This Easy Cheesy Tex-Mex Skillet is the ultimate one-pan weeknight dinner. If you grew up loving Hamburger Helper, this homemade version is just as quick but much healthier, you can swap out regular rotini for whole wheat pasta and add your own fresh seasoning. Why You’ll Love This Tex-Mex Skillet This is a really simple meal for a quick weeknight dinner. It's one of ...
Weeknight Dinners
Everything bagel seasoning hamburger buns in 40 minutes
We make our own bread, biscuits, pancakes and all of our other favorite carbs, but we were still buying hamburger buns at the grocery store. So this summer I made the best ever hamburger buns and haven't looked back since. We use these for cheeseburgers, epic breakfast sandwiches, and the best pulled pork sandwiches you'll ever have. I top these with a generous amount of ...
Curried Sausages
Want to try curry at home, but you're not a fan of spicy food? This is a really mild recipe that's still packed with a lot of flavor. It's sure to be a family favorite in no time. If you have toddlers you know where this meal idea came from, a certain Blue Heeler family is obsessed with curry, and it inspired us to make this meal. We also totally get why Bingo and Bluey groan ...
Garlic and vegetable pasta perfect for lunch
It was just the holidays, and we needed some vegetables after eating practically nothing but chocolate, cookies, and cakes for weeks. So I tossed this together for lunch, it's kind of like one of those frozen pastas meals you can get at the store. I admit that I definitely bought many of those when we lived in our first apartment with a kitchen the size of a postage stamp. It ...
Orange pasta – linguine in orange sauce
I hope you enjoy this simple recipe for orange pasta, linguine in a bright orange cream sauce. It's a simple cream sauce made with fresh squeezed oranges and zest. An easy weeknight dinner, add chicken to make it a complete meal. We love adding breaded chicken for a quick kid friendly weeknight meal. Orange pasta - linguine in orange sauce 4½ tablespoons ...
Brown sugar cinnamon pork roast with glazed apples and carrots
I love fall, while a good pumpkin spice, or pumpkin pie can be amazing, I'm all about the apples. So we've been using apples a ton lately in our cooking, and our 9 year old is extremely happy about that. Apples aren't just for desserts, they pair perfect with pork too! This meal is devoured in our house. Everyone goes back for seconds, it's the perfect fall meal. It's so simple ...
Slowcooker Pork Barbacoa
Sometimes you just need to torture yourself with incredible smell coming from the kitchen for an entire day. Am I right? This weekend we used up our last two pork roasts that have been taking up freezer space to make our own slow cooker pork barbacoa. This tastes better than the barbacoa from Chipotle. This was so easy to make, I just let the pork roasts thaw in the ...
Roasted Summer Squash Marinara
It's summer squash season, which seems ironic, because it doesn't feel like summer anymore. The weather is cooling, the geese are starting to move south, the orchards are starting to open for the season. Fall is starting to creep in. We're soaking up the rest of summer though, and spending a lot of time tending our garden. We have an abundance of summer squash, which is ...
Sheet pan lemon roasted gnocchi
This was a recipe that was impossible to name. You have roasted gnocchi, onions, garlic, and grape tomatoes roasted until the gnocchi is perfectly golden and the tomatoes are bursting. Then you have the salad of torn basil and spinach, dressed with a great little dressing of a citrusy hazy IPA, olive oil, and lemon pepper. We just call it sheet pan gnocchi and it's one of our ...
Sheet pan roasted vegetables with beer braised bratwurst
I love roasting vegetables on a sheet pan, and recently discovered how much better they cook on a Pampered Chef Stoneware bar pan. I simply dice some of my favorite vegetables, put them in a bowl, coat them with a little bit of olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, minced garlic and a little bit of salt and pepper. Sometimes I'll add protein like chicken to the top, but I ...
Baked Pizza Ziti Recipe (weeknight meal for picky eaters)
I need easy go-to meals to survive the week. I love cooking, but sometimes you need to throw together noodles, sauce, and cheese and call it a meal. I used my homemade marinara recipe for this particular batch, because the pandemic has been keeping me away from Trader Joe's pizza sauce. I started with al dente ziti, then normally add in pizza sauce, browned ...