Sunday dinner. My family has been upholding this amazing tradition for close to twenty years. My mom, in an effort to keep her little chicks nearby began hosting dinner on Sundays as soon as the first one of us flew the coop. (I mean…is there anything more satisfying than a good poultry pun?) Several years […]
Baked Chicken Chimichangas Recipe
Mmm…this is a yummy one. My hubby is a chimichanga connoisseur. He orders them at every Mexican restaurant we visit. I yell at him that he really shouldn’t be eating that deep-fried burrito and then proceed to dig into my totally healthy veggie quesadilla. What? Okay. So it’s got some cheese on it. Okay. A […]
Easy Cheesy Meatballs Recipe
I have a question for you… How do you feel about balls? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist and apparently I have the humorous mindset of a 10 year-old boy) I am talking about meatballs, people. Little succulent morsels of meaty heaven. I have to admit that while growing up meatballs held a firm place on the […]
Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
Do you know that there was a point in time in my life that I would not eat chicken pot pie? Seriously. The mere idea of consuming a mish-mash of chicken and veggies cooked inside a pie crust gave me a case of the heebies. Why? Because I hated pie, thereby hating pie crust by […]
Crockpot Pot Roast Recipe
I think pot roast has gotten a bad rap. It typically conjures up images of dry, jerky-like hunks of meat with absolutely no flavor. But not in my household. My mom has always made this very moist, extremely flavorful pot roast from the gods. In fact, I remember as a teenager eating dinner with my […]
“Mom, can I have a snack?”
This has got to be the most frustrating statement to be uttered out of the mouths of either one of my babes. It starts like this. “Mom, I’m full,” as Avery and Jack look at me from their reserved spaces at the dinner table,barely a discernible drop of food touched on their plates. Me: “You […]
Meatloaf Recipe
Fall conjures up so many images for different folks. Some think of vibrantly shaded maple leaves, Macintosh apples and cider. Others think of pumpkin bread, jack o’ lanterns and crisp, dewy mornings. Avery told me the other day that “Fall means I have to start bringing my coat to school.” But to me, this season […]