Grateful Rolls – This simple tradition is a fun way for your family to express what they are grateful for during your Thanksgiving dinner. As guests arrive have each person write a few things that they are grateful for on small sheets of paper. We always make our special “butter horn” rolls each Thanksgiving,
Garlic Flank Steak Recipe
Nov6
Easy on the budget, yet packed with flavor, this Garlic Flank Steak Recipe with only four ingredients is always a crowd pleaser. As I look outside and watch the leaves fall, I can’t believe the holidays are right around the corner. […]
Easy Tex Mex Chicken Chili Soup
Sep12
This Easy Chicken Chili soup brings out the Tex Mex lover in all of us. Our family stirs up varying debates. Sometimes topics run deep and introspective, swapping between politics, religion and other politically incorrect table talk discussions, while others, […]
Easy (10 Minute) Chocolate Souffle Recipe
Aug26
I first shared this Easy and Elegant Chocolate Souffle recipe over at 10 Minute Dinners. It’s one of those go-to desserts that should be added to everyone’s repertoire because it looks and tastes like you spent hours in the kitchen, […]
SO EASY: Brownie Oreo Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
Jul12
This Ice Cream Sandwich Cake is one of my favorite Go-To desserts especially during the summer. If you omit the brownie crust, it can be finished in ten minutes from start to finish. Yep, I speak the truth. 😉 *************** […]
Oh So Easy Chicken Divan Recipe
May19
Easy Chicken Divan Recipe The phone rings at 5:00 and it’s your husband informing you that his sales team is coming home for dinner. They are in town for this last evening, and this is the only opening they have […]
Best Kitchen Tip: Cooking Ground Beef in the Crock Pot
Feb17
My meal time madness solution! Too often that crazy dinner hours rolls around and the “What are we eating? cry echoes through the house. Well, one of the ways I’ve tackled and conquered that dilemma is to have some of […]
5 Minute Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix (with Double the Chocolate)
Dec10
This polar vortex seeping the country has left many wondering if spring will ever started peeking through. Here in NC, we’ve had a two hour delayed start to school or complete cancellation nearly every day for the last two weeks. […]
Hearty Garden Harvest Vegetable Soup
Nov1
This delicious garden Harvest-Vegetable Soup is the ultimate in healthy comfort food. I heard light sizzling snapping from the kitchen. Sauteed in bit of olive oil, the delicious aroma of diced red onions, zucchini and squash floated through the home. I […]
Healthy Pumpkin Spice Latte
Oct24
Want to spice up your fall? All of you know how much I love my coffee and as my friends started clamoring for their Pumpkin Spice Latte, I gave it awhirl. Each year, I want to love it, but it’s […]
Easy Pumpkin Bar Recipe
Oct16
Entering my mother in law’s kitchen and viewing a huge jelly roll pan of pumpkin bars gracing her counter top is the first memory I have of holidays in her home. Isn’t it amazing how smells, sights, and a great […]
5 Fast Ways to Get Easy Family Dinners on the Table
Aug27
I can’t believe we have already kicked off a new school year. Did fall of 2017 sneak up for anyone else? I feel a bit like I’m in an episode of Ground Hog Day. Have you ever seen that movie? The one where […]
Red, White and Blue Dessert Delights – July 4th Inspiration
Jul3
We are hosting two large groups of people this weekend, with virtually no notice, and the need for some 4th of July dessert ideas inspiration has hit in full force. My teen age sons got home from their work camp […]
Resurrection Rolls – Making Simple Easter Recipes Meaningful
Apr10
I can’t believe it’s been eight years since I first shared this post. My baby was only five and now she’s a new teenager. Oh my! How does that happen? I thought this was worth sharing again because it’s a […]
Are You Ready for Game Day? (Or Fun Food?)
Jan18
Yes, my husband grew up in Green Bay. That says it all. We bleed green and gold and even have our own brick at Lambeau field with our kids names listed followed by “Pack fans since birth.” If you throw […]
