Food News: This Is the Most Annoying Drink You Can Order on an Airplane
Plus: Heartbreak over conversation hearts, ketchup caviar, and Joanna Gaines shares her must-have appliance in the kitchen.
Diet Coke is apparently the most annoying drink you can order on an airplane, according to a flight attendant. Too many bubbles! [TODAY.com]
You won’t find SweetHearts Conversation Hearts on the shelves this year for Valentine’s Day. But don’t worry! They’ll be back in 2020. [Martha Stewart Living]
Heinz has turned their famous ketchup into “caviar”, and it actually sounds kind of delightful. [Food & Wine]
Joanna Gaines says everyone needs a bread maker in their kitchen. [Cooking Light]
General Mills is recalling their Gold Medal Flour due to salmonella concerns. The recall is for five-pound bags of unbleached flour with a use-by date of April 20, 2020. [Real Simple]
Gender reveal lasagna is a real thing you can buy from chain restaurant Villa Italian Kitchen. The lasagna will be either blue or pink on the inside and it comes with a tray of garlic rolls. [PEOPLE]
The reason your latte tastes so good at your coffee shop might have something to with “super milk.” [Bloomberg]
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With temps frequently in the single digits these days in some parts of the country, none of us should be going outside on the weekends if we don’t have to. Ideally, we can all build a fire (or crank up the thermostat) and hibernate on the couch until Monday morning. As if you needed any inspiration to stay put, we’ve rounded up our best warm drinks that’ll make you want to cozy up. And no, they don’t all have booze in them, either.
There’s nothing more winter-appropriate than a big mug of hot chocolate. Unless you also happen to have a big chunky knit blanket, too. This is an old recipe of ours, and we haven’t changed a thing because it’s perfect and oh-so-easy to pull together. Of course, if you’d rather not deal with melting your own chocolate, we have a few ready-to-go mixes that you can add to your cart the next time you’re shopping.
2. Brûléed CappuccinoDon’t settle for a regular cappuccino when you can have a brûléed cappuccino! You’ll just need a culinary torch (we’re partial to this one) in order to caramelize the sugar, which gets sprinkled on top. This recipe makes a smooth, caffeinated drink that’s just a little more special than your usual weekday morning coffee run.
3. Hot Buttered Rum
This drink couldn’t be easier to make or double (or even triple!) for a larger group. You simply mix up some brown sugar, butter, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves; divide it all into some mugs; add rum; and pour in some boiling water.
4. Hot Spiced Cider with CalvadosCider isn’t just for the fall! Especially this cider, which is made with crystalized ginger and Calvados (or whatever apple brandy you happen to have on hand). More of a rum fan than a brandy fan? We’ve got something for you, too: this recipe features cider concentrate and golden or dark rum.
5. Lemon Verbena and Mint Tisane
This is technically a summery drink (lemon verbena is a lemon-scented herb that can usually be found at farmers’ markets during the warmer months) but you can make it during the winter by using the peel from one or two lemons or a stalk of lemongrass. The resulting drink is super soothing, and a nice reminder that summer will be around again—eventually.
6. Chai
We strongly believe that every kitchen needs a mortar and pestle. It’s a fun way to really learn about deep, rich flavors of freshly ground spices. It’s also the key to making this spicy, warming tea. To make it, you’ll start by crushing up cinnamon sticks, allspice, cloves, and peppercorns. Steep that with cardamom pods and ginger, and then with some black tea. Serve your mixture with milk and honey, and snuggle up with a good book.
7. Williams Sonoma Chocolate Truffle Coffee, $15 for 12 ounces
Don’t have time to make a special drink? Just swap out your usual morning coffee grinds for this bag of rich, indulgent pre-ground coffee. It’s silky, well balanced, and brimming with decadence. To make it, we take our premium South American Arabica coffee beans, medium roast them, and then expertly ground them to the perfect consistency. Brew a big pot and bring a travel mug along with you as you run all those errands. Just promise us you’ll take it easy later!
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Hang in there with me on this one. It’s a study in efficiency, and with some faith, it all comes together in the end. In short, poach a whole head of cauliflower in an olive-oil dappled, chile-spiked, beer-based broth, then wedge it & roast it until golden-crusted and butter tender. At the last minute, use that same broth to cook your favorite pasta. Serve it all up in a bowl with a shower of fresh herbs. 
