Bunco Garden Party! Bunco, a long standing tradition and a great excuse for girls to get together and well, do what girls do! Eat some good food, drink some wine and chat for hours. Not once, since I have been part of this group, has anyone busted out a deck of cards! I am…
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Slow Cooker Rotisserie Chicken
Whats that saying? A bird in the slow cooker is better than 2 in the oven? Let me say, without question, this is the best roast chicken I have ever cooked up and, I have cooked up many a roast chicken my friend. It is one of my favorite comfort foods and get me started on the leftovers…the mashed…
Garlic, Dijon and Fresh Herb Salmon
This Garlic, Dijon and Fresh Herb Salmon will become your favorite go to salmon recipe! This year, for the first time EVER…I have a nice little herb garden with herbs that actually grow, that I can actually use! I am not known for my green thumb. I like instant gratification…things that grow take too long….
Caprese Grilled Chicken
Grilled Caprese Chicken! Perfect for indoors or out…simply switch out your grill for a skillet and sear your chicken! We love our chicken around here! Easy, healthy and versatile. Now add some cheese and boom! Doesn’t get much better than this…easy, healthy, fast! I’d say those are three requirements that make this a perfect recipe. …
Slow Cooker Sausage, Mushroom and Orzo Soup
Spring is in the air in Seattle (well as much as Spring can ever be in the air in Seattle), so I thought I’d get soup out of my system until fall! This can be prepared stove top or slow cooker. Slow cooker works a little better because the sausage has time to marry with the…
Salmon Cakes – Lightened Up!
I’ve been reposting some of my prior recipes so I can improve the photo’s, and in this case I am reducing the fat while I am at it! See my previous ugly photo and fattening recipe! This is a rendition of Ina Gartens Salmon Cake recipe. Like a lot of her recipes she is heavy on the…
Turkey Breast Wrapped in Prosciutto
With our little family of 3 (well 4 if you count our dear daughters boyfriend who we love to feed!). This is a perfect size Holiday meal, in fact, I plan on making it on non-holidays it was so tasty and easy! Some helpful hints: Buying the turkey breast: You can get turkey breasts, bone…
Skillet Italian Chicken with Orzo
I’ve noticed a re surge of the one pan dinner lately. Love the idea! Great for weeknight and a bit healther than the Hamburger Helper I remember as a child…but boy, did I love the Cheeseburger version! I love the idea of everything in one pan and bam, your dinner is done! What I don’t like…
Panini 101 – Make the perfect Panini! No Special Equipment needed!
You can use this basic recipe to make homemade Panini’s that are as good as any fancy sandwich shop or restaurant. I used fresh Mozzarella, Pesto and Roasted Red Peppers for a Caprese style Panini. I substituted Roasted Red Peppers instead of traditional tomato because I think it adds a lot more flavor and tomato’s can make your…
Top Fab 4 Fall Soups!
The top 4 favorite soups of the last year!
Super Easy Salisbury Steak – Made with Ground Turkey!
This will soon become your favorite weeknight winter meal. It is so hearty you will forget that it’s lean ground turkey! The meat and potato lovers in your house are soooo gonna love you! I can see the meat statue they will be erecting in your honor. Post pics! I love meat statues! Who doesn’t? I adapted this from a…
Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
I know, another soup recipe! But I got a hankerin’ for some soup. It’s fall and we had a longer than normal summer and I’m ready for winter food! I’ve been making this soup for years, it’s adapted from an old Cooking Light recipe. ( FYI: old Cooking Light recipes are the bomb…new ones?… not so much). The…
Turkey- Pepperoni Burgers with Pesto Mayo
Turkey and Pepperoni Burgers for the win! We have been eating a whole lot of ground turkey lately (organic of course), in lieu of ground beef. I still think beef makes a better burger but this recipe should kick your turkey buns up a notch! Chopped up pepperoni slices, some pesto mayo, provolone and…
BLT Pasta Salad
Crisp, refreshing and easy! This recipe calls for store bought Ranch Dressing…yes, I said it, ‘Redneck Ranch’. Personally, I am not a huge fan of Ranch, (because I am so cultured an’ stuff), but in this recipe it works. I bought the higher end brand in the cold food section, I paid more, so I am sure it is…
Crunchy Oven Baked Shrimp with Peachy Dipping Sauce
Crunchy Oven Fried Shrimp with Spicy Peachy sauce! I can’t get enough of them! I will make the peach sauce over and over again, I can already taste it with salmon and turkey burgers and pork chops and chicken and fish and…well you get the point. It’s yummy! The sauce is so simple, it is made out of peach…
