The post I wrote for you guys called 10 Recipes You MUST Try was very popular. You enjoyed me sharing some tasty recipes with y’all…and you asked me for more. So, here ya go: a few more recipes that I’ve made that were top notch – so much so that I’ve made them multiple times. And if you know me, you know that if I make something more than once, it must mean it kicks butt!
So, here we go! Sit back and get your pinning button ready…make sure to add these to your Plan to Eat schedule and Pinterest boards ASAP. I also recommend you to browse the thor’s fork page for more cooking tips and ideas!
Homemade Alfredo Sauce from Creating Naturally
I love Alfredo sauce – and this is the BEST and easiest recipe for Alfredo I’ve ever made. It’s my go-to recipe now. Just thinking about it right now makes me want to slobber all over myself. When I make this, I actually lick the pot so as to make sure that I don’t miss any cheesy goodness left behind. Of course, there is burnt goodness left behind too because I always get distracted and burn stuff in my pot. Just keepin’ it real.
Spaghetti Squash Casserole from Tammy’s Recipes
I think I can honestly say that this is the best recipe for spaghetti casserole I’ve ever put in my mouth. Last winter I couldn’t quit making it – I made it over and over again. I purchased approximately 1 million spaghetti squash so I could make it as often as possible. I think I might be addicted to it. Is there a 12-step program for people addicted to cheese and meat?
Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake from Dinners, Dishes, & Dessert
Okay, for real. Coffee cake is just a way of being able to eat cake for breakfast without feeling bad about it. Seeing as how I had custard for breakfast this morning, you can guess that I don’t have any breakfast morals. Cake for breakfast? Yes please. And this one is AMAZING. I used whole wheat pastry flour and sucanat for substitutes. AMAZING. Best coffee cake ever. Did I say it was AMAZING??
Crispy Southwest Chicken Wraps from Mel’s Kitchen Café
I love wraps and I try to make them as often as possible. This one is hands-down the best wrap recipe EVAH. It’s quick and easy and I try to make sure I always have the stuff on hand to make it. It calls for good, whole foods. The best part is, it’s crunchy. I love crunchy food. I’m a crunchy mama – guess that makes sense, huh?
Pasta with White Bean Sauce from Kitchen Stewardship
Okay, so I already told you I like white sauce. This is white sauce too – but with BEANS. This recipe is fabulous for your grocery budget. You can add meat, or not. I love meat…but I don’t miss it in this recipe. If I loved beans before, now I love them even more. This is one of my favorite pasta dishes of all time. Beans, bean, the magical fruit! The more you eat, the more you…yeah.
Cheesy Green Bean Casserole from The Humbled Homemaker
No wait! Come back!!! Don’t run away! Here is a true story: I used to hate green bean casserole. It made me want to yak just looking at it. BLECH! Full of all that cream-of mess…but this recipe calls for sour cream and cheese – no cream-of soups in site. And man alive…it’s good. I could eat the entire dish by myself. I almost always double the recipe. This is my go-to recipe for potlucks. I make it every time…and pray that no one will eat it so I can bring it home and eat it myself. Sometimes I show up late just so no one will eat it.
Buffalo Crack Slaw from Atkins Diet Recipes
No, I am not on the Atkins Diet…and no, I don’t eat buffalo crack. But man – this dish is thebomb.com. It ranks right up there as one of my favorite dishes of ALL TIME. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve made it. Buffalo = hot and crack = addictive. If you don’t want to call it Buffalo Crack Slaw just call it Hot Hamburger and Cabbage…but, that’s boring. Who cares what you call it – just make it…yesterday.
Pancakes That Will Melt In Your Mouth from Sweet Simple Stuff
When we lived with my parents for a bit, this became a regular recipe. I would make it on Saturday for everyone to enjoy. When I saw the recipe somewhere, I had to click on the link. Because everyone says their pancakes are the best – but this isn’t a lie…they DO melt in your mouth. I love them. It makes a fairly large batch, so I would make them and then freeze the extras between sheets of cereal paper. Then when I wanted them, I’d just sock them in the oven until warm. YUMMO.
I used whole wheat pastry flour and coconut oil in substitution.
Marilyn Monroe Panini from Plain Chicken
We love sandwiches…and I love Plain Chicken’s blog! Subscribe! Her recipes are fabulous and very easily converted for the most part. I’ve made so many of her things – and every time I’m pleased. But this recipe, it’s just AWESOME. I make it a lot. It’s a nice quick lunch…and it’s something you can throw in the skillet when you forgot to plan lunch. Yum, yum, yum! I want one right now. I gotta finish this post!
