Mumbai Recipes

There is nothing like having a warm bowl of soup when it's cold outside and this easy green Chicken Tortilla Soup will hit the spot. Healthy, filling, and freezer friendly, it's a dish everyone loves. With winter creeping in and the nights start to get colder and we can finally start pulling out some of our favorite sweaters, I immediately begin to crave comfort food. The kind that you want to curl up with on the couch and reminds you of someone or something special. For me, I always immediately think of my grandmother’s chicken soup. It was made completely from scratch, including the broth, and simmered for hours on her stove. She made it whenever someone was sick, had a bad day, or just needed a little pick me up. It was the ultimate comfort food. Today as I think of comfort food, it has a new meaning for me. Not only does it need to be comforting in terms of taste, but I also need to have comfort of mind knowing I am feeding my family something that not only tastes delic

Sheet Pan Pork Chops with Potatoes and Green Beans makes a complete, healthy dinner in less than 40 minutes that's all cooked on a single sheet pan. It's a favorite sheet pan along with these Sheet Pan Shrimp Fajitas and Sheet Pan Chicken Parm . Cooking pork chops right on a sheet pan with everything else you need for a complete dinner just makes sense. The pork chops come out perfectly tender and delicious with a nice crust. The potatoes are crispy on the outside and the green beans get that amazing roasted flavor. Plus it couldn't be easier. Sheet pan meals are the best.  Growing up we really only ate pork chops one way, covered in Ah-So sauce and thrown on the grill. If you have never had Ah-So sauce before, it's a Chinese style sauce that is sticky, sweet, and a deep shade of hot pink. It's really popular in New England for some reason and was something we always ate on pork and loved. But it isn't the healthiest option since it is packed sugar and a bu

Why Meal Planning Works We know that eating healthy, weight loss, and the weekly scramble of grocery shopping and getting dinner on the table every night is hard. All too often when we don’t have a plan in place, we end up reaching for processed foods, take-out, or eating plain chicken breast for the fourth time in one week. This not only leads to dinner-time stress, it also adds to unwanted pounds and sometimes feelings of guilt that we aren’t feeding our families (and ourselves!) with healthy food we feel food about. This is only amplified when life gets busy, we get stressed, or we don’t make healthy eating a priority. One week of unhealthy eating turns into one month and five pounds turns to twenty-five before we know it. Personally, I know this all too well. Before starting my own weight loss and health journey, every night consisted of panic as I stared blankly into the fridge, frustration when I sprinted to the store or called for pizza again, and unfortunately multiple fail

Slow Cooker Butternut Squash is an easy, delicious, and healthy side dish (no roasting or boiling needed) that you can make for any holiday meal. Mashed butternut squash is constant on our holiday table. It's something I have been watching my mother make for years and after thinking I didn't like it growing up, now it's a dish I look forward to and that we all love. She normally roasts her squash with a touch of butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon and then mashes it until it is super creamy and delicious. And while this method definitely works, I have come to rely on my slow cooker to do the hard work for me. Not only does this free up some oven space, which I desperately need during any holiday meal, it also means I can basically dump everything into the slow cooker and not worry about it. You can even make it a few days in advance. How to Cut a Butternut Squash Before we get into the recipe, I want to share a few tricks for peeling and cutting butternut squash. Buttern

Baked Apple Oatmeal is the perfect warm and hearty breakfast and can be made in advance for meal prep. We are huge fans of baked oatmeal recipes and this is one of our favorites along with this Baked Blueberry Banana Oatmeal and Strawberry Banana Oatmeal . Last week I wanted anything but fall comfort food after over-indulging on Thanksgiving but this weekend I woke up craving it. All I wanted was a big bowl of apple crisp but unfortunately, we had already gone through three batches of this Cinnamon Cranberry Apple Crisp during Thanksgiving week so it was time to switch it up. Baked oatmeal is one of my favorite dishes for lazy weekend mornings, so I decided to make an apple crisp inspired baked oatmeal full of cinnamon, baked apples, and brown sugar. To make sure the apples got soft and delicious, they are baked them first with cinnamon and brown sugar. You could add some melted butter as well if you want a richer flavor. Then the oats are added along with milk and an egg to help

Slow Cooker Butternut Squash is an easy, delicious, and healthy side dish (no roasting or boiling needed) that you can make for any holiday meal. Mashed butternut squash is constant on our holiday table. It's something I have been watching my mother make for years and after thinking I didn't like it growing up, now it's a dish I look forward to and that we all love. She normally roasts her squash with a touch of butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon and then mashes it until it is super creamy and delicious. And while this method definitely works, I have come to rely on my slow cooker to do the hard work for me. Not only does this free up some oven space, which I desperately need during any holiday meal, it also means I can basically dump everything into the slow cooker and not worry about it. You can even make it a few days in advance. How to Cut a Butternut Squash Before we get into the recipe, I want to share a few tricks for peeling and cutting butternut squash. Buttern

