Chicken Piccata over pasta is a crowd pleaser for sure! How to Make Lemon Chicken Piccata This is a brief overview of how to make this easy dish. For the full list of ingredients and all of the instructions, make sure you check out the recipe card below. My memories of that family meal make my heart feel full. Really that is the memory of most of my family’s meals – my heart and belly full, sitting around the table with people I love....
Are you guys show re-watchers? Book re-readers? I’m guilty of both. As I type, Eric and I are re-watching Leslie Knope win the election on Parks and Rec. It’s still hilarious. Just like Harry Potter is still the most awesome person to have ever not actually existed. Yes, I reread the whole series while I was pregnant-sick. Don’t judge me. I started with the 7th one in the hopes that I would feel a sense of closure at the end, and not pick up the other 6 books....
Have you ever been out to dinner with a partner, good friend or relative and they order a slice of cake. When it arrives you feel like a bite and one bite turns into 2 and before you know it, you’ve eaten a lot of their cake? This is where this cake for two comes in. It is the ideal size for 2 people and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, why not share with someone you love?...
We have a blood sugar problem in my house. And the biggest outcome of it? HANGER. Like my kids are typically well behaved (as am I . . . ). But oh man! When hanger strikes (anger + hunger = HANGER) it’s like the world is going to come to an end. We They become raging beasts. The other morning my well intentioned, but just occasionally moronic husband made the ill informed decision of giving Quinn sugary cereal for breakfast ....
A wonderful home baked treat that is a great use for any eggs that may be expiring, eggs you just need to use up or your eggs came home broken from grocery shopping. Interestingly, I recently learned that these tarts are also popular in China and Portugal. There is an age old debate as to who invented them first. But being British, of course, I like to say the Brits came up with this delicious treat because they’ve been around since the medieval times and that’s good enough for me!...
Our daughter Charlotte was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ last weekend! It was so great. She’s been so excited about it. Eric baptized her at the church, and we had everyone over at our house for lunch afterward. The evening before, I was a little, ahem, stressed about getting all the food prepped so it would be completely ready to go when we walked in the door with all our guests....
Looking for more Indian fusion dessert recipes - you will love Gulab Jamun truffles, Gulab Jamun Shrikhand Jars and Gajar Halwa Cheesecake Jars. About this easy homemade Oreo Barfi Want to know how I make this easy Oreo Barfi? Simply add oreo cookies and white chocolate to the Plain Milk powder barfi recipe and we have a Cookie and cream barfi - This is how simple, easy and delicious it is!...
While I don’t have the biggest sweet tooth in the world, the combination of peanut butter and chocolate makes my heart sing. It is possible that I pull a spoonful of peanut butter out of the jar and top it with chocolate chips in the quite of my pantry. This Peanut Butter Pie is the perfection combination of chocolate and peanut butter. We start with a chocolatey Oreo crust. Then we create the most amazing and delicious creamy peanut butter filling....
We are in the midst of the holiday season and it’s time for everyones favorite bird. A roast chicken dinner is my favorite meal, so I make it a lot in the cooler weather . I have very specific steps I like to follow and I follow the same steps when I roast a turkey. Brining turkey It all starts the day before the roasting of the turkey (or chicken), I like to brine my turkeys and chickens....
Mix together the pudding mix, cold milk, vanilla vodka, pumpkin puree and spice. Give it a good whisk. Then, cover and store in the refrigerator for about an hour, or up to overnight. Pour into ten shot glasses. Top these babies with whipped cream and pie crust dippers. You will love these pumpkin beauties so much, you’ll want to serve them at every gathering from now until Thanksgiving. Enjoy!...
Ever since I moved away from home over twenty years ago, my Mom and I have had many a phone conversations around food. There would be times when the sole purpose of my call to her would be to find out the exact ingredients that go into one of my favourite dishes, like this Egg Fried Rice. Even though I’ve mastered my own style of cooking, I would still, to this day, pick my Mom’s home-cooked meals over mine!...
I’m sharing a Spatchcock Turkey recipe with you today, complete with instructions on how to properly spatchcock a turkey. Learn how to butterfly a whole turkey, and how to roast it so it’s beautifully browned, juicy, and delicious. Even better, you won’t have a dried out turkey breast. Roasting a turkey the traditional way, the breast often cooks faster than the dark meat, so you may end up keeping the turkey in the oven too long, or not baking it enough....
But I was dismayed to find that princesses come at a high price. They were all $2.25 or more for 1 toothbrush. I ended up getting the Peanuts toothbrush (2 for $1!), although it goes against my lame cartoons code. Why can’t we get more cartoons like Calvin and Hobbes? carrots olive oil kosher salt black pepper dill (fresh or dried would work in this recipe. I prefer fresh…but use whatever you have on hand!...
As the weather is getting colder every day, I’ve been enjoying cosy meals and lots of hot chocolate. I love winter veg, and swede or rutabaga is one of these staple ingredients that I always have on my kitchen counter in the winter. I love the unique flavor of rutabaga/swede, so I add it to my casseroles, soups, make mash or rutabaga fries, or just roast it on its own....
When we first enrolled Baby Dear at school, I was giddy with excitement over the opportunity to pack him a lunchbox everyday. My head buzzed with a variety of healthy school lunch ideas of tiny portions of homemade gourmet meals all wrapped up and sent off with love. Alas, that was never to happen. As luck would have it, Baby Dear goes to a school that prides itself in serving healthy, well-balanced meals to every student on a daily basis....
A traditional Southern pot-luck dessert, my easy 7-up sheet cake just melts in your mouth and will disappear in a flash! If you like lemon desserts like lemon meringue pie, lemon tart, and lemon muffins, you are going to fall in love with this simple 7UP sheet cake recipe with lemon-lime glaze. You may see recipes for 7Up cake that are made as a bundt cake or a layer cake, but I think that this sheet cake version is the easiest of them all....
Make Ahead This shrimp and pasta salad can be made up to 24 hours ahead of time and kept in the refrigerator. In fact, I actually think this recipe is better when you make it in advance and the flavors have time to combine. This shrimp pasta salad recipe is no exception. It is a riff on my mom’s amazing Crab Pasta Salad with two simple tweaks that address common questions I get about that recipe....
What Kind of Meat to Buy For this pot roast recipe, you will want to get a chuck pot roast. Because this cut of meat is heavily marbled, it is best cooked slowly at a low temperature with liquid. These factors allow the fat to break down, which keeps the meat tender and creates a rich flavor. The downside to dinnertime is when your life is so full, it can be hard to put a warm dinner on the table in time....
Thank you, thank you, to all of you who support me in my storytelling. I get that sometimes you just want to get to the recipe, and that’s totally fine, that’s what scrolling is for. But telling stories is the real reason I’ve stuck with this blog for so long, and hearing from my real readers (not just those passing through) that they still want that content is such a motivator for me....
This is the most indulgent weekend breakfast that can be made in less than 15 minutes. Buttery, eggy, crispy caramelized bread, topped with syrup and powdered sugar. You can build it up and serve with ice cream or whipped cream or dial it down a notch and serve it with honey or maple syrup. There are only a handful recipes that can be served on a fancy brunch and packed in your child’s lunch box too....
