My children love the fruit in the Easter Basket. Each year they look forward to seeing what they will get. We have done kiwis disguised as Easter eggs and this year the Easter Cantaloupe and Easter Watermelon. We love having fun with their baskets. I LOVE Easter. To me, this is the perfect holiday. It…
Category: Pork Recipes
Pork Divan Casserole
One of my kids favorite books is “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” Alexander has everything go wrong during his day. When things go wrong in our house we look at each other and ask, “Are you having an Alexander day?” Now, I didn’t really have an Alexander day entirely but…
Tyler Florence’s Simple Chili Cheese Dogs with NO Canned Chili
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. …
Ravioli Pizza Bake
As we await the phone call regarding my mother-in-law’s passing we are trying to keep things as normal as possible for the kids. They know Grandma is near the end and what that means but their lives are still going on. There was a Talent Show at the Middle School for my daughter to prepare…
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…
Bacon and Balsamic Onion Macaroni and Cheese
We are in all out comfort food mode in our house. It may have been the first day of Spring but last night we received word that my mother-in-law is in her final days. So, tomorrow we will head back home. I will probably not post next week but will start again just as soon…
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…
Fried Rice with Spam
My mother-in-laws has been in hospice for the past few weeks. Last night we received word that we are down to weeks and days and are no longer thinking in terms of months. It is amazing to me that in times of stress and grief how our minds turn to food. My partner immediately picked…
One Skillet Tortellini & Sausage in Tomato Cream Sauce
Our family had a Snow Day yesterday. It was wonderful. We all needed that day to kind of put ourselves back together. Things have been so busy that everything was just a bit off and the forced down time let us put everything back in order. Now, if we could only find my son’s winter…
Chicken Cordon Bleu Lasagna
I think I can, I think I can…. I will make it through this month with my sanity intact. Last night was dance class. At least with Daylight Savings Time change it is still light out when we head out on our drive and soon it will be light on the way home too. That…
Slow Cooker Jambalaya
Most of my dinner photographs are pretty awful. I am not a photographer. This has to be one of the worst pictures I have ever posted. This was taken after dinner when I realized I forgot to take a picture and there was just a little bit of Jambalaya left in the bottom of the…
Pizza Pot Pie
This is one of those dinners that start out as one thing and ends up completely different from what you imagined. This month is incredibly busy so I am trying to make having dinner not add to the stress of our lives but rather enhance it. Our dinner time is the time we can sit…
What's for Dinner Moms? 