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If you love to eat well (and maybe even love to cook), this post is for you. I’m going to give you a recipe for delicious & easy ketchup and other sauces that you can customize to your taste. All in 1 place; trust me, you are gonna want to PIN this! I’ll wait while you…
I’ve said it before, I like to cook because I love to EAT. And because more often than not, I am highly disappointed in what I get for my money when we go out to eat (or when someone around here inadvertently buys something prepackaged). $12 salads using Iceberg lettuce (that has no nutritional value and…
Everyone knows I like to cook, not for the sake of cooking itself, but because I like to EAT. So I usually cook 2-3 times a day, even when it’s just me. Well a couple of weeks ago, my littlest (3-year-old) asked to help me cook dinner and whaddaya know…. he’s a natural-born sous chef!…
On a recent lunch trip to Panera Bread, I disappointed in the very loose interpretation of a Greek salad. You can’t just throw feta cheese on a bed of romaine and call it Greek. Well, I guess technically you could since those items originate in Greece, but that’s just not the end of it. I…
For the last 2 or 3 weeks, we have been missing “meatless Monday”. It’s been more like meatless Wednesday or Thursday. Regardless, we still have to get those veggies in and since I’m always experimenting with new ways to introduce them (or new techniques for old favorites), I had to post this little gem. I…
In my quest to go green, spend less, save more, and know/control what’s going into my food, I decided that I’m not too cool with all the “stuff” in the spices I buy that are unnecessary additives. This had nothing to do with all the super cute choices for spice jars on the market now…….
Let me just TELL you! My oldest thought he could boil eggs faster (i.e. in 5 minutes) simply by boiling with the lid on THE ENTIRE TIME. Needless to say, after five minutes of boiling his 3 eggs, he cracked into a jiggly mess with a COMPLETELY runny yolk! Gross and hilarious at the same…
I am always looking for ways to get more veggies into our diets. We eat pretty healthy most of the time but can you really ever eat to many veggies? It’s possible I guess, but I’ve never met anyone who does. I don’t have particularly particular children, but a couple of them DO ask a…
Made lobster for the first time for hubby’s birthday. It was a big hit! And since I went fancy with the food, I had to get fancy with the presentation too. This was not a romantic dinner for 2, but a special dinner for the DH. All the kids were sitting around the table with…
You that old trick of using cheese to get kids to eat just about anything? I have never been a fan of doing that mainly because the cheese practically negates the goodness of any veggies we melt it on (ESPECIALLY if it’s any kind of processed cheese). In fact, I much prefer to just cut up the cheese and…
Look what we got from Grandmother’s garden – it’s ’bout to go down (channeling my inner Bey)! This is in stark contrast to my measly little container crops, lol. I’ll get there though…. All in due time!
I’ve got my signature cake and now I think I’ve got my signature cookie…. Here they are in their simplest form – chewy sugar cookies. These are much easier than my oatmeal cookies but just as addictive. The difference is I can “embellish” these however I want. How do I know these are so yummy? …