Potato salad : A true staple of the Meat and Potato Diet. I don’t subscribe to that particular brand of eating on a regular basis, but when you’re cooking out with your family you have to embrace it. At our get togethers it is a plain old necessity.
To see an updated [printer-friendly!] version of this recipe check out my Chewy Apple Peanut Butter Bars Starting in February every year (the 8th to be exact) the Tullos family has what we always refer to as “Birthday Season”. Once the birthday season ball starts rolling it DOES NOT STOP until August. It is nearly …
There are some things that will always make me smile no matter how bad my day is. Like when my kids bring home really funny school work. (Translation: I can drive and talk on the phone.) Finding money in a coat pocket. Brownies. And when Chad reads the mustard bottle. That’s right. The bottle says “delightfully spicy”. But …
Carpool Cookies are thick, hearty chocolate chip pecan cookies with oats and sweetened coconut. They are the perfect snack for riding in the car! I definitely wrote this original post after a fit of carpool road rage back when my youngest kid was still in the second grade. Carpool lines are the bane of my …
If I ever ask my children what they want for dinner, I get a handful of standard answers: pizza, tacos, cheeseburgers, or, “Hey, we could go to the China Buffet. We haven’t been out to eat in awhile and it’s pretty cheap.” “Cheap” is a relative term when you’re 11. I would love to go …
Macaroni and cheese out of the box was a major staple of my youth. It’s cheap and pretty filling and you can get two boxes for a dollar. Add in a can of tuna, some cream of whatever soup, a little milk and melt some American cheese on top and you have the old broke …
We were fortunate enough to grow up in a neighborhood where Halloween was still the coolest holiday. Because of that I adore Halloween and everything that comes with it. My mom always made our costumes– my brothers, sisters, and I have been everything from a bag of jelly beans to hellraiser, from humpty dumpty to kitty cats …
While I was trying desperately to come up with SOMETHING to bring to the cookout with my boyfriend’s family over the weekend, I remembered that these cookies have a tendency to win over crowds. So I made some and brought them too. Except I forgot that these are NOT cookout cookies. They are full …
For those of you that don’t know, I live in rural North Carolina. I am not from here, but my sweetheart, Chad, is and his whole family lives here. I remember when I met his grandparents for the first time, and his grandma told me to, “Come on in and find ya a seat… just make …
I was born in Belleville, Illinois. In case you have never heard of Belleville (and I’m guessing you probably haven’t), it is located in the southern-most tip of Illinois and is a bridge away from St. Louis, Missouri. My mom grew up in Belleville, my parents met there, and we spent parts of our summer …