It’s Memorial weekend this coming weekend. In Minnesota, it’s also the first big weekend of the summer to head ‘Up North’ to your cabin. We’re lucky to be able to head up to my parent’s house on a lake near Ely. They almost always have informal gatherings at the lake on summer holidays like this. …
Slow Cooker Jamaican Jerk Pork Tacos
Derek and I both really like Mexican flavors. So one day as we were trying to plan meals for the week we started talking about needing a slow cooker meal for one night and talking about enjoying Mexican flavors, Derek comes upon this list of 20 Slow Cooker Mexican Favorites on Better Home and Gardens…
Perfect Fillet Mignon with Glazed Pears and Bacon
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…
