Beef, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Uncategorized |
Grilled London Broil with Drunken Onions My family loves nothing better than a big hunk of meat, so when I find London broil on sale I know it will fit the bill. Marinating and then grilling this large piece of meat results in a beautiful presentation with a nice char...
Appetizer, Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
Indian Lime Spiced Chicken Wings These chicken wings are everything you love about tandoori chicken and crispy roasted chicken skin all in one bite. I love, love, love Greek yogurt as a marinade on skin on chicken, the flavor from any spices you mix into yogurt...
In the Kitchen, Kitchen Hints, Uncategorized |
So excited!! Next week I am leaving on a girlie bonding cruise with my mom, aunt, and newest cousin: Rachel (she just married my favorite cousin Josh). I will be leaving my husband and the two girls to fend for themselves. I feel a little guilty that while I am...
Appetizer, Dips and Sauces, Food & Recipes, School Lunches, Uncategorized, Veggies |
I am always looking for a healthy after school snacks for the girls, and this sweet potato fruit dip seems to fill the bill plus they actually ate it. I have been making a white bean hummus for a while and while most of the kids like it a few flat out refuse, they...
Breakfast, Crockpot, Food & Recipes |
Most days everyone in the house has to be out the door by 7am. And we have a diverse set of appetites: a 13 year old looking for an early morning sugar rush we would rather she did not have, a chronically late 16 year old ballerina that needs calories for 6 hours of...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork, Uncategorized |
These braised spareribs are very yummy and very simple meal to make. The red cabbage so colorful and flavorful, the flavors so big that you can use this meal for a dinner party but it’s so little work that you can throw it together on a week night. If you really want...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes, Veggies |
These black beans are a modification of an awesome one pot chicken meal that Emeril Lagasse has in his cookbook: Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders, chicken and black beans with chorizo. I loved the black beans that are the base of the chicken dish but I...
Beef, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork |
I have been making the same meatloaf with a sweet and spicy tomato and honey glaze for a while now, and I was getting sick of eating it even if my family was not. Thus I decided it was time for something new: pesto meatloaf. The cup of left over pesto from my last...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
Around here we love a nice TexMex meal either at home or in a restaurant. Chicken fajitas are one of the favorites, but at $15-$20 per person eating fajitas in a restaurant is always kind of depressing. The chicken is bland or dry and the veggies over cooked, but...
In the Kitchen, Kitchen Hints, Lifestyle, Uncategorized |
This is the third article (read the first and second stories) about grocery shopping inspired by my post honeymoon restocking trip. I hope my theories on tackling the grocery store help you get more for your money and puts an end to those annoying one-item mid week...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta |
Pasta alla Vodka Plus I like a nice hot bowl of pasta with a rich creamy pink sauce once in a while, and alla vodka sauce is one of my favorite variations of the pink sauce. Adding the meat from a half a leftover roasted chicken and a pint of mushrooms made a lovely...
In the Kitchen, Kitchen Hints, Lifestyle, Uncategorized |
Inspired by my grocery store trip after my honeymoon I am sharing a few ideas on visiting the grocery store that I hope will make cooking easier, grocery shopping quicker, and will help you save money too. Here goes part two (read part 1 here). First off I try to...