PRO TIP: Only add as much pasta as you’ll eat to the broth. It’s not great for leftovers. Use whatever pasta you like – I used a whole wheat fusilli here, but you could use penne, or one of the alternative grain or legume pastas.
I started working on this recipe just before leaving San Francisco. It’s the perfect hearty bowl for cold nights, wintery weather, or summer in SF. A squeeze of lemon brightens everything up.
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This cool, creamy spinach dip is made healthy with Greek yogurt and olive oil, and flavored with lemon, fresh herbs, and toasted pine nuts.
Make this recipe for Oven Roasted Vegetables and get ready to experience an incredible taste transformation!
These Mini Twice Baked Potatoes are the perfect game day finger food!
Easy Lemon Cookies
Easy Paleo Chocolate Waffles that are made with almond flour and coconut flour are an indulgent breakfast that doubles as dessert.
These Sautéed Shrimp with Zucchini Noodles in a Roasted Red Pepper Sauce are a healthier alternative to pasta and incredibly delicious!
Roasted turnips might just be one of my new favorite discoveries while eating low carb!
An Old Fashioned recipe that stays true to Don Draper and the Mad Men Television series.
These vegan Chocolate Coconut Balls are made with simple ingredients that come together in a delicious and sweet dessert like Almond Joy.
These gluten-free Almond Flour Banana Muffins are the perfect portable snack ready in 30 minutes.
Herb loaded kale and quinoa salad — packed with healthy, feel-amazing stuff like red and yellow peppers, herbs, and a lemony dressing.
Easy, delicious and nut free! Strawberry No-Bake Cookies.
The Best Homemade Chicken Pot Pie, made with a buttermilk pie crust and creamy chicken pot pie filling.
Steamed cabbage on garlic bread- one of the easiest, simplest, healthiest, and hands-down delicious things I’ve eaten in a long time.
This pineapple kale green smoothie is refreshing and energizing with a handful of ingredients- pineapple, kale, and matcha, and chia seeds.
This Warm Kale & Lentil Taco Salad will make a plant-based lover out of anyone. With a delicious creamy chipotle dressing to top it off.
Curried Apple Noodle Salad
This stunning healthy salad with buffalo chicken makes for a wonderful light meal, and the best part it is still hearty and satisfying.
Shrimp fried rice – a quick and easy, super delicious take on fried rice that may become your favorite, weeknight comfort food.
Vegan & Gluten Free, these chocolate chunk cookies are the perfect fresh bakery style cookie with a delicate crumble and taste amazing!
Easy vegan lentil tostadas with creamy avocado cilantro sauce.
Homemade Oreos and Raspberry Buttercream Frosting are a perfect Valentine's Day treat!
I’m hoping this avocado citrus salad can bring us out of dreary January.
Because it’s the longest month ever! Right? In other words, we need something bright.
Last week we started with a super traditional, familiar, almost comforting side dish.
This week we’re going out of the box! An avocado citrus salad to bring us some sunshine.
Juicy, tart citrus. And then, creamy avocado. Tangy pickled red onion. Finished with a honey lime vinaigrette to bring everything together.
As a result, this salad is super refreshing. It’s light, bright, tart but sweet from the vinaigrette. And super easy to throw together in these winter months.
When it comes to salads, there are entrée salads and starter salads.
And then there are crazy salads that don’t have any lettuce and a rely on a base of juicy citrus!
Admittedly, this salad is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. But if you want to celebrate all that citrus season has to offer, it’s perfect. I love it so much with lighter chicken dishes, but it’s by far the best with shrimp and fish/salmon dishes.
If you want to serve it for someone who might be like “what the heck” come dinnertime, I suggest starting with only oranges and avocado. You could do cara cara or blood oranges, heck you could even do mandarin oranges drained from juice. It’s definitely a way to get someone interested when the grapefruit or meyer lemon may freak them out.
I absolutely love that you can make this dish sweeter (blood orange, meyer lemon) or more tart (grapefruit, lime!). It’s customizable to your palate. And if you’re feeling it, you can throw the whole thing over some greens to bulk it up too!
