Shrimp, caramelized onions, seasoned mushrooms, creamy white garlic sauce, GF pizza crust + cheese and more cheese. Any takers? If you’re a “yes”, then this GF Cheesy Garlic Shrimp and Mushroom Pizza is a must! There are so many great flavors working together here, making this one of my favorite, more unique pizzas of all time!…
Author: Kaylee Pauley
Health and nutrition have always been important to me, but over the past several years, my knowledge and interest in food and how it affects our body has really expanded. So, with my love for cooking, organic produce, and whole foods, with my food blog Lemons and Basil, I hope to inspire you in your cooking adventures and journey of good health, the way so many other food blogs have inspired me!
Vegan Green Goddess Mexican Lettuce Wraps
If you’re looking for a quick and easy lunch or appetizer, that’s also totally satisfying, then these Vegan Green Goddess Mexican Lettuce Wraps are for you! Because it doesn’t get much easier than throwing FOUR ingredients + spices/seasonings in a food processor then baking 20-25 minutes…
Real Food Bar Review + Enter for GIVEAWAY!
I don’t do many product reviews here without also sharing a recipe, but today is one of those rare exceptions. And I don’t feed bad about it, nor do I think you’ll be mad. Because while many of us love to cook and try out a new recipe, there are also times when we just need a quick, healthy meal or snack to grab and take on the go…
Veggie and Egg Cauliflower Rice Bowls
These Veggie and Egg Cauliflower Rice Bowls are pretty much all my favorites things cooked and tossed together in one bowl. We’re talking riced cauliflower + Brussels sprouts + zucchini + soft eggs + shaved parmesan cheese + roasted pumpkin seeds. You’ve got flavor, texture, crunch and NUTRITION playing together like BFF’s…
Roasted Broccoli Blue Cheese and Bacon Chopped Salad
We recently joined some friends of ours to see Gregory Alan Isakov perform live at the Ryman. I wasn’t familiar with him before the show, but his indie-rock-folk style is definitely a genre I like and it turned out to be a really great show…
Raw Chocolate Oat Bars + Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free
Let me introduce you to these Raw Chocolate Oat Bars, they might just be my new obsession.
I’ve made them THREE times within the last ten days or so, making a few tweaks along the way, and as the saying goes, third time’s a charm..
Green Smoothie Chocolate Chip Muffins
I’ve made these Green Smoothie Chocolate Chip Muffins three times within the last week. The first round didn’t result in a muffin I was excited to share with you. It was okay, but not great. Truth be told, it tasted healthy…
Instant Pot Split Pea Lentil and Butternut Squash Stew
I really wanted to get this out in time to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, but as you can clearly see, that didn’t happen. Several things played a part in that, the biggest obstacle is that we’re on our THIRD week of dealing with sickness…
Vital Proteins Cinnamon Vanilla Latte
This Vital Proteins Cinnamon Vanilla Latte is an easy, low calorie, high protein, re-creation of my favorite drink from Starbucks, their Cinnamon Dolce Latte! Over the years, I’ve shared several smoothie recipes with you, but this is my first coffee/latte recipe to add to the mix…
New England Inspired Creamy Apple Slaw + Apple Picking
After visiting Vermont in the Fall of 2013, Josh and I don’t really do a Summer vacation anymore, instead we spend a week each Fall in New England. Most of our time has been spent in Vermont and Maine, but this Fall we took the little ones and stayed a week in Boston, MA…
Healthy Pumpkin Black Bean Enchilada Casserole
Like many people, I LOVE Fall. It’s truly my favorite time of the year.
Along with the crisp air, apple picking, and beautiful foliage, pumpkin plays a vital role in my affection for this season. My first inclination is to bake with cooked pumpkin, perhaps pumpkin bread or whoopie pies…
Easy Roasted Salted Green Peas + Healthy Snack
After several months of birthday celebrations and baby showers, you can imagine I’ve had my fair share {or more 🙈} of cake. And while I love my sweets, I’m ready for a break. Enter these Easy Roasted Salted Green Peas, and I’ve got the perfect healthy snack!…
Adelaide’s First Birthday – A Sweet Celebration
I can hardly believe it’s already been a year, and our little Adelaide is officially one. You hear it often said when referring to parenting and little ones, “the days are long, but the years are short”. I’m only three years into this parenting thing, but I can already agree wholeheartedly with this statement…
Sweet Potato Refried Bean Egg Skillet
This Sweet Potato Refried Bean Egg Skillet is a hearty dish, perfect for breakfast or dinner!
