I’m so excited! My friends Ashley and Ryan are featuring some of my newest recipes on their website, Center Cut Cook.com! This site is famous for their “Chocolate Lasagna” recipe that went viral all over Facebook and the rest of the social media world a while back. They’ve got a lot of other great ones…
Recipes
Easy Does It Guacamole
Lately I’m seeing a lot of advertisements for things with guacamole slathered all over them. Usually it’s around lunch time when I notice this, and usually my lunch has no resemblance to the awesomeness I see being advertised. So what’s a frugal foodie mom to do except make her own big, beautiful, batch of creamy…
Kim’s Hot Cacao
Hot cacao? In the middle of July? Oh yes. I guarantee once you get hooked on this stuff you won’t care WHAT month it is, as long as you have some. You see, I gave up coffee last October. Crazy, right? Unfortunately, I’ve become increasingly intolerant of it over the years. I haven’t had soda…
Kim’s Five-Way Chili
Say it with me now (in your best Homer Simpson voice): Mmmmmm. Chili! There’s nothing like a good hot bowl of chili, even in the summer. For us, it’s a year round comfort food that also happens to be pretty good for you. I make mine with ground turkey instead of beef. It has a…
Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Jalapeños
The only thing better than a stuffed pepper, is one that’s wrapped in bacon. Mmmm. Heaven. This is one of my favorite recipes, and it’s so simple that you don’t really need one. There are only four ingredients: jalapeños, cream cheese, bacon and love. Ok, maybe bacon and love are the same thing. So, three…
Brownie Batter Smoothies
Let me introduce you to my “favoritest” smoothie in the whole wide world. Anyone who knows me and sees me on a regular basis has seen me toting these around. I love them and would marry them if I could. They helped me break my Dairy Queen addiction, as well as my sugar and coffee…
Apple Noodle Parfaits
I discovered Ali’s wonderful blog, Inspiralized , a few months ago and fell in love with spiralizers. They really make cooking fun and healthy, and the possibilities are endless! My family especially loves apple noodles, because you can make them for breakfast, snacks or dessert in so many wonderful ways.
Roasted Sticky Chicken Legs
Sticky chicken. Mmmm. It’s really amazing. This has been a family favorite of ours since I found the recipe online over 17 years ago on Mimi’s Cyber Kitchen. It was also one of the first recipes in my Once a Month Cooking Chicken Plan, which I’m working on revising for the new site. You can…
Homemade Breakfast Pizza
At my last job, we had a “Breakfast Club” where everyone would take turns bringing in breakfast on Fridays. This was fun, because everyone had different favorites and brought in whatever they liked. Some did homemade meals, others brought in bagels from Panera or Krispy Kreme doughnuts or even Bob Evans fare. It was something…
Easy Enchiladas with Homemade Red Chili Sauce
I love Mexican food. I blame Dad. He grew up on the border of Arizona and Mexico, and ate a lot of real, authentic Mexican food. So of course, that’s what he wanted when he ended up on the East Coast with Mom and us kids. We often went out to the best Mexican restaurants…