Warm Barley Salad with Grilled Veggies is a hearty pantry clean out dish that is delicious for lunch or dinner side dish! These days we all seem to be digging a little deeper in our pantry and I am no exception. Long days at home and no good reason to leave have me going through all of those ingredients that I have bought in the past with good intentions, but never ...
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Spicy Keto Avocado Ranch Dressing
This Easy Spicy Avocado Ranch Dressing is the perfect condiment to adorn your favorite salad, crudites platter or even chicken wings. It's even keto friendly! When it comes to eating, I’m pretty adventurous. My husband and I both are always game for going someplace new and trying the craziest thing on the menu. We are always looking for something exciting to try. Until we ...
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 ...
Homemade Ketchup
I was standing at our local farmer’s market last week talking to David from Riversong Farms and lamenting about my glut of tomatoes and my lack of storage space for the dozens of quarts I had already put up when he made the most wonderful suggestion. “Make ketchup,” he said. ”It’s really good and pretty easy to make.” It was the most wonderful idea I had ever heard. Why ...
Strawberry Salad with Creamy Poppy seed Dressing
Strawberry Salad with Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing is a simple and elegant salad that makes a delicious lunch or side dish. The dressing is sweet with a little tart finish and pairs well with the sweet strawberries. As we box up all of our belongings and throw our lives into a little more disarray, the world outside marches into my favorite time of year. The landscape is ...
Shrimp Tacos with Jalapeno Slaw
Right now, in my mind, I am on vacation. I am not actually on vacation, I am somewhere towards the beginning of what will eventually turn into the busiest, most stressful, and exhausting month of my life. The month of May has now been dubbed Hell Month. Do you ever have one of those months? Where you just stare at your calendar in disbelief and wonder how all of this got ...
Spicy Southwest Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing
Spicy Southwest Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing is a quick and easy dinner salad to whip up from the contents of your kitchen.Make it a healthy lunch or dinner! Happy New Year!! 2013 has arrived despite all of the Mayan prophecies and many people are making all of the usual promises to themselves. I don't know why we feel compelled to make all of these changes on the ...
Classic Caesar Salad
Classic Caesar Salad isn't hard to make, in fact it can be a simple and inexpensive salad to accompany dinner. Top it with grilled chicken or salmon and it makes an excellent dinner! I've been a little obsessed with classic Caesar salads lately. Maybe it's because it so hard to find a really good one. Or maybe it corresponds with my other new obsession, anchovy paste. It ...
Country Garden Update and Cilantro Lime Grilled Chicken Salad
So 3 weeks of rain was followed by 5 days of searing heat, then... more rain. All of this wishy washy weather has been reeking havoc upon our allergies but the garden doesn't seem to mind much. Especially the broccoli and lettuce. We have been eating off of those plants for the last week or so. Especially the lettuce. I have certainly been adding more fiber in my diet. The ...
Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing
Thanksgiving isn't Thanksgiving without Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing. It just isn't. It's probably the dish that I look forward to the most. It's the one I spend the most time making sure is absolutely perfect, and it's the cheapest thing on the table. Now I know that some of you people out there call it "stuffing" and that you actually put it inside the bird. ...
A Blast from the Past – Chili Beef Salads
I am a child of the 80's. When I say "child" I mean I was born in the 80's. You would not find me dancing to hair bands in my basement while combing my bangs into a perfect sphere that would reach the door a good 5 minutes before I did. Although I did have a perm ( briefly) and a t-shirt tie with stirrup pants and some Keds. Oh...and I loved "the Boss". Boorrrn in the ...
Roasted Chicken and Tomatoes
So, back in the spring, I bought a couple tomato plants at KMart and planted those tomato plants in the 3 square foot sunny spot in my yard. ( Really, that's all the sunny space I have) Well, they have become quite prolific. In the last week I have picked 7 or 8 tomatoes and I have probably another 10 or 15 that are still on the bush. So, for the last week I have been eating ...
Pasta GIVEAWAY and Lemon Shrimp in a Spinach-Basil Pesto !!!
I am finally back from a long and wonderful vacation. While I was gone the springtime breezes turned into summer's sweltering heat. Heat like this means dinner will be much lighter fare for us. A light and flavorful pesto pasta dish fits the bill nicely. Lucky for me, Amalia from Garofalo Pasta sent me a free sample of their amazing pasta for me to try out. Now, one of the ...
Homemade Yogurt Blue Cheese Dressing
Now, I know I have told you about my dislike of salads, so I hope you are not shocked by a large wedge of iceberg on my plate. I really don't like salads as a meal. Side salads are fine. Nothing but a salad is not fine. Anyway, I have found that one of the downfalls of making a salad at home is that good salad dressing is hard to come by. You want to keep it relatively low ...