I know potato salad is supposed to be a side dish but this little fact didn’t stop me from making this potato salad into a meal. Potato salad is so good, but I’ll be honest with you – I don’t usually like to make it because it’s one of those dishes that is a lot… Continue reading Potato Salad That Eats Like a Meal
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Carrot and Kale Salad
Kale is one of those vegetables that I love to grow. It’s hearty, tasty, and can easily survive a winter in my garden. My sister has planted it in her garden and it grows well there, too, and she lives in Alaska! I usually sautee kale with onion and minced garlic and then splash it… Continue reading Carrot and Kale Salad
How to Cook with Dried Beans
I usually cook about 2-3 pounds of dried beans every week. That’s the equivalent to about 10-12 cans of beans a week but keep in mind, we’re a family of 4 BUT still - we eat a lot of beans! Whether we eat beans for breakfast, lunch, after school snacking, or dinner, they taste great,… Continue reading How to Cook with Dried Beans
Monthly Meal Plan
This is my favorite time of year in the garden. Everything seems to be growing and green and dinner is so easy when I can walk out the door and trim or pick and then serve. It’s not always pretty in my garden. My failures usually outnumber the successes. I try and go with what… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
BlogHer Food Recap Austin, TX
Can you tell that we were having a blast? Yes, my attending and speaking at the BlogHer Food conference in Austin, Texas was for work but it was so fun! We bloggers love to get out from behind our computer screens and have a good time! My friend, Sheila from Eat 2 Gather, and I… Continue reading BlogHer Food Recap Austin, TX
Asian Shrimp Noodle Salad
I like the food I cook and eat to have lots of color, lots of health, and lots of taste. Whenever we have a meal that consists of brown rice, roasted cauliflower, and oven roasted whole chicken, it all tastes great and is healthy but it all sort of melds together in a shade of… Continue reading Asian Shrimp Noodle Salad
Monthly Meal Plan
Even though I meal plan every week (for many reasons – here are 11 reasons why I do it), I don’t meal plan for a month at a time – I’m only sharing it once-a-month here. With a busy family schedule and teenagers who are always springing a “Oh, didn’t I tell you???” on their… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
Dinner Group and Pretty Houses
One of the many things I love about our dinner group is seeing everyone’s beautiful homes. With 4 couples in our ongoing rotating supper club, we get to dine in a friend’s home regularly and we also get to see progress of everyone’s house and garden projects. There are always house projects, aren’t there? Our… Continue reading Dinner Group and Pretty Houses
How to Make Chicken Broth
Remember when I told you that if you roast a chicken at home you can feed your family 3 times? The first night, you enjoy the homemade oven roasted chicken. The next night, you dine on a simple curry chicken salad. Then, you make homemade chicken broth and use the broth in a soup. Or,… Continue reading How to Make Chicken Broth
So Simple Curry Chicken Salad
Whenever I cook a whole chicken for dinner, the next night’s dinner is always something with leftover chicken (if there is any with two teenagers!). This is one of my favorite uses of leftover chicken: chicken salad sandwiches with vegetables and curry. It’s good on a sandwich but you can also just serve a scoop… Continue reading So Simple Curry Chicken Salad
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