Eating from your garden
Now if you are not excited or motivated quite yet about growing a garden maybe these recipes will get your mouth watering. Roger's Salsa: Roger Lipp Ingredients: 12 tomatoes (or two large cans of crushed tomatoes) 1 (15 oz) can of tomato sauce 1 bunch...
Cooking from your Pantry Instant Chili
What do you do when you do not have a freezer meal thawing, nothing in the crock pot, it is 5 pm and the kiddos are getting restless? If you are like most you probably have a well stocked pantry. So you plan a meal on the fly with just your pantry items. A tasty and...
Cook his favorite meal tonight
Make your husband something special in the kitchen (reservations don’t count). It’s an unfair fact of life – men like a woman who can cook. Most of us didn’t grow up with a mom who passed down an exceptional culinary legacy. Many of our mothers were out there bringing...
When Freezers and Slow Cookers Collide
I love when I find other food nerds out there. It is a title I use – and embrace – lovingly. It's very different than food snobs who want to tell you that you are using the wrong knife or look down their nose at you if your cheese isn't aged properly. Food snobs...
The Easiest (and Best) Roasted Garlic-y Chicken Recipe Ever
I've heard it several times on cooking shows: "The true test of a chef is this: How well can you roast a chicken?" Well move over Thomas Kellar. I have been tinkering with my roast chicken recipe and I have one that makes Roger weep with joy when he walks through the...
Marriage Pop-Up: Do what your guy loves to do!
When you and your husband were dating what did he do when you guys were not together? What did he want you to do with him? And how long has it been since you have done that activity with your husband? This week initiate an activity that your husband used to love....
What does my garden need to grow?
Mary Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids all in a row. You know what you want to grow so now is the how are you going to grow it? There are gardening essentials everyone needs regardless of the plants...
Cook in the Crock Pot today!
It's Monday morning. Staying in bed would be great, why is the weekend so short? For most of us Mondays are busy. But now that the days are longer it seems as if dinner time creeps up quickly and how many nights have you been scrambling to get dinner on the table...
Marriage Pop Up: Brag on your man today!
What do others hear you say about your man? Is it positive, negative, embarrassing? Today start a pattern of saying something nice about your husband to someone else. Make sure you tell him what you said, and to whom. Only you have the bragging rights to your man, no...