A simple crock pot soup recipe loaded with southwest flavors, chicken, and smoky chipotle peppers. Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup is one of my favorite toss-it-all-in-and-go recipes! Heyyyyy. It was 70 degrees today. My kitchen window is open and I’m pretty sure my neighbors were just running around outside for like an hour with a …
I know why time is going at warp speed: Christmas. I blinked and lost the last half of last week. So I really wanted to kinda lolly-gag through the weekend. Didn’t happen.
I honestly DO NOT KNOW how we got to the weekend. It was Tuesday, and it felt like it took soooooooo looooong to get to Tuesday, and then I blinked and it was Friday night. Speaking of Friday night– my kid has plans. I just dropped him off at a boy/girl birthday party… with a …
This sandwich is like winning the lottery. Do you all play the lottery? Because tomorrow the drawing is gonna be something like $425 million, and holy moly wouldn’t that solve a lot of problems? I’m a tentative lottery ticket buyer. The five-dollar-gambler. That’s me. If the incentive is high enough we drive to the nearest …
Evan, my 9-year-old, has been inspired by our recent explosion of Christmas decorating to ask me all kinds of questions about my pal Santa Claus. Yesterday, while selecting our AMAZING Christmas tree (seriously… last year our tree was a hot mess; we bought it from a place that donated the proceeds to the Humane Society …
My cure for the Thanksgiving holiday food hangover… … involved wrapping my porch in a gajillion strands of soft white lights, shopping online because Black Friday is a really bad idea for me, purchasing THE MOST amazing Christmas tree from a local grower, and some garlic-herb cream cheese spread that complimented every bit of leftovers …
Thanks for … Thanks for this day spent in my kitchen with little boys under foot, listening to 90’s-era alterna-rock in between old episodes of Gossip Girl while wearing an apron smudged with cream cheese and cheeks sprinkled with flour dust.
The BEST Sweet Potato Chili is a delicious, healthy, vegetarian meal that’s super easy to make and loaded with flavor. This simple recipe is spicy, sweet, and will be a hit with the whole family! I should preface this post with a disclaimer about my love of curing all ailments with fruits, vegetables, vitamins, green …
We can add Applebee’s to the list of restaurants in which I paid my service industry dues. I worked in the kitchen, I waited tables, I poured a lot of draft beer into tall frosty glasses. I can give you some serious inside information on this nationwide chain restaurant. In case you care, they make …
It is acceptable to suggest roasting a chicken just a few days before so many of you are gearing up to roast a turkey. It is. Roasting a chicken is like good turkey practice. Also a whole chicken is nowhere near as terrifying as a whole turkey. Annnnnd if you braved the grocery store this …