This Oven Baked Chicken Breast recipe makes an easy, delicious, no-fuss weeknight chicken dinner, or can be used in many other main dish recipes that call for cooked chicken. Click here to receive FREE recipes in your inbox! This Oven Baked Chicken Breast recipe is a staple in our house. It is so easy that…
Seasonal Recipes
Crockpot Roasted Potatoes
Crockpot Roasted Potatoes are russet potatoes roasted in a crockpot or slow cooker with garlic, Italian Seasoning herbs, including rosemary, and parmesan cheese. These Crockpot Roasted Potatoes are perfect for a weekend or holiday dinner. If you would like to skip all the helpful tips and tricks in the written part of the blog post…
Caprese Pasta Salad
This Caprese Pasta Salad, with its summer tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese, and fresh basil leaves, coated in a red wine vinaigrette and drizzled with a Balsamic Glaze, makes a perfect pasta salad for a picnic, potluck, or summer party! Caprese Salad Transformed into a Caprese Pasta Salad! Have you ever had a Caprese Salad at an Italian…
Baked BBQ Chicken
This easy Oven Baked BBQ Chicken makes a sweet, tangy, smoky, sticky barbecue chicken that is perfect for a summer party or dinner, or when it is too hot or cold to grill outside. In this post, you will learn lots of tips and tricks for baking the best Baked BBQ Chicken, which is…
Cucumber Tomato Salad (with a Mexican Twist)
This Cucumber Tomato Salad with sliced cucumbers, fresh tomatoes, sliced red onions, in a red wine vinaigrette, includes a Mexican twist with the addition of crumbled cotija cheese, Mexican oregano, and chopped cilantro. It makes a truly delicious and refreshing summer salad! Why Is Cucumber Tomato Salad So Popular? In the summertime with barbecues and the hot…
Mexican Street Corn Salad (Elote Deconstructed)
Mexican Street Corn Salad Recipe is deconstructed Elote or Mexican Street Corn, a popular Mexican street food, served in a bowl, instead of as corn on the cob, and covered with a fantastic chili lime cream sauce and cotija cheese. I am blessed to live in a city in South Texas with lots of Mexican food, both…
Moist Banana Bread Recipe
This super Moist Banana Bread recipe makes the best banana bread you will ever try. The sour cream, very ripe mashed bananas, and Texas pecans make the difference. Everyone loves banana bread, especially this Moist Banana Bread with pecans! I have tried many banana bread recipes and banana nut bread recipes and took what I liked…
Pumpkin Smoothie
This sweet, creamy Pumpkin Smoothie tastes like a pumpkin pie dessert blended into a healthy smoothie and is perfect for Fall and Thanksgiving. Keep reading for a surprise ingredient that gives it that Texas twist! It is Mid-October and it has still been in the nineties. Where is Fall? Let me clarify for those not from Texas….
Salisbury Steak
This homemade easy Salisbury Steak is a ground beef patty with onions, mushrooms, and a brown Salisbury Steak gravy, and is pure comfort food. Serve with mashed potatoes and green beans or peas and you have a fantastic family dinner. Texas is beef country. I grew up in Texas and beef was king. My Dad was…
Bacon Ranch Potato Salad
This Bacon Ranch Potato Salad adds bacon and ranch to this potato salad that is made with roasted potatoes and jalapenos for a Texas twist on your favorite picnic dish! One of the reasons I love summer is because I can make this Bacon Ranch Potato Salad ahead of time and take it to our neighborhood…
Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars, inspired by the Mexican dessert called sopapillas, have a sweet, creamy cheesecake filling tucked between 2 crescent roll pastry sheets, and are topped with butter, cinnamon, and sugar and drizzled with honey. Based on the above description and photo, it is no surprise that Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars make a crowd-pleasing dessert that is popular…
Seattle Hot Dogs with Roasted Red Peppers
Seattle Hot Dogs with Roasted Red Peppers, cream cheese, jalapenos, and onions, also known as Seattle Dogs, are popular hot dogs in Seattle at the Seattle Mariners baseball games. When I read about these Seattle Style Hot Dogs with cream cheese and jalapenos and onions, I knew I had to make some but put my own spin…
Ramen Noodle Salad (with Broccoli Slaw)
