Dinner
This American Classic Recipe Just Got Better As a single mom, and with two kids, I can tell you first-hand that it’s hard work having a full dinner prepared every night of the week. It’s exhausting and time consuming to spend so much of my evening in the kitchen; so, just like any other parent, [...]
A Special Ingredient Makes This Dish Affordable For Any Budget Cans of condensed soups should be a kitchen staple in every good cook’s home! Adding condensed soup to casseroles saves so much time and money, and that’s why I fell in love with this Cheesy Creamy Chicken and Rice Casserole. My sister, Betsy, has a [...]
A Smashing New Thanksgiving Side Dish There are few things I love more than mac and cheese. It is my go-to comfort food, much to the annoyance of my doctor. I also am inordinately fond of all things pumpkin. Hmmm….what if I could somehow put these two favorites together? Surely the addition of pumpkin would [...]
This Flavorful Sauce Makes The Best Soup You've Ever Had — And It Cooks In The Slow Cooker! Every time we get to the cooler months of the year, I feel like making soup all week long. It doesn't even matter what type of soup - I actually have a whole notebook filled with just soup [...]
Good Gravy! This Is Not The Sauce Grandma Always Made! I get bored if I always have to eat pumpkin and squash like a dessert, slimed up with some sort of treacle, bedecked with marshmallows or swimming in butter and brown sugar. When fall rolls around each year, I am excited by these sweet applications, [...]
Vibrant Fall Veggies And Chicken Jaclyn is rapidly becoming one of my favorite food bloggers, as she continually creates interesting, nutritious and easy-to-prepare dishes, such as this one-pan seasonal treat. She is a woman after my own heart, when she says, “I love dinners where everything is cooked or baked together in one pan.” Not [...]
Tired Of Thanksgiving Turkey? Try This Instead! Holidays can be needlessly stressful. There are times when putting on the whole big Thanksgiving feast is just too much bother, too much stress, or just not necessary because there are only a few people (maybe just you, even – that’s fine, too) that plan to attend. Let’s [...]
One-Of-A-Kind Pizza That Will Be Your New Favorite Okay, it’s fall again! It’s that time of year when a big orange gourd takes over the food and drink lives of a huge segment of the population. Pumpkin spiced EVERYTHING crawls out of the woodwork and takes over menus in every type of eatery imaginable, from [...]
Rich Cheese-Based Gravy – The Crowning Touch Don’t you just love chicken? I think it is the most versatile of all of the meats. You can serve it plain and simple, which is what this recipe is all about: simple roasted meat. Chicken also holds its own in more fanciful fare. Again, this is demonstrated [...]
You’ll Fall For This Easy-To-Prepare Meal I have never been a great fan of pork chops. I think it goes back to my childhood, when they were a regular part of my mother’s dinner menu rotation. She only knew one way to cook them, which was pan frying them. I believe that her own mother [...]