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…
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…
It’s almost New Year’s and that means it’s almost time for our traditional Southern Style Chicken Strip feast with my in-laws! It’s probably one of the meals I look forward to most each year. Part of it is because the night is so low key and we play games all evening. And then of course…
My father-in-law introduced us to this restaurant called The Well. We go there for the wings, which we order naked with the sauces on the side. This lets us order a nice sampling of the sauces to dip the crispy naked wings in, instead of arguing about which sauces to have them tossed in. The…
Irish Mules are one of my favorite drinks, I love the spiciness of the ginger beer and Jameson Irish whiskey is my choice of hard liquor. So when Tory and I decided to make a signature Christmas cocktail, and were trading ideas on Pinterest this Holiday Mule immediately jumped out at me. But I had…
I don’t make pancakes from scratch very often. In fact, most of the time I make pancakes at home I use the ‘just add water’ boxed mixes – which is probably sacrilege for a food blogger to even admit. They are just so darn easy. Then again, the first time I made these gingerbread pancakes…