This Ramen Noodle Salad is a make ahead cole slaw, made with broccoli slaw and ramen noodles, that is perfect for a side dish for a potluck, bbq, or picnic. We recently moved from Houston to San Antonio, Texas. And after this move, we have decided that we never ever want to move again! Ever! And as far as…
Strawberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats (No Bake)
Strawberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats are an easy make-ahead, no-bake sweet oatmeal that combines my favorite dessert with my favorite on the go breakfast. I just started a new day job in a new city. I have a new morning routine in which I have to be out the door by 7 am. I don’t have much time…
Mint Chocolate Cheesecake Dip
This Mint Chocolate Cheesecake Dip is a sweet, creamy, no-bake, minty chocolatey dessert dip that is perfect to celebrate the Irish for your St. Patrick’s Day party! How do you celebrate St Patrick’s Day? Do you cook Corned Beef & Cabbage or Guinness Stew or some other wonderful Irish dish? Or do you do what we…
St Patrick’s Day Chocolate Mint Trifle
St Patrick’s Day Chocolate Mint Trifle is a sweet minty green dessert made with a white cake, creme de menthe chips, and whipped topping, that is perfect for your Irish St Patrick’s Day party. My brother did one of those DNA tests to see what your ancestry is. We thought we knew but instead of…
Irish Soda Bread Muffins with Cheddar and Jalapenos
I transformed the traditional Irish Soda Bread recipe into smaller muffins and added a Texas twist with cheddar and jalapenos. With St Patrick’s Day around the corner, everyone pulls out their Irish recipes. Yes. I know. These are not traditional Irish Soda Bread. History of Irish Soda Bread The true traditional Irish Soda Bread only has flour,…
Creamy Avocado Dip for Healthy Snacking
This post is sponsored on behalf of PopChips. However, as always, all opinions are 100% my own. Creamy Avocado Dip with PopChips makes a great Game Day snack for the Big Game or for any time. It is that time of year again. Time for the Big Game, and typically unhealthy snacks and junk food often…
Stir Fry Zucchini Noodles
Stir Fry Zucchini Noodles, or zoodles, make a quick and easy low carb side dish that does not require a Spiralizer and is loaded with Asian-inspired flavor.
Dunkin’ Donuts Premium Hot Tea and Herbal Infusions
Thanks to Dunkin’ Donuts for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. I love hot tea and am happy to partner with Dunkin’ Donuts so I can share with you my experience with their new line of Premium Hot Teas and Herbal Infusions! January is National Hot Tea Month and Dunkin’ Donuts is…
Lentil Sloppy Joe Cornbread Casserole
This Lentil Sloppy Joe Cornbread Casserole is a hearty, family-friendly comfort food casserole that combines vegetarian sloppy joes with Southern cornbread!
Our family loves its meat and potatoes. If I tell them that we will have a meatless dinner tomorrow night, I will hear them moan and groan and whine all day and then they will refuse to even taste dinner.
So what do I do? I don’t tell them it’s vegetarian! I just told them I’m making a sloppy joe casserole with a cornbread topping! Then they look forward to it. They will taste it and love it and ask for seconds because who doesn’t love sloppy joes or cornbread!
Reindeer Popcorn Crunch
Reindeer Popcorn Crunch is a sweet, sticky, crunchy popcorn, with red and green candy-covered chocolate, mini pretzels, and mixed nuts. Any reindeer or Santa or elf would love this popcorn creation.
Between grocery shopping, creating recipes, cooking, shooting and editing photos, writing, creating and managing social media, and caring for an elderly parent, life gets hectic.
Roast Turkey with Apple Cider Brine
This Roast Turkey with Apple Cider Brine is our family’s recipe for a moist, juicy, and golden roast turkey for our Thanksgiving or holiday table. The secret to this turkey recipe is the Apple Cider Brine and lots of butter. This post is sponsored by the wonderful people at Honeysuckle White Turkey. As always, all…
Migas (Tex Mex – San Antonio Style)
These Migas make a delicious spicy Tex-Mex style Breakfast made with scrambled eggs, fried corn tortillas, onions, tomatoes, and jalapenos. If you read my blog regularly, you know I love Tex-Mex food, like my Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas or my Lime Chicken Tacos, or my Cheesy Tomatillo Verde Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas, or my Easy Huevos Rancheros! So…
