A Slice of Life
Rotisserie Chicken Salad This rotisserie chicken salad recipe takes five minutes to make and stays in the fridge for 3-4 days. Sometimes, I even use those rotisserie chickens you can pick up pre-cooked at the grocery store. I specifically remember one day during a joint-family …
Italian Sloppy Joe Sliders Recipe Highlights Being short on time, I needed to make something for dinner that both pleased my football fans and wouldn’t drive me crazy to put together in a short time. Italian Sloppy Joe Sliders. Imagine traditional sloppy joe sandwiches, but …
Crispy Orange Chicken This version of crispy orange chicken involves crunchy chicken pieces drowning in sweet orange sauce that is balanced with the perfect amount of heat from chili peppers. I exaggerate. The chicken isn’t exactly drowning, it’s more of a smothering or heavy-handed drizzle. …
Homemade Pizza Sauce During the summer, we like to cook our pizza on the grill. This pizza sauce has a kick, so if that’s not your thing, you can tone down this recipe a notch by reducing the pepper (either the crushed red or the …
Chile Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies Spicy chocolate cookies aren’t for everyone…like small children. If you don’t want to share with them or would like to teach your kids to keep their hands out of the cookie jar, these Chile mocha chocolate chip cookies are the …
BBQ Baked Potato BBQ baked potato is a staple on game day in our house. Football games on Sundays have become a new tradition, along with the appetizers which go along with it. It must be the powerful seasonings with which each potato is rubbed …
Sausage-Stuffed Pattypan Squash Last week, I was set on taking my entire family to the local farmers’ market. We decide to go to the one in Pendleton, Indiana, which wasn’t very big, but we still ended up leaving with our hands full. One of my …
Caramel Pumpkin Rice Crispy Treats With the holiday season rolling around the corner, what better way to show your holiday spirit than to create these easy and budget-friendly Caramel Pumpkin Rice Crispy Treats. They’re great to pass out at parties as a parting gift or …
Pumpkin Cream Filling This pumpkin cream filling recipe originated in 2010. Being the frugal wench I am, I decided I was going to make our pumpkin wedding cake with pumpkin cream filling rather than pay a half grand or so to have it made by …
Chicken Divan with Broccoli Chicken Divan. Here is your chance to feel empathy; I’d never heard of chicken divan until I was in my mid-twenties. It’s a well-known, American dish made by households regularly. Being an American myself, I suppose my lack of knowledge about …