I love the beginning of the year, especially for all of the beautiful citrus fruits!

From smoothies to salads to one-pan dinners, I’ve got you covered with tons of ideas to enjoy this fresh season.

This time of year I like to make more simple recipes, especially after the more-involved meals of the holidays.

For weeknight meals, I like to focus on one-pan or one-pot recipes where the whole dish comes together easily and deliciously of course!

What’s In Season In January

I love the produce in January, especially all of the citrus! It’s so vibrant and fresh, a nice contrast to the cozy ingredients like potatoes and Winter squash.

• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cauliflower
• Citrus fruits (think limes, oranges, grapefruits etc)
• Potatoes and sweet potatoes
• Winter Squash
• Leafy greens like spinach and kale

Recipes to Make in January

Breakfast

Mojito Smoothie

Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cups

Savoury Turkey Breakfast Sausage Egg Muffins

Tropical Blood Orange Smoothie

Healthy Crustless Veggie Breakfast Quiche

Snacks & Dips

Easy Roasted Carrot Hummus Dip with Dill & Feta

Citrus Coconut Protein Bars (gluten-free)

Easy Spicy Buffalo Hummus Dip

Sweet Potato & Cheddar Drop Biscuits

Single-Serving Hot Broccoli Cheese Dip

Quick Jalapeno Popper Dip

Easy 3-Ingredient Snack Plates

Soups & Salads

Healthyish Broccoli Cheddar Soup (High Protein)

Brussels Sprouts Salad with Apples, Dates & Hazelnuts

Simple Potato Leek Soup

Winter Citrus Chopped Salad

Roasted Cauliflower Soup

Brussels Sprouts & Kale Salad

Creamy Potato Soup

One Pot Creamy Tortellini Soup

Roasted Butternut Squash & Apple Soup

Dinner & Side Dishes

Sheet Pan Hot Honey Chicken with Brussels Sprouts

Warm Lentil Salad with Roasted Vegetables

One Pan Creamy Lemon Garlic Pasta

30 Minute Chicken Broccoli Stir Fry

Easy Baked Lemon Chicken

Winter Oven-Baked Risotto with Mushrooms & Kale

Chili Lime Salmon with Mango Salsa

Sweet & Spicy Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts

Easy & Delicious Sage Roasted Potatoes

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I’ve got you covered with inspiration for easy weeknight dinners and refreshing smoothies.

So let’s get into the kitchen and start with new some new cooking ideas!I love the start of the New Year because it is also citrus season.

Oranges of all kinds; lemons; limes; all of the citrus flavours have a place in recipes for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

My personal favourite is the blood orange which has a red colour to it and is subtly sweet with hints of pink grapefruit and raspberries.  You can find blood oranges in most grocery stores this month.

A couple of delicious ways to enjoy oranges this month that you may not have thought of include:

• Use orange segments to top yogurt and granola bowls or your favourite oatmeal
• Enjoy as a topping to pancakes and waffles with a dollop of almond butter
• Blend a few different types of oranges to make a bright juice

And, I’d be remiss if I didn’t share my favourite cake for this time of year; this Parsnip Cake with Blood Orange Buttercream is DIVINE! We make it every year in January because it’s not to sweet and celebrates citrus with a beautiful buttercream icing.

So, which other blog recipes are there to make this month?!

Recipes to Make in January:

Blood Oranges: Tropical Blood Orange Smoothie

Citrus: Winter Citrus Chopped Salad

Kale: Brussels Sprouts and Kale Salad

Lemon: Easy Healthy Baked Lemon Chicken

Limes: Mojito Smoothie

Parsnips: Baked Parsnip Fries with Garlic Yogurt Dip

I hope you have a lovely start to the New Year!

Until the next cooking adventure,
Jess

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Time to try allll the citrus recipes from smoothies to salads and cozy recipes too.

So let’s dig in to the seasonal recipes to make in January plus some inspiration from my favourite blogs and cookbooks!

It was definitely a quiet holiday season here at our house so we took the opportunity to hunker down, enjoy a ton of movies and read ALOT of books. I took some time to scour my large collection of cookbooks too for new recipes we have not tried yet. Let me just say if you are looking for a new cookbook (or two) to try, Healthyish and Super Simple from Half Baked Harvest are STILL my go-to books. There are so many recipes that I continue to go back to!

Since I love to start the year trying new recipes here are a few that I’m looking forward to trying this month:

One Pan Enchilada Zucchini Turkey Meatballs & Rice from Ambitious Kitchen

Honeycrisp Quinoa Salad with Kale & Pistachios from How Sweet Eats

Meal Prep Instant Noodle Cups from Meal Plan Addict

So many recipes and honestly lots of time at home to make them!

I’m probably the most excited about ALL OF THE CITRUS coming to grocery stores and markets. It is the season for citrus so whichever recipes you have saved involving bright, citrusy flavours make them this month. One recipe I look forward to making this time of year is this Parsnip Cake with Blood Orange Buttercream – its DIVINE!

If you’re looking for more wholesome, satisfying and vegetable forward recipes you’ll love what’s in season this month! Here are the recipes to make in January:

Apples – Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Muffins

Beets – Roasted Harvest Vegetable Bowl

Citrus – Winter Citrus Chopped Salad

Oranges – Tropical Blood Orange Smoothie

Potatoes – Simple Potato Leek Soup

Winter Squash – Roasted Butternut Squash and Apple Soup

What are you most looking forward to cooking this month? I’d love to know in the comments below!

