This Homemade Green Bean Casserole, a traditional green bean casserole that is made from scratch with fresh green beans and a homemade mushroom sauce and topped with french fried onions, will be a hit with your family and friends on Thanksgiving. I have been told by some members of my family that it is not…
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Instant Pot Marinara Sauce
Instant Pot Marinara Sauce tastes tastes rich and robust like it has been simmering all day but is ready in about an hour in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. I love the taste of homemade Marinara Sauce! It is rich, garlicky, and so flavorful with all the Italian herbs and seasonings. However, I often don’t…
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…
Crustless Spinach Quiche
This low carb Crustless Spinach Quiche is a creamy, cheesy egg breakfast casserole loaded with spinach, vegetables, Greek Seasoning, and feta cheese, which makes an easy and delicious gluten free breakfast or brunch! When I was growing up, I always heard the phrase real men don’t eat quiche. Why? I have no idea. However, I…
Breakfast Potatoes {Texas Style}
These Breakfast Potatoes are bites of roasted potatoes spiced up Texas style with taco seasoning, chopped onions, red bell peppers, and jalapenos, and will kick-start your breakfast or brunch. I love cooking breakfast on the weekends, especially Sunday mornings when it is a little more relaxed and laid back; and my favorite go-to breakfast dish is Breakfast…
Sweet Potato Toast (Topped with Apples, Bacon & Gorgonzola)
This Sweet Potato Toast with Apples, Bacon and Gorgonzola blows away regular toast! Sweet potato slices are toasted and topped with bacon, apples, onions and crumbled Gorgonzola cheese for a delicious savory breakfast. Sweet Potato what???!!! Yes. Sweet Potato Toast. You read it correctly. You slice sweet potatoes lengthwise and put the slices in the toaster!…
Salisbury Steak
Hey there, comfort food enthusiasts! Are you ready to dive into a dish that combines the heartiness of a steak with the soul-soothing touch of home cooking? Today, we’re making Salisbury Steak, and trust me, this is no ordinary meatloaf in disguise. This recipe brings that diner classic, a hamburger steak in a zesty, rich brown gravy, to…
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…
Lentil Soup with Mexican Chorizo
Lentil Soup with Mexican Chorizo adds a kick of spicy chorizo, taco seasoning and jalapeños to traditional lentil soup for a hearty, bold and flavorful one pot meal. Growing up in South Central Texas, we did not eat lentils. We ate Texas BBQ, Tex-Mex, and traditional meatloaf and mashed potatoes and other meat and potato dishes. What Are…
Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas
This Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas recipe, made with skirt steak or flank steak, and served with sauteed onions, red and green peppers, makes an easy, delicious, smoky, spicy and flavorful dinner. Have you ever wondered how to make beef fajitas after visiting a Mexican restaurant? Or wonder what kind of beef or steak the restaurant uses…
Asiago Bruschetta Roasted Asparagus
Asiago Bruschetta Roasted Asparagus, with tomatoes, garlic, onions, and asiago cheese, makes a healthy gourmet side dish that can be on the table in 15 minutes and is perfect for brunch, or a weeknight or holiday dinner. Asiago Bruschetta Roasted Asparagus is actually my recipe to share with our family. I would love to make…
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwiches are a super easy no-fail delicious recipe that can feed a crowd for your game day party or provide an easy weeknight dinner for the family. Pulled Pork Sandwiches are always a hit with family and friends. I love it because making the pulled pork is so ridiculously easy, and let’s face…
Jalapeno Popper Philly Cheesesteak Sliders
Jalapeno Popper Philly Cheesesteak Sliders combine your favorite game day appetizers into one delicious cheesy, savory and spicy mini sandwich slider that is perfect for any party.
Cajun Mini Pizza Poutine
Cajun Mini Pizza Poutine adds a twist to traditional Poutine by using potato slices as appetizer-sized mini pizza “crusts” and tops them with chopped andouille sausage, onions, green and red peppers and Cajun gravy.
Easy Cornbread Dressing
This Easy Cornbread Dressing recipe, or stuffing if you prefer, is a must for a family’s Thanksgiving dinner table. At our house, it would not be Thanksgiving without it. Hopefully, it will become your favorite too. Our family recipe is an easy shortcut version of a traditional Southern cornbread dressing recipe. Instead of making my homemade cornbread recipe…
Oven Roasted Green Beans
Oven Roasted Green Beans are so quick and easy they hardly qualify as a recipe. Yet they are so delicious your whole family will love them. As we get older we are trying to eat healthier, especially at the holidays to avoid those extra 7 pounds each year. These Oven Roasted Green Beans offer a…
Pico de Gallo Salsa
Pico de Gallo Salsa is a delicious, colorful, spicy, healthy Mexican or Tex-Mex appetizer dip that is perfect for the upcoming Cinco de Mayo or graduation celebrations! It will keep everyone happy since it fits into a vegan, gluten free, low carb, low fat, or Paleo diet plan. I LOVE Tex-Mex food. To me it…
Italian Sausage, Peppers, & Onions Tacos
I am no longer the head chef in my kitchen anymore. No, I have been demoted to Sous Chef. Our sweet yellow lab, Rosie, has taken over as head chef. Rosie takes food very seriously. She loves food. She lives for food; and supervises my cooking while laying on the kitchen floor. She does not…
Smothered Pork Chops
Smothered Pork Chops. Nothing makes me happier than to hear Hubby say, after eating these pork chops, that he married the best cook in the world! Isn’t he the greatest! Thanks to Aaron McCargo Jr’s smothered pork chop recipe on the Food Network for being the inspiration for our meal. These pork chops make a…
Slow Cooker Chicken Marrakesh
Adapted from AllRecipes.com, this delicious, healthy, easy, budget-friendly, one-dish meal is one of our favorites and is perfect for the start of fall. What really makes this dish is the spice combination of onion, garlic, cumin, turmeric, salt, black pepper, parsley, and cinnamon. With chicken, onions, carrots, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and garbanzo beans, it is…
Chicken Cacciatore
Hubby was bummed out when he came home from the doctor last week. The doctor said he needed to reduce his carbs. I was relieved to know that he is ok and only a tweak in his diet is required. Even though we (because if he has to do it so will I) have…
Sizzling Steak Fajitas
My husband and I had dinner with my sister and her husband last night. I mentioned my new blog and the recipes I had been trying, specifically the Goya fajita recipe that I planned to make the next day using the Goya Adobe seasoning I had received plus some Goya products I bought, such as…