Easy Chicken Tacos – A Shared Recipe

I just love when you share a recipe with me!  I am always on the look out for tried-and-true recipes and when they come from friends and family that puts them right at the top of my list! My niece, Christina, sent this recipe through her Facebook page.  Here is what she has to say … Read more

Stay Cool With Melt-In-Your-Mouth Pot Roast

You may not think “pot roast” is a very exciting or blog-worthy recipe.  But when my sous-chef dish-washing mom came home from her visit in Kansas City earlier this month I wanted to greet her with some down home comfort food.  I was picking her up at the Nashville airport at 3:00 p.m. and would … Read more

Healthified Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole

One of my favorite new websites is www.livebetteramerica.com.  It is dedicated to Health, Food, Fitness, and Relationships.  The term healthified has been coined from the writers and I enjoy learning how to take an original recipe and healthify it by lowering the fat content, sometimes lower sodium and always lower calories. I started this casserole … Read more

Cheese Frenchee and A Walk Down Memory Lane

Nebraska cheese frenchee

If you were lucky enough to grow up in the Midwest in the 1960’s or 1970’s you just may have fallen in love with the Cheese Frenchee.  I was and I did.  Just the name evokes fond memories of sitting at the King’s Food Host in Scottsbluff, Nebraska or sometimes in Lincoln munching away on … Read more

Kale – Queen of the Greens!

If you haven’t eaten kale lately, it is time to jump on the bandwagon and join the health craze for kale!  Even though my southern-born and raised husband grew up eating collard greens and turnip greens, kale wasn’t cooked up in his granny’s kitchen.  But last year as he was fighting an iron deficiency we … Read more