Fluffy homemade waffles perfect for a weekend brunch. Whip up a batch for the kids and stash the extra in the freezer for an easy weekday breakfast! I’ve really let my weekend breakfast game slip for the last few weeks. The kids have been forced to find whatever they can to subsist on until I feel like getting up and making something substantial. I have just been totally ...
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Italian Stuffed Peppers Granny Would Have loved!
Italian Stuffed Peppers Granny Would Have loved! These Italian style stuffed peppers are full of Italian sausage, spinach, cheese, rice and lots of flavor! Excellent as a make ahead meal or make a double batch and have a pan of these stuffed peppers waiting in the freezer! I think its about time I got down to some grandma food. It's everyone's favorite anyway. All ...
The Serious Cook’s Essential Tools
All product links are affiliate links (that means I make a teency tiny bit if you order through this link) but I honestly highly recommend and own these products myself. There are those in this world who cook because they have to, then there are those who cook because they LOVE to. I am the later. Actually, my husband and I both are avid cooks and we have been in the ...
One Pan Bacon Cheddar Hashbrown Flip
Bacon and cheddar come together with eggs and hashbrowns to create a memorable breakfast your whole family will flip for. Easy and delicious, this One Pan Bacon Cheddar Hashbrown Flip feeds a crowd. This time of the year is when life slows down for us, professionally. The vineyards are dormant, the tourist season has long ...
The 10 Must Have Staple Recipes to Stock Your Pantry
I am a HUGE fan of any recipes from scratch (if you hadn't figured that out by now). While the cost savings of making your own can be huge it's really the fact that I know EXACTLY what is going into my recipes. Also, when you live waaaayyyy out in the country you have to be creative and resourceful. And who doesn't love feeling self-sufficient? (Probably no one, but if there ...
Chocolate Chip Biscotti
It doesn’t matter how old you get, having dessert for breakfast always sounds like a great idea. Especially this time of year when the last slice of pumpkin pie is totally a balanced meal and the family weekend brunch most certainly includes a heaping pile of cinnamon rolls. Cookies are a little harder to justify. I guess you could call it a “breakfast cookie” but they lack the ...
Porchetta Roll with Chimichurri Sauce
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. I love all of the gift giving and cookie making. I love the get-togethers and all of the twinkling lights. What I don't love is just how dang expensive it is. Every holiday season we struggle to do all of the gifting we want without digging ourselves into a hole of debt that we then spend the next several ...
Easy Breakfast Hash
I’m not sure what it was that possessed me to raise chickens. Maybe it was the fresh country air, maybe it was chicken coop envy, maybe it was how cute and fluffy they are when they are little chicks, but it most certainly had something to do with eggs. There is nothing quite like an egg from a happy chicken. Unlike the sad, bland eggs from the grocery store, the eggs ...
Turkey Cranberry Sliders
Let’s be honest. Thanksgiving is delicious and all, but the best part is all of the leftovers. If done correctly, the fridge will be full of meals that I don’t have to work too hard for for the majority of the week. The first couple of meals are generally a similar version of the original meal; swap the virtuous Brussel sprouts ...
Pumpkin Cake Roll
The “cake roll” has been around for a long time. The Swiss roll and the Yule log come to mind as the most classic of rolled desserts. The mesmerizing spiral of cake and sweet, creamy filling are hard to resist. I don’t roll cake for just any occasion. Its nerve racking and delicate work, but the end result is so impressive that I will set aside my fear and give it a go. ...
Sweet Potato Rolls
Even though the weather is more like Summer than mid-Autumn, there is no denying that Thanksgiving is just a few short weeks away. Cooks everywhere are compiling grocery lists, digging out family recipes, and trying to locate the gravy boat in order to prepare for the biggest meal of the year. Thanksgiving is all about tradition. There must be turkey and ham, ...
Banana and Blackberry Baked Oatmeal
I think every plan that I have made in the last week has been thwarted. Plans to go into work early to get things done were interrupted by a broken water main. Efforts to actually make it to work on time were waylaid by 6 escaped chickens and a dog that thinks they are delicious. And all of the good intentions for spending my day off prepping meals for the week were ...
Easy Chocolate Zucchini Cake
It became abundantly clear on our recent vacation with my in-laws just how perilously close our children are to the teenage years. Even though our annual pilgrimage to the lake was full of the usual childish giddiness of vacation, each activity was punctuated by a solid dose of 9-year old sass. Our daughter ( now often heard referred to as “your daughter”) was the worst ...
Gloriously Retro Pineapple Ham Balls
I have a slight obsession with vintage recipes. Just something about the fads and trends of cooking that thought Jello molds and mayonnaise was a good combination fascinates me. I often find myself wondering, what was the mindset of the women (for it was almost assuredly women) who came up with these unorthodox combinations. I think it must have been a little bit ...
Broccoli Bites and the Terrible Hide and Seekers
The game of hide-and-seek is certainly not anything new. As a child, our regular games of hide- and-seek were closely related to black-ops style missions that demanded that the hiders call upon all of their stealth and ingenuity in order to outsmart the usually older and bigger seekers. We would play endless games, making sure to place “base” in some wide open area ...