My family has this epic recipe for making a bag of boring pretzels, taste out-of-this-world-amazing. I swapped out one ingredient to make them even better, now we have ourselves Sriracha Barbecue party pretzels, and they’re a game changer. These will take you through a journey in time and space. (because The Mighty Boosh references are always acceptable.) Honestly though, ...
Easy corndog muffin recipe using Trader Joe’s cornbread mix
I'm always looking for family friendly recipes, my daughter isn't even a picky eater, but I like to make meals a little more fun. Sometimes I think I appreciate kid food just as much as she does and chicken tenders end up on the meal plan often. So I made some fun corndog muffins with a box of Trader Joe's cornbread mix. It was so easy, all I did was add a little garlic ...
Vanilla Cookie Recipe (and my little kitchen helper)
It's the perfect time of the year to try out new cookie recipes, I recently made and shared the recipe for brown sugar spice cookies. More recently I made vanilla cookies, I made this easy vanilla cookie recipe last year too, I just forgot to share them! These cookies are really simple to make and they taste great, these taste like sugar cookies with a stronger vanilla ...
Slowcooker Calico Beans Recipe
A couple weeks ago, I was creating our meal plan for the next two weeks like usual. Father's Day happened to fall into those weeks and I knew we were going to celebrate AJ's favorite way; grilling! I didn't know what he wanted to grill, but I thought of the perfect side right away. It was time to dig out my Slowcooker Calico Beans Recipe. When I brought out my giant ...
Mint and Watermelon Iced Tea Recipe
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TeaProudly #CollectiveBias #BigelowIcedTea Sitting outside in the summer is something I wait months for, so naturally I want to be outside even if it's outrageously warm. Those are the days when it's nice to relax outside with an iced tea. Let me tell you about the ...
Simple Strawberry Pie
In my mind every season is pie season. Maybe it's because I can whip up a pie crust in a couple minutes, seriously have you checked out my 4 ingredient flaky pie crust recipe yet? It means pies are easily my go-to recipe. One of my favorite pies to make is a simple strawberry pie. It's easy to make, delicious, and beautiful, that's a win win win (whoa three wins!) in my ...
Garlic Parmesan Zucchini Fries
AJ finally upgraded his grill this spring, and we've been grilling about twice a week since. As wonderful as it is to grill all weekend every weekend we're quickly running out of ideas for sides and have to get a little more creative. These garlic parmesan zucchini fries are probably one of the best things I've ever had as a side even though I'm not a fan of zucchini. One of ...
Four Ingredient Slow Cooker Chicken Wings
I love hosting people for game days, is there anything more fun than gathering together and eating tons of finger foods? Even when it's just the 3 of us at home we like to create quite the spread; chips and taco dip, something from the grill, cheese, crackers and sausage. We go all out. Sometimes it's nice to give the grill a break and cook something simple inside. That's ...
Best Ever Breakfast Potatoes Recipe
If it were up to me I would have potatoes with every single meal. I love potatoes, a lot. I tried out this recipe one afternoon when it was just Aliceana and I. I had skipped lunch and I couldn't wait a few hours for dinner, so I thought why not make some potatoes? Yep, I can make a meal out of potatoes. As soon as I tasted these I immediately texted AJ to let him know I made ...
Super Simple Shrimp Tacos
Simple meals are definitely winning here lately. In fact, when I came up with this recipe, we were about...2 minutes away from Trader Joe's and I remembered that we didn't have a meal plan. I was stumped, but I thought, uh...shrimp tacos sounds like a fun option to make at home. So one of our favorite quick to put together meals was born. Super simple shrimp tacos that ...
Carne Asada Fries recipe with Trader Joe’s ingredients
Recently Aliceana declared Tuesday's at our house Taco Tuesday's. The thing is, that as a family of 3 making tacos with all of the fixings just seems annoying. Tacos is a meal that you make for a crowd, so we've been making up different meals that have taco elements. We came up with a recipe for carne asada fries using ingredients from Trader Joe's and we've been eating it ...