Baked Apple Oatmeal is the perfect warm and hearty breakfast and can be made in advance for meal prep. We are huge fans of baked oatmeal recipes and this is one of our favorites along with this Baked Blueberry Banana Oatmeal and Strawberry Banana Oatmeal . Last week I wanted anything but fall comfort food after over-indulging on Thanksgiving but this weekend I woke up craving it. All I wanted was a big bowl of apple crisp but unfortunately, we had already gone through three batches of this Cinnamon Cranberry Apple Crisp during Thanksgiving week so it was time to switch it up. Baked oatmeal is one of my favorite dishes for lazy weekend mornings, so I decided to make an apple crisp inspired baked oatmeal full of cinnamon, baked apples, and brown sugar. To make sure the apples got soft and delicious, they are baked them first with cinnamon and brown sugar. You could add some melted butter as well if you want a richer flavor. Then the oats are added along with milk and an egg to help

Healthy Zucchini Lasagna is the perfect blend of traditional lasagna and a veggie lasagna to please everyone in the family. It's a family favorite along with this Healthy Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup . My son has never met a lasagna he didn't like. Sometimes I honestly think about Garfield when I think about him and his lasagna habit. He would eat an entire tray if we let him and usually I have to force him to eat salad in between helpings to make sure he doesn't go too far. This recipe was inspired by his love of lasagna and my desire to sneak in some veggies for a healthier, updated version of the classic dish. But before we get into the recipe, let's back up a bit. A few weeks ago I tried making an all zucchini lasagna and it didn't fool anyone. My son was searching for noodles immediately and definitely wasn't a fan. Now to be fair, it was a bit watery since the zucchini released a lot of liquid while it was cooking. Next time I will cook it ahead of time to

Slow Cooker Turkey Tacos that are made with turkey breast and salsa verde then topped with sweet dried cranberries, cilantro, and onion are some truly tasty tacos that will quickly become a family favorite. It's impossible not to start thinking about turkey this time of year but sometimes the thought of cooking an entire turkey is just too much. Personally, it's something I take on once a year and although I love the outcome, it's a labor of love. So the rest of the time, when I am craving turkey, I like to rely on simple recipes and tools like my slow cooker to make quick work of what can feel like an intimidating protein. I also focus on purchasing cuts of turkey, like breast tenderloins or even whole breasts, that are easier to work with than the whole bird. Now let's talk about these tacos. They start with the simplest of recipes and one that most slow cooker lovers have made many times - salsa chicken. Instead of chicken, we are going to opt for turkey breast a

This Healthy Apple Crisp made in the slow cooker is a lightened up version of traditional apple crisp that is made right in the crockpot. It's easy, delicious, and I would venture to say can be eaten for breakfast or dessert. Have you seen the honey crisp apples that are available right now? Around me they are amazing. Crisp and sweet and delicious. They are almost as good as the Macintosh apples I miss dearly from growing up in New England. And my favorite way to eat apples, apple crisp. Normally apple crisp is loaded with butter – the recipes I looked at had over a stick – but this one is lightened up but still packed with flavor. This is a rift on a Weight Watchers recipe that ingeniously uses apple butter to mimic some of the richness from the butter and made a bit more healthy with whole wheat flour. It also wouldn't be fair if I didn't tell you that I have been eating this for breakfast all week with yogurt. There is something so satisfying about warming up a bowl

There is something magical that happens to butternut squash when it is roasted with cinnamon. It becomes sweet with these delicious caramelized edges and you won't believe how quickly it disappears.  Roasted vegetables are probably my favorite side dish and I recently began adding butternut squash to the rotation on a pretty regular basis. It's a great lower carb option that I like to use instead of potatoes. While you can roast it with almost any spice blend, I think it pairs perfectly with cinnamon and nutmeg. If you aren't watching carbs, you could add maple syrup or brown sugar as well. The other thing I love about roasting butternut squash is that the leftovers are amazing. I love to throw them in my morning eggs, lunchtime salads, or use them for quick veggie tacos at night. In fact, I love these leftovers so much, that I always make a double or triple batch whenever I roast butternut squash.  The one difficult part of making butternut squash is the prep work, but

