Today’s quick and easy lunch, Marinated Vegetable Pasta Salad with Feta, just made me simply happy:) While it is quick and easy, it takes longer than my previous quick and easy lunch, Strawberry Spinach Salad. This lunch requires some chopping and ideally it’s best to […]
Eating healthy does not have to be difficult. Today for lunch as I opened up my fridge my first thought was, “There’s nothing to eat.” Then I looked again and found a plethora of options. I want to do a mini series called “Quick and […]
Parmesan Crusted Chicken Tenders. Yum. You guys!!! This recipe is SO easy to make and my kids went crazy about it. I had some shaved Parmesan Cheese leftover from Costco and wanted to make something quick but yummy for my family. I also had some […]
My mom was in town this week and we had a lot of fun touring different retirement communities and watching my son be Aladdin in his school play. It was a busy but fun week! While I made a healthy menu plan for this week, […]
So…Dave went to the doctor and was told he needed to lose a little bit of weight:) He was sent home with some healthy menu plan tips and advice and will go back for a follow up visit in a few months. To show my […]
This is just a quick little post to share one of my favorite ways to get vegetables in for breakfast. I LOVE making Egg Scramblers. This one is a Potato Spinach Egg Scrambler, though you can really adapt it to what you have on hand […]
What’s for dinner? Have you ever heard those words? I know I do, ALL THE TIME lately. When you have a gaggle of kids like I do, you are constantly trying to come up with good meals. That said, more often than not, you need […]
With summer comes an abundance of zucchini in my garden. While the harvest is amazing, I needed to come up with different ideas on how to use it so I decided to make a Zucchini Chili. I must say, it was a HUGE success. My […]
Today for lunch I made a Strawberry Balsamic Salad recipe. It was SO good!!! I live in California and right now we are surrounded by local, fresh strawberries. There are several strawberry stands close to my home and it is my favorite time of year […]
Italian lasagna with a homemade bolognese sauce is a special treat for our family. I was SO lucky to marry into a family with an Italian heritage. “Boompa,” as we called him, was 100% Italian and my husband is quarter Italian, so I have learned […]
For my daughter’s birthday we made Fluffy Chocolate Chip Pancakes topped with strawberries, whipped cream, pure maple syrup and Butterfinger baking bits (these were really good!). The combination of peanut butter, chocolate, maple and whipped cream was super yummy. We have a birthday tradition that […]
For lunch I wanted to have a hearty and healthy soup and so I made a Creamy Pumpkin Maple Bisque soup to go with my salad. I have to say I was SHOCKED at how good it tasted. I’m not a huge pumpkin fan (unless […]