Excuse me. Have I told you before that I am a serious pickle maniac? I have never met a dill pickle I didn't love. You know Cookie Monster? I'm Pickle Monster. Salty, vinegary, crunchy P-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ickles! While we're at it and I'm confessing things, I should probably mention that I'm also devoted to dip. All dip. Creamy dips? Yes. Vegetable dips? Uh huh! Cheese dips? Gimme, please. Normally, I combine these two loves by dunking pickles in dip, and until last week that made me perfectly happy. Then I saw this on Pinterest. Dill Pickle Dip? What WAS this wonder? I had never heard of dill pickle dip. What was WRONG with View Post
Blueberry Syrup for Pancakes and Homemade Soda | Make Ahead Mondays
I just turned almost-forty. I believe I’ll refer to my entire year that way, because this is my last year before that big four-oh. I think the almost-forty was probably harder than the actual-forty will be to face. The decade birthdays seem like a celebration, where the ones that immediately precede somehow seem like a clanking bell. Or is it just me? As an almost-forty gift, my family gave me something that makes me happier than just about anything else I can imagine. The boys and I had planned to go to the opening day of our local blueberry patch to attempt to put a sizable dent in our annual one-hundred-pounds-of-blueberries goal. My View Post
Grilled Chicken Melt with Pesto and Sun Dried Tomato Spread
Can you think of a more perfect late spring or summer meal than a Grilled Chicken Melt with Pesto and Sun Dried Tomato Spread? I can't. Tender, juicy grilled chicken thighs topped with creamy, gooey, melted fresh mozzarella, fragrant pesto, and flavourful Sun Dried Tomato Spread on a toasted ciabatta bun screams warm weather. Grilled Chicken Melt with Pesto and Sun Dried Tomato Spread is an ideal recipe for entertaining in warmer months by virtue of both its beauty and ease of preparation. Remember that luscious Sun Dried Tomato Spread I shared last week? And remember how I teased you with a picture of a sandwich dripping View Post
Slow-Cooker Honey Mustard Pulled Pork
Are you wondering what to make for Memorial Day Weekend? Look no further than Slow-Cooker Honey Mustard Pulled Pork. It doesn't get much easier or more budget friendly than this, friends. Simple sauce ingredients, a pork shoulder, and a little time are all that's needed to turn out enough tender, juicy, tangy, sweet, gently spicy Honey Mustard Pulled Pork to feed a crowd or freeze leftovers in serving size portions for a few meals for entertaining, everyday meals, camping, and picnics. If you are anything like me, you happily anticipate Memorial Day Weekend. There's something so lighthearted about the unofficial start of View Post
Korean Miso and Honey Glazed Cod {20 minute meal}
This miso, honey, soy, garlic, and ginger glazed cod is perfectly cooked at lightning speed. It takes longer to cook the accompaniments than it does to get your gorgeous main dish on the table and it's perfect for either a quiet dinner at home or entertaining during Lent. I love fish. Love. It. I love it pretty much any which way I've ever had it. If you wave a perfectly cooked steak and a perfectly cooked piece of fish in front of me and ask me to choose, what would I do? Well, I'd try to figure out if I could knock you over and run away with both, first, but if that wasn't optional due to your strength relative to mine or too many View Post
One Pot Lightened Up Chicken Parmesan Pasta {25 Minute Meal}
I've been a big fan of the one pot pasta approach for a while now. My One-Pot Bacon Pizza Pasta and One Pot Tex Mex Pasta Toss are some of the more popular dishes among the 'busy parent' and teen cooking classes I teach. The dishes are well loved for their taste, ease, economy, and one-pot clean-up. All that practicality aside, ohmygoodness, but they taste wonderful. Because the pasta cooks in the sauce, it soaks up all the deliciousness the sauce has to offer. This makes it far more flavour packed than a pasta that is simply dressed with sauce. It feels like a magic trick to use one pot to do all this and have it turn out so View Post
Black Bean and Corn Tacos | 10 Minute Meal
Today's selection is a lightning fast, super fresh and divinely delicious vegetarian taco that cooks up in under ten minutes. HELLO LOVELY! I can't say that Black Bean and Corn Tacos lack meat because they lack nothing; they're just right as they are. What they are -and I realize this is semantics- is meat free. I hope that by now, you all know me well enough to trust that I'm not going to give you a healthy and/or inexpensive meal that feels like you're wearing a culinary hair shirt, right? I don't do healthy or cheap recipes just to behave. I do healthy and inexpensive recipes that taste like you just made a REALLY good decision for View Post
Eggnog Chai Latte {+eggnog coffee latte recipe} | Make Ahead Mondays
Update: I've received many emails asking where I got the mug. I aim to please, so here ya go! It's part of the MugTails Collection available on Amazon.com Every so often I drink a cup of coffee because somewhere deep down inside I feel like I SHOULD like coffee and it's a lot easier to find a mediocre coffee when you're out than an even passable tea. The thing is... I don't like coffee. I like tea. I love tea, in fact, and that's just the way it is. Like many tea drinkers, I've taken to carrying a few 'emergency' bags of a good portable brand of tea against the chance of finding myself in a place with no tea. It has happened. I View Post
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Grapes and Walnuts
As I walked up from the mailbox a couple weeks ago, I glanced through the pile of stuff; a bill, some advertisements, blah blah blah, and then something caught my eye. On the cover of the new issue of Whole Living was a pan full of what appeared to be roasted Brussels sprouts with grapes and walnuts. "Ooooh," thought I, "That looks good. I'll give that a look over as soon as I make myself a cup of tea." I walked in the door, sat the magazine down and never saw it again. What happened to it? Who can say? What happens to anything that disappears in a home with five sons ages thirteen (for another two days) and under? Well, sometimes those View Post
Pumpkin Spice Chai Latte Recipe {real pumpkin}
This classic post was originally published in September of 2013. It's officially the first day of fall, so you KNOW you tea drinkers need to get in on the pumpkin spice latte train. Oh, and my kids are no longer sick. Hooray for the passage of time. Four out of five of my kids are sick. Snuffling, sneezing, sore throat, goobery, gloppy, walking-petri-dish, tissue-dropping sick. This comes at the end of a week that was so busy that I didn't know whether I was coming or going two-thirds of the time. There are five kids in this house, friends, you can imagine how many extra-curricular activities we have... To cap it off, my darling Evil View Post
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