Sometimes the best recipes that you create come from the days when you don’t have anything planned and you just rummage around your fridge to see what you can find. That’s what happened when I ‘accidentally’ created this pizza mac ‘n cheese. My husband requested mac and cheese for lunch one day and I had…
Chicken tacos are one of my go-to, weeknight, need a quick dinner that I still feel good about and is still tasty meals. We discovered this recipe when we were in college. We’d buy chicken when it was on BOGO sales and freeze individual chicken breasts, which made these also an affordable meal. It’s a…
Naan bread doubles as a pretty awesome personal sized pizza crust. One of the first pizzas we made on a naan crust was our apple bacon pizza. I can’t even begin to tell you where we got the idea for this sweet chili chicken pizza – the flavors remind me of the flavors that I…
How do you get kids to eat their vegetables? If you believe Hidden Valley, you just dip them in ranch. But growing up my mom had an even better solution – smother them in cheese, from a block of processed American cheese. She used to steam broccoli and carrots and then melt a little bit…
It’s sort of funny, I have a couple of favorite meals that my Mom used to make when Dana and I were growing up, like goulash and pot roast. However, one other meal that my Mom tended to make pretty regularly was meatloaf; I did not like meatloaf. A loaf of meat? No, loaves…
During deer season we stay in a shack that has all the comforts of home except running water. So I try to make a lot of our meals in advance, in disposable foil pans, because dishes without running water aren’t my idea of a good time. One of my Mom’s favorite meals that I typically…