This quick and easy recipe for Cheesy Chicken Rollups will make life a little easier and a whole lot tastier! With fewer than 5 ingredients, it's bound to become a weekly favorite! Around here, "quick and easy" is the name of the game. Spending time in the kitchen is enjoyable … [Read more...]
Creamy Taco Pasta Bake
Creamy Taco Pasta is an easy weeknight dinner with just a few (kid-friendly) ingredients. This will become one of your "go to" meals! This recipe hails back to my first 365 days of posting. I think it was somewhere around day 200 that I posted Taco Pasta and my brother promptly … [Read more...]
Ham and Beans Soup (and 21 other leftover ham recipes)
Ham and Beans is a hearty and inexpensive comfort food, perfect for using up leftover ham! Add cornbread and you've got a delicious meal. I'm amazed by how much my tastes have changed over the years. As a kid, this would have been considered sheer torture. I hated beans, wasn't … [Read more...]
Southwestern Stuffed Peppers
Brighten your table with holiday colors when you serve Southwestern Stuffed Peppers! It's the perfect comfort food for chilly winter nights. It's always so warm in southern California. I know those of you buried under four feet of snow right now may be rolling your eyes at me, … [Read more...]
Lasagna Soup (and 17 other freezer meals)
18 tried and true freezer meals that your family will actually eat! No bland, mushy dinners here. Save hours of time in the kitchen by preparing meals ahead of time and then cooking later! Start with the Lasagna Soup freezer meal! Several weeks ago, my sisters-in-law and I got … [Read more...]
Easy Three Bean Chili
Cooler weather calls for hearty and comforting meals like this Three Bean Chili. With limited prep required, it's a perfect meal for a busy weeknight! Instructions included for making on the stovetop or in a pressure cooker! A couple weeks ago, my sisters-in-law and I got … [Read more...]
23 Recipes Made with Crescent Roll Dough
One of the most versatile things on the planet must be crescent roll dough. There are just so many different things you can do with it, as you'll see in this collection of recipes made with crescent roll dough! Whether you choose to go with sweet or savory, I can pretty much … [Read more...]
BBQ Pulled Pork Bratwurst
Try something different for your next BBQ and make BBQ pulled pork bratwurst instead of a boring hot dog! The crunchy slaw pulls it all together! This morning we woke up to snow. Well, our friends and family in Colorado woke up to snow. And they shared it on Facebook, which I … [Read more...]
Spaghetti Stuffed Garlic Bread
It's delicious carb-laden comfort food at its best: spaghetti stuffed garlic bread is definitely the neatest way to eat spaghetti! A few days ago I was locked in a race against the sun. Sunset was going to be at 5:42 pm and this baby was set to come out of the oven at … [Read more...]
Easy Kielbasa Pizza
Change up pizza night by swapping out the protein. Easy Kielbasa Pizza might just become your new stand-by weeknight dinner! One of the meals we seem to have weekly is pizza in some way, shape or form. This week, I decided to change things up a bit. So, instead of pepperoni or … [Read more...]
16 Flavorful Chicken Recipes
Is there anything more versatile than chicken? It's generally a less expensive protein and essentially a blank canvas for flavors. We have some kind of chicken meal at least twice a week. Plain old fried chicken or roasted chicken can get a little boring, though, so I've … [Read more...]
Creamy Chicken Taquitos: Day 230
I tried these Creamy Chicken Taquitos during my first year of blogging and they have appeared on our weekly menu many times since then! You can play around with the flavors to suit your tastes and they are a great way to use up leftover cooked chicken. I really like The … [Read more...]