
Wellness Mama Seafood Recipes
My favorite healthy, real food seafood recipes for busy families can be found below. All recipes are grain-free, dairy optional and kid-approved. Need help meal planning? Check out my meal planning service!
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How to Make Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Our family loves eating foods from different cultures. The recipes often feature fresh ingredients and it’s nice to try all of the different flavors! These fresh Vietnamese spring rolls are the latest Asian recipe we’ve tried for dinner. Spring Rolls Recipe This recipe was inspired by my friend David Vo. It’s based off of a …
How to Make Coquilles Saint-Jacques
I’m a huge fan of French food (as you might notice in my cookbook!) as well as seafood, so this coquilles Saint-Jacques recipe is right up my alley. It’s a fancy dish that can impress any dinner guest but it’s also fairly simple to throw together (which I’m always grateful for). I love making this …
Cajun Gumbolaya Recipe
Having some Louisiana roots, Cajun Gumbalaya (also spelled gumbolaya) is a family favorite around here. It combines the flavors of gumbo and jambalaya for an intensely flavorful recipe. As they say: “Laissez les bons temps rouler” (Let the good times roll!). What Is Gumbalaya? I’ve also always been somewhat of a rule-breaker, so while gumbo …
Zesty Shrimp Poblano Tacos With Kiwi Salsa
I’m a huge fan of seafood for its many health benefits and shrimp is one of my favorites. I love finding new ways to use shrimp in easy, healthy meals (and you know how I love quick and easy meals!). This shrimp poblano taco recipe checks all of my boxes. It’s simple to make but …
Asian Ginger Salmon
I noticed the other day that I only have two salmon recipes on my site. One of them is a recipe for salmon with orange and butter, wrapped in rainbow chard. The other is a sheet pan meal with lemon and asparagus. Both are very tasty and simple. So simple in fact, that they’re pretty light on …
Sicilian Feast of the Seven Fishes for Christmas Eve
I learned early on that when you get married, you also marry your husband’s sports teams (at least with my guy… go Reds!). This extends to cultural traditions too, especially if he comes from a strong cultural background. That’s where one of our favorite Christmas traditions called “Feast of the Seven Fishes” finds its roots. If you’re …
Bacon-Wrapped Salmon Patties
Let’s face it: everything tastes better with bacon! For example: Loaded cauliflower with bacon Crustless broccoli quiche with bacon Bacon chicken bites (a family favorite!) Bacon lime sweet potato salad Even chocolate-covered bacon! See what I mean? These bacon wrapped salmon patties are a fast recipe and an easy way to make canned salmon “gourmet.” The kids …
Baked Coconut Shrimp With Piña Colada Sauce
Before switching over to a real food lifestyle, I used to love coconut shrimp. I figured there had to be a delicious healthy version I could make at home. Luckily, this one worked out within the first couple tries and couldn’t be easier! So here it is… straight from what I like to call “The Mess …
Fresh & Simple Fish Taco Salad
On vacation one year, we ate at a great seafood restaurant that had fish tacos on the menu. At that point I’d never had fish tacos and they sounded intriguing! At the time I was grain-free for my thyroid condition (and still do very limited grains), so I asked if they could convert it into a …
Homemade Fish Sticks (Gluten & Grain Free)
My kids love fish sticks and figuring out a healthy recipe for them was a high priority when we adapted to a healthier way of eating. These take very little time to make and the fish can be cut different sizes to make fish nuggets or regular breaded fillets of fish (for the over 5 …
Tuna-Stuffed Avocado Bowls
Some days are super busy, so healthy ideas for lunches and dinners to-go are always appreciated. These tuna avocado bowls are fast and easy to make, portable, healthy, and delicious! We have them for lunch during Lent or any time we need a break from the usual. What’s for Lunch? Tuna-Stuffed Avocado Bowls! In my opinion, these …
Perfect Crab-Stuffed Mushrooms
