I cut up all these vegetables to prep meals for the week – onions, bell pepper, celery, garlic, carrots, zucchini & 2 types of squash plus some cilantro ends from the salsa I made. Normally I would throw all of this into the compost pile, but not today – not yet. Today I am throwing…
Every week, I make some sort of homemade sweet treat for my family, and to share with friends & neighbors. Every now & then I get a little adventurous, but I like to do a few things & do them really well. So I typically stick to 3 things: sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies, & my brown sugar…
Last month I told you that I only make 2 cookies, sugar cookies and oatmeal cookies. You have the recipe for my signature soft sugar cookies, and now I am sharing my oatmeal cookie recipe. Every week, I make some sort of homemade sweet treat. Mainly for my DH and for the littlest to take…
I stopped buying cookies years ago and things have to get pretty desperate for us to reach for a package of Chips Ahoy or Oreos, although I’ll admit that sometimes my oldest just has to have Oreos. Maybe 1 day I’ll try my hand at those. Until then I have 2 go to cookies that…
Enchilada Casserole is one my go-to dishes when I’m stumped and want to do something other than just meat and veggies. Back in May I made this for Cinco de Mayo because we hadn’t had it in a while. Then I made it again as a freezer meal. It’s always a hit and we usually…
A few years ago, we started having meatless meals on a regular basis at the Green House. And by “regular” I mean more than just when I either need to 1) go grocery shopping or 2) use up some stuff before it goes bad. After we completed a whole foods cleanse without strangling each other, I decided…
Remember when I wrote about making sauces and condiments at home instead of store-bought? Well, here I go adding to the list of things I won’t be buying at the grocery store again. Pickles. Pickled ANYthing. A while ago I made a mental note to make some quick pickles because I bought too many cucumbers…
Today in Houston, TX everything was pretty much shut down. Schools closed, businesses closed, the Y closed, the government… CLOSED! Even the IRS has made concessions for my little ol’ home town. There are only a handful of reasons this ever happens (in general): Ice Snow Anything that resembles ice or snow The threat of…
Fried rice is kind of like pasta – all kids love it for some reason. And, like pasta, it’s easy and you can hide so many good for you ingredients in it. I know what you’re thinking… why put things that are “good for you” in a dish that’s just not? It IS fried rice. …
I love pasta. And so does my littlest – in fact, most kids love all kinds of pasta. So should parents because it’s of the easiest kitchen staple to work with AND because you can hide so many good for you ingredients in any given pasta dish AND because you can make random dishes and…