My love of all foods Southwestern is deep and abiding. From tacos to burritos (breakfast and otherwise), quesadillas, nachos (grande or humble), tortilla soup and everything in between, I can’t resist. Well, maybe I can resist, but I’ve honestly never tried because I don’t want to give up any opportunity for any of those heavenly goodies. These Southwestern Egg Rolls are currently the top of the heap of the goodness that is southwestern food for me right now. And most conveniently, they’re as easy and delicious when cooked from frozen as they are when you first roll them up. That makes them the perfect subject for today’s Make Ahead Monday View Post
Pesto Pinwheel Rolls | Arugula and Walnut Pesto
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! There isn't anything that is necessary to say about these rolls other than a resounding "WOW!" but not being a woman of few words, I'm going to say a bunch anyway. Once again, I break out what is now pretty firmly cemented as my best-loved bread dough of all time. But I should backtrack a bit... Before my husband went on his mega-monster business trip, I went to the grocery store and panic purchased not just the toilet paper, paper towels and saltine crackers, but also massive cuts of meat, human-sized bags of oranges and potatoes, and food service packages of View Post
Black Olive Penguins
Okay, everyone. Say it with me in 3...2..1... Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! Come on. Isn't that the most clever things you've ever seen? At a recent Christmas craft event put on by our homeschool group, one rockstar mom (hi, Tonya!) eschewed the usual brownies, cookies, fudge and mints (not that there's anything wrong with those and may I please have another serving?) and brought adorable cream cheese filled black olive penguins. I'm telling you, every single person who went past them either squealed or poked someone in the ribs to make them look at the cutest things in the world. Even more fabulous is that these ingenious little View Post
Cheddar and Chorizo Stuffed Twice Baked Potatoes and a Giveaway!
The giveaway info is below the recipe, so make like a scuba diver and keep on going down! Some of the best food is just not pretty. It's gooey, gloppy, brown, and not even a little bit elegant. It looks like it's not worth the paper plate it rode in on. But when the scent wafts to your nose, when you take that first bite and the inelegance of the whole thing gives way to an explosion of flavour, it suddenly transcends the need to be another pretty dish. You plate it how you want. Heck. Sometimes you just skip a plate if the spirit moves you. It doesn't matter as long as you get the food to your mouth. How can this happen? Isn't there the View Post
Fried Bologna Sandwich
There are some things you just have to do when presented with the opportunity: Stand up and scream when your team scored the winning goal in overtime. Blow on a cut that stings. Kick your way through piles of leaves on the ground. Foot race your dog in a field. Put your bare toes in Lake Superior. Watch your kids climb a rock wall in the woods. Scramble up behind them. Hug your dad and stepmom really tightly before leaving for the fourteen hour drive home. Walk outside in high winds just because you can. Eat a fried bologna sandwich with yellow mustard on white bread. Say what? No, really! If you dangle a piece of View Post
Garlic Butter Soft Pretzel Bites
I declare soft pretzels in their many forms to be my all-time favorite snack food with ZERO exceptions. Sure, there are many other delicious things with which to satisfy a snack attack, but there is nothing to compare to the pure satisfaction of biting into a chewy, salty, warm, soft pretzel. With mustard. Lots of mustard*. *I suppose, strictly speaking, that the mustard is optional, but not for me. No way. I need a good schmear of mustard, be it fancy-pants grainy or generic yellow squeeze bottle variety. I've eaten soft pretzels that were hanging for goodness knows how long in glass boxes on metal hangers under heat lamps at hockey and View Post
Banana Nutmeg Smoothies
Warning: This post is going to discuss bodily functions. Sorry, butt there's no getting around it, and everybody does it. This has been a Foodie With Family P.S.A. When you have little kids, life seems to develop a tendency to revolve around... Hmm. How to say this nicely and in a not-unappetizing way on a food blog? Let's put it this way. When you have a room full of moms of young children or doting pet owners, what does the conversation turn to eventually? Unexpected Anterior and Posterior gastro-intenstinal functions*. Without fail. And I mean it. All you moms of human and animal babies out there are nodding your heads. *Brilliant! View Post
Deep Dish Snickerdoodle Skillet Cookie
Raise your hand if you, like me, love snickerdoodles beyond any other cookie on the face of the earth. Raise your other hand if you, also like me, really don't think snickerdoodles need to be messed with to make them wonderful. Raise your foot (since we're running out of hands) if you think tinkering with snickerdoodles is close-on to blasphemy. Well, now that we're most of us standing on one foot with both hands in the air, let me make a confession (because at this point, if you raise that other foot to kick me you're down on your keister. This is what I call self-protection.) I messed with snickerdoodles today. And I didn't just mess View Post
Nana’s Spanish Style Hot Chocolate (Hot Chocolate Pudding)
My Mom -known around these parts as Nana- does a lot of things very well. She remembers the name of just about everyone she's ever met, plays a mean piano and a killer game of chess, makes stupendous lumpia, and always delivers a hug right when you need one (even if you don't know you need one...) And Nana isn't your average, ordinary Nana... To hear her grandkids tell it, she's a bit magical. She talks to her garden, creek stomps, climbs trees, fixes boo-boos, spins fantastic tales, rides her bike down dirt roads at warp speed wearing a long skirt, engineers popcorn explosions, walks barefooted in the snow, drinks full-caffeine espresso View Post
Jangsanjeok | Korean Simmered Teriyaki Style Beef Patties
I got goodies in the mail this week. Score! It was a massive package of unexpected food-related goodies from my brother and his wife in Korea. Hat trick! In this magical box, Nate and Sun Hwa packed ramen, Korean coffee, laver, spicy tuna and a fantastic Korean foods cookbook. I promise I will cook my way through the book eventually, but the thing that jumped off the pages and screamed "EAT ME!" the most was the luscious looking Jangsanjeok. There was no accompanying description of the dish, but the ingredients spoke for themselves; beef, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, green onions, honey. Oh my, yes. When someone says, "What sounds good to View Post