By Shannon Breuner Nelson
A sure sign of fall for me is my desire to pull out the slow cooker. Cozy food seem like just the ticket when the sky turns dark earlier and the air begins to change. But let's be honest. The best part of the slow cooker is that dinner is done. At 7am. BOOM.
I'm definitely not less busy in the sprin...
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By Amy Allen Johnson
Fried rice is an easy recipe to throw together and is the Asian equivalent of leftover hash. Take whatever meat or protein you have on hand, your day-old cold rice and add in some vegetables. You’ll have a meal ready in just minutes. The key is to have all the ingredients ready before you st...
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By Amy Allen Johnson
Somehow September has turned into the crazy, back-to-school cyclone that has picked up every piece of my house and turned it upside down, then covered it with school papers.
Now, where did I leave that "system of organization?"
No where is it more apparent that the system is GONE than in our...
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By Amy Allen Johnson
When you play sports, timing is everything. Race's are won or lost on speed. Passes are caught or missed. Does timing matter in a kitchen? Yes.
I'm convinced the 9-course meal was invented as a French chef was cooking over a single fire and could only make one dish at a time. In our house, ...
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By Shannon Breuner Nelson
Carbs warm my heart.
I'm a vegetarian, and as much as I love my fruits and veggies, bread and pasta really rock my world.
My carb fueled passion has me hunting away on Pinterest (my obsession) for new dinner recipes. I was wildly thrilled to discover this recipe for spaghetti bread from the ...
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By Amy Allen Johnson
When winter dreariness sets in, I dream of trips to exotic places. Want to come to the Caribbean with me? Try this Jamaican Jerk Chicken and welcome the tropics into your kitchen!
I round out my Caribbean-inspired menu with Coconut Rice and Black Beans and the Citrus Coleslaw Salad too. S...
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By Erin Oltmanns
O.M.G.
You guys. These Super Sliders from No Biggie are amazing. AMAZING.
I made them last night and my husband and I can’t stop talking about them. So easy. So quick. So delicious that we didn’t speak during dinner...we were too busy savoring.
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By Staff
Leigh Anne gives us a dead-simple fried rice recipe over at Portland Mama....
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By Staff
Comfort food has its rightful place, but something about Spring always inspires lighter dinner menus - perhaps it’s all that time spent frolicking in the almost warm weather. Then again maybe it’s all those swim-suit filled catalogs landing in your mailbox.
The April issue of Taste of Home is...
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By Erin Oltmanns
There is something about winter that leads me down the path or unbridled consumption of sweets and carbs. Besides the festival of holiday sweets that seem to roll from Christmas straight through Valentine’s Day, part of the problem is the lack of delicious fresh produce. I love to buy local produc...
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