Mexican Coleslaw

Mexican Coleslaw    Tonight with our dinner we had one of our family favorites as a side dish for "Taco Tuesday," Mexican Coleslaw!  When I make this, I base it after my typical coleslaw recipe, just add a few different ingredients and alter the dressing.  Because we have dairy...

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Easy Orange Chicken

Easy Orange Chicken with Chicken Fried Rice and Homemade Egg Rolls    Sure it's extremely quick and easy to open a bag of frozen orange chicken or order it for takeout, but there is something rewarding about making it at home.  Because we are a big family, I usually buy the large...

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Chicken Fried Rice

Chicken Fried Rice with Orange Chicken and Turkey Egg Rolls    It's nice to know that my kids prefer my Orange Chicken, Chicken Fried Rice and Egg Rolls to Chinese takeout.  It's a rewarding experience for me to make this for my family because I know they really enjoy it.  This...

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Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes

Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes    For our son's 11th birthday this year, we gave him the opportunity to pick what he wanted to eat.  Normally we would take the kids out to dinner on their birthday at a restaurant of their choice, but this year is a bit different, so we make the best of...

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Dairy Free Mac and Cheese

    Looking at this picture, I bet you never would have guessed that this is dairy free mac and cheese, but it is!  How does this look just like the real thing you ask?  I'm just about to tell you.  My secret to making it super creamy is oat milk.  Yes, oat milk! ...

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Leftover Pork Stir Fry

    For Father's Day this year, David made ribs.  He LOVES ribs, and we don't have them very often.  They can be expensive and for a family of 6, it gets costly quick.  Last week, one of our grocery stores had full slabs of baby back buy one get one.  Still not cheap, but...

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Copycat Chic fil A Sauce

  Sometimes I think I live under a rock...just kidding, but I didn't there was a such a thing as making this sauce at home until Nicky and I went to lunch with his cousins.  They love the sauce and had it on their turkey sandwiches!  So, what did I do?  I came home and made...

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French Silk Pie

    Now tell me, doesn't that look good?  One night during dinner, we got on the subject of pies.  A few days before I had made an apple pie using up the apples we get with the free lunches from the school district.  David and I started reminiscing of our high school and early...

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Our first harvest!

Red Leaf Lettuce For those of you who've known me for a long time know that I'm not the best with plants of any kind.  One of my best friends once asked me to water her plants while they were on vacation.  That didn't go so well...But lately I've been taking the time to take care of our...

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DIY Project - Bookcase

    Since I've been enjoying reading so much, I asked David if we could get a bookcase for me to store my books/cookbooks, and trinkets of course.  😀 When I mentioned this to him, he was on the hunt looking for ideas or inspiration of any kind.  He also had the thought of going...

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Baked Strawberry French Toast

Happy Father's Day 2020!!!    My hubby LOVES French Toast.  I wanted to make him something special for breakfast today for Father's Day.  He really enjoys breakfast foods, but he often doesn't eat breakfast. Occasionally Emma will prepare pancakes or waffles for us for breakfast...

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Limited technology...what are we thinking?

Yep, you read that correctly.  We have given our children access to limited technology in our house.  What exactly does that mean?  Well, with the exception of TV, they are given 30 minutes each day to play on their devise.  This could be their phone, iPad, gaming system, tablet,...

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Mexican Street Corn Pasta Salad

For anyone who loves the flavors of Mexican Street Corn, YOU will LOVE this recipe.  Mexican Street Corn, or Elote, is a common street food in Mexico.  Elotes are a cob of corn covered in a spicy mixture of mayo, sour cream, and chili powder.  Then topped with Cotija cheese and cilantro. ...

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Last Day of School

    What a year!  This seems like it's been the never ending school year, it just kept going on and on and on.  Last night at dinner, we were talking about parent-teacher conferences, and we couldn't remember how long ago they were.  My husband said it seemed like they were...

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Loaded Baked Potato Salad

    What do you do when it's just too hot to turn on your oven, but you have such a taste for a baked potato?  Make the Loaded Baked Potato Salad of course!  This is an extremely easy salad to make, and perfect for any BBQ.  You don't actually bake the potatoes as you would...

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Corn Salad Reinvented

    If you're like me, you're looking for quick and easy recipes for your family that are also healthy, but also something that everyone will enjoy.  In an effort to meet this above criteria, I came up with this easy corn salad also became a use up for some leftovers.  We had corn...

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One of those days...

    I would not be remiss if I didn't touch on the events that have transpired over the past week and a half.  Our nation has been deeply touched, moved, enveloped by the senseless and traumatic death of a man in Minneapolis.  This happens unfortunately more often than not. ...

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Easy Beef and Rice Burritos

        For the last few months I've been grocery shopping for my family, my parents and my in-laws once a week.  During this time, i've also been preparing meals for my parents by either cooking at their house after a morning of shopping or at my house and dropping...

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