This Soup Will Warm You Right Up! My college roomates and I still live in the city where we went to school, so we all try to get together once a month to catch up on life (without our kids). We take turns hosting it at each other’s houses since we live in different neighborhoods. [...]
Welcome Fall With This Warm Soup I won’t lie, Olive Garden is one of my favorite restaurants. You start the meal with warm garlic bredsticks and a fresh salad with delicious, addictive dressing. By the time you have your cup of soup, you’re full! How can you get full on soup and salad? The secret [...]
Pizza and Lasagna Are A Perfect Marriage With This Recipe In our family, every Friday night is pizza and a movie night. Unless we are headed out of town or one of the kids has a game, we always make Friday night family night to unwind from the week. We always order 2 large pepperoni [...]
A New Twist on Thumbprint Cookies A few days before Christmas each year, my girlfriends and I get together for a cookie swap. At these cookie swaps, we each bring a large batch of one dessert recipe so we can mix and match to have a variety of sweets for our families without making millions [...]
Can You Believe There Are Only 6 Ingredients in This Recipe? Every year a few days before Christmas, some girlfriends and I get together for a cookie swap. Well, initially it started as a cookie swap, but now it’s more of a dessert swap. It’s our way of having multiple dessert options for our individual [...]
The Perfect Appetizer for Fall Every year for Halloween, all the nighbors in our cul-de-sac grab lawn chairs and tables and make a little block party. We all bring sharable dishes and make a pot luck meal out of the evening before the kids start trick-or-treating. This year it was our turn to bring the [...]
You’ll Never Miss the Carbs in This Dish Mine and my hisband’s all-time favorite cuisine is Mexican, whether it’s tacos (his favorite) or enchiladas (my favorite). We could eat it every day of the week with some chips and salsa and be perfectly happy. It’s like confort food for us since we are both from [...]
The Perfect Combination for a Party in Your Mouth Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays of the year – family gets together, foorball is on TV and food is fresh and abundant. We tend to do a late lunch for Thansgiving so we can nibble on leftovers later in the evening but not be [...]
Ready in Just 15 Minutes! I love hummus, but sometimes I feel like it doesn’t absorb enough of the bold flavors you add to it. Nothing is worse than a bland dip. They are supposed to be fun and you want to eat them until you’re full (or until you run out of dippers like [...]
Better Than Mom’s Chili Nothing says fall like a warm bowl of homemade chili! A few years ago, we did a neighborhood block party on Halloween and had a hayride and all for the kiddos. One of the dad’s in the neighborhood cooked a huge pot of chili since the autumn air was cool and [...]
