Roasted Red Pepper Short Cut Pasta
I was craving roasted red pepper pasta, but I wanted a way to short cut my previous Melrose Red Pepper Pasta. While I really enjoyed it, I found it contained too many steps. One...
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Sassy S.O.S
Many times, I find myself taking the recipes I know from childhood and trying to add a new and exciting flavor spin to them. Growing up my mom would make S.O.S (gravy on toast)...
New York Style Margherita Pizza
I have made many Margherita pizzas in the past, but they always seemed to be lacking something extra. Not that they weren’t great with my own delicious home-grown Roma tomatoes, I still felt like...
Juicy Baked Pecan Crusted Chicken
Necessity is the mother of invention and often new recipes. In the past I would buy premade pecan chicken breasts from the store and bake them in the oven. They were good, but sometimes...
Savory Bacon and Pea Frittata
I usually have eggs on hand in my refrigerator as I use them in multiple recipes that I make. However, sometimes I don’t get them all used up before they start to approach the...
Dilly Ranch Chicken Bacon Pizza
Another pizza Friday and I am excited, because the work week is over and it is time to relax. This pizza Friday is a long-standing tradition in our house. I can’t imagine life without...
Extraordinary Egg Fried Rice
My dad was in the military, so we lived in a lot of different places while I was growing up. Among the places we lived, Thailand was one of them. I was only in...
A Rose by Any Other Name: Simple Rose Care & Growing Tips
If you had told me when I was an adolescent growing up in rural Iowa that I would one day love to grow roses I would not have believed you. I took a job...
Sassy Sloppy Joes
Weekend vibes and after cooking meals all week long I am not in the mood to slave over the stove for hours. I was watching Sunny Anderson on The Kitchen talk about how she...
Nutty Chicken Pizza
I am always looking for a new take on pizza Friday. I have eaten pad Thai before and always enjoyed the flavor that the peanuts would lend to the noodles and sauce. My mind...