Meatballs - Customize to Your Liking For the longest time, I was using pre-made frozen meatballs for recipes. There is nothing wrong with this, and we do still keep them around if we need them. However, once I started making my own, it's my preferred way to go. Whether you need…
Green Onions - Easy to Preserve and Regrow So, we use green onions a lot. Quite a few of the recipes we use call for them. I also like to throw them into different things like my favorite summer salad or soups, dips.... The Problem Green onions are pretty cheap and…
Italian Wedding Soup - Good For The Soul Hosting a meeting at our house tonight so I am making my favorite summer salad, ham and cheese roll ups, and Italian wedding soup, using the recipe my mom gave me. I feel it's kind of a Panera bread type of aesthetic with…
Ham and Cheese Roll-Ups Easily Varied Today I'm making one of our favorite easy snacks: Ham and Cheese Roll Ups. I got this recipe from a book called Southwest Cooking that I bought at the Hoover dam back in 2013. You can purchase this book from Amazon. This is an easy…
Chili Lime Shrimp Over Quinoa - Quick and Delicious This recipe actually came from a register print out when we bought butter a couple years ago. Intrigued, we kept it in the recipe book. We make it if not once a month, once every other month. Chili Lime Shrimp Over Quinoa…
Bronx Sandwich Company: Anaheim, California Earlier today we made a trip to Anaheim for a beer pickup we needed to make at Bottle Logic Brewing. Rather than hit up the usual drive through on the way for the convenience factor, we decided to find somewhere new. I was super hungry for…
Shawarma and Greek Salad - So Good Together Tonight for dinner we made one of our absolute favorite meals. Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma. We paired it with a Greek inspired salad we discovered years ago. They ended up a perfect pairing. What is Shawarma? Well, according to Wikipedia: Shawarma (/ʃəˈwɑːrmə/; Arabic: شاورما)…
Greek Salad - The Answer to every question. This Greek Salad is hands down the salad we make most often throughout the year. We discovered it during Greek Month and have been making it ever since. It's easy, it's aromatic, the fresh vegetables combine together for a smell so amazing, you…
Melting Pot: Dinner for Two Under $100 Yes, you read that right. Dinner for two people (a four course meal and a bottle of wine) under $100! Yesterday was our fifth wedding anniversary. For our first, we decided on dinner at Melting Pot, with this anniversary being on a weekend again,…
Sweet and Spicy Glazed Chicken - A Pampered Chef Recipe We decided to try a new recipe tonight. I've had this recipe for Pampered Chef's Sweet and Spicy Glazed Chicken for years and just always overlooked it. Three factors contributed to this: We wanted to try something new and already had…