Pretty much anything with browned butter is alright by me, but if you up the ante with cheese, I’m your slave! The Old Spaghetti Factory makes a decent version of this dish, but trust me when I say that this recipe is better. It’s SO simple. I know I say it a lot but, you…
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Mediterranean Pasta Bake
We are pasta eaters in our house. That fact is not amazing for my waistline but it does open an endless list of possibilities for recipes that range from extremely complicated to utterly simple. This casserole falls into the simple category. It can be made ahead and baked at the last minute as well! Perfect…
Albondigas
There is a Mexican restaurant in my hometown called La Palma. They are my favorite. When I was pregnant with my youngest son, I craved coveted, their Albondigas. My friend Manny is the son and will undoubtedly make a name for himself as a fancy lawyer or DA someday. In the mean time, he is studying…
Chicken and Mushrooms in White Wine Sauce
This is a meal easy enough to make during the week but, special enough to serve on the weekend! It’s not a twenty minute meal like I’ve posted before, but it took me 40 minutes and the results were worth it. Chicken can get boring after a while, but we keep it in the freezer…
Mama’s Fried Chicken
It’s fat Tuesday, y’all! How better to celebrate than with my mama’s recipe for fried chicken. I want to start by saying how hard it was to make this “recipe”. I’ve never measured anything when frying chicken before. So, it was a stretch to measure EVERYTHING. Man was it worth it, though! Recently, I had…
Bento Style Snack Box
Happy Mindful Monday! Sometimes mindfulness comes in the form of preparedness, especially when you’ve got kiddos! It seems like my boys are ALWAYS hungry! Can I get a freaking amen??? They seem to go in waves, which I’m assuming are growth spurt related, but they are never on the same timeline. Right now, my little…
Croissant Bread Pudding & A Maple Butter Glaze
How’s that strike you for a Fat Tuesday post? I needed to shoot a “Brunch Story” for work and one of the products was a beautiful ceramic baking dish. I immediately had visions of bread pudding dancing through my head! I’ve been wanting to do a croissant version of this classic breakfast bake and this…
Mindful Monday and your Crock-Pot
Listen, the Crock-Pot needs to be a staple in the lives of busy families everywhere! Not only does it provide a means to a delicious meal with minimal effort, but you can make a lot at one time which makes for easy meal prep! This weeks meal prep is the tortilla-less burrito! All of the…
Weeknight Shrimp Over Rice
This is no culinary masterpiece, but who has time to be Picasso mid-week? This simple dish was satisfying, healthy and easy. Perfect for a weeknight meal where the rigors of homework, chores and the school night HooHah are the priority. There is no excuse not to eat real food, when in 20 minutes you can…
Mindful Monday: Spicy Cabbage Peanut Salad
This Asian inspired salad is a crunchy mouth party! The Rock Star LOVES Thai food. We were having some friends over and I decided to do some Thai flavors. One of the side dishes was this salad. Crunchy red cabbage and chopped snow peas are the star of the show but they get set off…
Rosemary Olive Dutch Oven Bread
I used to make bread with my Grandma. I mentioned before that this grandma wasn’t the greatest cook. That truth also applied to her homemade bread. It always had a strange grainy texture and an odd after taste. It was SO good, though! I was with her and she was making it for me. Slathered…
Salted Caramel: Science!
This is just a quickie post. I used to be afraid to make anything that required science… Until I realized that all cooking IS science! Thanks to my boyfriend, Alton Brown (don’t tell The Rock Star) I have learned to embrace it. This caramel requires a candy thermometer. They are cheap and easy to find,…
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