Here are just a few of the dishes I love with the avocado citrus salad:Yogurt Marinated Lemon Chicken
Skillet Sea Bass with Pistachio Butter
Cajun Salmon with Salted Lime Butter
A deliciously fresh and invigorating avocado citrus salad with honey lime vinaigrette. It’s creamy, tart, sweet and refreshing!
So bright it makes me happy.
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I’m sharing side dish secrets, starting with parmesan roasted broccoli for the happiest life ever.
Here’s the thing. I majorly STRUGGLE with side dishes. Not everyday. But still… often enough that I was inspired to share some of my favorite side dishes, if even for selfish reasons so I have a more complete list to go on.
When I shared these 45 lunch ideas at the start of 2019, a few of you reached out and asked me to do so with side dishes.
But the thing is… is that I don’t have enough. I don’t even have enough on here for every day life that I can use. As someone who gets bored with meals all the time, switching up an easy side dish is KEY.
Making sure that we have something equally delish to eat on the side is super important.My mom was the queen of family dinner when I was a kid. Nearly every single night, she had a meal made with at least two side dishes, sometimes even three. It was satisfying and nourishing and something that I remember as a kid. I feel like it really played a role in our family dinners. And it’s not like her side dishes were super fancy or took a long time to make. But they all went together. And were delicious.
I may not have a side dish to share with you every single Sunday, but I’ll share them at least once or twice a month so by the end of 2019, we can build our side dish repertoire by 20 or 30 recipes. Some may be super simple (like this one!) and some may be a little more involved (think my favorite quinoa salad). But the best part? I’ll also be sharing some of my favorite dishes to pair these with!
I wanted to kick things off with a very easy, probably fairly well known broccoli recipe. In fact, a lot of you are probably familiar with this one. This parmesan roasted broccoli recipe has basically changed my life. I can eat broccoli every day thanks to this recipe! My kids eat it thanks to this recipe. The flavor is insane. There is crunch and texture. Some nuttiness and cheesiness. What more do we need?
The original easy recipe is from Ina Garten, however I simplify it even more. Olive oil, parmesan, pine nuts. That’s it. Oh, and after that, a pinch of salt and pepper. As a result? We eat broccoli all the time now.
This is huge.It’s super delicious on its own, but I often take leftovers (or even roasted a batch specially for this reason) and mix them with quinoa, whole wheat orzo or another grain. My favorite easy dinner for myself is some chickpea pasta with this roasted broccoli tossed in. It’s SO good. And super filling. It’s easily the most made side dish in my house.
While I feel like this list could be endless because this is easily the most often made side dish (aside from kale chips!) in our house, these are some of my favorites to make with the parmesan roasted broccoli:
Best Ever Lemon Roasted Chicken
Skillet Smothered Chicken and Mushrooms
30 Minute Cajun Salmon with Salted Lime Butter
Red Wine Marinate Flank Steak with Caprese Salsa
Pesto Chicken Parmesan Sliders
Chili Garlic Chicken Skewers with Yogurt Dip
Havarti Arugula Grilled Cheese
Butternut Goat Cheese Stuffed Pork Tenderloin
Pan Crisp Salmon with Dijon Cream
Garlic Brown Sugar Flank Steak with Chimichurri
This parmesan roasted broccoli is irresistiable and will turn even the biggest broccoli haters into broccoli lovers! Major flavor in this roasted broccoli!
The crunchy bits are my fave!
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A free 7-day flexible weight loss meal plan including breakfast, lunch and dinner and a shopping list. All recipes include calories and Weight Watchers Freestyle™ SmartPoints®.
Hope everyone’s enjoying the weekend. I am back on Weight Watchers tracking everything I eat (I go back to tracking anytime I need to lose a few pounds, like after a vacation or the holidays) and I’ve been sharing my daily routing on Instagram stories, if you are interested you can follow along, here is my Instagram. It’s also a year since my Dad passed, so it’s fitting to add his Czech Crepes with Berries and Cream to the meal plan this week, I grew up making them with my Dad.
And if you’re new to my meal plans, I’ve been sharing these free, 7-day flexible healthy meal plans (you can see my previous meal plans here) that are meant as a guide, with plenty of wiggle room for you to add more food, coffee, beverages, fruits, snacks, dessert, wine, etc or swap recipes out for meals you prefer, you can search for recipes by course in the index. You should aim for around 1500 calories* per day.
