If you know me, you know I love to cook and bake from scratch. I’m not crazy though, you won’t find me making from scratch pop-tarts or Girl Scout cookies...at least not yet. I do love making things like homemade pie crust and taco seasoning, because who wants mystery ingredients in their pie crust when you can make it with 4 simple ingredients? So I did it again. My favorite ...
Recipes
Easy Pumpkin Bars
How many times have you gotten a recipe from your mom, you know that one recipe that you remember from when you were a kid, one of those delicious treats that you never forget. These recipes get handed down from generation to generation, you get them all from your mom but she got them from her mom, and her grandma. Food is not just something to sustain you and keep you alive it ...
Apple Pie Monkey Bread Muffins
I love making monkey bread. It’s fun to make (your kids can even help!) and so delicious. Being that it’s still apple season and we have a ton of homemade apple pie filling around our house I searched for a delicious apple pie monkey bread recipe and came up short. Even the most reputable websites used refrigerator dough for their recipes. So I took it in my own hands and made ...
Homemade Apple Pie Filling
Apple pie is one of the tastiest American traditions that I know of, a warm slice with a nice big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, you can’t hardly beat it especially after a great meal with family and friends. Homemade apple pie filling probably sounds like a daunting task to most people, but it is really not so bad especially if you have helpers. Preparing and canning foods ...
Easy Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin seeds are one of those seasonal snack traditions that only happen once a year for us so of course we saved all of those pumpkin seeds so that we could make a tasty snack to enjoy after we finished all the hard work of carving our pumpkins this week. Easy roasted pumpkin seeds are a great snack and so simple to make. The best part about pumpkin seeds is that they are a ...
Tex-Mex Stuffed Peppers
I recently made my first ever stuffed bell peppers, and I gave them my own spin that ended up with these great Tex-Mex Stuffed Peppers. They were so good that AJ asked if it was too soon if I made them again the next week. They were that good. I promise. You see, I had only ever eaten stuffed peppers once before, just your basic green peppers stuffed with under-seasoned beef ...
Baked Bacon and Mozzarella Sticks
It's that time of the year, it's fair season! We just went to our local state fair a few weeks ago, and now the Wisconsin State Fair is in full swing until August 10th! I'm a foodie, so for me the State Fair is all about food. The common themes for fair food in Wisconsin is definitely lots of deep frying, lots of cheese, and bacon wrapped everything! I was at a breakfast the ...
Aliceana’s puppy dog themed birthday party
Despite the fact that I had no time in our extremely busy Summer schedule (as you're reading this AJ and I in California for a business vacation,) I some how managed to pull together Aliceana's puppy dog themed birthday party. Phew! Last year I went way overboard and I wasn't able to enjoy myself at all, so this year I definitely toned it back, a lot. Instead of DIY everything ...
Easy Marinara Sauce Recipe
I love carbs, and carbs are so much better when they’re covered in a delicious sauce. I’ve been making my own tomato based sauce for months, and recently I added sugar as an ingredient to turn it into a marinara sauce and I’ll never go back. Seriously, homemade easy marinara sauce recipe is the best. One of the reasons why I love this easy marinara sauce recipe so much, is ...
Enchilada Skillet
I love dishes I can make in one pot, easier to cook and easier to clean. It's just so much easier on weeknights when you don't have all the time in the world. Kind of like my easy and delicious viral recipe, the Tex-Mex skillet. Speaking of easy and delicious meals, I have a delicious recipe to share with you today. An Enchilada skillet, a pasta skillet filled with diced ...
Home Made Enchilada Sauce
I love making my own sauces. It’s really nice to know exactly which ingredients are in your sauce none of that “and other artificial flavors” crap that you see on ingredient lists. My favorite part is being able to add your favorite ingredients to your sauce little by little until you get the flavor you're looking for. I love being able to add my favorite spices and flavors to ...