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…
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…
Pesto Zucchini Noodles and Chicken
Typical Tory, it’s Monday at lunch time and I’m just now trying to figure out what to make for dinner and what I am going to eat all week. I had really big plans to do this on Sunday, but got carried away with crafting Sunday Funday with my friend Macks. So as I’m spending…
Salted Nut Roll Bars
I made these bars for a bake sale fundraiser during our annual community support campaign at work. It was a two day bake sale, but I don’t think these bars made it past lunch time on day one. I got this recipe from my Auntie Moni. I don’t remember the first time I had it,…
Broccoli Cheese (& Carrot) Soup
Growing up our mom used to make steamed broccoli and carrots that she would top with American cheese and cover it until it melted. As Tory mentioned in her Roasted Broccoli post, this is the only way she used to like broccoli. It also happened to be one of my favorite vegetables; I think the…
Blueberry Crescent Rolls
It’s blueberry season in Minnesota. The end of July brings many families out to the blueberry patches to pick enough blueberries to last until next season. I remember being forced to do this as a child. My mom would give us Kemp’s ice cream buckets with a round hole cut in the top, we would…