Steel Cut Oatmeal with Bananas and Cobbler Topping from Lauren’s Latest
If you think you hate oatmeal, or even just steel cut oats, then you haven’t made this recipe. It’s soooooooooooooooooo good! It’s so good, you’ll think you’re eating dessert for breakfast. But as we’ve already established, I eat cake and custard for breakfast. Soooooo, trust me when I say this one is delish! I should know – I’m an oatmeal connoisseur.
I used sucanat and whole wheat pastry flour in substitution. Soooooooooo good!
Chocolate chip toffee cake can’t find recipe.
Thanks so much for letting me know, Jessica! I added an updated link.
— Julie, HH Team
How do you incorporate the THM lifestyle and making your own bread? I follow THM but would like to start grinding my own flour and making my own bread products with that. When making bread do you just count that as an E? We are not super strict, just like the healthy benefits.
I recently started to follow you and want to thank you. Thank you for being real, honest and down to earth! I absolutely love that you know what THM is because that’s my way to eat.
Help! The link to the Alfredo sauce (Creating Naturally) isn’t functioning. Is there somewhere I can get the recipe without going to that site?
Alas, no! And I am HEARTBROKEN! Because that’s my favorite Alfredo recipe of all time and the blog is down. 🙁 🙁
Thanks for your quick response. Maybe the recipe will be there when the blog comes back up. It did say the new blog was being created. I just didn’t want to wait. 🙁
Maybe I can help! The one I’ve been using because this one isn’t available is this one on the White Lasagna post and it’s toward the bottom:
http://trinaholden.com/white-lasagna-and-two-alfredo-sauces/
I love that you post recipes!!! Even from other people!! I’m always looking to try new healthy foods and I love Tammy’s recipes!! If it wasn’t for you posting about it I wouldn’t have found it and some more recipes to try from her site like black bean burgers for meatless Mondays!! Oh and I saw THM in a comment and was wondering what it was? Thanks so much! I referred your blog to a friend of mine who got laid off and she has a little girl and is trying to be more frugal and eat healthier on one income 🙂 keep up the great work!!
THM = Trim Healthy Mama….it’s the method of eating that we use. 🙂 It’s a low-glycemic type of diet. And I use the word “diet” loosely because we don’t diet…the first three letters are DIE.
Hi Stacy, I am so happy that you like my pancakes … thank you for featuring them! I can’t wait to try some of the other recipes, especially the Marilyn Monroe Panini 🙂
Your pancakes have fed many a happy tummy in our family. 🙂
Man! I just ate lunch but now I read this and I’m hungry again! 😉
We definitely love some alfredo sauce at my house too. Hm, I haven’t made it for awhile…I might have to get on that! The spaghetti squash casserole sounds delish. Maybe I’ll make it and just not tell my picky hubby what it is. As for coffee cake, silly Stacy! You can eat ANY kind of cake for breakfast! That’s the beauty of being a grown up. My mom has been telling my sister and I since we were little that she became a grownup so she could eat cookies before lunch and cake for breakfast (and you’d never think she does to look at her, but she loves her some sugar).
But if we call it BREAKFAST cake, it seems so much better.
I loved the way the hamburger recipe sounds, except for the name. 🙂 It sounds like the way I cook all the time. I love to get new skillet meal ideas. We are not carb free, so I will have to think of a carb to add to the skillet. Thanks for sharing!
Quinoa!
I love these posts! I’ve only had Creating Naturally’s Alfredo and it’s yummy. And your description of Erin’s was on the money and convinced me to at least try it. I hate green bean casserole, so I’ve never made it! I’ll give it a try now!
You’ll want the whole pan yourself.
I really hate to ask a stupid question and I think this could be it. When you say, “grease” your crock pot what do you use to grease it?????
That’s not stupid. 🙂 I use whatever I have..butter, oil, bacon grease. Anything goes!
Stacy, thanks so much for the great recipes. Question on the buffalo crack(love the name!) is the sugar needed, or by any chance have you tried a substitue for the splenda? I FINALLY got my husband off of splenda and he now uses Stevia. I have no idea what the equivalent would be though. Thanks!
I just gave a dash of stevia. 🙂
Hi Stacey! Thanks for sharing these great recipes! Blessings from Bama!
You’re welcome! Blessings from Virginia!
Thanks, Stacy! Can’t wait to check out some of the other delicious recipes!
You’re welcome, Mel! Keep those awesome recipes coming!
Oh No, Stacy!! Which one to try first?!!! Thank you SO much for this- especially new lunch ideas…yippee!
Alfredo. Definitely. 🙂
OH MY GOODNESS! You weren’t kidding!! A definite winner in everyone’s book – and so easy!! I can always count on you to lead us to easy and good. Thanks SO Much!!
🙂 Now, try the Chicken Wraps.
I can’t wait to see how you tweak things for THM! 😀
These are pre-THM recipes…but they would be easy to tweak. 🙂