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Can’t keep up? Simplify dinner with Freezer Friendly Pizza Pockets!

Can’t keep up? Simplify dinner with Freezer Friendly Pizza Pockets!

    No matter the month, each season has it’s challenges that tap our time and stretch our schedules. Everybody I talk to always feels really busy!  We have so much on our plates there’s no time to put food on them!   Cheaper than …read more

Knead to Please this St. Patrick’s Day

Knead to Please this St. Patrick’s Day

      If you’ve been reluctant to make bread because you don’t want to mess around with yeast, then this recipe is for you!   Can bread with a chewy, craggy crust and a tender moist interior cost less a dollar? Yes! In short, …read more

Meet Your New Favorite St. Patrick’s Day Sandwich

Meet Your New Favorite St. Patrick’s Day Sandwich

  What’s not to love about St. Patrick’s Day? The wearing o’ the green, leprechaun pinches, and green food coloring in everything from breakfast to beer (well maybe not that so much). Plus, I’m excited about the traditional St. Pat’s dinner of corned beef, cabbage, …read more

Chocolate Mousse Filled Popovers

Chocolate Mousse Filled Popovers

  Chocolate and popover lovers rejoice!   It’s time for chocolate mousse filled popovers.     It’s no secret I loves me some popovers. I’ll eat them plain, right out of the oven.   Sometimes I don’t even slather them with butter.   HA! Just …read more

Practically Perfect Popovers  Made goof-proof in a Muffin Tin

Practically Perfect Popovers  Made goof-proof in a Muffin Tin

    Why are people so crazy about popovers?   Could it be the golden, crisp exterior?   Or the melt-in-your-mouth tender interior?   In short, yes, and yes.   In either case, I believe the thing that makes popovers truly irresistible is the thrill …read more

Butternut Squash and Apple Soup with Sage Parmesan Crisps

Butternut Squash and Apple Soup with Sage Parmesan Crisps

   Roast Butternut Squash and Apple Soup. A simple, seasonal, sensational soup.   Maybe I’ve been inhaling too much pumpkin spice candle, but I felt a change the air this week.  I’m choosing slippers over sandals, long sleeves over t-shirts, and soups over salads.    …read more

Hatch Chili and Tomato Casserole

Hatch Chili and Tomato Casserole

      Do all you chili-heads out there know what happens each August in the Southwest? If you said “Hatch chili season!” give yourself a gold star!    That’s when the Hatch chilies ripen and appear, stacked high in boxes, along with the big …read more

8 Cool Things to do With a Waffle Iron, Besides Make Waffles.

8 Cool Things to do With a Waffle Iron, Besides Make Waffles.

    You know that waffle iron you got as a wedding gift?  It’s probably in the dark recesses of your kitchen cabinet behind all the other things you use once a year. Well, I’d like to let the humble waffle iron see the light …read more