7 Layer Breakfast Casserole is a hearty breakfast dish with seven flavor-filled layers including hash brown potatoes, corn, peppers, bacon, tomato and cheese. Fully Tested Recipe This one took four or five rounds of experimentation (I lost track) for the specific layer configuration. Hash browns on the bottom? The top? What about the bacon? Lots […]
Chicken Cacciatore is a favorite family recipe, but with the help of pressure cooking, Instant Pot Chicken Cacciatore can be on the table in 20 minutes. Throw ingredients into the cooker, seal it up, set the timer and it’s a weeknight dinner in no time flat. Instant Pot to the Rescue Pressure cooking is not what it […]
This recipe for Sugar Snap Pea Easy Summer Slaw was inspired by my Mom and a recent trip she took to Idaho. Aside from her adventures in the mountains and white water rafting, she and my Dad had dinner at a little restaurant called The Redd and she came back raving about the salad. Yes, […]
Chicken Tortilla Soup is one of my easy go-to recipes. I can nearly make this one with my eyes closed, except for that whole slicing peppers thing…that’s a surefire way to slice a finger off. Catch me, not slicing my fingers off, making this rich, zesty simple soup in my kitchen. (Full printable recipe is at […]
I don’t drink anymore, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate cocktail inspired flavors. I was at the grocery store and saw blackberries piled high in the front of the produce department. For some reason it lit up some part of my brain that once saw a mojito made with blackberries. Mint, lime, blackberries… sounds […]
Ryan’s favorite thing on the Thanksgiving table is stuffing, but I wanted to make up something a little bit different for him this year. Still keeping with the bread component, I changed stuffing/dressing to bread pudding with savory and southwestern ingredients. The outcome after several rounds of testing was a sweet, lightly spiced, decadent savory […]
Ryan loves stuffed peppers. He grew up with his Mom making the classic version with green peppers, rice and ground beef. When Traina Foods enlisted my help to create a series of recipes featuring their Sun Dried Tomato Ketchup, for some reason my brain went to Italian style stuffed peppers. Their ketchup is not like […]
