Vanderbilt Wife: Mouthwatering Monday: Five-Minute Spinach Salad with Cherry Vinaigrette
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my Disclosure statement for more details. Last week, someone was supposed to bring us dinner but it fell through because of illness. I had purchased groceries to make my very quick D-Hall Feta Pasta, but I wanted a yummy side dish.
Freezer Cooking with Slow Cooker Recipes
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Easy Vegetable Pot Stickers Recipe
During the past few weeks, I’ve been a mean cooking machine. From the amazing cake mix cookies to the incredibly popular Chicken Fajita Tacos, I’ve been experimenting in the kitchen and then sharing with all of you. If you’ve been visiting often, you know I’m not a natural in the kitchen. So, you can pretty much guarantee, that if I can pull off the recipe, you can pull off the recipe.
Social Light
This weekend was a reminder of why Kyle and I moved back to the West Coast. No offense NYC, but when it comes to the weather and the social scene, California is where the party’s at! I may be well out of college, but that doesn’t mean I’m an old fart (yet). This weekend I was drawn to keg parties and tailgates like a moth to a flame.
Redesigning the Nutrition Label: Here's One Scientist's Clever Proposal - Food
Nutrition labels can be a little like art galleries, or condoms. We know where they are. We’re happy they’re there. But too many of us don’t bother using them. So, we're hoping you can help us change that. This is the last week for sending in ideas for redesigning the nutrition label, the mandated, standardized guide to the calories, fats, and sugars in packaged foods, that, as Fast Company's Suzanne LaBarre put it, “has got the visual charm of a Microsoft spreadsheet and the readability of Beowulf.”
Quinoa granola
So. Effing. Tasty.
cookie dough truffles «
Oh baby. Oh yes. You can have your dough and eat it too. No raw eggs here.
Just add Sabra
To know me is to know I love hummus. I mean really. Even my coworkers (who don’t know jack diddley about me) know that I’m a chickpea connoisseur. So how excited was I to get this in the mail?!? SO EXCITED!
Gastronomer's Guide: Simple Tiramisu
For a lazy summer afternoon, tiramisu is the perfect pick-me-up. Its literal translation is pick me up (tira mi su). Tiramisu is one of those desserts that has as many different versions as there are mothers in Italy.
Roasty Toasty Cocoa Nuts
This is probably the easiest recipe ever. I almost feel like a fraud using the word “recipe.” As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been hankering for sweets in a major way lately. Lord knows I have plenty of chocolate on hand, but what I was really craving was something more snack-like.
Back to School Lunch Ideas and No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
It’s been one week of packing lunches and I feel like my head is spinning. There’s so much to do in the mornings to get my girls off to school, but I think we worked the kinks out and will settle into a routine shortly. The girls love their new stainless steel thermoses.
‘Aint nothing wannabe about it
Evan’s vegan fudge is no joke. I can’t put it into words. I mean, look at that! Still not sure why he’s a “wannabe” chef. As far as I’m concerned, this dessert is about as close to heaven as it gets. For Evan’s recipe, click here.
Eat Well, Spend Less: The Art of Back-to-School Lunches
This month’s Eat Well, Spend Less topic is all about back-to-school, from breakfast to creative lunch ideas to easy snacks to last-minute dinners. We’re breaking down the process of how to feed those school-bound mouths. In exactly 13 days, I will be getting ready to pack the first school lunches of the year. This year, Lene is joining the ranks of school-bound kids, which leaves me with three lunches that need packing five times a week. While this can be a bit overwhelming, I instead look at it as an exciting challenge, a chance to prove I can provide for those children I birthed, a stepping stone towards…Let’s get real.
Chocolate deception
I can’t recall the last time I made brownies. But then, Katie got me thinking about them…and I couldn’t get them out of my mind. With brownies on the brain, I nervously set to work in the kitchen.