Crockpot Sloppy Joes with an Italian twist. These lightened up sloppy joes are made with lean ground turkey, tomato sauce, peppers, onions, mushrooms, and plenty of garlic and Italian spices.  What do you think of when you hear "Sloppy Joes"? Do you think of those Manwich commercials from the 80s (and 90s?) of the canned meat that you threw into a bun and called it a meal? Me too. I never had those as a kid (though I had plenty of canned foods, don't get me wrong), so the thought of eating Sloppy Joes just conjured in my head a can of gross meat. So, since these weren't something I ever ate as a kid growing up, I kind of mostly forgot about them. That is, until recently when a friend told me she makes them almost weekly for her son. Then, in the same breath, she told me that she was deeply in need of an updated, more adult-friendly version so her and her husband would be happy as well. Looking at the basic recipes for sloppy joes, an Italian-inspired version seems

Healthy Zucchini Lasagna is the perfect blend of traditional lasagna and a veggie lasagna to please everyone in the family. It's a family favorite along with this Healthy Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup . My son has never met a lasagna he didn't like. Sometimes I honestly think about Garfield when I think about him and his lasagna habit. He would eat an entire tray if we let him and usually I have to force him to eat salad in between helpings to make sure he doesn't go too far. This recipe was inspired by his love of lasagna and my desire to sneak in some veggies for a healthier, updated version of the classic dish. But before we get into the recipe, let's back up a bit. A few weeks ago I tried making an all zucchini lasagna and it didn't fool anyone. My son was searching for noodles immediately and definitely wasn't a fan. Now to be fair, it was a bit watery since the zucchini released a lot of liquid while it was cooking. Next time I will cook it ahead of time to

Slow Cooker Turkey Tacos that are made with turkey breast and salsa verde then topped with sweet dried cranberries, cilantro, and onion are some truly tasty tacos that will quickly become a family favorite. It's impossible not to start thinking about turkey this time of year but sometimes the thought of cooking an entire turkey is just too much. Personally, it's something I take on once a year and although I love the outcome, it's a labor of love. So the rest of the time, when I am craving turkey, I like to rely on simple recipes and tools like my slow cooker to make quick work of what can feel like an intimidating protein. I also focus on purchasing cuts of turkey, like breast tenderloins or even whole breasts, that are easier to work with than the whole bird. Now let's talk about these tacos. They start with the simplest of recipes and one that most slow cooker lovers have made many times - salsa chicken. Instead of chicken, we are going to opt for turkey breast a

This Healthy Apple Crisp made in the slow cooker is a lightened up version of traditional apple crisp that is made right in the crockpot. It's easy, delicious, and I would venture to say can be eaten for breakfast or dessert. Have you seen the honey crisp apples that are available right now? Around me they are amazing. Crisp and sweet and delicious. They are almost as good as the Macintosh apples I miss dearly from growing up in New England. And my favorite way to eat apples, apple crisp. Normally apple crisp is loaded with butter – the recipes I looked at had over a stick – but this one is lightened up but still packed with flavor. This is a rift on a Weight Watchers recipe that ingeniously uses apple butter to mimic some of the richness from the butter and made a bit more healthy with whole wheat flour. It also wouldn't be fair if I didn't tell you that I have been eating this for breakfast all week with yogurt. There is something so satisfying about warming up a bowl

There is something magical that happens to butternut squash when it is roasted with cinnamon. It becomes sweet with these delicious caramelized edges and you won't believe how quickly it disappears.  Roasted vegetables are probably my favorite side dish and I recently began adding butternut squash to the rotation on a pretty regular basis. It's a great lower carb option that I like to use instead of potatoes. While you can roast it with almost any spice blend, I think it pairs perfectly with cinnamon and nutmeg. If you aren't watching carbs, you could add maple syrup or brown sugar as well. The other thing I love about roasting butternut squash is that the leftovers are amazing. I love to throw them in my morning eggs, lunchtime salads, or use them for quick veggie tacos at night. In fact, I love these leftovers so much, that I always make a double or triple batch whenever I roast butternut squash.  The one difficult part of making butternut squash is the prep work, but

Crockpot Sloppy Joes with an Italian twist. These lightened up sloppy joes are made with lean ground turkey, tomato sauce, peppers, onions, mushrooms, and plenty of garlic and Italian spices.  What do you think of when you hear "Sloppy Joes"? Do you think of those Manwich commercials from the 80s (and 90s?) of the canned meat that you threw into a bun and called it a meal? Me too. I never had those as a kid (though I had plenty of canned foods, don't get me wrong), so the thought of eating Sloppy Joes just conjured in my head a can of gross meat. So, since these weren't something I ever ate as a kid growing up, I kind of mostly forgot about them. That is, until recently when a friend told me she makes them almost weekly for her son. Then, in the same breath, she told me that she was deeply in need of an updated, more adult-friendly version so her and her husband would be happy as well. Looking at the basic recipes for sloppy joes, an Italian-inspired version seems