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
Apricot Jalapeño Baked Brie
Raise your hand if you have a party or family event coming up in the next three weeks. Yeah? I'm willing to bet that almost everyone out there has a hand up in the air. Are you supposed to provide a dish to pass? I have the ultimate in ease and WOW factor for you. Apricot Jalapeno Baked Brie is here for the save. Apricot Jalapeño Baked Brie is low-maintenance to make and cannot fail to impress the heck out of everyone who eats it. Spicy, fruity minced jalapeno peppers are stirred into sweet, tangy apricot preserves, spooned onto brie and wrapped in puff pastry before being baked to golden, brown, flaky perfect. The hardest part of the 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
Easy Cajun Blackened Salmon | Quick and Easy Main Dish
I have a thing for fish. I love it. In fact, I could eat it most nights out of the week. I'm not super picky, I like just about every variety. Not all my kiddos share my adoration of fish dinners, however. Well, unless they're battered, deep fried, and served with *gag* ketchup, that is. Don't get me wrong, I love fried fish, too, but that's not an every night kind of dinner. What you see above, though, is just that. That is a simple Easy Cajun Blackened Salmon coated in a lovely homemade Smoked Cajun Spice Blend (recipe included below), fried in a little oil in a cast-iron skillet, and served on a bed of rice with some equally lovely View Post
Twix Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
I only have so much virtue in my body. I try to eat well and feed my family healthy foods, and I do a pretty good job of it most of the time. But every so often, I spend all my good behaviour on things like parenting, being honest and moral, and tidying up. At the end of my virtuous rope, I fall straight into recipes like the one I'm sharing today. You know those recipes you have to drop everything and make right away when you hear or read about them for the first time? This is one of them. I'll get it right out of the way now and tell you this is full of fat, sugar, flour, cream, candy, chocolate, and all sorts of other things View Post
Slow-Roasted Rosemary Garlic Almonds
My friend Lisette is a good person to befriend. She's funny. She's charming. She has exquisite taste and a generous laugh. And wherever she goes, she has snacks. Good snacks. She has bags of granola bars, homemade energy bars and her signature Slow Roasted Rosemary Garlic Roasted Almonds. My children hover around Mrs. Heckathorn on field trips with their best "I'm starving!" faces on in the hopes that she'll break out her stash of almonds and offer to share. Is it because I don't bring food? Or they don't like what I have? No. It's just that a.) they love Mrs. Heckathorn and b.) they love those nuts. Big time. Why? Lisette slow View Post
Brown Sugar Strawberries and Cream Tartlets
This is the story of a dessert that shouldn't have turned out. It should've been an abject failure, but instead, it turned into a giant kitchen redemption tale and an awfully wonderful Mother's Day treat. It is the tale of Brown Sugar Strawberries and Cream Tartlets. It started out with a beautiful recipe. One posted many moons ago by Evil Chef Mom. It had turned out perfectly for her and many other accomplished home cooks, so why shouldn't it have turned out? Because I failed to follow instructions. Big time. It all started at the grocery store... While shopping, I grabbed a flat of strawberries and sallied forth further View Post
Slow-Cooker Red Beans and Rice and Creole Seasoning | Make Ahead Mondays
This classic from the archives is just what the doctor ordered to beat the snow storms that have been pounding the North East. Plug in the slow-cooker, pop your ingredients in the pot, and wait for the beautiful aroma to fill the room. Strangely, this recipe is equally at home in the hot summer months because it doesn't heat up the kitchen courtesy of it's slow-cooker preparation. I'm going to go ahead and say right now that I have absolutely zero idea how authentically "Cajun" today's recipe is, having never actually been to the great state of Louisana. All I know is that there are few things more satisfying than a big bowl of cooked View Post
Soothing Lavender Aloe Skin Tonic
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase after clicking them, I receive a small commission which in no way effects the price of the product for you. It's nice when events conspire to inspire you, isn't it? While in Maine for four days, I had a foot soak and massage at a lovely place in Portland. After the foot soak and massage, they spritzed my feet with a Soothing Lavender Skin Tonic. It felt divine and I vowed to recreate it when I got home. I drove eight and a half hours to get home from Maine yesterday. Our car has no air conditioning and it was both hot and humid, so I drove home with my window down and my arm resting on View Post
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