So we didn't have flour in our house for a little over a week. I don't know how we survived, honestly. I know you're thinking, why didn't you just go get flour? Oh, because we buy our flour 50 pounds at a time from a little store almost an hour away. We're picky and we found a great stone ground white whole wheat flour that we just love. 50 pounds of flour lasts us about 3 and ...
Tex-Mex Enchiladas
The other day I shared my recipe for Tex-Mex Stuffed Bell Peppers, well today I'm using that same delicious filling (Italian sausage, chunky salsa, corn, and white rice) to make these Tex-Mex Enchiladas. This was my first ever attempt at making enchiladas, in fact this was my first time eating enchiladas. ...
Better Than Blueberry Pie Bars
Since originally writing this post, this blueberry pie bars recipe is now my go-to for bake sales and gatherings. It's always a hit and so easy to make! I use the Pampered Chef stoneware large bar pan and the Mix 'N Chop for this recipe. I'm always grabbing fresh fruit without any real intentions, it just looks good so I grab it out of impulse and go from there. Probably ...
Blueberry Sweet Rolls
I love blueberries in baked goods, a warm blueberry tastes so perfectly sweet. I love baking with berries in general, but blueberries are definitely among my favorite (they might just be tied with raspberries.) Baking for breakfast is my favorite, breakfast foods are just so much fun. It's also much easier to impress people first thing in the morning, am I right? We just had ...
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 ...
Four Ingredient Mac and Cheese
When I'm just making dinner for Aliceana and myself, I like to keep it extremely simple. We don't need anything extravagant and by dinner time we're both exhausted. It's time to turn on a short cartoon and whip up something quick. One of my new favorites to make on our girls nights is this easy four ingredient mac and cheese. Everyone loves mac and cheese, and it's even better ...
Perfect Oven Potatoes
I am obsessed with potatoes. I love the idea of oven fries or oven potatoes, but they never seem to work for us, we have to bake them for well over an hour and they're never cooked evenly. It drove me nuts, oven potatoes shouldn't be rocket science! Through years of trial and error I finally figured out the best way to make oven potatoes (rather quickly too!) I make a couple ...
Blueberry Biscuits
The weather is finally getting so nice...ok as I type this it's storming so bad that the lights are flickering and I'm crossing my fingers that we don't lose power, but you know...still better than being freezing cold, right? At this point I'll take any sign of Spring we can get. We've had so much fun this past week spending most of our time playing outside, so much in fact ...
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 ...
Easy Cheesy Tex-Mex Skillet
Growing up I had to figure out my own plans for dinner for most of my High School years. I’ve eaten my fair share of processed food. I actually don’t want to know the percentage of my meals that were microwave ready or found in the freezer section. I never minded it, processed food can taste awesome. In fact I loved Hamburger Helpers, who doesn’t? They taste great and they're ...