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Shockingly Delicious Crunchy Cauliflower Party Dish Since this post was so popular, I thought I would repost it for all the recent followers of Going Cavewoman. So many of us are going to parties throughout the year. This is a wonderful party dish if you want to take something low calorie, healthy and gluten free for yourself. This is a crunchy comfort food, made into a diet dish. I kept the calories to a minimum, so there is no cheese and they are baked, not deep fried. Just a little oil, lightly sprayed just before cooking (will brown without the spray). Ingredients ½ Head of Cauliflower Florets (4 cups) 2 Cups Gluten Free Bread Crumbs 1 tsp Taco Seasoning ( or your favorite blend ) 2 Free Range Eggs - Beaten 1 Tsp Mustard Oil Spray - Optional Dip ½ cup Marinara 1 Tbs Creamed Horseradish Freshly Ground Sea Salt and Black Pepper Instructions Break cauliflower into florets. Beat 2 eggs into a bowl and add 1 tsp mustard. In a bowl with the breadcrumbs, add 1 tsp taco mix and seasoning. ...

SPICY ETHIOPIAN LENTIL STEW This Ethiopian lentil stew is made with veggies and hearty potatoes simmered in berbere-spiced red lentils, for a healthy and flavor-packed dish that’s totally doable on a busy weeknight. If you go to an Ethiopian restaurant you should find something on the menu that looks something like this dish, but it would be called misir wat, and it would be incredibly delicious. I had no idea when I first tried that dish how easy it was to make at home, but here it is, something very no-fuss that you can easily cook up on a weeknight in one pot. I threw some extras into my stew, just because I like extras. The potatoes, tomatoes and spinach wouldn’t be found in traditional versions of the dish, at least as far as I’m aware, but who doesn’t love potatoes, tomatoes and spinach? This Ethiopian lentil stew is made with veggies and hearty potatoes simmered in berbere-spiced red lentils, for a healthy and flavor-packed dish that's totally doable on a busy weeknight. Ing...

DESSERT TACOS Oh my yum! I swear, these Mini Chef Mondays posts produce some of the most delicious recipes. I’m not sure what it is about these posts but the idea of collaborating with my kids brings out a ton of creativity and today’s recipe is no different. These Dessert Tacos are super easy to make and are perfect for this week’s Cinco de Mayo festivities.  The deliciousness begins with a few simple ingredients such as flour tortillas, vanilla ice cream, strawberries, chocolate syrup, chocolate sprinkles and cinnamon and sugar. Ingredients 1/2 cup white granulated sugar 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 cup vegetable oil 6 small flour tortillas, use small size or cut small rounds from larger ones 1 cup fresh strawberries, sliced 1 pint vanilla ice cream chocolate syrup chocolate sprinkles Instructions In a large shallow dish mix together the granulated sugar and the cinnamon. Set to the side. In a large skillet heat the canola oil until hot. Place one tortilla in the skillet cook for 10 s...

Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole – 4 ingredients is all it takes to make this popular Mexican dish. It’s cheesy, it’s spicy, it’s sinfully delicious. Mexican food is my weakness. Totally! I love all Mexican food. I love going to Mexican restaurants and trying everything on the menu. But I also love to make Mexican food. This chicken enchilada casserole only requires 4 ingredients, so it doesn’t get any easier than this. I love chicken enchiladas and this casserole is even easier to make than making regular chicken enchiladas because you just layer your ingredients. Even a kid could make this. And if you want to have some fun, have a mojito while you make this, or with it, before or after or during, doesn’t really matter. If you have a sombrero you might even want to wear that and make this chicken enchilada while dancing to the Mexican hat dance song. Ok, now I have that song stuck in my head. Anywho here’s how you make this awesome dish. Pretty simple,...

LOW FAT BAKED ONION RINGS Crispy and light with no greasy mess. Great as a snack or a perfect side dish to a nice juicy burger! When I was a kid, I loved onion rings with my burger, but never loved that greasy after-taste. Baking them with a blend of Panko, cornflake crumbs and breadcrumbs gives these a fabulous crunch without all the fat. If you can’t find cornflake crumbs you can make your own by pulsing corn flakes in the food processor. The best way to bread them so the breading doesn’t fall off is to avoid using your fingers, instead use tongs to take them out of the breadcrumbs. Also, you have to do this in 2 batches so the crumbs don’t clump. Ingredients:  1 medium onion, sliced into 1/4 inch rings 2 1/4 cups low fat buttermilk 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs 1/4 cup Italian seasoned whole wheat bread crumbs 1/4 cup crushed corn flake crumbs salt to taste  olive oil baking spray (I used my Misto Directions: Place slices of onion in a shallow dish. Pour the buttermilk over th...

