I LOVE a good #easyfancy meal and this roasted pork loin and sweet potatoes with apple jus is just that!! This meal is great reheated, making it an excellent leftovers-for-lunch option! Plus it’s gluten free, nut free, poultry free, legume free and while not categories I usually write about - it’s also egg and dairy free, in case that matters to you!!
Read MoreDoesn’t the taste of pineapple just transport you to somewhere warmer?? Well it does for me, anyway! Growing up, my mom would bake this pineapple chicken dish every once in a while and it was a favorite for everyone in the house! Darrell is allergic to poultry so I don’t cook mom’s pineapple chicken for us but we recently started experimenting with shrimp and pineapple!
Read MoreY’all already know risotto is our favorite. We love how you can dress it up or keep it simple and therefore we love trying to new risotto recipes any chance we get. One of our new favorites is a red wine + goat cheese take on this Italian comfort food. I love trying different cheeses in risotto and I wasn’t sure if goat cheese would really “work” in this dish but IT DOES!! And if you’re not a huge fan of goat cheese, I think you’d probably still like this risotto because it’s not in your face with the goat cheese flavor!
Read MoreSo this spaghetti squash with meatballs... IT WAS DELICIOUS! I can't wait to cook it again! I'm not sure why I had been so hesitant to try this meal when I've heard such great things from friends. But last week, Darrell and I decided to try three new recipes for our dinners over the three-day weekend.
Read MoreThere's something about a cozy weekend day spent at home with no real plans. Growing up, these were the kind of days when dad most often seemed to get a hankering to cook. This usually meant one of two things, a hodge podge dinner of foods dad liked (soup beans, hoecakes [fried cornbread] and macaroni salad [...? haha]), goulash (which I despised), meatloaf (revered as dad's specialty and a family favorite), or chili.
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