Can I just start by saying that this is like THE definition of comfort food? Noodles smothered in a creamy, flavorful sauce loaded up with tender ground beef, mushrooms, onion, and garlic. It's just GOOD - that's the best way to describe it. Just straight up good food. Beef stroganoff is one of those cafeteria slash frozen food classics that you always seem to see. I'm talking the overcooked ...
Summer Fresh Corn and Zucchini Chowder
Alright, year-round soup lovers, this one's for you! The only thing "wintery" about this soup is the fact that it's soup...everything else screams summery goodness! The super fresh corn and zucchini particularly. The sweet pop of that fresh corn...you can't beat it! Frozen corn is a great substitute in those cold months when fresh isn't available, but the difference between fresh corn and frozen ...
Crock Pot White Chicken Chili
My dearest Crock Pot, I am grasping onto you for the remaining few weeks that it is acceptable to use you! Soon, warmer weather will be knocking on my front door, and I will welcome it with EXTREMELY open arms, but I will store you away, my Crock Pot friend, until next fall with sadness. One of the very few sad points about winter ending. Emphasis on FEW. I am sooooo ready for winter to be ...
Buffalo Chicken Lasagna
Oh my gash it's been yeaarrrssss. Maybe not years, but it definitely feels like it's been forever since I've talked to you! My week and a half of no blogging for our trip to Mexico and our move morphed into two and a half weeks. Yikes. I'll explain later....but first... BUFFALO CHICKEN ????. Yes please forever. I am a tad bit obsessed with buffalo chicken anything...as you can probably tell ...
30 Minute One Pot Hamburger Helper
Do you have any meals that you used to eat growing up that, despite their unhealthy and processed-ness (?), you love because they're nostalgic? Or even if it's not nostalgia, you like eating them now because you never were allowed to eat them when you were a kid? My parents were pretty healthy people, so we NEVER had sugary cereals, bags of chips, or lunchables laying around our house. And of ...
Loaded 21 Day Fix Pizza
Pizza and sushi. The two best foods that have ever existed in the world of food. If you don't like sushi, I can forgive you. Sushi can be a little bit funky, and there are some interesting textures goin' on in there with the raw fish. But pizza? Evveerryyone loves pizza. If you don't love pizza, then I don't love you. Just kidding. I still love you. Just a little bit less, pizza hater. So ...
Blackened Tilapia with Cucumber Avocado Salsa [21 Day Fix]
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WHEW this has been a crazy several days! I have been trying to find a spare minute to cook, photograph, and post all week. I ended up having to use artificial light for these pictures because I kept getting home after dark, and I am writing this at 9:45 pm! Like I said...cray cray week. Craaaaaay. Okay so before I start going on and on about this DELICIOUS recipe, I need to talk about the next ...
30 Minute Brown Butter Sage Gnocchi with Spinach and Pine Nuts
Gnocchi...Gnocchi, gnocchi, gnocchi. You are so tender and potato-y and delicious. Have you ever had gnocchi before? If you haven't, YOU ARE MISSING OUT, PEOPLE! They are iiiiitttyyy bitty, tiny, cute, adorable little potato dumplings...they sound kind of weird, but they are soft and pillowy and taste like a mix between pasta and a dumpling. That might be a horrible description, but we're goin' ...
Baked Chicken with Tomato Cream Sauce and Capers
Mmmm flavas. So many flavas. Perfectly seasoned, juicy chicken; tangy, rich, creamy tomato sauce; salty, bright capers. So much yumminess. You know what's awesome?? Baking chicken. You would really think that someone who is as obsessed with cooking as I am would have discovered this awesome technique earlier in life, but NO. I have baked whole chickens before, but never just chicken breasts. ...
Easy Crock-Pot BBQ Chicken
Staaahhhppp I'm in love. So obsessed with this chicken. This is seriously the EASIEST recipe ever, yet it yields probably the most flavorful and moist chicken I have ever eaten in my life. Again...I'm obsessed. You know how sometimes when you cook just meat (rather than soups/stews/etc...) in a Crock-Pot, it turns out pretty dry? Tender, yes - but also dry! It makes me sad when this happens. ...