We all can get tired of preparing the same old foods night after night, and sometimes nothing is better than getting a little fancy and mixing it up! These crab-stuffed mushrooms are a spin on my garlic roasted mushrooms. They are delicious and fun to eat, and contain enough fiber and protein that they could round …
Spicy Shrimp Stir-Fry With Peppers
It’s no secret that I love to make stir-frys for dinner. A meal that is fast and easy, healthy, and only uses one pan checks all my boxes. Like most of my other stir-fry recipes, such as my go-to beef and cabbage stir-fry, this spicy shrimp stir-fry recipe was born on a night when I …
One-Pan Baked Salmon Asparagus Recipe
With a large family to feed and not much time on my hands, I’m a big fan of one-pan meals. (In fact, I based my whole cookbook on the concept.) I already make large pans of roasted vegetables weekly, but we eat a lot of seafood these days as well so this salmon asparagus sheet …
Cheesy Tuna Casserole Recipe (Kid Friendly & Gluten Free)
Tuna is a quick, easy protein choice that tastes great in a variety of dishes. My family enjoys it in recipes like this apple walnut tuna salad and many others. This gluten-free tuna casserole recipe is another way to enjoy tuna as a healthier twist on the popular classic. Which Tuna Is Best? There are a …
Grain-Free Pecan Crusted Flounder (Delicious and Easy!)
This pecan crusted flounder is a recipe that I’ve been making about once a week at our house. The crunchy, nutty crust topped with pastured butter really makes it a comfort food we all love. Finely chopped nuts mimic the crunchy delicious texture of fried fish (without all the frying in rancid processed oil). The …
Smoked Salmon Dip Recipe (With Cottage Cheese)
I have a confession… I love seafood and could easily live on oysters and salmon for the rest of my life. My kids eat these foods, but definitely don’t love them as much as I do. I’m always looking for ways to make seafood delicious and easy to eat for kids. Plus, it turns out …
Sicilian Crab Cake Arancini Recipe
This recipe is part of our yearly Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve. This Sicilian American tradition involves several unique fish dishes served in courses. This is hands-down the kids favorite recipe from the meal. What are Arancini? Never heard of them? You aren’t alone. I hadn’t either until I married my husband …
Grilled Thai Shrimp Recipe
Shrimp are an excellent protein choice for a busy night because they defrost and cook very quickly. They easily take on the flavors and aromas of the spices used on them, so they are also extremely versatile and delicious. This Thai shrimp recipe is no exception. Thai Shrimp The flavors used in Thai cooking are …
Simple Shrimp Bisque Recipe
My husband and I have *tried* to keep date nights a priority over the years. It definitely isn’t easy and we don’t schedule them nearly as often as we’d like (though we do plan some fun at-home ones pretty often). Frequently, we bring a nursing baby with us and a date gets cut short by …
Fish Tacos in Cabbage Leaves
Many of my recipes are my healthy interpretations of restaurant favorites. I love making healthier versions of recipes at home, but this is not a recipe that I ever expected to be on this list. Fish Tacos? As a child, we rarely ate out and our small town had very few options for restaurants. Very …
Parsnip Shrimp Lo Mein Recipe
When we gave up grains, we pretty much gave up all pasta and noodles. Lately, I found a way to make “noodles” out of vegetables and they taste delicious! Even if you aren’t grain free, using vegetables in place of noodles is a good way to get some extra nutrients in your diet. Before the …
Cauliflower Paella Recipe
Paella is a traditional rice dish from eastern Spain that was traditionally cooked over an open fire. It can include practically any ingredient that goes well with rice, but seafood variations are seem to be the most common. Paella has a rich yellow color from use of saffron and complex flavors from other spices, onions, …
10-Minute Garlic Butter Calamari Recipe (Stir-Fry!)
On one of our first dates, my husband ordered fried calamari at a restaurant. I was definitely unsure about it, but finally worked up the courage to try it … it was actually good! Even though it was good in awful-deep-fried-PUFA-oils, I wasn’t sure I could handle it in any form that actually resembled a …