Huli Huli Chicken

Huli Huli Chicken is a Hawaiian dish. Huli means “turn” in Hawaiian and refers to the way the chicken is cooked. It is usually cooked between two large racks that are constantly flipped to get a good char and lots of surface cooking. I don’t have two large racks to cook on my grill but…

Breakfast for Dinner: Scramble Bowls

Still working on cleaning out the freezers. We had shredded potatoes – you know when potatoes are on sale for 2 #10 bags for ….. You stop and think what would I do with 20 lbs. of potatoes? Here you go! You can prepare your potatoes for what you may want to use them for…

Salad with Pear and Goat Cheese – Homemade Dressing

What goes with all our summer grilling meals? Green salads! We eat a salad just about every night and what helps us from getting tired of them? Variety. Change the cheeses, the nuts, the greens, and the salad dressing and you have a whole new flavor profile. We love adding fruit to our salads and…

Grilled Salmon with Garlic Marinade

I mentioned yesterday this is our summer of grilling and we are jumping right in. Summer just screams for grilled fish. It is such a light dish on hot summer days and grilling out means no heating up the kitchen and it adds lots of flavor to your dishes. Whether you put it on a…

Get Your Grill On!

So, in our house we have declared this the Summer of Grilling! We love to grill out but we start out with great intentions and then time and preparation take a back seat and we end up at the first day of school with only having grilled out about half a dozen times. Not this…

Day 91: Checking In

This was to be my last checking in as just about everything in Michigan is open or will open within the next week or so. Still no large gatherings, masks and physical distancing are to be observed but other than that pretty normal. But, as I watch the numbers go up and down I am…

Buttery Pound Cake

We are in our first week of school being out! Yeah! My son still has some work to finish for his online AP English Composition class and next week he is taking an honors college application writing class but other than that we are done. I say we because he still needs me to keep…

Bourbon Pecan Salad

We generally have salad a few nights a week year round but summer seems to bring out the desire for big green salads in our house. We love mixing all different kinds of cheeses, fruits, lettuces, and vegetables together to get the perfect blend of ingredients. During the summer I take more time to make…

Chicken Salad – No Buy June

One of the things we do twice each year is a no buy month. What I mean is we try to eat solely out of what we have on hand only grocery shopping for a few fresh items once a week. We need to clean out our freezers (refrigerator freezer and chest freezer). With all…

Slow Cooker Cowboy Baked Beans

I use my slow cooker year round. Most people put their slow cookers away for the summer that is the time for me to use it more. It doesn’t heat up my kitchen and it keeps side dishes warm for our picnics. A double insert for the slow cooker is a special treat to keep…

Tonga Toast

As many of you know my family loves Walt Disney World and well, anything Disney. We make annual trips to Disney and I loved it so much I finally became a travel agent specializing in Disney and Universal Studios. I love planning trips. We are foodies and the highlight for our family isn’t just the…

7 Summer Salads

With Summer days just around the corner it is time to begin thinking of picnics, barbecues, and lighter summer meals. Salads are a great addition to any meal or in place of a meal with all the great summer produce that is out. Here are 7 of our favorite salads. Give one or all of…