Well, I mentioned in my February goals that I want to work on re-discovering my love for fruits and vegetables and cut refined sugars and meat for a week. In actuality, I already started this plan (but it still qualifies for a goal, cause my week wasn’t over yet). The plan was to cut the […]
Tired of soups yet? Santa Fe Pork Chili
Too bad. Here’s another soup coming at you from our wonderful cooking demonstration. And, since it’s our blog, we can post whatever we want. =) But, even so – we hope you are still yearning for more soup recipes to keep you warm. This Santa Fe Pork Chili is HOTTTTT (with five Ts hot). That […]
Spaghetti in a soup
I’ve become a soupaholic lately. How can I not be? It was negative 20 degrees outside last week – BEFORE WIND CHILL. What in the world is going on? When the world is crazy (and cold), people need soup. So, I thought we’d try out a recipe from the cooking demonstration – Spaghetti Soup. Essentially, […]
Weekend Update
Well, this weekend was less than eventful. Since I worked on Saturday, it made the weekend quite short. My goals of a home project and cleaning were put off when I started feeling under the weather. Seriously… I don’t have time to be ill. And, I’m not a nice sick person. Maybe it’s karma since […]
Enchiladas at home
Ryan and I love Mexican food. Unfortunately, I have not been able to accurately recreate the yummy-ness at home…. until now. I decided to try to make enchiladas, which is Ryan’s favorite. They turned out really well and they made a TON of food. I only used 2 chicken breasts and they made eight enchiladas. […]
Best-Ever Pork Chop Marinade
I don’t know that I can fairly call this a new “recipe” – but it was new to us and quite delicious. We don’t make pork chops very often. We stick to chicken and beef almost exclusively. I have a deeply-rooted disgust for bacon and ham, so perhaps pork chops also get the shaft because […]



