Recipies, reviews and random rants from a mom of two!
My daughter is a sucker for pasta salad. All I have to do is drizzle a little Italian dressing on some pasta and she's one happy kid. While that's fine every once in a while, I like to have a little more variety in my food. Instead of the same old pasta salad, I thought I would sweeten things up a bit by adding grapes and substituting Hidden Valley Ranch Seasoning Mix … [Read more...]
Day 9: I am thankful for sun-dried tomatoes. They make everything taste better. Well, except maybe for chocolate. I'm not sure how chocolate covered sun dried tomatoes would taste but I'm willing to try... If you haven't had the pleasure of eating a sun-dried tomato, you are definitely missing out. Sun-dried tomatoes are a piece of tomato sunshine that has just the … [Read more...]
Broccoli and bacon salad. What could be better? Maybe I should switch it around and call it bacon and broccoli salad. I'm sure I had you at bacon. Every time I make this recipe someone asks me for the recipe. When I tell them how to make it, they are happily surprised at how simple it is. You can easily whip this together in 15-20 minutes … [Read more...]
I have a bad habit. Well, I have many bad habits but the one I'm going to talk about today involves food. I know, I know, that probably isn't narrowing things down much. Especially if you read my goals for April. The one bad habit that I have is buying food and then never using it. Our family wastes a ton of food and we're trying real hard to reduce what we throw … [Read more...]
I'm trying to reduce the amount of pre-packaged food that I prepare for my family. One thing we've (yes, including me) always liked is boxed macaroni and cheese. Off to find an alternative recipe that would pack more of a punch nutrition wise and be a complete meal, I came up with this recipe. It's easy and makes a ton. Stovetop Chicken Mac & Cheese with … [Read more...]
This cornbread salad recipe came from the HUSBAND of a nurse practitioner I used to work worth. That's right, her husband. Whenever we would have a potluck at work, one of the first questions we'd ask was, "What is Jim making?" Jim is an excellent cook and I wish I had more of his recipes. Ann told me she used to cook for her family but I'm not buying it. … [Read more...]
Our family has mashed potatoes about four times per year. When we do have them, we want them to be creamy and buttery. The perfect combination in my eyes. Poking around the blogosphere I found several recipes for mashed potatoes that looked peel worthy (peeling potatoes is ONE of the reasons we only have them 4x per year) but settled on this one by Steamy Kitchen. … [Read more...]
You would think this first challenge would be as easy as Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Wrong! With all the wonderful food blogs out there, I spent hours drooling over pictures, wondering just how unhealthy it would be if I ate homemade macaroni and cheese every day for a month. After changing my mind several times, I finally decided on this recipe posted by Recipe … [Read more...]
I love going to the farmers market and letting the produce decide what I'm going to eat for the week. A few weeks ago I visited our local market and came home with a some beautiful new potatoes. Not wanting to do my typical roasted potatoes, I poked around for a slightly different variation and found this recipe. My technique and ingredients were slightly different … [Read more...]
Fifteen years ago if you would have told me I would be a fan of blue cheese, I would have told said you need medicated. Blue cheese stunk, I wasn't a fan of the crumbly texture and it was expensive. As a broke college student the only type of cheese I was buying came in slices and was pre-wrapped. Then something happened, I went on a date. On that date I … [Read more...]
