Smoked Salmon (Lox) Deviled Eggs is styled after the classic lox and bagel combo of smoked salmon, cream cheese, red onion, capers, and dill. This combination is perfectly balanced to make an excellent appetizer. Mary Jo and I are staying with our daughter Amy for the summer and Amy has chickens! 5 laying chickens as…
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Chocolate Whipped Cream Caramel Poke Cake
Chocolate caramel poke cake with a whipped cream topping is a tasty dessert treat. It’s a scratch-made cake with caramel and whipped cream, topped with chopped Heath bars. This is over-the-top good! Well, here’s something you don’t see every day on Joe’s Healthy Meals. Chocolate whipped cream caramel poke cake that has about 366 calories…
Grilled Caprese Salad Sandwich Recipe
Grilling season is starting and no better way to enjoy it than making a grilled Caprese salad sandwich. It contains all the ingredients in a Caprese salad but gets kicked up with a toasted baguette and grilled veggies. The toasted bread gets a spread of mayo and pesto and everything gets a drizzle of…
BBQ Jackfruit Sliders
BBQ Jackfruit sliders…the vegetarian, (or vegan), alternative to BBQ pulled pork sandwiches. In a blind taste test it would be hard to distinguish the two, except that the jackfruit is more tender than pork. It really makes for a very tasty sandwich! I had never eaten jackfruit until our neighbor Tom brought over a barbecue…
Roasted Potato Appetizer with Chive Sauce
Potatoes as an appetizer? You Betcha! A roasted potato appetizer with chive sauce. This is bite-sized pieces of perfectly roasted baby potatoes with a low-calorie yogurt-based chive sauce. The two go together like peas and carrots! My friend Manny was the inspiration for this when he recently brought over some of his home grown…
Tex-Mex Chopped Chicken Salad Recipe
If you’re like me, you like a quick, easy-to-make meal. Something you could put together kind of spur of the moment. In steps your friendly neighborhood Rotisserie Chicken! Grab one on your way home, along with whatever else you need for this easy, tasty salad. Most of these ingredients are one’s that you probably have…
Italian Sausage Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Here is a meal that I made for myself when MaryJo flew up to Minnesota for a few days. I had just made a spiralized zucchini dish, and had leftover zucchini to use. I also had a lot of other items on hand to use. (You can end up with a lot of leftovers when…
Lemony Curly Kale Salad Recipe
Lemony curly kale salad is a nutritious and succulent side dish that is easy to throw together. When kale is in season, this makes a perfect side dish for any meal. The dressing is just shallots, lemon juice and zest, with olive oil and a bit of grated cheese. Mix this together and have it…
8 Minute Broiled Salmon Recipe
Broiled salmon is perfectly done and tender and moist on the inside. It’s a great way to prepare salmon. Just when I thought I had salmon all figured out, (citrus and dill baked salmon), I found this technique for cooking salmon. MaryJo and I had it last night and I think this will be my…
Soy Honey Glazed Chicken Thighs
Soy honey glazed chicken thighs is a great recipe I want to tell you about. This is definitely restaurant-worthy and the sauce is delicious! I never get tired of chicken. It is so versatile. Fried chicken, grilled chicken, chicken legs, chicken breasts. Put just about any spice you can think of on it and you’ve…
Black Bean and Egg Tostada
Mexican tostadas are nothing more than a toasted tortilla and are usually topped with the same ingredients you would use for a taco. Not today! I’m topping this toasted tortilla with a fried egg and making a breakfast tostada. Thing is, I wouldn’t mind having this for lunch or dinner either. Black bean and…