A few weeks ago I asked my almost-3 year old, Rebecca, what kind of cupcakes she wanted for her birthday party. She looked thoughtful for a moment then said “Keira [her friend at daycare] had white cake at her birthday party. I think I want chocolate peanut butter cupcakes”. I...
As much as I love to cook, its sometimes nice when Brian takes over the cooking for the evening. Even better, when he makes some as fantastic as this chili! I love finding great crockpot and freezer-friendly recipes. This is also one of those foods that gets even better after...
Brian and I are often in need of fast but tasty dinner options. What with 2 kids, jobs, and long commutes each day we unfortunately don’t often have time in the evenings to make the time-consuming but awesome dinners I’d like to prepare. Thankfully these sloppy joes are both delicious...
I have fond sherbert memories from childhood. What? Most people don’t have food memories? Oh honey, I do. I’ve always loved food (perhaps a bit too much? Hello, gym membership!) But the sherbert from my childhood was always that stuff that came for $2 in the little plastic container and was...
Tacos are one of the few things our family could eat once a week, every single week and never get tired of. In fact, we do eat them pretty much every week. All this time I’ve been buying those little seasoning packets, and using double the seasoning amounts because they were...
Every morning I wake up thinking “Boy, do I need my coffee and spinach”. What? You don’t? That’s ok, neither do I. You don’t normally equate spinach with breakfast, right? Well NOW I do! I’ve been reading about these “Green Monster” smoothies for a few months now and my reaction...
Hi there, friends! Just a quite note for you. You might notice if you are coming here via http://laurasrecipecollection.wordpress that I’ve been redirected! I’m officially on my own domain: www.laurasrecipecollection.com! You should still be able to reach me via the old address, but just in case, you can update your google...
While flipping through yet another of my library copies of Ina Garten’s cookbooks, I came across this recipe for beef filet and gorgonzola sauce and thought “wow, that looks good”. But we very rarely buy beef steaks. Rarely as in never. I don’t think I’ve ever once made a steak...
Ingredients:9 medium potatoes, cut into chunks2 medium onions, coarsely chopped4 stalks of celery, diced1 t. salt½ C (1 stick) buttermilk, to taste (for thickness)pepper, to tastesour cream and cheese for garnish, if desired Directions:Cut the potato into chunks, dice the celery and the onion. Place everything in a large stock pot...