It is the middle of the week already! I cannot believe it. On Monday night I was feeling an urge to bake. Cooking Junior is all about helping me bake and I love it. We tackled a new biscuit version. We opted to switch out the normal inclusion of shortening for the biscuit and opted [...]
I love any cookies that have molasses in them and these soft, chewy ginger cookies are no exception! I don’t know what my issues have been as of late but I feel I am hooked on SWEETS. It is crazy and normally I am just hooked on potato chips, french fries and double cheese burgers. [...]
Happy Hump Day Cooking Readers! This is Danica from Danica’s Daily and I am sharing a little fall with ya’all in my Pumpkin Nut Bread Recipe today. This recipe is loaded with pumpkin, protein, sweetr berry goodness and a little nutty crunch. I originally developed this recipe when I was doing the Body For Life [...]
Good morning. A slightly different twist than my traditional post today. I wanted to talk to you about the power of the hen and the high quality food source called the “EGG”. Now I often don’t go on rants about health and protein balanced meals and if you saw my physique in full form you [...]
Ever just go off the wall and try to create a different side dish that you never tried before? Enter spinach and cabbage saute. I was unsure what this would turn out like but was willing to give it a whirl as cabbage was on special and I had some spinach to use up before [...]
Happy Wednesday! Check out these individually topped beef nachos with guacamole, sour cream, green onion, tomato some strip loin beef and a little old cheddar cheese. WOW as I type that I remember eating this plate of nachos and loving every bite. Pretty simple to make with just a little tedious action of topping each [...]
Happy Canada Thanksgiving! Ever have a lot of leftover vegetables from the night before and you are unsure what to do with them? Happens from time to time and I usually create a vegetable hash, veggie cakes or a vegetable puree but today I wanted to share something slightly different. Although this concoction is similar [...]
Happy Friday! When this recipe started out – I was planning on preparing roasted turkey with a cranberry glaze as a tester recipe for Thanksgiving. About mid way through after I had started roasting the turkey legs, I switched gears as I roamed through the pantry. I noticed a bag of lentils calling my name [...]
I cannot really believe I wrote that as a title and actually prepared this dish with these ingredients. part of me thinks it is genius and the other part of me thinks that maybe I just ruined a perfectly healthy vegetable and moved it to the dark side. Either way – these sweet potatoes were [...]