If you don’t feel like spending a lot of time in the kitchen but still want a great meal, then this recipe is for you! The lemons add a fresh taste for spring or summer meals and some zing to the asparagus. What’s best, is the entire meal is ready at once in roughly 20 […]
Side Dish
Honey and Garlic Shrimp
In my mission to avoid grocery shopping for another day but still wanting to cook something delicious, fast, and easy I found this gem. I’ll admit I had my doubts since there are only a few ingredients but I was not disappointed. Ingredients Instant Rice, 2 servings 2 cups frozen Broccoli 1/3 cup honey 1/4 […]
Cutting Grapefruit
Once upon a time as a kid, I remember have grapefruit sliced in have and attempting to dig out all of the fruit with a spoon. It took forever and I always felt like I missed half of the fruit. Years later, my mom discovered this new way to cut them and I haven’t looked […]
Homemade Creamy Ranch
Ingredients 1/2 cup real mayo 1/2 cup buttermilk 1/2 tsp garlic salt 1/4 tsp black pepper 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper (more or less to taste) dash of minced garlic Instructions Mix all items together in a bowl or salad dressing shaker (available below). Rule of thumb is to use the buttermilk expiration date as the […]
Oven Roasted Vegetables
This vegetable mix has great flavor and requires hardly any prep work. Be creative and add other vegetables that you like to personalize the dish. Ingredients 6 ounces of petite carrots 1 sweet onion 1 red or yellow pepper 1 green pepper or 6 ounces of green beans 2 Tablespoons freshly minced garlic cloves 1/4 […]
Ramen Noodle Salad
Ready in minutes and always delicious this salad is great with any meal. Not only is it tasty, but easily made in advance! Ingredients 1 head Nappa Cabbage (or lettuce) chopped 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup sunflower seeds 1/4 cup slivered almonds 1 package of Ramen noodles crumbled 1/2 cup olive oil 1/4 cup white […]
Green Jell-O Salad
As odd as this recipe may look it has been one of my long time favorites passed down from my Grandma. It’s simple to make and stands out in a line of dishes. It’s great when you need a semi-quick dish but don’t want to spend a lot of money on something super fancy. Ingredients […]
Bakin’ Bacon
There are so many ways to cook bacon but when you hate doing dishes as much as I do there is on go to method with easy clean up – baking. Ingredients Bacon Instructions 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees (I used the convection setting to speed up the process) 2. Put aluminum foil in […]
Basic Baked Potato
Sounds simple, just a basic baked potato. I promise they are not all created equally! If I had to guess I’d say the aluminum foil wrapped potato is the most common. However, at some point in time I stumbled across a cooking method that made the outside of the potato crispy and delicious and haven’t […]
Pecan Kiwi Salad
Salad. Another one of those things I find I don’t eat all that often. It’s not that I don’t like them, I just prefer a hamburger. So when I find a good side salad that isn’t just a standard ranch salad that I actually like, it’s kind of a big deal. Ingredients Lettuce (or any […]