Slow Cooker Whole Chicken
I love making sexy recipes. You know the kind. The ones that are ooozing with cheese. Or that are slathered in a decadent sauce. Even those healthy recipes made with totally fresh, vibrant seasonal...
View ArticleGnocchi With Pomodoro Sauce
It’s a lunch I remember with fondness, and regret. Fondness because it lit my fire for choosing gnocchi as my favorite thing to order on each and every Italian menu for the rest of my eating out days...
View ArticleZucchini and Chorizo Cheese Toast
I’m always happy to add an appetizer to a family meal, but when they get too dainty and precious, that’s when I bow out. Finger food. Tidbit. Munchie. Really? I want (wo)man food. I want flavor. I...
View ArticleSlow Cooker Tuscan White Bean and Sausage Soup
“Okay mom, let’s play the smell game.” I sort of cringed at the idea. Sweaty feet. Burnt toast. The 4th hole at the golf course that sits next to the water treatment plant and man does it reek when...
View ArticleAutumn Cobb Salad
It’s that time of year where I’m either straddling the urge to pull out my chunky sweaters and hunker down with ooey gooey comfort food, or dig in my heels and cling to the straggling bounty of summer...
View ArticleCheesy Mustard Baked Chicken Breasts
For me, weekends are made for taking time in the kitchen to labor over the more complicated recipes I’m craving to make. You can see some favorite recipes here. These Cheesy Mustard Baked Chicken...
View ArticleSlow Cooker Chicken Fajita Chili
You can call it crock pot. I often call it slow cooker. Tomato, tah-mah-toes, either way, slow cooking/rocking the crock is what’s for dinner. Chicken chili in the crock pot makes for the perfectly...
View Article5 Meals to Make With Leftover Chili
Today’s post is sponsored by Reynolds™ and their cool new containers that make leftovers bearable. Dig in! I always start with the best of intentions. To save money. To save time in the kitchen. To...
View ArticleHow to Make Fried Pizza ala Pizza Fritta
This recipe is one in my year long series of posts sponsored by DeLallo Foods, and just one more reason you’ll be craving pizza for your next meal. This is the part where you look at the recipe title...
View ArticleSouthwestern Stuffed Bell Peppers
This post and it’s rainbow of healthy flavors is sponsored by AMCO Select One Produce. Last week I saw a lot of change and said goodbye to few favorites. October is done. Bye bye! Daylight savings?...
View ArticleMy Favorite Pumpkin Roll Recipe
As if the world needed yet another Pumpkin Roll recipe. But in this case, it really, truly does. This is the second recipe that made me fall in love with pumpkin-flavored everything. The first of...
View ArticleBeef with Broccoli Recipe and Crushing On Iowa Girl Eats
Kristin Porter has been entertaining us with healthy, easy recipes, motivational workout routines, travel tales, and more, since the birth of her blog, Iowa Girl Eats six years ago. Suffice it to say,...
View ArticleStuffed Pork Chops Plus 10 More Ways to Use Leftover Stuffing
You know the drill. It’s Thanksgiving. There’s a bounty of everything. And I always tend to over-provide. Therefore, this is what I often hear from my mom this time of year. “Oh my word!!! There’s...
View ArticleHerb Butter Rotisserie Turkey
You know how there are some things that are just too good not to be shared? The secret ingredients. The best place to get a pedicure. Your opinions. A bicycle built for two. An easy going,...
View ArticleTurkey Pot Pie Soup Plus 10 More Leftover Turkey Recipes You’ll Gobble Up
I asked. You answered. And here is what we have to show for it. Winner, winner, chicken dinnnnnnnn…HOLD THAT THOUGHT. Move over chicken, because THIS is dinner. A week or so ago I had 5 quarts of...
View ArticleAsian Glazed Orange Chicken
In the world of family cooking, unless you’re a vege/pesca/non-chicken-eating/atarian, you can never have too many easy chicken recipes in your recipe rolodex. Do they even make rolodexes anymore?...
View ArticleChicken and Waffles Sliders
I’m pleased as punch to bring you this recipe sponsored by Cholula® Hot Sauce, because at our house, Cholula hot sauce is probably our most used condiment in the cupboard. It’s a Southern thing. But...
View ArticleThe Best Homemade Mac and Cheese
There are several basic, classic, everyone-loves-them-because-even-when-we-shouldn’t-we-still-crave-them recipes I am driven to master. The best steak. Check. The juiciest roasted chicken. Got it. The...
View Article10 Healthy and Hearty Salad Recipes That Make a Meal
Once the new year strikes, the food blogosphere is bombarded by a slew of healthy recipes. We begin seeing words like detox and antioxidants and healthified. In the spirit of a clean slate and the new...
View Article30-Minute Creamy Mushroom and Leek Chicken Breasts
“Oh, man. This is going to be epic for breakfast.” When I hear my husband make this comment as he’s eating this 30-minute, one-pan, winner winner chicken dinner, it’s like he’s whispering sweet...
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