Recipes

Can you believe it’s time to turn the clocks back this weekend? While I enjoy the extra hour of sleep, I don’t like that it’s darker earlier in the day.  I know that December 21st is the shortest day of the year so I just have to tough it out until then. While I’m waiting…

I don’t know what the weather’s like in your corner of the world, but here in Chicagoland we’re havin’ a heat wave!  The sun is beating down with low 90’s temperatures and plenty of humidity. So it’s time to bring out the ice cream maker again and cool off with homemade chocolate ice cream topped…

Apples. Beautiful apples! They look pretty as home decor, and I think they’re absolutely the best fruit to cook with! Maybe I should confess that I really don’t like cooked fruit, and about the only fruit pie I’ll eat is apple pie. I do like peach cobbler however. Today is Farmhouse Friday and we’re celebrating…

Are you a breakfast eater? I’ve never been one to eat a full meal at breakfast, opting instead for a muffin or some fruit. But I do love a good breakfast casserole and will often make one for brunch. Since I’m always looking for ways to add more vegetables to my meals, I opted for a spinach…

I’m a huge fan of growing your own food, or buying local produce. Food that’s fresh and unprocessed because I believe ideally, this is the type of food that our bodies were designed to consume and use for energy. My vegetable garden is very lush this year due to all the rain we’ve had, but…

Summer shorts-wearin’ season is just around the corner and that means those pesky extra winter pounds need to come off!  Even though I’m a grandma, I still wear shorts. I try to eat more salads, fruits, and veggies this time of year and cut down on the heavier carbs like bread and pasta. I’m not…

Let me say right off the bat that technically, this dish isn’t Macaroni and Cheese. It’s Rigatoni and Cheese … but who’s going to search for “Rigatoni and Cheese” on the internet? So I took the liberty of giving this recipe a more common name. I’m sharing this Light Macaroni and Cheese recipe as part…

When I was a kid I rarely ate a hot breakfast. Both my parents worked full-time and my brothers and sisters were older than me and always out the door first. My mom would compensate by sometimes cooking pancakes or French toast for dinner. To this day I still don’t eat a hot breakfast in…

Did you know that about 58 million pounds of chocolate is sold in the US alone during Valentine’s week? That’s about $345 million dollars worth of chocolate (according to Nielsen research)! And chocolate isn’t just a girl thing, either. Men eat almost as much chocolate as women do. To help satisfy your chocolate cravings, I have…