One of my favorite things about spring and summer is the beginning of the Farmer’s Market. Saturday mornings are filled with strolls through the two closet looking for delicious fruits and vegetables. One of my recent visits was the inspiration for a quick one dish meal: Chicken Sausage and Vegetable Saute.
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Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Oatmeal Bars
Picture this: It is 3pm on a Thursday afternoon and you check your email only to see that your kid’s summer camp is doing a dessert buffet {or bake sale} the next day. You signed up to make something but it totally fell off your radar.
Panic sets in because you don’t want to be that mom who brings the store bought stuff
{Disclosure: I’ve totally been that mom a few times but I try not to always be that mom!}.
Enter a super easy recipe for chocolate chip butterscotch oatmeal bars:
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What is On Your Menu?
Ok, lovelies, help me out. I want to know what is on YOUR menu this week. Sure, I’m still sharing some great ideas down below but I’d love to hear what you have cookin!
Sunday: Sundays are just the perfect days to have slow roasted meats, like this herb roasted pork loin, for dinner.
Monday: Salads are always great during the summer because they give a meal a lighter feel. I am loving the idea of a chicken rice salad.
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Pineapple Butter Cake Recipe
A few weeks ago, I shared a glimpse of how I was planning to treat Mathlete on Father’s Day with some of his favorite things, including a pineapple centered meal. As I mentioned, we started with some teriyaki pineapple burgers
But the real star of the meal was the dessert: Pineapple Butter Cake that we made butterless
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Uses for Mason Jars – The Food Edition
This morning, I shared some of the amazing uses for mason jars that I found while searching for ideas on ways to use the iconic canning jar. I recently got a bunch, in various sizes, from our local yard sale site on Facebook and can’t wait to start using them.
This morning’s post was all about how to use the jars in crafts, DIY projects and organization. I am back with more uses for mason jars that focus on ways to use them with food and drinks.
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Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas
This post first appeared as part of my contributor series over at Sugar Bee Crafts.
Recently, I decided to try my hand at making salsa verde! I was so excited with how it turned out…delicious! It made a lot though so I looked for ways to use it beyond chips and salsa for snacks. I figured why not replace the regular salsa and make salse verde chicken enchiladas!
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Weekly Menu Plan
So, I am totally not going to lie. This weekly menu plan almost didn’t happen. I’m having surgery tomorrow followed by a few weeks on crutches. Knowing that I won’t be up for making dinner for a few days {at least} made it hard for me to focus on preparing a menu. The reality in our house for a week or so will probably be frozen pizza and take out.
BUT, you {hopefully} aren’t having a surgery which means you probably still want some delicious food to cook/eat. So, I give you What to Cook Wednesday…
Sunday: How about we start off our week with a trip to the grill? I am thinking Vietnamese grilled pork chops sounds like a delicious way to spend a Sunday evening.
Monday: We’re going meatless and chilled this week! Chilled avocado soup just sounds like such a fabulous way to beat the heat on a really hot summer day.
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His and Hers Asparagus
I love asparagus. The Mathlete…not so much. I always pick some up at the farmer’s market and he ALWAYS pushes it around his plate with disdain. So, I set out to find a way to make it something we both want to eat.
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Pineapple “Butter” Cake – Making Substitutions
I am so excited to be working with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter and Country Crock for a series of posts. This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Unilever.
Father’s Day is this weekend…yes, I know, it came up crazy fast! I started prepping for Father’s Day last month so the holiday wouldn’t sneak up on me like it has in the past. Plus, I wasn’t sure when exactly my knee surgery would be so I wanted to ensure Mathlete got a proper celebration.
I love to cook and, well, Mathlete loves to eat so I wanted make him a delicious meal that I knew he would enjoy and that featured one of his favorite things: pineapple. His love for pineapple runs so deep that he will actually order the fruit cups for the kids at restaurants just so he can eat their pineapple. He is in trouble if they ever develop a love for it!
We started with pineapple teriyaki burgers and finished with some delicious pineapple “butter” cake for dessert.
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Kid Friendly Food: Meatloaf Muffins
Kids are a funny bunch. They can be the pickiest eaters on the planet and forget trying to get them to eat any vegetables. These kid friendly meatloaf muffins are a perfect way to make a classic dinner more kid friendly!
My kids love finger foods of just about any type. I decided to try and make a few of favorite homemade meals into a more kid friendly size. When the macaroni and cheese “cupcakes” were such a big hit, I decided to try turning our regular meatloaf into little muffins. {You can call them cupcakes if you want because most kids will eat anything that is called a cupcake.}
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