Category: Recipes

This northern girl is LOVING that the heat of summer is in full swing here in Texas.  One of the things I’ve been loving about living here is the abundance of fresh produce available all year long and most of it is sold at reasonable prices.

We’ve been eating our fair share of fresh fruit around here.  We love eating watermelon, peaches, pears, bananas, strawberries..well you get the idea. You know what I don’t love though?

When we moved to Texas middle of July last year, the one thing I knew I was going to miss was my best friend AND her amazing 4th of July parties.

One of things I notice in my daily routine is that if I’m super busy and don’t have a menu plan for the week, my family can just forget about eating a proper meal.

I’ve used a number of meal planning services in the past.  I like each of them for different reasons.  Recently I’ve had the chance to use Relish!

For folks that haven’t meal planned before, I can share with you my experience using Relish!

From strawberries to raspberries, berry season makes spring entertaining simple and fun, as families come together to enjoy a healthy snack.  Honey Bunches of Oats wants to bring your family together this berry season with their new recipe, “Cinnamon Breakfast Squares with Yogurt and Berries.”

This original recipe features New Honey Bunches of Oats Morning Energy Cinnamon Crunch, giving it an extra boost of protein, fiber and whole grain.

I teased you a few days ago about the Good Cook Kitchen Drawer Sweepstakes.  It starts on June 2nd.  If you enter you’ll have a chance to either choose 15 Good Cook kitchen tools that you would like to have to make your ultimate kitchen drawer – look for the “Add Me” icon on participating products.

While we don’t primarily eat gluten-free we have plenty of friends who do.  It’s usually not too much of an issue to plan snacks or desserts around them when we entertain, but meals are a whole other matter.  I had full intentions of making this breakfast for my friend when she was here last week, but time got away from us and I never did 🙁  It’s extremely tasty and well worth making even if you don’t eat gluten-free.

When you’ve been married as long as I have (20 years), you look in your kitchen drawers and realize you need to get married again so you can have a wedding showers to replace your old worn kitchen tools .  OR you could just mark your calendar for June 2, 2014 to visit GoodCook.com to take part in their #KitchenDrawerContest, so that you can enter to win 15 Good Cook Kitchen tools of your choice or 15 of them compiled by a Good Cook Kitchen Expert blogger (like me!).

Greek yogurt is one of today’s most versatile ingredients.  In her book, Toby shows how it can be used as a healthy replacement in classic family recipes and sweet tooth favorites.  She also includes tips about what to look for when buying Greek yogurt, as well as its numerous health benefits.