Making homemade turkey stock is relatively simple after your Thanksgiving Feast. Homemade turkey stock is so worth the effort! Pin this recipe for How to Make Turkey Stock to Pinterest! Homemade Turkey Stock Recipe So, you’ve spent the last couple of weeks planning and preparing for Thanksgiving, and now it is almost time to enjoy …

This recipe for Honey Roasted Carrots with Balsamic is a super simple way to make oven roasted carrots with lots of flavor! Keeping the carrots whole gives this side dish of whole roasted carrots a great presentation on the table! Learn all you need to know about how to roast carrots. Click HERE to save …

Vegetable Beef and Noodle Soup is a comforting soup recipe for cold winter evenings! This soup recipe is loaded with veggies, tender bites of beef, and egg noodles for a delicious winter soup! Click HERE to save this recipe for Vegetable Beef and Noodle Soup to Pinterest! We had some seriously cold weather last week. …

Chicken Pot Pie with Buttermilk Biscuit Crust is comfort food and it’s finest! Creamy chicken filling is topped with tender buttermilk biscuits. Come learn how to make chicken pot pie, how to make a vegetarian pot pie (if you don’t consume meat, I have plenty of suggestions for substitutes!), and how to freeze chicken pot …

This Banh Mi Lettuce Wrap Recipe is a healthier, low-carb, gluten-free version of the classic Banh Mi Sandwich Recipe. Seared Banh Mi Pork is served in lettuce leaves with plenty of Vietnamese Pickled Veggies and Cilantro Rice for a light and refreshing meal. This can easily be adapted to be a Pork-Free or Vegetarian Banh …

This Oven Baked Glazed Corned Beef is a fun take on the traditional St. Patrick’s Day meal. Rather than stewing in the CrockPot all day, the homemade corned beef is braised with plenty of seasonings before broiling in the oven with a delicious honey marmalade mustard glaze. Save this recipe for Homemade Glazed Corned Beef …

Dinner just got super quick and easy thanks to this fall sheet pan meal featuring roasted pork, carrots, golden beets, red onion, Brussels Sprouts, and parsnips. This recipe for Fall Sheet Pan Pork Tenderloin with Honey Balsamic Roasted Vegetables was created in partnership with Smithfield. Click HERE to save this recipe for Fall Sheet Pan Pork Tenderloin with …

Roasted butternut squash and garlic are pureed with onion, carrot, broth, and half and half for a silky smooth, creamy, savory Roasted Butternut Squash Soup. Top it with bacon and sage for perfection. Thanks to all the cool weather and rain we’ve been having, I totally got in the mood for big bowls of steaming …

I’ve partnered with Bob’s Red Mill to share a recipe using quinoa that supports heathy eating goals for 2017. Rainbow Winter Quinoa Bowls with Maple Dijon Balsamic Dressing features lots of delicious winter produce and hearty Organic Tricolor Quinoa for a filling, satisfying meal. I have been eating a lot of different salads for lunch …

Not sure what to do with a ham bone? This Slow Cooker Ham Soup with Potatoes and Kale is both easy to prepare and flavorful, thanks to the use of a slow cooker and the rich flavor that a leftover ham bone imparts. Save this recipe for Slow Cooker Ham Soup to Pinterest! Creating This Ham Soup …

This recipe for Cheesy Broccoli Soup with Kale & Carrot is incredibly simple to whip up for dinner on a busy weeknight and the perfect way to warm up on a cold winter evening. Cheesy Broccoli Soup Recipe Did you know that January is National Soup Month? That’s pretty perfect timing, because there is nothing …

This Italian Sausage Soup with Orzo is a great clean out the fridge recipe! It’s packed with veggies, Italian sausage, orzo, and more! Italian Sausage Soup with Orzo I think we’ve officially crossed the line into fall here in Colorado. We’ve had plenty of cooler days, changing leaves, and pumpkin patch visits, but just as many warm, …

Summer or not, soup – Chicken Noodle Soup to be exact – is always the perfect go-to for the nasty cold. This Kale and Broccoli Chicken Tortellini Soup is the perfect twist on the classic soup, and you’ll still be on your way to feeling better in no time, no matter the time of year! …

Slow Cooker Italian Chicken and Noodles is a simple, hearty, comforting recipe for cold evenings. For some reason I always forget to use my slow cooker. I don’t know why, because every time I remember that it is an option and I actually use it I realize all over again what an amazing kitchen appliance …

Pancakes are one of our favorite breakfast menu items and I happen to really love these Carrot Cake Pancakes with White Chocolate Pecan Butter. Breakfast has become a pretty big deal in our house. I usually never go to bed without a plan for the next day’s breakfast. Besides the fact that I’m the one to …

This recipe for Turkey Noodle Vegetable Soup is the perfect way to use up leftover Thanksgiving turkey. This updated version of the classic Turkey Soup is loaded with vegetables (onion, carrot, celery, red peppers, and green beans), rotini pasta and plenty of flavor thanks to fresh thyme and parmesan. It is best if you use your own …

This month’s theme with Kitchen Play, a virtual progressive dinner among bloggers and brands, is potatoes. I was asked to create an original main dish recipe that utilized 2 types of potatoes. Remember the other week when I teased you about a Biscuit Topped Beef and Vegetable Pot Pie recipe when I shared my Rosemary …

We had a slight break from snow and cold here the past two weeks. It seems Mother Nature was a tad bit confused and sent up temps in the mid-50’s. No complaints from me! But I think things are cooling off again. We had a few snow flurries yesterday afternoon and I feel a bit …

We’ve had a cold front come through here in the last week so I am in full on soup mode for our evening meals. I love a big bowl of soup on cold nights, even more so now that it’s dark at 5 pm – not my favorite thing about this time of year. Homemade …

I have had this recipe for Sesame Noodles bookmarked for a few weeks now. They looked so fresh and easy, great for a school night dinner when our schedules are a bit more rushed. I finally got around to making it last week, which was timely because I had a bottle of Nakano Red Pepper …

Black beans, sweet potatoes, fire roasted salsa, and poblanos pair with black beans in this hearty, easy meatless Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili. Click HERE to save this recipe for Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili! Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili Recipe I’m tempted to call this “Emergency Black Bean Chili” because we definitely had an “emergency” …

One of the best ways I’ve found to introduce new foods to my picky eater is by incorporating the new food into something we both know he already likes. In this case: muffins. A few of our successful experiments have been: Brown Sugar Pear Muffins, Zucchini Apple Spice Muffins, and Apple Banana Muffins. Head over …

It’s so easy to forget about the foods that don’t look like much, even though they can taste really, really good. Like hit-the-spot kind of good. The kind of good that has you going back for seconds even though you’re already comfortably full. I t’d have to say that lentils are one of those foods. …

Beefy Borscht is a traditional Russian soup with beets. One of Eric’s favorite soups to eat is this recipe for Beefy Borscht. He first introduced me to this recipe when we were dating. I’ll admit that I was skeptical of the beets. At this point in my life, I think I had only had beets …