My family LOVES Chinese food. If they are going to ask to go out to dinner 90% of the time they will ask to go out for Chinese food. I have decided to try to begin making more of it at home. It is cheaper, healthier and did I say cheaper? After searching through hundreds…
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Chili Cheese Frito Casserole
This dish was a part of a joke in my family. When anyone celebrates a 40th birthday party in my group of friends we celebrate by throwing them some outrageous “surprise” party. For one friend who is an English teacher we had bad grammar and spelling everywhere. Her cake read “Hapee Fourtieth Burfday.” Another friend…
Tilapia with Lemon Butter Sauce
I am trying to get my family to eat more fish. I keep seeing reports that we should eat fish 2-3 times a week. I can barely get them to eat it once a week. Even then it is usually met with “the face.” You know “the face” – the scrunchy nose, the pursed lips…
Country Pork Ribs over Smashed Potatoes
My kids LOVE ribs. I think they are second choice only to Chinese take-out if we tell them we are eating out. I have been working on cooking them over the last few months. The types of sauces, cooking methods and types of ribs are mind-boggling. I have just started trying a bit of this…
Crunchy Baked Tilapia
When I make fish for dinner it is usually Tilapia because it tends to be a milder fish and it is often on sale at our local grocery store. I can usually get a pound for less than $3.00. I usually have 2-3 lbs. in my freezer at any given time. It is my goal…
Crunchy Chicken Casserole
Well, I guess September is going to be a month of chicken and ground beef dinners. Just completed our monthly shop (yes, I only shop once a month except for fresh produce and dairy). This week the best sales were on ground beef and chicken so several packages of each were just frozen. I cooked…
Slow Cooker Cola Beef Roast
School starts in a week. I am one of those moms who hate to see her kids go back to school. It means the beginning of schedules and classes, homework and Fall. Sigh. Slowly I see my food changing over to fall comfort food as the weather begins to change. My slow cooker sits on…
Confetti Macaroni and Cheese
After a long weekend of being sick and not being able to tolerate any solids I am at least back to cooking. Not eating but cooking. This was a dish that my children helped create because we needed to get everything ready to go to dance class and I was trying to figure out how…
Dorito Tilapia
I needed a dinner within half an hour on the table. Standing in front of the open refrigerator and freezer (I now know where my children get it from) I finally gave in. I tried the Cheeze-It Chicken a week or so ago after seeing it on Pinterest. Now, the snack food fish. My son…
Pizza Lasagna
This has been a rough week. I am not motivated to cook or be creative at all. I am waiting to the last possible second to start dinners and I end up scrambling around to see what we have to make. I am thankful for my list of monthly meals to choose from but sometimes,…
Easy Beef and Broccoli
My son had a friend over for dinner who, to say the least, is a VERY picky eater. I decided to treat him like one of my own children and just make dinner as usual. He told me he didn’t like steak or broccoli when I served this but, he asked for seconds. This was…
Sweet and Sour Ham
My kids go back to school the day after Labor Day. We are trying to take advantage of every minute we can at the beach and playgrounds. So, that means we often don’t even think about dinner until 8:00 pm or later. I tell my children we eat like Europeans. This was one of those…
What's for Dinner Moms? 