This post sponsored by Bertolli. BUONE FESTE! No. 113 - Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!! (Where did I learn that? - you will see). Imagine my Tuesday evening: The Time: 5:30 pm. I am Starving (or at least my stomach is saying so very loudly). I have made NO plans for dinner. I haven’t even dreamed up Mushroom Bacon Calzone yet. Want to know why? Because a wonderful surprise … [Read more...]
Easy Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
Eat the soup! EAT THE SOUP!!! For years I have said, “But, I don’t like Chicken Noodle Soup!” You know the kind I’m talking about, the weak broth, the stringy worm-like little nothing noodles and the tiny pieces of stringy overcooked chicken that are something akin to wet burlap. Yuck. I don’t like it. However, when I have been sick and someone made THE SOUP, I ATE THE SOUP. ewww. Let’s … [Read more...]
Carolina Christmas Beans
Who me? Don’t mind me. I’m just sitting over here munching on my Carolina Christmas Beans just like I’ve been doing for the past couple of days. I thought we might need an alternative to Green Bean Casserole - I mean, I LOVE Green Bean Casserole - but, I’m a little tired of it, aren’t you? Wouldn’t you love to try something new? Me too! So, that does it, just whip up a bowl Carolina Christmas … [Read more...]
The Perfect Roasted Turkey
Why? Why oh why would I post a recipe for the perfect roasted turkey on the day AFTER Thanksgiving? Am I just being mean? Am I dense? Did someone hit me in the head while I was Black Friday shopping? Is my calendar a day off? Nope. The issue is that 99% of the time this website is all about you. I purposefully post recipes that I think you want to see. Admittedly, I take photos that I think will … [Read more...]
Vegetarian Buffalo Sliders
This post sponsored by Bird's Eye. Have you ever thought about this? My oldest child (almost 28) loved to be rocked until he was about 3 or 4 years old. At some point, I have no idea when, he didn’t ask to be rocked any more. There was a “very last time”. One day, he asked to be rocked and then I never rocked him again. I didn’t even know it was the last time. I didn’t get to celebrate his … [Read more...]
Old Fashion Cranberry Orange Pie
You might not like me after I say this. I know we are right around the corner from, the Absolute Penultimate Final Pumpkin Holiday of the year, but honestly I can’t even look at another can of pumpkin, pumpkin cookie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin latte, pumpkin….. I can’t. Are you with me? I’m over it until next year. That is why, today, you are seeing something cheery , red, bright and SO DELICIOUS … [Read more...]
Andouille Ravioli
I know, I know. It happens to me too! Sweet Hubby doesn’t come home until 6:30 or later. I get off of work at 5:30. I have to pick up the teenager from play practice at the high school which is 15 minutes away from here at 6pm. That means we are all rolling in the door at 6:30 and everyone is hungry and grouchy. Unless I have thought and planned what dinner will be, then it is going to be … [Read more...]
Mac and Cheese Soup
Can we talk for a minute? Isn’t it a shame that comfort food takes such a beating? I mean, here we are on the cusp of one of the greatest comfort food holidays of the year and folks get so judgy. I mean, think about it, we could potentially be faced with mounds of heaping, cold, left-over mac and cheese that is just biding its time to be “elevated” into an exquisite luscious show stopper of a … [Read more...]