You know you have a good dish when your girlfriends say, “yeah bring that one thing over that you made last month.” Last year it was the Lentil Bruschetta. I took it everywhere. I think this salad will be the new bring-to-every-get-together dish. This is the recipe that our neighborhood girlfriends always ask our friend…
I was desperate. I needed a crock pot recipe that was quick…well, not quick, but I could prepare it within 10 minutes or less, I could run the boys to swim class, and then come home and everything would be ready to go. Well, I found the perfect recipe in my new cookbook, Crock Pot:…
My sweet mom bought me the fabulous Cooking Light: The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook (2009) for Christmas and she scribed inside the cover, “May this make your Tasty Tuesdays even tastier!” Isn’t that the sweetest thing, ever? Ahh, I love my mom. This book does not disappoint, it has great pictures (because that’s how I…
This morning I pulled out one of my favorite fuzzy sweaters. While I don’t necessarily think it’s an angora sweater, it certainly is reminiscent of that warm, cuddly quality. Donning this sweater feels like a declaration of fall and puts such a contented smile on my face. This week I’ll be setting up our Halloween…
Sometimes I know we can get in a chicken dinner rut, but here’s a new one for the repertoire. I love the mix of flavors in this dish and the boys love it because it has dried apricots in it. So it’s sweet and flavorful. Typically, I serve this dish with a side of broccoli…
This is by far one of my most favorite easy meals. This is in regular rotation and the kids, for the most part love it (okay, they pick out the asparagus, but I make them eat a few bites). This recipe is from the book, Joie Warner’s No-Cook Pasta Sauces. Besides living with my GBF…
Ok so I am on a comfort/fall food binge. I think you can see that already. Lola comes over every Wednesday and we watch So You Think You Can Dance (which I love) and I cook a fabulous dinner (I’d like to think so or at least most of the time). This week we had…
I’m in a comfort food binge. I think fall does it to me every time. Here is a great recipe that I found for Green Chile-Chicken Casserole online. It’s so good you’ll want to make it in a big casserole dish so you can have left overs. This easily fed 3 adults and 4 kids…
Oh crock pot, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… 1) easy 2) tasty 3) kids like it too 4) so very little prep & clean up Here’s a good recipe from The New Creative Crock Pot Cookbook (2001) by Robin Taylor Swatt (oh thank you Sharon, my MIL, for getting me…
