Camille Styles’ 5 Go-To Healthy Weeknight Recipes (They Involve Squash Obvi!)

The interweb is a sea of recipes and 'recipe overwhelm' can be a real thing. We share healthy recipes all the time, as does our February Guest Editor, Camille Styles, but we're often asked what we're really making at home - and wanted to know the same from Camille!

All month long we've been soaking up practical insights from this healthy-meets-cozy lifestyle blogger. Below, she's dishing on five recipes she's really cooking and absolutely loving during this busy beginning of the year season. Grab the squash pasta and granola recipes to make weeknights better, healthier and easier for the rest of the year...

Does anyone else feel like these first couple months of the New Year are possibly the most insane time of year? It seems like work, travel, social stuff and kids' activities all conspire with each other to happen at the exact same time leading up to March. In years past, I’ve definitely allowed myself to become overwhelmed and just hope that I can keep it together without dropping any of the balls that I’m juggling.

But you know what? This year I’m determined to actually enjoy this time, to savor these last winter feels and get ready for a new season by cooking with as much winter squash as possible while it’s in season. I'm also determined to take an evening walk just to enjoy the first hints of spring in the air. Most of all, I want to cap off these busy days with more low-key nights at home, cozy in the kitchen with my sous-chef (4-year-old Phoebe), cooking and getting inspired by the season’s best produce. These are the ridiculously easy (and goooood) recipes that have been on repeat at our house lately:

Spaghetti Squash Pasta: Made with goat cheese, arugula and bacon. Finally, a delicious spaghetti-squash recipe that actually satisfies the pasta lovers in my life! Get the recipe below!

Mango + Coconut Soba Noodle Salad:This salad combines surprising ingredients like mango, avocado and peanuts in an Asian-inspired noodle salad that is so beautiful - and perfect for doubling or tripling to serve a big group. Full of thai flavors like lime, peanuts and a profusion of herbs, it’s really the crunchy coconut throughout the salad that takes it over the top and makes people stop and say, “whoa.” Get the recipe below!

Pecan + Coconut Granola: I make a big batch of homemade granola on Sunday and use it as the basis for breakfast all week long.

Sweet Potato Crostini: The easiest appetizer recipe for entertaining that looks so much fancier than it actually is. Here’s how these work: sweet potatoes get sliced up into thin little discs, then coated with olive oil and sea salt before baking them until crispy. And there you go! The most full-of-flavor vessels for whatever cravings strike. Get the recipe here.

Kale, Persimmon + Pomegranate Salad: This salad is packed full of beautiful seasonal produce. It’s perfect for a satisfying veg dinner - and leftovers hold up great for lunch the next day. It’s packed full of energy-inducing superfoods like hearty kale for loads of vitamins and minerals, a big scoop of quinoa adds plant-based protein, and avocado and walnuts load it up with those yummy good-for-you fats. Get the recipe here. [olists num=1][olists num=2]

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