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Crunchy Green Bean and Deli Salad

May 15, 2023 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Crunchy Green Bean and Deli Salad is the kind of perfect menu staple - simple enough for a lunch at your desk, nice enough for a special occasion meal.  Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free!   Like many of the best recipes, this one happened because something went wrong. I bought some fresh green beans to roast for dinner, but then my oven broke and I needed to come up with plan B. I blanched the green beans, added some stuff that I found around my kitchen, and the resulting product was so good, I knew I’d be making it again and again!    Did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Hanukkah, Healthy, Holiday, Main Courses, Party, purim, Salads, Seasonal, Shavuot, Sides, Sukkos Tagged With: green bean, Holiday, lunch, Recipes, salad, turkey, vegetables

Grilled Chicken Taco Salad

October 2, 2022 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! Nice enough for a plated Shabbos or Yom Tov (holiday) appetizer, light enough to brighten a heavy Yom Tov meal, and simple enough to add to your weekly lunch or dinner rotation. What more could you want?    If you're looking for a quick and easy, yet flavorful grilled chicken recipe, feel free to just double that part of the recipe!   Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow me there for all that bonus content that you don’t want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Chicken, Grilling, Healthy, Holiday, purim, Salads, Seasonal, Sukkos, Vegetables Tagged With: avocado, Corn, grilled chicken, Holiday, salad, salad recipes, shabbos, taco, tomato

Butternut Squash and Leek Soup

October 2, 2022 by overtimecook 1 Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! I’ve discussed this before, whenever I publish recipes using veggies that are often thought of as sweet, such as sweet potato, butternut squash, or other winter squashes. Ever since I got married, I’ve had trouble cooking these items because my husband does not enjoy sweet elements to his savory foods. So rather than give them up, I’ve learned to savory these foods up by adding things like onion, garlic, and in the case of these new favorite soup, leeks! If you’re looking for a phenomenal change from your classic butternut squash soup, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freezer-Friendly, Healthy, Holiday, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkos Tagged With: Butternut squash, freezer friendly, healthy recipes, Holiday, leek, Passover, pesach, recipe, Rosh Hashanah, soup, vegetarian

Crunchy Quinoa Salad

September 19, 2022 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! When life gets busy, it can be really easy to get in the habit of skipping lunch, and just noshing on whatever snacks are around. But I think we all know that having a good, filling and satisfying lunch makes a huge difference in our days.  Enter my crunchy quinoa salad. It's got a party of textures going on, plus sweet, savory, salty and more. It's an excellent make ahead salad that will transform your lunchtime! Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Healthy, Salads, Seasonal Tagged With: Cabbage, craisins, cucumber, Easy Recipes, healthy recipes, lettuce, lunch, peppers, Quinoa, Recipes, salads

Hearty Lentil Soup with Meatballs

January 25, 2022 by overtimecook 3 Comments

Hearty Lentil Soup with Meatballs is the ultimate meal-in-one soup that is delicious, freezer friendly and family friendly!   Click here to join the Overtime Cook WhatsApp Status, for exclusive recipes, tips and content! Are you more into creamy/pureed soups, or do you prefer chunky soups? Personally, I love pureed soups - I find them to be very comforting. But there's definitely always a place for a hearty, chunky, thick soups.  When I got married, I discovered that my husband vastly prefers a hearty chunky soup to a smooth soup, so I've been greatly expanding my repertoire of chunky soups. I also discovered that of all the soups, lentils seem to be a real favorite of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freezer-Friendly, Healthy, Holiday, Main Courses, Meat, Seasonal, Soups, Sukkos Tagged With: carrot, celery, comfort food, dinner, kale, lentil, meal in one, meatball, Recipes, soup

Roasted Acorn Squash with Crispy Chickpeas

October 27, 2021 by overtimecook 3 Comments

Roasted Acorn Squash with Crispy Chickpeas is the perfect (and super easy!) fall side dish! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. Recently, my husband and I were having a discussion about how my cooking has changed since we got married. I think he was surprised to hear that it had changed, at all. But think about it... would he really know? So how did it change? There are some minor changes, but also a few big ones. One big one is that my husband really does not like bone-in chicken. He'll eat it, but when he does, he definitely prefers white meat. Which is super weird to me because bone-in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Condiments/Sauces/Dips, Healthy, Holiday, Passover, Passover, Salads, Seasonal, Sides, Super-Easy, Vegetarian Tagged With: acorn squash, chickpeas, Easy Recipes, fall, parsley, Side dishes, sides, squash

Watermelon Lemonade

June 7, 2021 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Watermelon Lemonade is the most refreshing summer drink - and it's refined sugar free! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, or own any of my cookbooks, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve noticed that I love homemade drinks. My cookbooks all have drink sections, with a plethora of coffee drinks, fruity drinks, cocktails, milkshakes and more. Don’t have any of my cookbooks? No worries. This blog has got some really delicious drink recipes too! I’ve got coffee drinks like this Skinny Iced Vanilla Latte and this over-the-top S’mores Frappe. I’ve got refreshing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drinks, Freezer-Friendly, Healthy, My Cookbook!, Seasonal Tagged With: Beverages, Drink, lemon, Lemonade, refreshing, Seasonal, summer recipes, watermelon

Sweet and Tangy Raspberry Vinaigrette

May 24, 2021 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Sweet and tangy Raspberry Vinaigrette is easy to make, and uses a secret ingredient that will blow your mind! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. Need some ideas for turning this dressing into a complete salad recipe? Scroll down for my top five salads to use this dressing on! This is actually a really old recipe that already kinda exists on this blog. But the other day, I opened up the page with the recipe, and I realized how much I had changed it over the years.The original recipe, while delicious as-written, has been tested and tweaked and updated over the years. Today, I decided to share the updated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Condiments/Sauces/Dips, Healthy, Salads, Seasonal, Super-Easy, Vegetarian Tagged With: raspberry, salad dressing, tea, vinaigrette, vinegar

Quick and Easy Chicken and Pea Stew

March 2, 2021 by overtimecook 3 Comments

Quick and Easy Chicken and Pea Stew is a comfort food dish that takes just 20 minutes to prepare! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. The weather here on the east coast seems to finally be turning warmer. The snow is (almost) completely melted where I live, and it does seem like spring is finally around the bend! But. That doesn't stop me from craving comfort food. All. The. Time. And let me tell you my friends - this quick and easy chicken and pea stew is among the most comforting dishes that you'll make. And the best part? It actually comes together in about 15 minutes - no jokes! I started making this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicken, Healthy, Holiday, Main Courses, purim, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkos, Super-Easy, Vegetables Tagged With: chicken, chicken cutlets, dinner, easy dinners, peas, quick and easy, Recipes, stovetop mains

Crockpot Meatballs in Zucchini Tomato Sauce

January 25, 2021 by overtimecook 4 Comments

Crockpot Meatballs in Zucchini Tomato Sauce is the family-friendly and super easy dinner recipe that your family will love!   Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. There's something about crockpot dinners that really just makes me feel like I have my life together, ya know? It doesn't matter what's going on in my life -  my house might be messy and I might have deadlines piling up and chores to run, and things to do. When I make dinner in the crockpot, so it's morning and dinner is out of the way, it really makes me feel like I conquered something, and now I can conquer the world.  Do you feel the same? Do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freezer-Friendly, Healthy, Main Courses, Meat Tagged With: crockpot, dinner, Easy Recipes, meatballs, Zucchini

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