We are slowly re-entering life. After the week of family togetherness for calling hours, the funeral, eating out every meal and being in hotels we had a case of the plague go through our house. It started on the way home with my son waking in the middle of the night with a stomach bug. …
Category: Beef Dishes
Pretzel Dogs
My kids have been asking for simple dinners lately. Hot dogs, hamburgers or pasta with sauce is what they want. Nothing fancy. I think things are so stressful in their life right now, as they are for all of us, they want comfort and familiarity in their meals as well as in their routines. My…
What Happens When Mommy Doesn’t Make or Plan Dinner
Things have been crazy here and I have been trying to keep on top of the meal planning and cooking. This is what happens when Mom doesn’t plan a dinner or leave something cooking for them. They figure it out. I volunteered at school today and then I had to do three pick-ups and…
Slow Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner
Last night our St. Patrick’s Day dinner was the usual Corned Beef and Cabbage. Because my daughter is an Irish dancer we were in schools and senior housing complexes most of the day. I love using my slow cooker for Corned Beef. It always ends up fall apart moist and delicious. Verdict: Since there wasn’t…
Taco Pizza
Gahhhh! It’s been one of those days. My computer has refused to connect to the internet until now. Our whole house is wireless, which I love sometimes. But, then there are days like these when it all goes fzzzzt. Ugh! So, I am just getting around to posting – in between picking up a child…
Creamy Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Steak
I am in love with sweet potatoes right now. My kids are okay with them. As long as I keep cooking them I think they will start to get used to the taste. I remember when they were little the doctor telling us to have them try food up to ten different times before thinking…
Cheese Stuffed Hamburgers with Oven Baked Sweet Potato Chips
This is a tough one today. I am just not feeling like sitting down and actually writing. That is rare for me. I love to get up and start writing about food and my family. Today started with an appointment and then seemed to go downhill from there. My routine is off which sets my…
Saucy Asian Meatballs
Lots of ground beef to use right now so I am trying to make different things so the kids don’t realize the meat is the same thing every night. This recipe for Saucy Asian Meatballs is from Bear With Me at Chef Jenny.com. I must confess that I followed the recipe just as it…
Individual Barbecue Cheddar Meat Loaves
Though the temperature on our vacation in Florida left me feeling limp and tired all the time the cold here is not helping anything either. It has warmed up a bit lately but the dampness is still leaving me with that feeling of deep inside my bones cold no matter what the thermometer says. So,…
Spaghetti Squash and Meatballs
So, after our last check ups we are trying to change our diets a bit. We are not making any big changes but trying to substitute brown rice, vegetables and sweet potatoes for white rice, pasta and potatoes two to three days a week. Not a huge change but this was one of the first…
Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza
Returning home after a wonderful vacation is never easy. It was tough coming back home after two weeks away in sunny Florida. When we left it was about O degrees, normal temperature with a windchill about -20. When we arrived in Florida they were having record tying or higher temperatures of 88-89 degrees with 90%…
Meatloaf Parmesan
We are leaving in just a few days for a two-week vacation! I can’t wait. I have been following the temperatures in Orlando, Florida and although they have been colder than normal lately next week is predicted to be highs of 70-80. That is almost 100 degrees warmer than it is here right now. I…
What's for Dinner Moms? 