Living in the South, when summer comes, I’m not in the mood for meat and potatoes. Breakfast is fruit or smoothies, dinner is something on the grill, and for lunch I love a good salad. Not only can I take advantage of fresh garden produce that we’ve got in our vegetable garden, but I can […]
Buying a boxed mix for sweet breads and muffins is cheap; you can usually get them for $1 or less on sale. But making homemade baked goods tastes so much better, and it’s really not that much more complicated. Plus, you can control the ingredients. Most baked good recipes are also flexible and forgiving. If […]
If you’ve ever been to a restaurant and gotten honey mustard as the dressing for your salad, you know how rich and delicious it is. And if you’ve ever bought a bottle of honey mustard dressing from the store, you know how it’s just not the same. This recipe for homemade honey mustard dressing is […]
Try this easy baked chicken teriyaki for a quick weeknight meal! We like it served with rice and a roasted or steamed green veggie. PrintBaked Chicken Teriyaki Ingredients2 chicken breasts, cut in half horizontally to make 4 cutlets (or you could buy chicken cutlets) 1 cup low-sodium soy sauce 1/2 cup water 1/3 cup brown […]
Our cucumber plants in our raised bed garden have been thriving this season, so we are picking between 5-10 cucumbers a day. We’ve made cucumber salad, passed cucumbers onto our friends, and dipped them in homemade hummus, but my favorite way to use them up is to make refrigerator pickles. I’ve shared my recipe for […]
With summer coming and our schedule changing, I’ve been gravitating toward making really simple meal plans for the coming week. However, we still have things going on, and I find that a meal plan is only helpful if it actually takes our schedule into account! After many weeks of doing this, I realized I kind […]
We seriously eat this every week and it’s almost never the same. That’s the good thing about this super simple succotash: use the basic ingredients or throw in whatever you have in the fridge. Add in sliced okra, cubed potatoes, frozen peas, chopped peppers or broccoli…pretty much every veggie is good in it. PrintSuper Simple […]
I love to have these puff pastry egg bites ready made for breakfast because they taste great, are a good source of protein, and you can use whatever veggies you have on hand. Buy store-bought puff pastry to make this super simple! You can also pre-make them; to reheat with best results, heat in an […]
