Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. Today and every Friday between now and Easter, Catholics will abstain from meat. I wanted to start things off with a big bowl of soup this time of year, there is nothing better than a hot bowl of soup. Well unless it’s a hot…
Sweet & Spicy Marinated Cucumbers
We’ve been experiencing a rare mid-February heat wave – and for my friends in the Southern parts of the US, I really mean it. This isn’t a 40 degree heat wave, over the past weekend we hit 60 degrees! In February. The golf course by my house even opened up for the weekend. Yes. Golfing….
Pizza Mac ‘n Cheese
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…
Orange Dreamsicle Cookies
One of my favorite summertime treats are orange dreamsicle popsicles. Creamy vanilla ice-cream with an orange popsicle coating. It is such a classic and yet refreshing snack. But it’s still the middle of winter in Minnesota and ice-cream treats aren’t really at the top of anyone’s treat list. So of course when I saw these…
Honey Mustard & Onion Pretzel Sticks
It’s Superbowl Sunday this weekend and Tory and I wanted to make some kind of snack or appetizer to share. Let’s be honest, we both will watch the game but the best part for us is the snacks and the food! This year we decided to get together over the Martin Luther King holiday when…
Meatball Miso Noodle Soup
Soup, soup, soup. I love soup. Chilly winter days, here in the great state of Minnesota, are so perfect with a nice bowl of warm soup and a comforting fire in the fireplace. And also a glass of nice red wine, but not with this soup- that won’t pair well, save the wine for later-…
Chicken Tacos
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…
Sweet Chili Chicken Pizza
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…
Roasted Veggie Mac ‘n Cheese
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…
Mexican Chopped Salad with Honey Lime Jalapeno Vinaigrette
During the time our kitchen has been non-functioning, or rather non-existent – as we’ve gone through this addition – we ate a lot of salads. Not the normal salads you’ve seen me post with homemade dressing and all sorts of good fixings. No, we ate a lot of the prepackaged, bagged salads that had a…
