When making salads, I love combining sweet with savory flavors along with a mixture of textures (crunchy and soft). This Baby Spinach and Strawberry Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing does just that. I hope you enjoy it as much as my family does. :0) Baby Spinach & Strawberry Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing 5 ounce bag of […]
I’m a breakfast girl. It’s my favorite meal of the day. And I sure love spending some extra time in the kitchen on weekends making a special breakfast for my family. I eat eggs for breakfast several times each week. On busy mornings during the week, I use quick and easy methods for preparing eggs […]
Many years ago, I began a tradition with my family of serving brunch on Christmas Day. I adopted this tradition, in part, due to my desire to shorten the amount of time I spent in the kitchen on Christmas preparing the meal. After hosting my first Christmas brunch, I was sold on the idea and […]
Last Christmas, I first discovered the joy of assembling and giving away glass jars filled with a beautifully layered cookie mixture. For years, I’d admired the variations of this creative gift idea but had never attempted to make them. That is until last year. I had found a recipe for Cranberry Hootycreeks—festive and delicious white […]
One of my fondest memories from childhood is baking cookies with my mom during the Christmas season. She’d pull out a tattered book filled with handwritten recipes and thumb through it to find our family’s favorite cookies. The hours we spent in the kitchen together nurtured a close mother-daughter bond that has grown over the […]
I LOVE salad! I can’t seem to get enough of it. In fact, most days I eat at least one salad, if not more. And so I’m always looking for creative ways to dress up my salads. Recently, I was asked to bring a salad to a dinner hosted by one of my writing friends. […]
Whenever my husband or I are asked to bring a dish to a group gathering, one of the first recipes that comes to mind more times than not is Fiesta Dip. Just months after our wedding, we made our first batch of Fiesta Dip for a Thanksgiving meal we hosted at our home. Instantly, it […]
As a wedding gift, my mom gave me a book containing her recipes she made during my childhood. I reach for this recipe book often, especially during the holiday season. One of my favorite recipes in it is Italian Wedding Soup, a recipe passed down from my Grandma Marge to my mom and then to […]
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard all the buzz about KALE. Did you know that this wonder green is high in fiber and Vitamins A, C, and K; has more iron than beef and more calcium than milk per calorie; and is chalk full of antioxidants? Until recently, I didn’t know much about kale and […]
Have you ever entered a cooking contest? I have. Twice. I was 13 when I entered my first contest. At my mom’s urging, I made up a batch of blueberry muffins to enter in our county fair’s baking contest. I had no expectation of winning anything. In fact, I’d gained a reputation with my family […]