Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta, Veggies |
Admit it there has been a day when you have opened the vegetable drawer and realized that there is no way your family is going to finish all the veggies inside that drawer before they go bad. Especially since by the time most of us reach this profound realization the...
Lifestyle, Uncategorized |
So I am a bad blogger, I should be punished, I have avoided working on my series of articles on grocery shopping (read the first, second, and third stories here) for months because frankly the center of the grocery store is a scary place to visit. I like the perimeter...
Featured, Food & Recipes, Pork, Sandwiches |
Around this house I can make everyone happy really easily for dinner or lunch or even brunch with one thing: the BLT. Tried and true slice up a tomato a bit of lettuce and a nice portion of bacon on toast and everyone loves me, simple. This Saturday my husband left...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Salad, Veggies |
Giving my family a chicken salad for dinner can backfire on me, I get the look. You know the look, the one that says I am going to push the lettuce around my plate until I can bolt from the table and hit the chocolate bars. Thus I am always working on ideas to make...
Food & Recipes, Salad, Side dishes |
Panzanella or bread salad is a traditionally Italian dish that normally celebrates the bounty of a summer garden: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and more. It is also a clever and tasty way to re-purpose stale bread. In the fall and winter it feels silly to make a summer...
Crockpot, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork, Sandwiches |
As a family we can eat a ton of food in one night and leftovers normally disappear as after school/work snacks, but there is at least one hunk of meat too large us: the fresh ham. The fresh ham or picnic ham is one of the cheapest cuts in your grocery store and it’s...
Baking, Deserts, Featured, Food & Recipes |
I am not a baker; I have neither the patience nor the exacting standards to be a good baker. I am a cook; I like a pinch of this and a dash of that. Thus desert can be a challenge. In most cases I am quick to delegate the responsibility to a guest, my mother in-law...
Chicken, Featured, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Traeger Grilling |
My oldest stepdaughter is not quite the adventurous eater that the rest of us are but for her birthday I wanted to make a fun and kind of fancy dinner she would like. I found cute little Cornish Game Hens in 4 packs and Costco and decided that these mini extra tasty...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta, Salad, Seafood, Veggies |
Christmas is over and we have all been very naughty around here eating lots of cookies, cakes and cheese. I don’t even want to know the average daily calorie intake of the members of this household; it might make me take up starvation as a hobby. Just kidding I love...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
Tis the season of heavy eating! Thanksgiving dinner, holiday parties, and cookie exchanges it’s time to lighten up. This simple diner of chicken thighs and vegetables is the result of a quick trip to Whole Foods looking for inspiration for the defrosted chicken that...
Baking, Food & Recipes, Grandma Swan's Cookbook, holidays, Side dishes |
With the holidays in full swing I wanted to share the dinner rolls that I have been making for family events lately. They are an amalgamation of my grandma’s classic yeast spoon roll and the Southern Living dinner rolls I found online. I also add some whole wheat...