There’s also a precise, organized grocery list that will make grocery shopping so much easier and much less stressful. Save you money and time. You’ll dine out less often, waste less food and you’ll have everything you need on hand to help keep you on track.
Lastly, if you’re on Facebook join my Skinnytaste Facebook Community where everyone’s sharing photos of recipes they are making, you can join here. I’m loving all the ideas everyone’s sharing!
Also, if you don’t have the Skinnytaste Meal Planner, now would be a great time to get one to get organized for 2019! There was a print error last year, but it’s perfect now! You can order it here!
THE DETAILS:Breakfast and lunch Monday-Friday, are designed to serve 1 while dinners and all meals on Saturday and Sunday are designed to serve a family of 4. Some recipes make enough leftovers for two nights or lunch the next day. While we truly believe there is no one size fits all meal plan, we did our best to come up with something that appeals to a wide range of individuals. Everything is Weight Watchers friendly, I included the updated Weight Watcher Freestyle Points for your convenience, feel free to swap out any recipes you wish or just use this for inspiration!
The grocery list is comprehensive and includes everything you need to make all meals on the plan. I’ve even included brand recommendations of products I love and use often. Cross check your cabinets because many condiments you’ll notice I use often, so you may already have a lot of them.
And last, but certainly not least, this meal plan is flexible and realistic. There’s plenty of wiggle room for cocktails, healthy snacks, dessert and dinner out. And if necessary, you can move some things around to make it work with your schedule. Please let me know if you’re using these plans, this will help me decide if I should continue sharing them!
MONDAY (1/28)
B: Classic Egg Salad (3) on 1 piece whole grain bread (3)
L: Orange and Arugula Salad with Red Onion and Gorgonzola (4)
D: Baked Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese (8)
Totals: Freestyle™ SP 18, Calories 806*
TUESDAY (1/29)
B: Classic Egg Salad (3) on 1 piece whole grain bread (3)
L: LEFTOVER Baked Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese (8)
D: Shrimp Scampi Tacos with Caesar Salad Slaw (6)
Totals: Freestyle™ SP 20, Calories 917*
WEDNESDAY (1/30)
B: Classic Egg Salad (3) on 1 piece whole grain bread (3)
L: LEFTOVER Baked Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese (8)
D: Beef, Tomato and Acini di Pepe Soup (5)
Totals: Freestyle™ SP 19, Calories 859*
THURSDAY (1/31)
B: Classic Egg Salad (3) on 1 piece whole grain bread (3)
L: LEFTOVER Beef, Tomato and Acini di Pepe Soup (5)
D: Chicken Thighs with Shallots in Red Wine Vinegar (8) with Roasted Cauliflower “Rice” with Garlic and Lemon (2)
Totals: Freestyle™ SP 21, Calories 1,022*
FRIDAY (2/1)
B: PB & J Yogurt (6)
L: LEFTOVER Beef, Tomato and Acini di Pepe Soup (5)
D: Fish Florentine (6)
Totals: Freestyle™ SP 17, Calories 858*
SATURDAY (2/2)
B: Czech Crepes with Berries and Cream (4)
L: Baked Buffalo Chicken Nuggets (2) with 8 baby carrots (0) and ¼ cup Blue Cheese Dressing (3)
D: DINNER OUT!
Totals: Freestyle™ SP 9, Calories 527*
SUNDAY (2/3)
B: Easy Bagel Recipe (3) with 2 tablespoons light cream cheese (3), sliced tomato (0), cucumber (0) and red onion (0)
L: Mini Bell Pepper Loaded Turkey “Nachos” (5), Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites (2) and Skinny Buffalo Chicken Dip (2) with 4 celery sticks (0)
D: Quick Beef Chili (4) with 2 tablespoons shredded cheddar (2)
Totals: Freestyle™ SP 21, Calories 982*
*This is just a guide, women should aim for around 1500 calories per day. Here’s a helpful calculator to estimate your calorie needs. I’ve left plenty of wiggle room for you to add more food such as coffee, beverages, fruits, snacks, dessert, wine, etc.
