Coconut Oil Cooking

Healthy Shrimp Scampi with Risotto

For those of you who are looking for quick dinner ideas, you came to the right spot! I’m a big advocate of meal prepping and taking food to work for lunches, however I make the effort each night to have a nice home cooked meal for dinner. Time can be a factor in deciding what to make for dinner, especially if you have little ones running around or get home from work late. This is where finding protein packed, quick meals, are essential to my daily routine. I chose to whip up shrimp scampi with risotto, which took me a […]

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Favorite Easter Sunday Recipes

Easter Sunday is officially around the corner and that means I’m planning away for my cooking festivities! I normally entertain for my family and my fiancé, so this means that lots of food is involved. Over the years I have acquired a lot of favorite recipes, some healthy and some not so healthy, which I wanted to share with you.I’m a big advocate of coconut oil, which I use as a replacement for butter or oil in each recipe. To use this healthy fat, simply swap out any recipe in a 1:1 ratio. Coconut oil is especially great in baked […]

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Healthy Fish and Chips

The thought of traveling over seas to exotic locations is a constant desire for most, however the actual thought of doing so can be quite unrealistic, thanks to full-time jobs, children, lack of free time, insufficient funds… The list goes on and on. This is only one of the many reasons as to why cooking so wonderful. You can “jet” over to the grocery store (sure, sometimes that can even be next to impossible to do, but it’s far easier than lugging three crying kids under the age of five through security of an airport), and pick up ingredients that […]

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