Best of Pinterest

I have a love-hate relationship with Pinterest. It's a fun, handy way to find new recipes. But it's also a time suck. I get out my computer, open it to Pinterest and tell myself I'm just going to sit here for ten minutes and pin a few nice, healthy salad recipes. Next thing I know, four hours have passed and I've pinned 8 salad recipes and 97 chocolate cake recipes.

My other problem with Pinterest is that for every recipe I try that I love, I try 10 more that I either hate or that are okay but need a lot of tweaking. I'm okay with making minor tweaks to a recipe, but I don't want to have to rebuild the recipe before I can use it. I don't know if I'm just bad at choosing recipes or if this is a widespread problem. Either way, it inspired me to start a new blog feature: Best of Pinterest. Every couple of weeks (or whenever I've acquired enough recipes), I'm going to share with you links to the Pinterest recipes I've tried and loved. I'll try to share as many pictures as possible, but I'm not a person who is in the habit of taking pictures of everything I cook/eat, so some of the recipes will just have links.

I'm easing in to a new healthy eating plan that my doctor has designed for me, but while searching for new recipes to use, I came across a few recipes for food that I used to be able to eat but can't anymore (imagine one gentle Demi Moore-style tear falling down my face) and they were too good not to share.

1. One Pan Healthy Sausage and Veggies



This recipes includes Parmesan cheese, but I'm allergic to dairy so I left it out and it was still delicious! This is also a very versatile recipe because you can use any vegetables you want for this dish, which makes it the perfect clean-out-the-fridge recipe. I used carrots, asparagus, and part of a red pepper that I had left over from another recipe.

2. No Bake Cafeteria Peanut Butter Bars

I was so busy eating these Chocolate-Peanut Butter-y bars of pure happiness that I didn't get a picture. I loved this recipe and the best part was that it's a dessert that doesn't require any baking (or stovetop cooking.) It's made entirely in the microwave and the whole thing can be made in less than 10 minutes. The recipe contains butter but I was able to really easily substitute dairy-free margarine and it still tasted fantastic!

3. Trisha Yearwood's Pork Chops and Rice

Trisha's Southern Kitchen is my favorite cooking show. I love how down-to-earth Trisha is and it's the only cooking show I've ever watched that was funny as well. Unfortunately, since her show features Southern cooking, I'm allergic to most of the recipes. So I was very excited when she featured a recipe that I could use after making one small tweak to it (I used oil instead of the 4 tbsp of butter.) The end result was a really easy to make, hearty, delicious homestyle dinner.

4. Shredded Beef Taquitos

I made these Taquitos once (minus the cheese) and they were pretty good, but kind of needed the cheese to make them great. But the seasoning mixture was so wonderful that I began making a big batch of it to use for tacos, bean dip and various other recipes. I love it so much that I always keep a jar of it in the pantry.

5. Applesauce Pork Tenderloin 

This roast recipe became absolute perfection after I made one tiny tweak to it. The recipe calls for pouring all of the sauce over the tenderloin at the beginning but I like to pour half of the sauce on at the beginning and the other half when the tenderloin is about 15 minutes from being done.

I would love to hear about your favorite Pinterest recipes in the comments section!

Comments

  1. Those all sound delicious! I'm sort of a lazy cook, so I like things simple, simple, simple. I have an Easy-Peasy Recipe tab on my website, and try to add one recipe to it per month.

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    1. I have a great lazy recipe for you. Put a 2 pound beef roast in the crockpot with 2 cans of beef broth. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and then cook on low or 8 or 9 hours. Then take the lid off, turn the crockpot to high and dump a bag of egg noodles in. Cook for 30 minutes and your done! It's the kind of recipe that tastes like you put a lot of work into it, but it's so easy.

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    2. I'll add that to my April Easy Peasy recipe tab. Thanks, Angela!

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    3. Just an FYI, I nominated your blog for the Sunshine Award. If you want to participate, wonderful, and if not, I totally understand. Details on my latest blog post. :-)

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    4. Thanks Pat. I would love to participate. I'll check out your blog later after Sofie and Tyler go home!

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  2. The sausage and veggies sound good! I find a lot of recipes on Pinterest and have found that reading through the comments is really helpful at determining if a recipe is good or not. If there are no comments then it's kind of a risk, but otherwise it's nice to see what other people think. Bakedbree is my favorite recipe blogger. She has tons of great recipes and everything I've tried from her site has turned out really good.

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  3. Pinterest is such a time suck! At least you’re trying the recipes. I just pin them and never try them.

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  4. LOL! yes, it is a love/hate relationship. Good idea to share The Best in a post! Thank you! blessings ~ tanna

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  5. I should go through the recipes I've pinned and actually try them. I started to say try them all, but I've pinned so many and tried so few!

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  6. I get a lot of recipes from Pinterest, too - some are great, others just so-so. It's taken a while, but I'm feeling more confident about reading a recipe and deciding whether or not it will work.

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  7. I might have to try the chocolate peanut butter one!

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  8. I don't have a ton of luck with Pinterest recipes either. I keep trying and pinning though:)

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  9. Thank you for putting the recipes that you love out there. I feel the same way about Pinterest.

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  10. Some of these sound really good. I don't think I should venture to the peanut butter bars, though. One look and I'd be sunk! Danger, Will Robinson! But I might save the link for later!

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  11. I am not on Pinterest but I do look for recipes on-line. I agree that some need tweaking. Sometimes I can tell because I have been cooking for a long time, that what they say to do won't work. I also make up my own recipes sometimes and must admit that they get better the more times I make them!

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  12. Hi Angela,

    Lovely to discover your blog and many thanks for visiting mine.
    So agree with all you have said about Pinterest and I find it can get away with a lot of your time.
    Hope you are having a happy week
    Hugs
    Carolyn

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  13. Those no bake cafeteria peanut butter bars sound so good! Thanks for sharing!

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  14. I am exactly the same, Pinterest just pulls me in and it's like Alice down the rabbit hole for me, but I love it! Those taquitos sound so good, will definitely have to try those out! Thank you for visiting my blog too and leaving such lovely comments. - Tasha

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  15. Great recipes! I don't cook much but like to try something new once in awhile. Thank you for visiting my blog. :)

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  16. What a great blog you have here!! I am so glad you visited Lakehouse....I used to be on Pinterest so much....but rarely have time to visit the site lately. I was on there way too long whenever I would sign on. I am trying to get back to blogging, and visiting other blogs again. Have a super weekend!
    Debbie

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  17. I have a love/hate relationship with pinterest too! But I've definitely had more hits than misses in terms of recipes so I keep going back :)

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