Until the next cooking adventure,
Jess

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After a very relaxing holiday season I jumped right back into the swing of things to start the New Year including trying out a ton of new recipes from my fellow blogger friends from my Nourishing Recipes for the New Year round-up.

BUT, before I get to 2018, let’s swing back to the end of 2017 just for a minute because we took one unbelievable trip to Sweden!

We spent a few days in Stockholm which was fully decked out for the holidays and as someone who LOVES the holiday season, I was in heaven!

Everywhere was lit beautifully with lights and one of my favourite parts was going to the Christmas market in Gamla Stan where we drank traditional Swedish glogg which is their version of a mulled wine.

After many wonderful dinners in Stockholm we headed north to Skelleftea where we visited my brother; enjoyed many more delicious meals with my brother and his girlfriend; went on a winter hike; watched a hockey game; and, fully enjoyed the swedish tradition of fika, a break with a coffee and a little treat.

I am now obsessed with the swedish lifestyle of ‘lagom,’ which loosely translates to ‘finding spaces, moments, and ways of living that are not too much or not too little.’ And it just so happens a very good friend of mine gifted me this lovely book over the holidays all about this way of living.

I decided to bring this Swedish idea of a balanced way of living into 2018, always remembering ‘not too little, not too much, just the right amount’ in everything that I do.

I recently wrote an article and recipe for an upcoming issue of The Supper Club magazine entitled ‘Thoughtful Cooking for the New Year,’ where I reflect on these exact themes. I look forward to sharing the recipe with you later this year!

A couple of other favourite recipes from this month…

This Crispy Fried Egg Power Breakfast from The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook

My Tropical Blood Orange Smoothie (can’t get enough of citrus season!)

This Thai Chicken Zoodle Soup from How Sweet Eats

These Banana Bread Muffin Tops from Oh She Glows are the perfect grab n’ go snack too!

A Spicy Sausage & Kale Lasagna from How Sweet Eats

And, since we did not get out to the cabin during the holidays we took a quick little trip out for a weekend and enjoyed reading by the fire and cooking a couple of delicious dinners.

We tried a new pizza flavour combination, Spicy Kale & Ricotta, that is now one of my go-to pizzas!

Last but not least, I am VERY excited because my team (New England Patriots) is in the Super Bowl again! While I love watching the game I also thoroughly enjoy all of the snacks and you can check out a wicked round-up of 45 Super Bowl Snacks from fellow Canadian food bloggers (which also includes my Kettle Chip BBQ Chicken Nachos).

I’m feeling really good about the start of 2018, anyone else feel this way?  I have so many recipes I can’t wait to share with you this year as well as more entertaining-at-home themed blog posts and many more foodie travel adventures! If you have any suggestions or requests for the blog this year I’d love to hear them so please do leave a comment below 🙂

Let’s do this 2018!

Until the next cooking adventure,
Jess

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I went with a friend on a cross-country skiing adventure one day which included copious amounts of hot chocolate before and after our our outing.

I also enjoyed hunkering down inside on super cold days (I’m talking -30C with the wind-chill) and cooking tons of seasonal and comfort food.

This month I’m sharing with you some of the recipes I’ve been cooking, books I’ve been reading and other favourites from January.

We participate in a farmer’s share where we get local produce every other week and currently I’m obsessed with parsnips! Martha Stewart’s recipe for Roasted Parsnips is pretty much how we prepare them at home – I cannot stop eating them!

And along with roasting a ton of parsnips, we’ve also been into roasted broccoli. One of my fav recipes for this is from Killing Thyme where she roasts broccoli with garlic & parmesan.

I’ve been cooking a lot of recipes from Donna Hay’s cookbook, ‘Life in Balance,’ which I received for Christmas. Two of my fav recipes so far are the Tomato & Roasted Quinoa Soup and Chicken, Zucchini & Feta Meatballs. Both recipes include simple ingredients but also have massive amounts of flavour!

My curiosity gave in to find out more about a Danish lifestyle trend ‘hygge’ which translates roughly to mean ‘coziness.’ This book was just too beautiful not to read so I downloaded it to find out more about how to incorporate this into my own life – I will report back!

I also got a library card so I’ve been borrowing books like crazy, making my way through a massive booklist I have on my phone including ‘A Modern Way to Cook,’ by Anna Jones. She divides the book into 20 minute, 30 minute etc meals which is wonderful for weeknight dinners. Last week we made the Smoky Pepper & White Bean Quesadillas which were absolutely delicious.

And, not to be forgotten my husband’s and my birthdays are coming up!  We started a tradition a couple of years ago where we pick a cake recipe that we make for ourselves.  A couple of years ago we almost took it a bit far when we made this insane Bobby Flay Toasted Coconut Cake that legitimately took almost 3 DAYS to make! However, it was SO worth it.  This year we’re keeping things a little more simple. We’re going to make this classic Vanilla Cake with Caramel Pastry Cream from Anna Olson so stay tuned to my Instagram feed & Facebook page for updates on our birthday cake!

Until the next cooking adventure,
Jess

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