Dinners · Healthy and Delicious

Zucchini, Black Bean, and Rice Skillet

This was a quick, healthy, and delicious dinner!  It all cooked in one pot, and even my kids ate it. You could play around with it quite a bit.  I added some diced onions, some fresh minced garlic, and a cup of leftover ground turkey taco meat to mine, and it was excellent. I had… Continue reading Zucchini, Black Bean, and Rice Skillet

cookies

“Neiman-Marcus” $250 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

If you’ve ever had a Facebook account, a Twitter account, or even just an email account, the chances are that at some point in time you have received the forward about the Neiman-Marcus $250 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. It isn’t always Nieman-Marcus.  Sometimes it’s Woolworths, sometimes it’s Mrs. Fields, but the story itself remains the… Continue reading “Neiman-Marcus” $250 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Fall (Halloween & Thanksgiving)

How to Cook a Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey (with photo directions)

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! If you’re here for my Thanksgiving Turkey post, and the pictures look a little different, do not be confused, for I have updated them from the pictures I took in the dark with a camera sitting on a book on my kitchen counter 4 years ago. Remember that scene in National Lampoon’s… Continue reading How to Cook a Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey (with photo directions)

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Peanut Butter Peek-a-boo Cookies

Okay, it’s the first week of November, so most of us have a ton of Halloween candy that we need to get OUT OF OUR HOUSE NOW!!! My kids are 3 1/2 and 1 1/2, so this is the first year they have really brought in a good haul.  So now it’s time to get… Continue reading Peanut Butter Peek-a-boo Cookies