious options to take your snacking to the next level? Check out these killer homemade salsa recipes! The hardest part will be deciding which to try first! These are perfect for Cinco de Mayo or simply snacking by the pool or on game day!

Killer Homemade Salsa Recipes

We all love a Caprese salad, but what's even better? Caprese Pasta Salad! Sweet tomatoes and basil, tender fresh mozzarella cheese and orzo pasta make a salad that you won't be able to stop eating!

Caprese Pasta Salad Recipe

These Cheesy Ranch Potato Wedges are downright addictive! Crispy on the outside and perfectly tender on the inside with a deliciously zesty ranch flavor and finished with melted cheddar cheese.

Cheesy Ranch Potato Wedges Recipe

Rich and Creamy Peanut Butter Pie is the dessert that dreams are made of and best of all, it's no bake! Oreo cookie crust, creamy peanut butter filling, swirls of chocolate sauce and plenty of mini peanut butter cups. You will make this again and again!

No Bake Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

Spinach and Feta Breakfast Puff Pastry Pizza

Spinach and Feta Breakfast Puff Pastry Pizza

Sautéed Asparagus with Parmesan Gremolata

There is nothing better than perfectly seared salmon and I'm going to show you how to get it just right! It's so easy to pan sear fish and I'm sharing all my tips and tricks to get that nice crispy outside and skin and perfectly tender inside.

How to Make Perfectly Seared Salmon | The Life Jolie Kitchen Basics

Wanna know my favorite way to get kids to love broccoli? Cheese Sauce for Broccoli! It's creamy, delicious and so easy to make. Your family will be fighting for seconds!

Cheese Sauce for Broccoli Recipe

Mom's Homemade Scalloped Potatoes are the perfect creamy side dish for a family dinner. With thinly sliced potatoes and onions, salt, pepper and milk with the option to add Romano cheese, these will bring everyone back for seconds!

Mom’s Homemade Scalloped Potatoes Recipe

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Grandma’s Baked Eggplant Parmesan Recipe

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Moroccan Chickpea Vegetarian Stew Recipe

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Spicy Dandelion Greens with Garlic and Capicola

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Savory Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

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Cheesy Broccoli Rice Casserole Recipe

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Easiest Ever Hot Artichoke Dip

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Clementine and Fennel Salad Recipe

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Parmesan Garlic Roasted Potatoes Recipe

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Pomegranate and Thyme Baked Brie Appetizer recipe

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Cabbage and Beans

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Easy Pizza Sauce

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Baked French Toast with Mixed Berries

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Vicky’s Easiest Ever Tabouli

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Grilled Peaches and Burrata Salad

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Broccoli Rabe and Ricotta Crostini

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Sauteed Broccoli Rabe with Garlic and Crushed Red Pepper

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Summer Berry and Burrata Salad

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Pea Pesto Flatbread with Asparagus and Shaved Pecorino Romano

Peas with Onions is the most easy side dish! With a few simple ingredients, this recipe is a snap to throw together on a busy week night but delicious enough to serve at a gathering or with a holiday dinner.

Peas with Onions

It's always a good idea to have an easy guacamole recipe up your sleeve and this one is seriously the best- fantastic, zesty flavor with an awesome secret ingredient to helps take the guacamole to the next level. It's a healthy snack for any celebration or game day!

The most delicious guacamole EVER.

This Artichoke Asiago Dip is the best easy recipe to throw together for a last-minute spring get-together. It only takes a couple of minutes to make and is fully of cheesy, delicious flavor! #ad

Artichoke Asiago Dip

This easy Balsamic Grilled Asparagus recipe is the absolute best way to cook asparagus! It only takes 15 minutes and cooks up perfectly on your BBQ for a simple, crispy, healthy and flavorful summer side dish.

Balsamic Grilled Asparagus

Here's an easy tutorial for how to make Basic Deviled Eggs. This recipe is the best simple method to make this classic, delicious appetizer. These are a great way to use up extra Easter eggs and are perfect to bring to a picnic or get-together!

Basic Deviled Eggs

Caprese Quiche is an easy breakfast or brunch recipe. This is simple, feel-good food at it's finest with mouthwatering tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. It's great to make ahead or eat right away and perfect to whip up for Easter, Mother's Day or Christmas Morning!

Caprese Quiche

This homemade Three Cheese Garlic Bread recipe is a super easy accompaniment to a delicious Italian meal (or any meal for that matter!). It's really quick to spread with butter, herbs and a ton of melted cheese and pre-cut so that it's even easier to pull apart and enjoy with dinner! This is a major family favorite!

Homemade Three Cheese Garlic Bread

This Open-Faced Egg Sandwich is the best easy recipe option to throw together in the morning. Made with toast, fried eggs, cheese and tomatoes it's a healthy and delicious way to start the day!