HOMEMADE COOKIE MONSTER ICE CREAM Creamy (no churn!) vanilla ice cream loaded with 2 different kinds of cookies. A cookie lover’s dream come true! I don’t want to sound like an old fogey, but Sesame Street these days is just ridiculous. Apparently Cookie Monster eats vegetables and says that cookies are a “sometimes” food?!?! WHAT?! Pfffttt. If you’re like me and believe cookies are one of the main food groups, then this ice cream is for you! It’s loaded with 2 different kinds of cookies and I mean loaded! No 1-2 cookie pieces per bowl on this blog uh-uh! One thing to note here is the use of store bought chocolate chip cookies. I adore store bought sweets as much as the next guy (okay probably even more, looking at you store bought cupcakes!). However, packaged chocolate chip cookies are not my favorite. However, they work really well here because their crunchy texture stands up to the ice cream.You may be able to substitute a very crunchy homemade one instead. If you’re looking for a ...

BEST EVER BEEF STEW This Beef Stew is the #1 most popular recipe on my blog & my readers agree – it’s the BEST EVER!  See all those colors? You can almost inhale the richness of the stew just by looking at the photo. Seriously, ya’ll. It’s amazing. Addictive, and amazing. Once you make it, you won’t be able to go back to any other recipe. I use beef demi-glace in this recipe, which you can find online here if you aren’t sure if your local store has it. The demi glace adds so much flavor to the stew; one that your traditional beef broth or stock really can’t beat. However; if you don’t want to buy demi-glace and don’t have any on hand – you can substitute some Swanson Flavor Boostedit: It seems as if many of you can no longer find the Swanson Flavor Boost. If you can’t find beef demi-glace, then you can substitute Better than Bouillon in Beef. It starts off with a nice coating of flour & seasoning salt on the stew meat & then it gets seared off in a pan before getting pl...

RICH HOMEMADE HUMMUS It’s slow cooker week here on BGSK and SKC! All week long, we’re teaming up with Kelsey Banfield, The Naptime Chef , to bring you the first ever Slow Cooker Challenge. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway, and read on for another great slow cooked recipe! For a lot of quarter-life cooks, store-bought tubs of hummus are subsistence-level forms of nourishment, akin to cereal and peanut butter, or, in Alex’s case, sardines. For the slightly more domestically inclined, we’ve offered loads of hummus and hummus-like recipes that entail just opening a can or two and blending. (Here’s chipotle hummus, white bean dip, and black bean dip.) But there is more to our beloved dip than even this. Have you ever been to a really good Greek or Middle Eastern restaurant–or better yet, to Greece or the Middle East? The kind of cafe where not only the pita, but also the hummus, comes out warm, and the dip is fluffy and creamy and slightly tangy? This kind of hummus (I like the ones at Ba...

QUICK & EASY 4 INGREDIENT BROCCOLI CHEESE SOUP Looking for a delicious dinner to literally whip up in a matter of minutes? This Quick & Easy 4 Ingredient Broccoli Cheese Soup is right up your alley! This recipe is designed to keep all of zombie adults out of the drive-thru because even if you’re dragging your feet with exhaustion, you can still easily pull this broccoli cheese soup off. I actually got the recipe for this soup from the cashier at HomeGoods – she wrote it on the back of my receipt for me, & I just had to try it. INGREDIENTS: 10 to 12oz of fresh broccoli, cooked 1 family sized cream of chicken soup 1 cup (or more to taste) of milk 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese DIRECTIONS: Combine first 3 ingredients in a pot. Heat until warm. Add the cheese, stir – and cook until the cheese is melted & mixture is hot. Add extra milk if you want a thinner consistency. Recipe Source: mrshappyhomemaker.com

HONEY GARLIC SHRIMP SKILLET It’s been awhile since I’ve done a shrimp recipe. The last one I think was coconut shrimp which turned out amazingly good. Especially with that chilled pineapple sauce. So here we have a super simple honey garlic shrimp recipe, all done in the comfort of your skillet. It’s yummy, it’s healthy and oh so easy to make. I used jumbo peeled shrimp with tail on for these. They just tend to look better in pics. But you can use whatever kind of shrimp you like or can easily get your hands on. We begin by making your honey garlic sauce which is basically just some honey, soy sauce, ginger and garlic. Tada! I wasn’t lying when I said simple. INGREDIENTS 1 lb. shrimp, peeled and deveined with tail on Sauce: 1 teaspoon garlic, minced ½ teaspoon ginger, minced 4 tablespoons honey 2 tablespoons soy sauce INSTRUCTIONS Combine the sauce ingredients and divide it into half Marinate the shrimp with one half of the sauce for 15-30 minutes. Discard marinade Over medium high hea...

