Happy Cinco de Mayo! And Happy Birthday to me! Yep – today’s my birthday, and it’s a milestone too. Mom can you believe your oldest daughter is 30 today? Even though I love, love, love Mexican food, I often don’t eat it on my birthday. I can’t stand going out for Mexican on my birthday…
Apple Bacon Naan Pizza
I’m always looking for quick weeknight meals and when I saw the idea for an apple bacon pizza in Cooking Light, I thought I’d give it a try. I changed things up a little bit and even called an audible in Target when I was grocery shopping and discovered they didn’t sell pita – hello…
Grilled Veggie Panini
One of my favorite places to eat in the whole wide world is The Cheeky Monkey on Selby in St. Paul. We often go there for work lunches, it is a deli by day and bistro by night, and delicious the whole time through. In another life, I would really really like to live in…
Slow Cooker Pot Roast
My mom can make a pot roast in an hour, and don’t get me wrong it’s good. It was one of Tory’s favorite meals growing up and probably one of the few meals that both we actually really liked (a huge win at dinner time for our parents). But then I got a slow cooker…
Baked Walleye Fingers
There is NOTHING better than fresh walleye, fried up right next to the lake the day you catch it. But if you happen to catch more walleye than you can eat in that fish fry, freeze it and make these walleye fingers during the winter – it will help get you through the cold and…
Lemon and Red Pepper Baked Tilapia
It’s the 5th week of Lent, who is sick of fish yet? I’m not! Even during the rest of the year when I am allowed to eat meat on whatever day I please, I make this fish honestly about once a week, sometimes more. I eat this so often for 3 reasons: 1) it is…
