recipe


  • Fast, Easy Vegetarian Main/Side Dish (From Your Garden or The Grocery Store)

    Now that we’re in the full swing of spring, the less time I spend standing at a hot stove for the next few months, the better. But I still want healthy, fresh, big flavor on my table, and I want to use my garden produce to its full potential. This recipe brings all of that…


  • Craveable Turkey Pesto Sammie – It’s Marriage Material, Y’all

    I’m not much of a sandwich eater. I know, that’s sacrilege, but it makes me think of what we called “skinny ham” sandwiches in my house; they were regularly in my Holly Hobby lunchbox. I’ve never eaten skinny ham since graduating elementary school, and I still don’t want it. THIS particular sandwich is a spinoff…


  • Sweet Potato with Chili, 2 Ways (carne or veg)

    This post offers a recipe for roasted sweet potatoes paired with chili. It encourages even sweet potato skeptics to try the dish, suggesting alternatives like russet potatoes. The cooking instructions include roasting the sweet potatoes and preparing a chili with options for vegan variations. Toppings enhance the final presentation.


  • Spring is here, so it’s time for a flavorful, interesting salad!

    Yes, I said interesting salad. I lived through the sadness of the fat-free craze in the 90s (yep, back in the 1900s), and plain, boring salads just will not be eaten in my kitchen anymore. Spring and summer months call for using all the fresh, ripe, robust produce you can get, though, and this is…


  • Easy Chicken Thighs With Big Flavor

    Right off the bat, I have to tell you diehard chicken breast folks a hard truth: this will not work with chicken breasts. Thighs or drumsticks only, lovelies. This method – because it’s not a recipe, per se – only works by using the natural fat in the thigh meat, and breasts just don’t have…