A few weeks months ago my baby turned 2. As we were planning her birthday party I sat on the couch with her and flipped through recipes for cupcakes, trying to pick one or two to make. She climbed into my lap as I leafed from page to page, then...
Leave it to me to take a relatively healthy concept like a chicken burger and do this to it. And in advance, you’re welcome! By a long shot the most-viewed recipe on here is Chicken Cordon Bleu with Creamy Parmesan Sauce. And rightly so. It’s one of my favorite dinners....
I must be really, really ready for spring. Absolutely everything I’m making right now is light, fluffy and blueberry filled. Blueberry ice cream? Check! Blueberry pancakes for dinner? Check! Blueberry lemon scones! Check! (obviously, right?) You see, in Michigan the weather is a bit unpredictable and our winter is very,...
I have to admit, when I pulled this loaf from the oven I was skeptical. I’m not sure what about it made me leery. It smelled delicious. The golden wheat color was beautiful, and… I mean, it’s bread! What is there not to love? But still, I was cautious. Perhaps...
Every summer when my family’s blueberry farm opens for business (and believe me, I am counting the days!) the first thing I look forward to doing is eating those enormous, sweet, delicious berries fresh from the bush. The second is eating a enormous, sweet, delicious cone of home churned blueberry...
I was at work chatting with some co-workers about our dinner plans. I explained that, at my husband’s request, I was going to attempt a Detroit style Coney Dog. “Detroit or Flint style?” one of them asked, while another nodded knowingly. “Ummm… yes?” was my ever-intelligent response. Despite having lived...
If I’m good for one thing, it’s finding a way to justify sinful foods. Ice cream? Calcium. Oatmeal cookie? Fiber! And raisins. It’s practically breakfast. Cake? Duh. It’s cake. Enough said. I’m great at taking a healthy food concept and turning it upside down into a kick ass butt dessert....
The very first time I made these muffins, intending on only making a great blueberry muffin, I hit a bit of a bump in the road. I was measuring out the blueberries and got to the bottom of the bag (I always use frozen. I live in Michigan and the...
I’ve made a few different potato soups in the past, all of them good. But for some reason when I wandered across this recipe when browsing Pennies on a Platter I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. A few days after finding this recipe I made it for...
I firmly believe every busy mom needs to have a few dinnertime tricks up her sleeve. This, dear friends, is one of mine. It’s quick, it’s simple, and it’s pretty tasty. A great weeknight dinner that my kids devour. Sure, it’s not exactly Beef Wellington, but who says every night...