My dishwasher broke… AGAIN! Ugh. It's a mess. I've had a guy out 6 times this year for a 2 year old appliance. Utterly ridiculous! When you have no dishwasher you tend not to want to use a lot of dishes. Especially pots and pans. THAT was the motivation for [...]

There are actually 2 ideas here, each can be done alone, of course, but I wanted to share how I used a bit of Mom's garden surplus. First up… Fresh from the garden tomato sauce! This is the first time I've made my own homemade sauce from tomatoes, and I couldn't have been happier with [...]

Let me start this post off by saying I PROMISE not to turn GreenLiteBites into a burger blog. I've just been so obsessed with my grill and burgers are my go to fun food in the summer. That being said, I started thinking.. why do we always add flavor by adding things like cheese and [...]

I've been bored in the vegetable department lately. We tend to gravitate towards the same frozen things over and over, especially in the winter. Frozen broccoli, frozen peas and the occasional bag of MIXED frozen veggies for a treat! Note the hint of sarcasm. I'm tired of the microwaved vegetable side dish. So I fired [...]

I whipped this up the other night for dinner in a bit of desperation. I really haven't grocery shopped since before Thanksgiving and even then I was only buying stuff for the holiday. So my stocks are down. Once the leftovers were gone I really had nothing left to make for dinner. I scoured the [...]

I'm a total pesto newbie. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE pesto, but I just never make it. I always thought it had to be made a certain way, with pine nuts, tons of oil and fresh basil. Well, pine nuts are outrageously expensive, I don't like to go overboard on oil, and fresh basil [...]

I'm not sure if this is actually how you make tomato soup as I've never made tomato soup that didn't require a can opener and a red and white can. Regardless, this came out super tasty so why not share. Saturday I was staring at a plethora of tomatoes on my counter. Some on their [...]

When you join a CSA and have a few lazy days in the kitchen you end up being overwhelmed with vegetables. My fridge is busting at the seams with fresh produce and I needed to find a tasty a way to use some up. The first thing that came to mind..... SOUP! What's better then [...]

I made this simple salad on a whim today. Gina totally inspired me with her Shrimp Salad on Cucumber Slices. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to make something to serve on cucumber slices. It's a GENIUS idea! So that's what I did today with a single serve salmon pack. I [...]

This idea just popped into my head when I started thinking about what to make for dinner. I gotta be honest, I haven't gone grocery shopping since coming home from the beach. I just haven't been in the mood and I decided to use what I had on hand until my trip to the CSA [...]

Confession time... I have NEVER eaten Chard. Ever. I've seen it and always thought the colors where amazing but what in the WORLD do you do with it? I mean it's a big leaf for heavens sake! I knew joining a CSA would be a good way to get me over the hump [...]

OK, confession time. I have never bought barley before. I never even gave it a second look. I mean what do you do with it? Side dish? Stuffing? I'm sure it would work but the only way I've ever eaten it was in beef barley soup. Even then I wasn't that impressed. But I figured [...]

Tonight I took my first stab at Pigs in a Blanket (that's what we call stuffed cabbage up in North East Pennsylvania.) I've been wanting to make them since mom made a batch of hers a few months back. They are a perfect meal idea to jam pack full of healthy veggies. I'm going to [...]

Or I guess you can call them salmon patties. But being from Maryland, land of the crab cake, cake just sounds right to me. :) Here's the story. Yesterday after an insane morning run I knew I was gonna be hungry and I knew the husband was gonna want to order in or go out [...]

If you read my weight loss blog you may know I've been feeling a bit out of control lately. My house is in disarray as I prepare to move into an apartment wating for my new house to be built. I recently started a new job at a local University and I threw my back [...]

I could eat this kind of meal every day. The leftovers were immediately wrapped and placed in the freezer to stop me from eating more then one. ;~) The video is long as I make them from start to finish but don't worry you I've posted the recipe below. Here's the recipe! [...]

This was a quick lunch I made yesterday based on Mom's Pasta Fagioli (we pronounce it pasta faz-oo.) Mom never made it as a soup, although I've seen it that way plenty of times. I always thought of it as the quick pasta meal when we didn't have meat or sauce prepared. I love the [...]

Hey Mikey, He likes it! or should I say.. THEY like it. It's been awhile since I made a toddler AND husband approved meal. No complaints. No bargaining. No fighting. No leftovers! What's better yet? It's a cinch to make! Here's what I did. 4oz pomegranate juice 3 cloves minced garlic [...]

I'm sick. I hate being sick. Just about the only thing that makes me feel better is soup. Today I whipped this up with a few aging peppers, wilting cherry tomatoes and my last onion. I'm in desperate need of a grocery trip after my weekend away but I was too miserable to leave the [...]

As I say in the video this is my meatball version of a beef-a-roni classic. My goal was to get the toddler to eat a bit more meat and I succeeded! He loved this. It was the first meal in a long time where he didn't make a face when we sat down. Even [...]

I don't know what came over me this afternoon. I had a half pound of ground beef in the fridge, an empty stomach and a hankering to whip up something new. So I fired up the old interweb and saw this. Now I'm not going to claim I know anything about Moroccan food. [...]

Oh My WORD! I am SO happy with the way this meal came out. Inspired by a mushroom craving (mom is nodding her head in disbelief as I used to LOATHE mushrooms) I defrosted some boneless pork chops and and went to town. Honesty, I didn't exactly know what I was going to do. [...]

I don't know what I was thinking. I had a rough day. I probably shouldn't have recorded but I did anyway. For some reason I knew it would make me feel better. And it did. :) Now let me tell you [...]

Awhile ago I made Sweet & Spicy Black Bean Dip. Then... my blender broke (wonder why) and I created Really Quick Spicy Bean Dip while declaring my love of the dip that is made with beans. :) Well now I'm at it again! Using my new food processor I took my hand at a [...]

This was a quick idea after having nothing ready for dinner. I was fighting off the urge to order in and I needed to please both the husband and the toddler. Now that's no easy task! :~) Somehow I succeeded! The only thing the husband said was it could have used [...]