Creamy Italian Sausage Skillet Dinner and A WDW Invitation

Things have been hectic around our house.  Now, they are about to get a bit more crazy.  On Friday, I received an invitation to attend the Disney Social Media Moms Conference in Walt Disney World!  I am over the moon excited.  I never thought I would see that email.  I was hoping to use this…

Italian Sausage Patty Melt

The “Winter Blues” have definitely taken over.  I hate being cold.  The perfect temperature for me is between 67 and 72 outside.  The -4 degree temperatures are awful! I don’t like snow, other than at Christmas.  Even two weeks in Florida did not help as we came back to record cold temperatures. So, the desire…

Spaghetti Pizza Casserole

Busy, busy time of year.  That means I have to be on top of my dinner plans or we will be eating take-out or going to restaurants.  Not, the money I want to be spending this time of year.  Also, I need to have quick easy dinners I can make ahead, put in a slow…

Slow Cooker Zuppa Toscana

As the weather continues to get colder I am looking for more uses for my slow cooker and rich, hearty soups.  My family loves hot, meaty soups with loaves of fresh bread or garlic bread for dipping.  There is something about those meals makes us all feel warm and toasty inside. As I was browsing…

Spicy One Pot Sausage Soup

I needed a quick dish for dinner last night.  I didn’t even start cooking until 6:00 pm.  I had one pound of Italian sausage thawed in the refrigerator and needed to come up with something easy that would be on the table within half an hour.  Sausage soup! Verdict: This dish had tons of flavor,…

Three Meat Pizza with Herbed Crust

There are nights I hate making dinner.  I don’t want to do it and I delay it as long as possible because I don’t even want to think about it.  I am even slowly teaching my kids to cook with the hope that they can take over a couple nights a week.  Tonight they both…

Italian Sausage Lasagna Casserole

I tried to get this post finished on Friday before we left for the Detroit Feis.  I didn’t make it.   Between picking my daughter up at a slumber party, physical therapy for her, a grocery store run and bagging all the food before we left at 1:00 pm I didn’t quite make my deadline to…

Sausage Hash Casserole

Two more nights until vacation.  Two more meals to try to create from my quickly dwindling pantry and refrigerator supplies.   We are surprising our son with the vacation so every time he asks, “Why don’t you just go to the store and get x or y?”  I have to tell him that it’s not pay…

Pork en Croute

I wish I had a better picture of the pork en croute than this one but it all kind of fell apart as soon as I started cutting into it and it really wasn’t that beautiful to begin with. I knew I wanted something different for Thanksgiving dinner this year so I began searching Pinterest…

Three Meat Pizza

Life happens to all of us.  It takes our best plans and turns them inside out and upside down.  How do I keep us from eating out when days like this happen?  By planning ahead.  Really. I keep a stock of pre-made pizza crusts in the cupboard or the freezer, I have 2-3 packages of…

Ravioli Casserole

Time seems to be slipping away lately.  I need to stretch the 24 hour days into 30.  But, since I don’t think that is going to happen I need to work smarter not harder. So, to that this uses frozen ravioli with a homemade sauce.  Yes, you can used jarred sauce or whatever you like…

Italian Sausage Skillet Dinner

This is another one of those recipes that I started with what I could find on-line and then ventured off into unknown territory as I was missing some of the ingredients in the original recipe from Pillsbury.com for Skillet Lasagna. This was again a dinner for my family to eat on-the-go.  It traveled well although…