Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Traeger Grilling |
Simple and healthy dinners of grilled boneless skinless chicken breast can get pretty boring. Adding rarely used ingredients like hearts of palm and rich flavors like balsamic vinegar can help make a normal Tuesday night meal into something much more exciting. My...
Featured, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta |
Bacon and pasta makes my family happy, and Swiss chard is healthy so this cream bacon and chard pasta is a compromise dinner. A little bit naughty because of bacon and heavy cream, a little bit healthy because of the vitamin packed Swiss chard and I also sneak in...
Food & Recipes, Salad, Veggies |
We like green beans especially the tiny French haricot verts kind, they are crunchy and bright. We are also frequent Brussels sprout consumers; they are one of my favorites. With summer coming cooked veggies are less appealing so I decided to mix my green beans and...
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...
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...
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...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood, Uncategorized |
Living in South Florida we are lucky to often receive gifts of freshly caught fish from friends and family that are successful fisher-persons. As a native Floridian I know that you graciously accept the gift then wait until you get home to see exactly what you have,...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood |
This grilled shrimp with mango salsa and cilantro rice has now supplanted all others as my husband’s favorite grilled shrimp meal, it is light, colorful and so very tasty so I am happy to make it whenever he asks. This recipe was the result of my needing a simple fun...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pizza, Traeger Grilling |
You can grill pizza on any BBQ, but I just bought a Traeger Junior Pellet Grill and it is awesome for grilled pizza. If you have always loved that little bit of char that wood burning ovens at restaurants can put on a thin pizza crust you need to try pizza on a grill....