Jalapeño Cheddar Chicken Tenders are Winning Munchdown

The stomachs of football fans everywhere are getting ready to rumble – it’s almost Super Bowl Sunday. Whether you are rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles or the New England Patriots, or just tuned in for the commercials, GOOD FINGER FOOD is one thing we can all agree on. My recipe for Jalapeno Cheddar Chicken Tenders with Ranch Dip is a favorite at all gridiron gatherings – and is likely to be gone sometime between kick off and half time.  Good reason to make a double batch!

Jalapeno Cheddar Chicken Tenders

Read on to get the yummy details and full recipe (that I originally created for Litehouse Foods): Continue reading

Blueberry Brie “Cake Slice” Appetizer

Delight your guests with Blueberry Brie “Cake Slice” Appetizer, a beautiful prelude to dinner or cocktail party conversation starter. Blueberry Brie Cheese "Cake" Appetizer

This “impostor” recipe looks just like a slice of sweet cheesecake piled high with plump berries and pomegranate arils but it’s actually savory-sweet cheese dish to get the flavor party started!  Read on to get all the yummy details and easy recipe:  Continue reading

Pull Apart Bacon Blue Cheese Bread for the Party Boss

Have you ever shown up at a holiday party, office event, potluck gathering or even hosted your own shindig and been that person who brought the way too healthy appetizer to share? As a typically clean-eating, food-as-fuel sort of girl, I’ve been guilty of that. It was the dish everyone avoided like getting the flu on Christmas Eve, another holiday tragedy I wish not to repeat. In the spirit of “let’s live a little,” I’m sharing my recipe for Pull Apart Bacon Blue Cheese  Bread.

Pull Apart Bacon Blue Cheese Bread

No one can resist the flavor bomb which comes from piling bacon and blue cheese on cut-up, buttered-up biscuits. I ran all the miles and lifted all the weights this year, and I don’t feel one bit regretful about incorporating this easy appetizer into my holiday entertaining (and eating) plans. I noticed that guests didn’t seem to mind Pull Apart Bacon Blue Cheese  Bread either, not one little (bacon) bit! Read on to get the quick and easy cheese bread recipe: Continue reading

Spiralized Green Apple Butternut Squash Salad

I’m a salad eater year ‘round. In fact, I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t enjoy some sort of salad and fall is full of hearty possibilities. My Spiralized Green Apple Butternut Squash Salad is super delicious and nourishing, incorporating some of the season’s yummiest picks from the produce department.Spiralized Green Apple Butternut Squash Salad

Read on to get all the details about this main or side-dish salad that gets you well on your way to eating fruits and veggies for the day. Continue reading

Beef and Blue Cheese Monte Cristo with Cherries

Sunday is National Monte Cristo Day (9/17), proving once again that we Americans love to celebrate all things food. The yummy dish reminds me of a collision between French toast and a lunch box ham sandwich – the traditional version, a favorite during my childhood, is made with ham and cheese book-ended between white bread, dipped in an egg mixture and then pan fried or even deep fried (gasp) with raspberry preserves and powdered sugar to garnish! Crazy yum!

Beef Blue Cheese Cherry Monte Cristo

Of course, I’m anything but traditional so today I’m sharing my even more brazen version of this classic sammie – a Beef Blue Cheese Monte Cristo with Cherries! Read on to get all the juicy details and recipe. Continue reading