recipes
Steamed Broccoli & Cauliflower

Steamed Broccoli & Cauliflower

I’ve never really been a fan of cauliflower until just recently.  Michael came home from the store with purple cauliflower and broccoli a few weeks back with the thought that maybe the kids would be willing to try cauliflower if it was purple.  And in fact, he converted me.  Purple is my favorite color so...
Menu Plan Monday {July 14}

Menu Plan Monday {July 14}

 Another Monday, another Menu Plan!  Check it out, do some pinning and then comment below and tell me what’s cooking at your house! Summer is full of pool dinners for us, because I just love going to the pool for dinner and wearing the kids out so they fall right to sleep when we get...
Kocanut Joe's Froyo Pops

Kocanut Joe’s Froyo Pops

Kocanut Joe’s Frozen Yogurt has a new product on the market, just in time for these hot summer days!  They now make frozen yogurt popsicles!  Since our family is a friend of KoJo’s and I’m always promoting them on social media we were given a few popsicles to take for a test drive.  We were...

Menu Plan Monday {July 7}

Did you enjoy that long holiday weekend?  We had a very busy and fun-filled weekend, we went on bike rides, visited the Loveland Castle, had a family game night, spent time at the pool with friends, went to the Northside Parade, had a cookout with family to celebrate the 4th and visited cousins on their...
Mini Egg Frittatas

Mini Egg Frittatas

Breakfast time can be a slap-dash mess at my house.  I feel like an under-paid waitress in a diner filled with grouchy customers in the mornings.  It’s all I can do to throw cereal bowls in front of them and get them out the door on time!  I’d rather be offering them a variety of...

Menu Plan Monday {June 30 2014}

For months I have fallen off the menu plan wagon, and our dinners have been haphazard at best.  I’ve decided to straighten things out, get organized and start planning our menu each week again.  Here’s to LESS eating out and MORE home-cooked meals!  Check out my recipe links below and for more inspiration visit my...
Taco Pizza

Taco Pizza

You might be tired of hearing me say this, but my family loves to make pizza.  We eat homemade pizza weekly, and I’m always trying to find new ways to dress up our dough.  This week we had Tacos on the menu for dinner, and I doubled the batch of taco meat that I made...
BBQ Chicken Pizza

BBQ Chicken Pizza

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time you’ve probably caught the fact that I’m a huge fan of making homemade pizza for dinner.  It’s my go-to easy dinner.  I always have dough in the freezer to defrost whenever I need to come up with something for dinner.  One of my favorite...
Chocolate Chip Cheeseball

Chocolate Chip Cheeseball

Can a cheeseball be a dessert?  I say yes.  I love a good sweet cheeseball for snacking.  My sister in law Jessica makes a fabulous Chocolate Chip Cheeseball, it satisfies every sweet tooth.  She made it this past weekend for a baby shower we were hosting for our other sister in law, Jenny.  I noticed...
Menu Plan Monday ~ March 24

Menu Plan Monday ~ March 24

And so it goes…we had another crazy busy week last week.  I did my best to make some good quality dinners, but we did end up eating out a few times, much to mama’s chagrin.  I’m determined that this week will be better…we’re going to quit eating out so much and eat dinner at home! ...
Menu Plan Monday ~ March 17

Menu Plan Monday ~ March 17

It’s Monday!  Time to plan our menu for the week and get the grocery list written.  My plan is to spend more time in the kitchen this week, as last week we had a lot of dinners out due to lack of menu planning and a busy schedule.  We attended a beautiful wedding over the...
Chicken Pesto Pizza

Chicken Pesto Pizza

I love pesto so much, and I’m always trying to find ways to incorporate it into new recipes.  At the end of each summer, when the basil plants resemble bushes and our CSA share is full of basil I find myself making mass quantities of Homemade Pesto and freezing it for the winter months.  There’s...