It’s National Chocolate Day. Really. Friday was National Mincemeat Day and tomorrow is National Oatmeal Day. Which holiday would YOU rather celebrate? (In case you’re wondering how I came to be such a fount of food information, blame Facebook. Or Google. Or just check out this nifty website.) There’s pretty much a food holiday for… Continue Reading
Category Archives: In the Kitchen
Cookies for Breakfast, Pizza for Dessert
Next week for Independence Day, our ward will hold a potluck breakfast (and water fight). I’m not a lover of breakfast foods, so it’s always a challenge for me to find something delicious to bring that isn’t some kind of egg or sausage casserole, but isn’t just a boring bowl of fruit or package of… Continue Reading
Pasta Primavera for the end of Spring
It feels like summer, but technically it’s still spring, so Pasta Primavera with Meatballs is on tonight’s menu. This is one of our family favorites. It tastes delicious, is fancy enough for company and easy enough for even the busiest of days. It’s a very adaptable recipe as well. When we’ve been out of the… Continue Reading
Ice Cold Lemonade
There is just nothing that says summer like a nice cold glass of fresh lemonade. I am a lemonade lover. There is just nothing better to cool you off and perk you up on a hot day. And all the yummy things you can do with lemonade: lemon-limeade, lemonade popsicles, raspberry lemonade, strawberry lemonade. .… Continue Reading
Scrumptious Summer Salads
It’s recipe time again. I don’t know how it is where you live, but school is out here now and regardless of what the calendar says, that means it’s summer. Summer is the perfect time for a salad meal and we tend to eat salads for dinner several times a week in the summer. Here… Continue Reading
Oatburg–a Tasty & Healthy Hamburger Alternative
Despite my great love for making dessert, we really do try to eat healthy at our house. We also like to shave a few dollars off the grocery budget whenever we can. Those two goals aren’t always compatible, so when I find a recipe that is both healthy–and cheap–and that my family actually loves, I… Continue Reading
Make-Ahead Breakfast Makes Mornings Easier
Breakfast at our house is a crazy time. With five people leaving in the mornings at four different times between 1:30 and 6:45 a.m., I am just not inclined to spend my morning cooking breakfast and then cleaning up the mess. I want my family to have a good breakfast–and a hot breakfast especially when… Continue Reading
Distracted by Cupcakes
I’m feeling the need to bake this weekend. Not just a little baking, but clear-the-counters-and-make-room-on-the-table-because-we’re-on-a-baking-binge kind of baking. Really. It’s my turn to make cupcakes. I am on the board of the Young Women’s organization (I’m so lucky–really) and once a month we make cupcakes to celebrate everyone’s birthdays. I could go to Sam’s Club… Continue Reading
Easy-Peasy Cookie Bars Recipe
Tomorrow is General Conference. That means we’re having a spiritual feast this weekend. And while we’re at it with the spiritual nourishment, we need to have some delicious temporal nourishment as well. We’ll have all the usual healthy finger foods. Veggies and dip, some crackers and cheese, fresh fruit, maybe even some popcorn (especially now… Continue Reading
Chinese Take-In: Spring Rolls
I LOVE spring rolls, egg rolls, whatever you want to call them. But they’ve always been one of those things that you get at the Chinese restaurant. Well, one day I had a hankering for some and I picked up a box of frozen ones at the grocery store. They were so nasty that I… Continue Reading