This Extra Crispy Pork Tenderloin Sandwich is what you want for your next meal. A thin pork tenderloin cutlet is breaded and pan-fried to perfection and topped with tangy dijonnaise and pickles. So so so good. This recipe makes the best pork tenderloin sandwich ever. A thin cut of pork tenderloin is fried to perfection to make an extra crispy sandwich that ...
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10 Recipes for Fresh Strawberries!
Strawberries are the signal that Summer is nearly here. Sweet and juicy with a brilliant red color, strawberries are at their peak in May and June. My family has been celebrating the strawberry for as long as I can remember. Strawberries have woven their way into our mealtimes for generations. This springtime berry is much anticipated in and we use them as much as we can during ...
Summer Chicken and Rice Salad
Summer Chicken and Rice Salad is a wonderful way to use up the bits and pieces of veggies in your crisper drawer. This makes a great lunch or potluck dish! Summer fever continues in our house. We are all practically chomping on the bit for summer vacation to begin. It’s not just the kids who are excited, we are excited, too. Of course, for my husband and I it’s ...
Tuna Tuesday: Fried Tuna Po’Boy
Budget friendly tuna is balled up and deep fried to make a delicious version of the classic po'boy. Crispy and delicious, the fried tuna po'boy is an excellent lunch or dinner recipe! The Fried Tuna Po'Boy first appeared on this blog in 2010. I actually dreamed this one up all on my own (can you remember days before Pinterest? Me neither). Over the last 7 years it ...
Big Italian Cobb Salad and Creamy Italian Dressing
This Big Italian Cobb Salad is full of all your favorite ingredients like salami, pepperoncinis, tomatoes, artichoke hearts and topped with a creamy Italian style dressing. If you've been receiving our emails you will know that my husband, Blaine, has joined the dark side and is now my partner in this little ol' blog. Here's his very first post, Big Italian Cobb ...
Creamy Spring Tuna and Sweet Pea Pasta Salad
Creamy Spring Tuna and Sweet Pea Pasta Salad is a wonderfully refreshing springtime lunch or picnic dish. Make it up for your next potluck or whip up a batch to take to work this week! I, like many other people, love to garden. Vegetable garden more so than flower garden (although there are always flowers in my vegetable patch). There is something so satisfying about ...
Bacon Pimento Cheese + Guacamole = Guacamento
The Guacamento is a sinfully delicious sandwich that is made with equal parts bacon pimento cheese and homemade guacamole, then grilled and eaten in silence with your elbows out, just in case someone tries to steal it from you. This post contains affiliate links When I think of “sinful and indulgent” things in my life, my mind does not go straight to the gutter ...
Muffaletta Style Italian Party Panini Sandwich
A million years ago, a fresh faced 20-something and a curly headed 30-something walked into an Italian grocery in the heart of New Orleans and ordered a muffaletta. Hand in hand, those two love birds shared a wheel of Italian delight stuffed with salty, rich cured meats and cheeses and oozing with a briny olive salad. Even though the fresh faced 20-something was doing her best ...
Black Bean Sliders
These black bean sliders are designed to be a fun dish that could be shared at a party as a heavy appetizer and are a perfect accompaniment to fries and a cold beer. Set them next to the plate of hot wings so that no one’s carnivore-nature feels threatened. If you want to make a Southern carnivore squirm, give them a veggie burger. The veggie burger came to fame in the late ...
Fried Oyster Mushroom Po’Boy
Last Spring my dad, my friend Nicole and I went to this awesome workshop where we learned how to put together our own mushroom logs. It was a fun day full of laughs and learning an interesting new skill and we each came home with three of our own shitake mushroom logs with high hopes of harvesting oodles of mushrooms for years to come. We all got so excited in fact that we ...
Quick and Healthy Greek Chicken Salad
There is a Greek restaurant just down the street from where I work. It sits on a busy street surrounded by gas stations and fast food restaurants. Parking there is atrocious. There are a few tightly packed spots right off of the busy 4 lane avenue and a few more spots tucked into a dingy alleyway just behind the building that is shared with a title loan and a Cricket phone ...
Garlic Shrimp Rice Bowl
Living in the country on the edges of society has always had its sacrifices. We knew that when we moved back nearly 6 years ago to my small hometown. But here recently, a little bit of the modern world has finally reached our doorstep. We now have honest-to-goodness internet. Oh sure, we had internet before. It came out of a tiny black box that sat in ...
Green Bean and New Potato Salad
Life has an amazing way of teaching lessons. We have had so many lessons in the last week. My husband has learned that you should never run with wet shoes on and that broken bones sometimes take a plate and 8 screws to fix. I have learned that it takes 6 minutes to get from our house to the nearest doctor and that we have an astounding amount of friends and family who ...
Roasted Poblano and Corn Chowder
This tasty Roasted Poblano and Corn Chowder recipe is the ultimate way to jazz up corn chowder! Made with fresh ingredients like roasted poblano peppers, bacon, potatoes and of course, corn, this recipe is one you will want to make time and time again for a warm and wonderful dinner option. Corn chowder is always a welcome sight at meal time, but this recipe ...
Top 5 soups for Fall
The beginning of Fall begs for soup. Those first cool days and even cooler nights are practically made for curling yourself around a comforting, steaming bowl of goodness. Soups are economical and generally pretty easy to put together. Ever since the kids changed their mind about the goodness of soup a couple of years ago, soup is on the regular Fall/Winter dinner rotation. So ...