Recipes

Homemade Coconut Pecan Granola Have you ever been to the store and seen the teeny tiny boxes of your favorite crunchy granola? Why so small? With my crew of seven, homemade granola is the only option, else I’d go broke keeping up with our granola consumption. Plus, homemade …

Skinny Scallop Alfredo I love scallops, but since we have been trying to eat a little healthier around the McCarthy house lately, I’m sometimes a little adventurous when trying to cut calories and fat. My latest craze is substituting Greek yogurt for sour cream, dressings, …

Grilled Mexican Chipotle Pizza To celebrate father’s day a little early, I decided to combine a few of my husband’s favorites including grilled pizza and spicy Mexican food. As with many of my recipes, I decided to twist the two and make a spicy grilled …

Chicken Cordon Bleu Lasagna Rolls Before I created these chicken cordon bleu lasagna rolls, I had only eaten the traditional version; which is flattened or butterflied chicken breast rolled with inner layers of meat and cheese. The traditional dish is either fried or baked with …

Ginger Pear Sorbet We buy a lot of fruit. Most of the time it gets consumed. Other times I pick it up and begin leering at it, wondering if it’s aged so much that it is going to sprout a limb or two …or possibly …

Shredded Potato Salad Let us be honest with each other, there are probably three million potato salad recipes floating about, but I couldn’t care less about any of them. A bold statement for someone who just wrote a shredded potato salad recipe and brought you …

Easy Fudge Brownies If there is one thing that gets requested more than any other dessert in my house, it’s fudge brownies. Whether it’s this version with normal cocoa powder or the dark chocolate version they are always gone quickly. I indulge too…that’s why they are cut …

Thai Noodles with Peanut Sauce If you follow the blog regularly, it will not take long for you to recognize that I love all kinds of food. My two youngest children have developed a nagging obsession with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Today, I took …

Baked Apple Pie Smoothie The Baked Apple Pie Smoothie started on the night of Mother’s Day Eve (that’s a holiday too right?). My husband and eldest son requested that I make brownies for our get-together. Typically, I oblige, but this one time I said no.  …

Shrimp Rangoon I looked up the history of the crab rangoon and was surprised in my five minutes of research to find that the “Rangoon” (notice it’s capitalized), is from the city Yangon, also called Rangoon. It’s the former capital of Burma, which is now …