Happy Thanksgiving 2017

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that you are spending time with those that you love stuffing your face. This year I am so thankful for all the people that I've worked with this year and in the years past. You have made for a really successful and fulfilling 2017 and for that, I am extremely grateful. 

Paleo Slow Cooker Chicken Pad Thai with Veggie Noodles Recipe

This is not my favorite image ever...it's getting dark too early now and I needed a flash but I was afraid our dog Dodger would eat this dish while I went to get it........ SOOO with my cooking ADD who knows when I will make this dish again and it is too good of a recipe for me to not share because of a shadowy overhead light photo. I'm thinking of you. I honestly am. I love zucchini noodles, but my husband Taylor, not so much. He doesn't like how watery they are. This recipe has you "steam" the noodles in the crockpot while you're cooking everything else. It was brilliant! I put them in at the halfway mark to make sure they were still a little crunchy. The dish came out with a lot of flavor and a bit of a kick! This recipe came from Paleo Pot and you can get it HERE.

Vegan Tortilla Soup Recipe

I was planning on making this recipe a couple weeks when it was freezing cold, but life and work got in the way and I made it today and it's close to 90 out. This is nowhere near as pretty as anything that I photographed this past weekend at Food and Wine, but it still tasted pretty dang good. It's really garlicky which I love.. just make sure that you eat it on a day when you're not planning to be around people for several hours. Also don't burn your parchment paper like I did while crisping up your tortilla. Thanks to Running on Real food for creating this recipe. It really was delicious.  Get "The Best Vegan Tortilla Soup Recipe" Here.

Tofu Cauliflower Vegetable Korma Recipe

I LOOOVE Indian food. It is quite possibly my favorite type of food. Yesterday after successfully avoiding the gym I decided that I wanted to make a veggie korma and while sitting outside my closest Kroger in Nashville googling for a recipe (because that's the smart way to do it), I found this one from Yummy Beet. It is really easy and seriously good. I opted to serve it over cauliflower rice to make myself eat even more veggies. If you don't like tofu she has an option for chickpeas instead! Click HERE for Yummy Beet's recipe! I took a quick photograph of the dish but I didn't take too long to arrange it because it smelled way too good and I couldn't wait any longer to eat it. 

Grilled Chicken Greek Salad Recipe

Some of you may know that while we were on vacation in October our upstairs toilet flooded our downstairs (crappy iPhone photo below). Our 3 month house restoration had us back to eating horribly. If you know me at all you know that I live for sweets. I cannot have sweets or boxed snacks in the house because I eat cookies by the row and then an hour later come back for the next row and then the next hour I'm eating half a box of Cheez-It's. So like the rest of the world, after Christmas and Girl Scout cookie season my husband and I are trying to get back to eating our veggies (gross). Here's a Panera Greek Grilled Chicken Salad recipe and a photo of my layman's attempt on our beautiful new post flood floors. I didn't use the olives, (way gross), tomatoes (sometimes gross), or onions (I forgot) so basically it's cucumber, chicken, and feta. Feta is really the only reason to eat a salad anyways...unless there's croutons. Baby steps.

Happy Thanksgiving! - Bright Event Productions Promotional Shoot

My favorite lighting company, Bright Event Productions, hired me to photograph their annual holiday card. This year they decided to send out a Thanksgiving card so they had a family feast on Abi's front lawn. I hope you all have a wonderful day with your loved ones tomorrow! Rentals from 12th Table. 

Happy Thanksgiving from Erin Lee Allender Photography!