UNICORN POOP MERINGUES : EASY MERINGUE COOKIE RECIPE As you already know, I love unicorn crafting. If unicorn poop slime and unicorn poop cupcake cones didn’t tip you off. I could not resist at least one more (ok, maybe more coming) Unicorn Poop ideas and this one is just as fun: Unicorn Poop Meringues. So what IS a Meringue? According to Wikipedia: Meringue (/məˈræŋ/,[1]mə-rang; French pronunciation: [məʁɛ̃ɡ]) is a type of dessert, often associated with French, Swiss, and Italian cuisine, made from whipped egg whites (or aquafaba) and sugar, and occasionally anacid such as lemon, vinegar or cream of tartar. I would call them little clouds of deliciousness and so much fun to make- and eat. Of course, you can take this swirly beautiful Unicorn Poop Meringue and mix up the colors and flavors to something different to match your party or holiday, but here is a good start (and a good recipe) to pull it off. UNICORN POOP MERINGUE SUPPLIES Wilton ColorSwirl 3 Color Coupler, 411-1992 If you ...

Garlic Bread Pasta This Garlic Bread Pasta is the most simple, amazing pasta dish I’ve ever made! It’s good warm, cold even right out of the fridge! I’m talking amazing pasta dish. The pasta dish that makes you say buh-bye to that low carb diet thing, at least for the day. Boil up your pasta they way you always do and drain it. In the meantime heat up a few tablespoons of butter in a large skillet until it’s melted. Then keep on going… Keep cooking the butter while swirling it around the pan so it’s a nice, nutty brown color. Don’t burn it, just get it nice and brown. Toss in breadcrumbs and seasonings and stir it all together until the breadcrumbs are completely coated in the butter. Turn the pan off and set it aside. Now you’re going to melt a whole stick of butter – yes, a whole stick, so not skimp here or you’ll regret it – together in the same dish with a few cloves of minced garlic. Pour the garlicky butter all over you’re cooked pasta and toss it all together with the toasted br...

Family Favorite Meatloaf Today, I’m bringing over one of my all-time favorite comfort foods…meatloaf. As a kid, I detested this dish. In fact, I hated it so much that my mom would make me a separate hamburger to enjoy while everyone else gobbled up her meatloaf. I don’t know if my taste buds matured or if this recipe is REALLY just that good, but I tried this recipe about 6 years ago and have never looked back. I got this recipe from a high school friend and the hubs (Eric) and I liked it so much, it became our go-to dish to make for company. In fact, our friends have even titled it, “Eric’s Meatloaf.” The sauce is delicious and the melted cheese inside combined with the pepper and onion make for a dynamite combination. I hope you and your family will enjoy it soon! FAMILY FAVORITE MEATLOAF Ingredients 1 lb ground beef 1/2 bell pepper, diced 1/2 small onion, diced 1 egg 1/2 c bread crumbs 1/2 c shredded cheese (any kind) 1/3 c ketchup 1 tsp. dry mustard 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepp...

GOOEY BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE Ingredients: 1/2 cup softened butter 8 oz cream cheese 1 egg 1/4 tsp vanilla extract 1 yellow cake mix box 1 cup of powdered sugar Directions: Combine butter, cream cheese, egg and vanilla in a bowl and use mixer until light and fluffy. Stir in the dry cake mix until the dough becomes thick but smooth. Pour powdered sugar into a separate bowl, set aside. Scoop a spoonful of the cookie dough and roll into a ball, then dip in the powdered sugar until fully covered. If you want easier dough to work with for rolling, chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Place cookie balls on a baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Then get ready to enjoy the most delicious cookies you’ll ever eat. Seriously. These cookies stay super light and fluffy and have a sweet vanilla taste. Absolutely delicious! Hope you enjoy! r ecipe source :  https://howtonestforless.com/2014/10/29/gooey-butter-cookie-recipe

Momma’s Best Meatloaf Momma’s Best Meatloaf – seriously! I think most folks at some point in their lives have had either great experiences with meatloaf or really bad ones. Maybe the meatloaf was a tad dry or maybe it tasted like a lump of beef and nothing else. And if that bad experience came from childhood, and Mom was trying to feed 9 or 10 children, as was a common situation many years ago, she didn’t have the time (or probably the energy) to be fancy-ing it up. It’s cheap it’s a hot meal on the table. Meatloaf really can taste good Meatloaf is fairly inexpensive, easy, filling and can feed a lot of folks. And perhaps the name does not help it’s case at all, but let’s face it, when a meatloaf is done right, it is so comforting to the soul. Personally, I’m a meatloaf lover. But if you aren’t, then maybe it’s time you give it a second chance. Because meatloaves need love to, even if they aren’t the prettiest girl showing up to the party. Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef (80/20 works ...