Caramelized Onion Dip is a creamy dip perfect for chips and veggies. The caramelized onions can be made ahead and kept in the fridge for a few days. After nearly two years of “looking” and 8 months of honest-to-goodness, we’ve-got-money-in-our-hand, why-is-this-so-hard shopping, we have finally bought a new home. This is not our first go around in the house shopping ...
Recipes
Pineapple Ginger Pork Kabobs
Pineapple Ginger Pork Kabobs is a wonderful recipe for a grilled dinner! The sweetness of the pineapple pairs perfectly with juicy pork! With the weather finally nice enough to be outside, at our house, it is time to fire up the grill! Besides the usual hamburgers, steaks, and hot dogs, kebabs are an affordable dinner option that works well with just about any kind of meat. ...
Baked Italian Sandwich
The amount of meals that we now eat somewhere other than our own house has at least doubled in the last month or so. Not only are we eating lunch like most people who work outside of the home (at our desk or otherwise) but the beautiful weather has made for a few very good excuses to soak up some sunshine while holding lunch in our lap. You won’t hear many complaints from me ...
Spicy Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs
Spicy Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs are a fun a different way to enjoy this Southern side dish! The filling makes a killer sandwich too! Nothing says “Easter” like an egg. I can’t seem to remember a single Easter without one. I can vividly remember sitting at my great-grandmother’s red kitchen table, intently focused on dying the perfect egg. We had looked at pictures of ...
Cabbage Strudel
There is a bag of dirt on my kitchen floor and little cups of seedlings in my window. My garden has been generously turned over and tilled by a neighbor. I have drawn out my plans for this year’s planting, hoping that this season will be better than last season. I have vowed to stay on top of the weeds and the squash bugs and construct a fence to keep the critters and the ...
Twice Baked Colcannon Potatoes
Ireland is totally on my bucket list. I will make it there one day before I die. I don’t care if I have to spend my children’s inheritance to get there, it will happen. Unfortunately, I’m not there yet. I’m not even close, but a girl can dream and she can cook for St. Patty’s Day. St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and whether you will be bellied up at a bar somewhere ...
Curried Cauliflower
Cauliflower is really experiencing a renascence right now. There are some kind of recipes everywhere out there for cauliflower “rice”, cauliflower pizza crust, or cauliflower “mashed potatoes”. This humble vegetable that was my least favorite thing to ever cross my plate as a child has become the darling of the Gluten-free/ Paleo/ Clean Eating/I-Should-Really-Eat-More-Veggies ...
Chicken Stew
Chicken Stew is one of the best ways to warm up a cold winter's day. If you can rustle up some fresh rosemary, this stew will be all the better for it. Hello, Winter…you are late. We have been waiting for you since December. We would have been very appreciative of your wintery precipitation during the Christmas holiday but this February delivery of ice and snow ...
Chocolate Mousse with Whiskey Cream
Minor holidays that once were merely a reason for my husband and I to go out to a nice dinner or buy each other a sweet card are now filled with dread for me. Holidays like Valentine’s Day are now a gaping black hole where I just throw my hard earned money so that my children don’t feel left out at school. Why do parents feel the need to send their kids balloon-a-grams, a dozen ...
The Top 5 Kitchen DIY’s
I have been blogging for...7 years!? Holy cow, 7 years. And in 7 years I believe that I have managed to add a little value to the internet (not much, but a little bit). I noticed recently that some of my most useful posts have been swept under the rug so to speak. Many were published years before Pinterest, Digg, or the wild popularity of Twitter and I thought that maybe ...
Make Your Own Frozen Pizza
I am ashamed to say that in the last year or so, our family has adopted a nasty habit: cheap frozen pizza. It's a guilty pleasure sort of thing really. I mean, there is nothing more unhealthy than a $2 Tony's pepperoni pizza, but when you get home late with two hungry kids and no motivation to cook, the frozen cardboard with 5 pepperoni slices becomes a wonderful solution to ...
Homemade Baking Mix
Convenience and good taste are rarely found together. Like tuna salad in a gas station, a party dress at the Dollar Store, or jewelry at Walgreens, store-bought baking mixes are very high on the list of things I will never buy. When I was a kid, all of our pancakes and waffles were made from the yellow box of baking mix that Mom kept under the counter. I didn’t know the ...
Baked BBQ Potato Wedges
Baked BBQ Potato Wedges are a hit that everyone will be talking about. Whip up a batch for your next tailgate party or cookout! They won't last long! These delicious baked BBQ potato wedges will be your new favorite. Simple and easy to prepare potato wedges that will please any crowd. Yummy wedged potatoes with cheese, bacon, seasonings, BBQ sauce a few other yummy ...
Teriyaki Turkey Meatball Stir-fry
Bring two favorites together in one dish! Meatballs and stirfry are a great way to make this healthy quick dinner even more kid friendly! I’m sure that I have mentioned this before, but I LOVE Asian food. Not only do I love how fast and fresh most Asian food can be, but I also love all of the sauces and condiments that go along with it. The Asian pantry is teeming with ...
Stuffed Flatbreads
A few months ago we were swimming in little puppies. A gift from a stray who wandered up to the house, the seven adorable spotted noses running around our carport pretty much consumed our life. Every morning we were greeted by tiny little canine barks and growls and little puppy paws chasing the laces of our shoes. Any walk outside became an obstacle course of puppy tails under ...