I’ve been on a cleaning and organizing kick lately. Last week I went around and cleaned out three of our closets. I have 3 bags to donate and 2 bags of garbage. My mantra is “if it’s not beautiful or useful, get rid of it.” The best way to organize […]

  Moroccan Chicken & Butternut Squash Soup “Cooking Light” magazine has become one of my favorite resources for new recipes. I really didn’t know the magazine existed until I stayed at my aunt and uncle’s cabin up north last summer. My aunt had some old “Cooking Light” magazines laying around […]

  Whew, I’m posting this month’s cocktail just in the nick of time! Only one more day of January left. January’s (what’s left of it) cocktail is the Blood Orange Martini. I’d never heard of a blood orange martini until someone on facebook asked about a recipe. That got me searching […]

  I am a recipe “tweaker.” It’s an addiction of which I will never be cured. I don’t want to be cured. I can’t help myself. I take a look at a recipe that sounds good and I immediately start ripping it apart and putting it back together. I guess […]

  Recipes just don’t come from nowhere. They have to start somewhere. Usually with an another recipe, sometimes two recipes. I started with this recipe for Makeover Rosemary Muffins from Taste of Home. A savory muffin with goat cheese sounded wonderful, especially with soup or stew. But my husband doesn’t like olives. […]

  I’m always looking for new chicken recipes and I came across this recipe on Food.com. It’s actually a Kraft recipe called Creamy Chicken and Cranberry-Pecan Wild Rice. It looked easy enough for a weeknight dinner and had some of my favorite ingredients: cream cheese, pecans and cranberries. It turned out really […]

  I’m not going to lie, I need to lose some weight. My love for food and sweets has caught up with me. I think I eat a pretty healthy diet, I just eat too much of it. As for the sweets, I just love baking. I think I love […]

  I’m almost caught up with my blogs. We’re up to New Year’s now! For the past few years we’ve been having an “appetizer dinner” for New Year’s Eve. I got kind of tired of that, so we just had a frozen pizza and a bottle of ChocoVine instead. Hey, it […]

  Live Simply print by Karen Tribett, image from allposters.com I love cornbread. It’s probably one of the oldest, most original of American foods. It always makes me think of pioneer days or the old west. It’s a tradition as old as this country. When I make recipes with cornmeal, […]

  Slow Cooker Turkey Breast from Taste of Home I feel like I’m so behind in my blogging! I took a week off between Christmas and New Years. I decided to take a break from work, from cooking, from photography, from pretty much everything. Well, I tried to take a […]