WARNING: This bourbon chicken was my gateway drug into cooking all of our Chinese food at home and never getting take out again.  It is SO good and so easy and it completely ruined Chinese take out for us, and we like it that way 😉  We serve it with this fried rice and […]

I had never even heard of Pollo Loco until seeing it on Plain Chicken’s Blog.  As soon as I saw it, I knew it would become a family favorite.  What is not to love about marinated grilled chicken, mexican rice and cheese dip?  Here is our version: Pollo Loco  The Marinade Juice and zest of 1 […]

  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Who is ready to start the year off right with some LOW FAT cooking?  Just kidding …hehe…You know me better than that 🙂  Our last meal of 2013 was a family favorite, Chicken Parmesan!  To be honest, I have made Chicken Parmesan about 20 different ways, and never one time had […]

      Happy New Years EVE!!! I am excited to be participating in my first ever Menu Plan Monday post!  I have been a regular reader of www.OrgJunkie.com for years and have learned SO MUCH from her site!  I have been meal planning for 10 years,  but up until now, this just equated to a written […]

       This was just about as simple as it could be to throw together but it sure was a Man Pleasing Meal 🙂 I used Colby cheese for this sandwich because it is my husband’s favorite, but you could use Swiss or Cheddar or whichever kind of cheese you prefer.   This sandwich […]

        Good evening!  I have a bunch of new recipes I am excited to share this week!  But first up, an oldie but goodie!   Sometimes, I  forget how much we like a recipe until we have it again and this was definitely one of those times.  This is great for a […]

          I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!  This is my first Christmas with a blog so I thought it would be fun to document it with a few pictures so I can look back next year and see how much the kiddos have grown!  I am sharing GORGEOUS photos of my […]

         Merry Christmas!!!!! We have had SUCH an amazing day!  The kids have paper, trash, boxes and toys strewn from one end of the house to the other so I think that is a sign of a good Christmas!   One thing that helps with the craziness of Christmas morning that I […]

       So I was browsing the Recipe’s of the World facebook page last night (It is one of my FAVORITES) They had posted a recipe for ‘Dijon Chicken Linguine with Crimini Mushrooms and Toasted Almonds’ and it looked ABSOLUTELY DELECTABLE. I knew as soon as I saw it, that was what we were […]

This satisfying and velvety Smoked Sausage and Beer Cheese Potato Soup will absolutely warm you from head to toe!             This Smoked Sausage & Beer Cheese Potato Soup only has a small amount of beer in it, but it makes such a difference in the depth of flavor that I had to […]