One of my favorite things to cook is a pasta with tomato sauce. I love how many ways there are to cook it. Different textures, different flavors, and easy to personalize to your own taste. I was going for a hearty sauce for this meal to pair with spaghetti and meatballs Using crushed tomato, a…
Category: Entrees
Southern Style Oven Fried Chicken
You can tell when my kids have been putting me through the wringer by the complexity of my meal plans it seems. So here’s another easy dish! I’ll let you guess what that means about their behavior lately. I love fried chicken but I don’t love deep frying because it’s messy and uses a lot…
Creamy Italian Herb White Beans
This simple bean dish is packed with flavor! Despite the fact that it cooks for an hour or so, it is very quick to put together. I had some northern beans soaking overnight ready to go. If you forget to soak your beans, you can put them in a pot covered with water. Boil for…
Broiled Salmon with Brown Sugar Soy Glaze
This sweet, sticky, tangy, Asian inspired sauce can be used on a wide range of foods: poultry, pork, beef, vegetables, or noodles, for example. For dinner tonight, salmon was on the menu! While I love an elaborately cooked meal, it is also nice to have something quick and simple to throw together. The sauce itself…
Fettucine Alfredo
I had a craving for a hearty, creamy, alfredo sauce for a couple weeks before I finally got around to adding it to our meal plans. Cream sauces from scratch are more time consuming than opening a jar of pre-made sauce but it is well worth it. Sauces can be made from heavy cream, whole…
Red Bean Étouffée
I like Cajun food in general and my Alabama-born-and-raised husband pretty much has cayenne pepper flowing through his veins so we eat Cajun foods fairly often in this house. Like our pepper shaker has cayenne in it instead of black pepper. Out of all the Cajun dishes I have tried, étouffée is one of my…
Kale Pesto Linguine with Mushrooms and English Peas
One of my favorite things about this recipe is that my little kids LOVE it which means they get some healthy greens in their system. Pesto is great to me because it is… easy to customize! I love recipes like that, although I can’t think if any recipes that really aren’t like that. In any…
Spinach and Black Bean Enchiladas
We eat a lot of beans in this house. They are healthy, filling, and best of all, super inexpensive, especially if you buy them dried. This one was a huge hit! I would always recommend using dried beans over canned. Dried beans just have a better texture in the end to me. Ideally, soak the…
Lavender, Lemon, and Sage 