Asparagus, Brie & Ham Crostini #SundaySupper

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Tweet We love these wonderful Asparagus Brie & Ham Crostini and you will too. Spring has arrived… somewhat. Two days ago I was standing at a funeral, shivering and wrapped in a blanket with layers, and yesterday I was in shorts and a t-shirt and actually felt hot all day long. Now, today I am in [...]

Life’s Hard, Eat Comfort Food

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Tweet Tragedy struck us recently, and I feel like I’ve fallen off the face of the blogging earth. I’ve also had no time to play in the kitchen and really haven’t felt like it. So I feel like I owe you an explanation. Last Saturday, my best friend lost her husband. It was sudden, it is [...]

Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette #SundaySupper

Strawberry, Avocado, Spinach Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette

Tweet Oh this wonderfully, beautiful salad screams Spring and at a time I am desperate for a change in weather. It was all destined to be the death of me. I make these salads all the time and the one depicted in the picture is one of my favorite ways to do it. However, when [...]

10 Natural Weight Loss Tips

Natural Weight Loss Tips

Tweet Lately, I’ve been bombarded with questions, comments and remarks about my healthier options on my blog. I love to eat junk as much as the next guy. However, I stay away from fast food, processed food and other junk as much as possible. It was important to me that I could still enjoy that [...]

Grilled Portabella Veggie “Pizzas”

Grilled Portabella Pizzas

Tweet I call them pizza’s, you can call them stuffed mushrooms, but no matter what you call them – they are fabulous! Less than 200 calories. In the WHOLE thing! If I made the same pizza on a 100% whole wheat bagel, just the bagel is 250 calories. With no toppings. At all. I won’t [...]

Asparagus Pesto Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes

Asparagus Pesto Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes

Tweet It’s time once again for the Group A reveal of the Secret Recipe Club. This month I made an absolutely fabulous Asparagus Pesto Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes from the blog Cupcake Muffin written by Sara. She has a huge recipe index on her page that has so many wonderful recipes, it was really hard to [...]

Reese’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake #SundaySupper

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Tweet Chocolate. Peanut Butter. Mmmm… goooooooood. Reese’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake … beyond words. We make the cake part of this all the time. We even make this cake with the wonderful chocolate ganache in the middle, but what I have never done before, was add the peanut butter, and I really wanted the peanut [...]

Chicken Cordon Bleu Pasta

Chicken Cordon Blue Pasta

Tweet A fabulous weeknight meal! A Chicken Cordon Bleu Pasta Dish This recipe was born of desperation one night about a year ago standing in the grocery store and wondering what to eat. I only had an hour and a half to shop, to cook for & feed the kids before we had to be [...]

Blog Organization 101: The Notebook

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Tweet Blog Organization 101: List Making, Note Taking and How to Use a Notebook for Blogging When people hear I have 5 teenagers, the first thing they usually do is get this sort of “deer in the headlights” look. Then they say, “bless your heart”, which is kind of endearing but also terrifying because I [...]