This recipe is one that is very special to my family!  My mother has always been asked to bring this potato salad to family gatherings.  It is the absolute best and just the smell of it being prepared brings me back to my childhood.  It is DELICIOUS, but […]

     My sister made this the other day and it was out of this world delicious!  We adore fresh dill so this is going to be a staple in our house this summer!  Make sure you make it a day ahead so it has time to marinate!   Dill & Garlic Marinated Cucumber Salad […]

        We had this delicious salad for lunch this weekend, and loved it so much, I made it again and topped it with some marinated grilled chicken for dinner last night.  This salad really tastes like summer to me.  I am obsessed with clementines.  Don’t be afraid of the fresh jalapeno in […]

A lot of great things have happened since I started this blog.  I get to share my recipes with all of you, get to have a creative outlet, something that is ‘just for me’ which is so important being a stay at home mom, I also get to help support my family a little with […]

        I saw a version of this salad on Food Network one night and knew we had to try it ourselves!  What is not to love about a salad filled with gobs of ranch dressing, cheese, french fries and steak?  Seriously!  Even my salad hating hubby had seconds of this one!  Give […]

We were SO happy to usher in SPRING LIKE weather this weekend!  We had our very first picnic of the season.  This Cherry-Pecan Chicken Salad hit the spot!  It is addictive!  I love that it only has 5 ingredients and takes less than 5 minutes to throw together.   I made it the night before […]

Corn & Avocado Salad          I simply can NOT say enough good stuff about this salad!  In fact, what little was left over after dinner, I just finished off, scooping it up as a dip with tortilla chips!  It was my daughter’s first time trying avocado and she loved it as much as […]

Y’all, I have eaten this salad for lunch every day for the past week.  It is SO addictive.  It makes a fantastic starter to any ‘date night in’ dinner or you could throw some marinated grilled chicken over the top and call it a meal!  It’s got chunks of honey crisp apples, dried cherries, glazed […]

   So I am the crazy lady that heads to the grocery store with a meticulously itemized grocery list that coincides with the menu plan that I stick on my fridge every week.  I also happen to be a marketers dream that sees a new product and buys one in every flavor.  (by the way, […]

I am very fortunate that my daughter loves vegetables.  The only veggies she doesn’t like are lettuce and black olives.  Seeing as she eats anything else, I have zero problems with allowing lettuce and black olives to be ‘not her thing’.  Because of this, a lot of the time, we use spinach and/or kale as […]