
Here is another pasta dish…I seem to have a few pasta dishes accumulated in my draft posts…but this one was so dang yummy just had to share right away!
This is a pasta dish that never really appealed to me….the whole raw egg thing. Until I saw Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals. Traditionally Carbonara is made with [...]

I finally got a day off – the first in ten days! So I headed to the kitchen to make this tasty side dish for the BBQ we are having tonight.
I still do not know how much I will be on this blog this summer, but will give it the best I can given my [...]

This chicken dish very closely resembles Chicken Cacciatore. The process is somewhat different – as I made it into a chicken cheese bake in the oven. We had this dish served over pasta, however, it would also be tasty served over rice.
Life in my neck of the woods is getting super super busy with work. [...]

We live for asparagus season in this household. When it arrives – we have asparagus dishes pretty much every day. Here is an interesting article on the health benefits of this power food.
This is not so much of a recipe, but more of a method – so easy, and so tasty. I’ll also post some [...]

If you read my blog, you may know I am not a fan of jarred pasta sauces. This is so true. There are a number of quick and easy pasta sauces on my blog that you can check out. Now having said that…..yes having said that…..I found a jarred pasata sauce that is to die [...]
This might be my new favorite salad….so good! We have a deli downtown that makes a very good Thai Broccoli Salad, which I will often have for lunch when I am at work. One day, I decided to ask them for the recipe…thinking they probably would not give it to me, however, it never hurts [...]

Happy Easter Monday Everyone! This is kind of a last minute post…we had this delicious ham for dinner with the family on Sunday night. DH took this picture with our new Sony NEX-5N camera. It is the first picture I have fallen in love with….yeahhhh! I am still learning…while kind of. It helps if one [...]

This recipe was inspired by the Pioneer Woman’s Chicken casserole recipe. You can find Ree’s recipe here.
In my recipe – I made everything from scratch, my process was quite a bit different as well. Homemade creamy mushroom soup, and homemade season salt. And of course it is gluten free. There were great combination flavors in [...]

With this recipe, I decided to cook the pork tenderloin in a different way…..sooooo good! Usually, I will make some kind of marinade or sauce to cover the pork tenderloin, then I would roast it. This time I did it the other way around, by searing it first, then adding a marinade, then creating a [...]

Having leftover cooked chicken in the fridge can be a godsend on busy days. This salad makes such an easy delicious lunch, or dinner for that matter. With fresh spring greens, ripe avocados and fresh lime juice – a perfect match of ingredients.
1 1/2 cups cooked chicken – cut into cubes
1 large avocado cut into [...]