My first inclination is to apologize and share my embarrassment at going 8 WEEKS without posting a single recipe.🙈But when I stop and consider the season we’re in, the craziness of it all and the conscious decision I made to let the blog go for a short time, to prioritize things and focus on family, I can’t really be sorry…
Chocolate Almond Probiotic Raw Energy Balls
Before having kids, I often heard the phrase “my kids are eating me out of house and home”. In my naivety, I took this to mean their older kids {like seven and up 🤷🏼♀️} consumed a lot of food in their rapidly growing bodies. I realize now they were referring to all kids, big and small…
Grilled Veggie Sandwich with Aged Cheddar and Balsamic Reduction
I love to cook, but I’m also all about easy meals. We eat almost 100% of our meals at home, and when it comes to dinner, I find that the meals that are made up of fresh veggies, a little dairy, loads of flavor, and come together in 30 minutes or less, are the ones that I repeat over and over…
Raw Dark Chocolate Healthy Brownies
These Raw Dark Chocolate Healthy Brownies are made with cocoa powder, ground flaxseed, peanut butter powder, soft pitted dates, and organic blue agave! Which means no gluten and no refined-sugar, yet oh-so-yummy!…
Golden Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk
I realize we’re less than a week into Summer…which means there’s still a lot of warm {and humid for many of us} days ahead. But does that mean that soup has to be off the table? Is it still okay to make soup this time of year? Because while this Golden Sweet Potato Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk…
Baked Parmesan Zucchini Fries with Garlic Aioli
If you happened to see my post last week for these super-yummy Spinach Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, then you might have noticed they were accompanied by a stack of zucchini strips, encrusted in a Panko-Parmesan-fresh-herb-goodness and baked-to-perfection!…
Easy Spinach Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
So much yumminess in this Easy Spinach Pesto Grilled Cheese with it’s smoldering Muenster cheese, garlic green-pesto-goodness and golden toasted gluten-free bread!
I know, a grilled cheese sandwich hardly seems blog worthy. BUT, before you get all judgy on me {not that I actually think any of you are judgy☺}, let me plead my case…
Brussels Sprouts Breakfast Bowl with Poached Eggs
This Brussels Sprouts Breakfast bowl embodies everything I crave for my first meal of the day – it’s hardy, crunchy, full of flavor and pretty much an all around party in your mouth!…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Popcorn Bars + Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP
Popcorn has been a long time favorite snack of mine. As a kid, my mom did nearly all the cooking, but my dad had a few specialty items that were his to fix…
Memorial Day Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt
I hadn’t planned on sharing something sweet this week. I had planned on sharing the recipe for these {oh-so-yummy} Roasted Brussels Spouts Bowl with Poached Eggs. But sometimes plans change. And once I started down memory lane and got this Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt in my head, it felt like the perfect recipe to share before Memorial Day weekend…
Mom’s Chocolate Covered Protein Bars
Josh and I were just talking the other morning about smells and their ability to bring back memories or suddenly make you think of a time or place you haven’t thought of in years. A quick google search revealed that this is known as “odor-evoked autobiographical memory”…
16 Healthy Mother’s Day Breakfast and Brunch Ideas
Mother’s Day 2013 is the last Mother’s Day I had with my mom when she was still healthy. And I can still so vividly remember having her, my dad, and my sister’s family to our house in South Nashville for brunch before heading to the Nashville zoo…
Seven Vegetarian Recipes for Cinco de Mayo!
Seven Vegetarian Recipes for Cinco de Mayo!
The sun is shining, the weather is warm and I think {fingers-crossed} Spring is FINALLY here to stay! And with the warm weather comes the joy of eating outside!..
5 Minute Sweet and Savory Sweet Potato Toast
Until now, I’d only heard of sweet potato toast. It sounded great, but almost too easy. So with both little ones happy and occupied the other morning, I decided to see if it was really as quick and easy as it seemed. And I gotta say, it was!…
Detox Cauliflower Brussels Sprouts Salad
This Detox Cauliflower Brussels Sprouts Salad with Roasted Chickpeas is full of great flavor, a lot of crunch, and best of all it’s loaded with protein, fiber, and healthy fats! I’ve been eating on it the last several days and can’t seem to get enough!…
3 Ingredient Peanut Butter and Cacao Nib Date Bites
These 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter and Cacao Nib Date Bites are my new favorite energy-boosting snack! They’re a breeze to make, have no added sugar, and are completely kid-friendly…
Crunchy Lemon Almond and Coconut Granola
This Crunchy Lemon Almond and Coconut Granola is pretty much my new favorite thing. With it’s perfectly toasted oats, light lemon flavor, crunchy almonds and chia seeds, plus a hint of coconut, it’s got a lot going for it!…