Open-Faced Egg Sandwich

This Date Night Fish for Two with a Lemon Sherry Pan Sauce is such an easy date night recipe option! It works great with any white fish and is the best way to use a few simple ingredients to create a healthy and delicious treat for dinner with the person you love. This is perfect for Valentine's Day!

Date Night Fish for Two with a Lemon Sherry Pan Sauce

These Peanut Butter and Banana Breakfast Cookies are a healthy and delicious grab-and-go breakfast option. They're seriously so easy to make without any flour or added sugar. These are the best, guilt-free way to start your day and are great for kids as well!

Peanut Butter and Banana Breakfast Cookies

This Olive and Gruyere Puff Pastry Tartlets recipe is one of my new favorite easy appetizers to throw together! Just four simple ingredients (including frozen puff pastry dough, olives and cheese) and they come together quickly for the holidays or any parties you may be having!

Olive and Gruyere Puff Pastry Tartlets

This Peas and Shrimp Salad recipe is a super easy side dish that's perfect for any holiday get together! It's served cold because it's creamy with sweet green peas (I totally used frozen!), shrimp, and cashews and water chestnuts which make it crunchy. Make this if you need a tasty and light Thanksgiving side dish!

Peas and Shrimp Salad

This Loaded Baked Potato Stacks recipe is such an such an easy side dish for a weeknight dinner. Thin slices of potato, seasoned and stacked in the cups of a muffin tin and baked in the oven; these are a tasty addition to any meal and they also make a delicious game day appetizer!

Loaded Baked Potato Stacks

Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice

Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice

This Roasted Corn Salsa recipe is an easy and healthy addition to a salad, meat based dinner entree or eggs in the morning. It's homemade with black beans, fresh corn, onions and peppers- I seriously love this so much I now keep a container of it in my refrigerator to use throughout the week!

Roasted Corn Salsa

This Summer Berry Dessert Crostini recipe is a light and delicious summer dessert. You can also call it dessert bruschetta. It uses ripe summer berries, mascarpone cheese sweetened with honey and grilled baguette. This easy dessert is super quick to make and a real crowd pleaser!

Summer Berry Dessert Crostini

This Tomato Salad is one of my favorite Italian recipes! It's super simple and easy to make. The minimal ingredients to highlight the star of the show: the tomatoes which are basically marinated and specifically their juice. I love this with fresh Italian bread for dipping. Click on the photo to get the recipe!

Tomato Salad

This healthy Shrimp and Quinoa Bowls recipe is delicious and very easy to make. It's full of delicious flavors and textures and makes a great lunch or dinner. Click on the photo to get the recipe!

Shrimp and Quinoa Bowls

This Open Face Tuna Melt recipe is super quick and easy to make. It's a simple classic sandwich that makes the most delicious lunch!

Open Face Tuna Melt

Parmesan Roasted Asparagus with Fried Eggs and is a super delicious and easy meatless recipe! The asparagus roasts beautifully in the oven and the eggs add a decadence that make this a beautiful appetizer or entree.

Parmesan Roasted Asparagus with Fried Eggs

Best-Ever Tomato Soup is such an easy recipe for homemade tomato soup. It's creamy and delicious and you can use fresh or canned tomatoes. It's pretty quick to make and freezes really well!

Best-Ever Tomato Soup

Egg and Olive Salad is so simple to make and tastes delicious! This recipe uses a few basic ingredients that we all tend to have on hand and is a great way to use up leftover Easter eggs!

Egg and Olive Salad

These Freezer Bean Burritos are so simple and easy to make and are delicious grab-and-go lunches or dinners. Our family loves them!

Freezer Bean Burritos

This authentic, homemade Marinara Sauce is the best recipe. It's really easy to make and you can use fresh tomatoes or canned (to keep things simple!).

Marinara Sauce

This Spinach and Feta stuffed bread is so easy to make and has the most delicious flavor. It makes a lovely holiday Christmas Tree appetizer or can be in the form of a regular stuffed bread any other time of year!

Spinach and Feta Stuffed Bread Christmas Tree

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This Minestrone Soup is a quick and easy recipe. You can take it in whatever direction you want and change up the vegetables to make it your own. Click on the photo to read more...

Minestrone Soup

Garlic Scape Pesto is a tasty twist on a regular pesto. If you like garlic, you have got to try this! It's great over pasta as well as on meat. Click on the photo to read more...

Garlic Scape Pesto

This Peppers and Eggs recipe is such a simple, delicious dinner or lunch. It combines a few basic ingredients and is very cost-efficient. I like to serve it hot or cold over fresh Italian bread. Click on the photo to learn more...

Peppers and Eggs

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This Asparagus and Leek tart has the most amazing flavor combination from the addition of Gruyere cheese and fresh herbs. It is quick and easy to put together and the results are delicious!

Asparagus and Leek Tart

Quick and Easy Roasted Potatoes | The Life Jolie

Quick and Easy Roasted Potatoes

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Grandma Hinz’s Apple Pancakes