The cinnamon roll you want on Christmas morning or any morning. From scratch, sweet and comforting, these Chocolate Chip Walnut Cinnamon Rolls are perfect. Make them the night before to make your morning even easier. The holiday season can be tough for anyone. It's 4 weeks of crazy with a bunch of family and wrapping paper involved. So, after a week that has seemed like a ...
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Braised Chicken Thighs with Spinach and White Beans
Braised Chicken Thighs with Spinach and White Beans is a comforting autumn dish that is easy to pull together any day of the week. The first taste of Fall arrived this morning. 62 degrees with the highs only getting to the mid-70s sometime this afternoon. I am not complaining one little bit. After several weeks of 90 degree weather every day this is a much needed respite ...
Fried Tuna Patties with Yogurt Dill Sauce
Fried Tuna Patties with Yogurt Dill Sauce is one of those rare combinations of cheap, quick and delicious. We must have eaten tuna patties ( or "tuna croquettes" if you want to get real Southern) at least once a week growing up. Embrace the canned tuna and whip up this family favorite! I have a deep, abiding love for fried tuna patties. Isn't that weird? I just can't ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jam Muffins
I have a deep-seated love of muffins. Something about the domed tops and colorful liners that make me as giddy as an 8-year old to pop a couple of muffins in my face for breakfast. Muffins, for me, are a great way to celebrate a weekend, a snow day, or the fact that you are awake at 4 AM on a Sunday morning for no good reason. Versatile and forgiving, muffins can turn ordinary ...
Sage Roasted Turkey Breast
Over time the enormous family reunion style Thanksgiving of my past has given way to a much smaller and more intimate holiday table. And although I miss the big, loud Thanksgivings of days gone by, I cannot say that I miss the marathon -like cooking and dirty dishes that goes along with it. I have had enough marathon cooking in my life, I would prefer that my holidays be just ...
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 ...
Caramelized Onion Dip
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 ...
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 ...
Bacon Wrapped Jalapenos
Bacon Wrapped Jalapenos are the tailgate food that we all love and crave. Salty, cheesy and spicy these are the perfect appetizer to cheer on your team! Some recipes are just universal. Everyone has their own version. Like marinara sauce or biscuits. Who knows who came up with the idea first, but everyone has been putting their own spin on these recipes for as long as I can ...
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 ...
Hot Cocoa Mix and Peppermint Marshmallows
Hot cocoa mix and Peppermint marshmallows is a wonderful make ahead gift for those special people in your life. And don't let the marshmallows freak you out, they are much easier to make than you would imagine. My kids have some extraordinary teachers. They are kind-hearted, patient and have managed to make Kindergarten the most fun place to be for my babies. Honestly, my ...
Ananda
Yesterday, I lost my sister. She was not my biological sister, we were not even remotely related, but she was my sister. I grew up with her, I looked up to her, she was the oldest of the seven of us ( most of us not actually related), and she was the shining star of our clan. She taught me all of the important things a girl needs to know. She taught me all of the words and ...
Supper on a Loaf
This dish is always a crowd-pleaser. Make up a double batch, wrap in plastic wrap and store in a ziploc bag for your next busy day! I think this was about the third recipe I ever put up on this blog, and at that point I lived in a poorly lit house with two year old twins and a pretty healthy dose of near-insanity. Although things have changed a lot in the last 4 years there ...