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Adventure Begins in the Kitchen

Kale With Shrimp & Quinoa

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Lemon & Crushed Red Pepper Kale with Shrimp and Quinoa

Butter, garlic, lemon, crushed red pepper..  Insert any green and you’ve just stepped up your veggie game.  Add a protein and a grain? And you’ve got yourself a go-to formula for a quick, veggie-filled dinner.

Sauteed Shrimp and Kale

Kale is my favorite garlic/lemon/pepper green because it soaks up seasonings so well.  And it’s one of the few foods you can eat an entire thing of and still feel good afterward.

Shrimp with Quinoa and Kale

And if you’re not in the mood for kale, shrimp, or quinoa, try combos such as broccoli, chicken, and brown rice or mushrooms, spinach, and pasta.

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{Grilled} Chicken Salad

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Grilled Chicken Salad Recipe

For someone who’s spent a lot of years talking about how chicken is oh so boring, I’ve been really into chicken lately.  Specifically pounding it with a meat tenderizer, generously seasoning it {with salt, pepper, and garlic powder}, and throwing it on an extra hot cast iron grill pan.

Cast Iron Grilled Chicken

There’s just something about that sear that amps up the ordinary.  And then I got to thinking..  If I already love ordinary chicken salad, would I love chicken salad made with grilled chicken even more?

What to add to chicken salad

The answer was yes.  Grilling the chicken doesn’t change the flavor of the salad dramatically, but it does add enough smokiness to set it apart from traditional chicken salad.  I also added a lot of stuff to my salad: grapes, nuts, celery, and onions.  And just enough mayo to bind it all together.

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Meyer Lemon Pudding

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Meyer Lemon Pudding_

Lemon curd is one of my all time favorite eats. The love stemmed from baking lemon meringue pies with my grandmother every Thanksgiving and Christmas from the time I could balance on a step-stool to reach the stove. My little arm would get so tired from stirring the thick and bubbly filling. And I’d always pretend I scraped as much of the filling as I could into the pie shell, but really I’d leave a fair amount in the pan so I could eat the rest with a spoon.

Meyer Lemons

Years later {and thankfully while living alone}, I discovered that lemon meringue pie filling and lemon curd were the same-ish.  I started buying a fancy brand of lemon curd and eating it by the spoonful, similar to peanut butter, for dessert.  But knowing how much butter is in lemon curd, it was a habit that needn’t continue.

Meyer Lemon Pudding 2

This meyer lemon pudding recipe is a hybrid between lemon curd and stirred vanilla pudding.  Tart like curd, creamy like pudding, but without any of the dairy that’s common in both.  Made with coconut milk and coconut oil, this dessert is completely dairy free and completely delicious.

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Homemade Lobster Roll

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Homemade Lobster Roll on Gluten-Free Bun

There’s a ninety percent chance that when I ask my roommate for a blog idea, he’s going to respond with lobster {or crab}.  Ninety percent!  You’d think at this point, I’d start answering my own question. But nope, I still ask. And every once in a while, when I’m making my more-than-weekly trip to the seafood department, I’ll spot lobster tails on sale and I’ll pick some up. Maybe this is all part of his master plan..

Broiled Butterflied Lobster Tails

This time he went a mini step further and suggested crab dip. I couldn’t for the life of me justify making/eating crab dip on a weeknight.  But what I could justify was a lobster roll, because.. I can always justify a lobster roll.

Homemade Lobster Salad for Lobster Roll

And there’s really nothing to a lobster roll.  Lobster {obviously}, celery, parsley, mayo, salt, and pepper – mixed and stuffed in a toasted bun {I used Udi’s gluten-free buns}.  A traditional lobster roll’s bun is slathered in butter and then toasted.  But calories aside, I’m rarely a fan of greasy bread.

For an even lighter version, I’m certain lobster salad lettuce wraps would be out-of-this-world good!

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