Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Today is St. Patrick’s Day. The traditional meal is corned beef with cabbage. I really like corned beef and I don’t even mind the cabbage. My mother would boil the corned beef and cabbage along with carrots and potatoes. That’s pretty much the St. Paddy’s day recipe and I am on board with that. The …
This is not the recipe you remember from your childhood. The complex flavors share little resemblance to a braised beef with gravy that may or may not have had some sour cream happen to fall into it. The fact that this is a crock pot meal makes it even better. Spend 15 minutes before you …
It all started when I was a kid. Taco night. I always looked forward to taco night. But, you need to understand that we are talking about store bought taco seasoning packet with crispy taco shells of unknown vintage. They were great, shredded lettuce and mozzarella cheese topped bottled taco sauce. As I have grown …
Let me start off by saying that Foodgawker, Tastespotting and all the recipe sites hate our pictures. Until the constant barrage of rejection flooded our inbox I could honestly say that I had not given any thought to how to take a picture of food. Clearly, I am not a photographer. We’re in there swinging …
We ended up with almost 2 pounds of left over chuck roast and root vegetables from our Christmas day meal, recipe can be found here. Roasts and vegetables don’t often reheat well in the microwave and it dries out in the oven. I am a big breakfast fan, I mean, I LOVE it! I love …
As a working mom, I have always wanted the slow cooker to be my secret weapon. Unfortunately, for years I had trouble finding recipes that didn’t leave me constantly reaching for a salty can of cream of (fill-in-the-blank here) soup. Well now that we don’t eat that junk, soup mixes and cream of crap aren’t options anymore. …
Once upon a time, I was a newlywed, a new mom, and a terrible cook. For me, cooking consisted of one of the following options: Breading and frying something Throwing meat into Italian dressing and then pan frying it later Assembling some sort of boxed meal While on maternity leave with my oldest daughter, I …
Weeknights are pretty chaotic around here. Putting dinner on the table while wrangling a hungry toddler so that we can get our fifth grader off to the evening activity is a challenge. Being this busy can make eating a healthy, home cooked meal difficult but it’s not impossible. All it takes is some planning and …