Something special from Mandy's kitchen...
I adapted this recipe from a Whole 30 paleo cookbook I had received as a gift years ago. My version isn’t quite paleo because I use organic frozen mixed vegetables, which include peas, corn, and green beans, but the original recipe calls for just diced …
I make an awesome coffee spice rub that I use to season almost every cut of red meat we throw on the grill. Whether it be a ribeye, skirt steak, London broil, New York strip, flat iron, you name it, my homemade spice rub gets …
When I first met my husband, I was exposed to true, authentic Thai food. I’d had Thai food plenty of times before from restaurants, but what my family had considered “really good Thai food” was essentially just an Americanized disgrace to the Thai culture. My …
When I was in elementary school I remember my brother coming home one day from an afternoon at his friends house and telling us about this “hamburger helper” dish his friend’s mom had made them for lunch. He simply raved about it and insisted my …
Mama’s meatloaf sounds like a hand-written family heirloom recipe passed down through generations; a tattered, sacred, grease-splattered note with words written in such fine cursive it’s almost impossible to read. Well, I’d like to tell you that were true here, but in this case, I’m …
My family loves Mexican-inspired food, and you know me, I’m all about simple and slow-cooking. These pork carnitas are another simple meal for Mama to prepare that fills the house with delicious aromas and makes for excellent leftovers that can be reinvented throughout the week. …
It’s been a really long time since I posted anything…..like over three years a long time. Sorry for my absence! I had another baby, my sweet baby girl, and now I am pregnant again with twins! Life has been busy in the most wonderful and …
Yep, we jumped on the Instant Pot bandwagon and have been loving every minute of it! Hubby got me an Instant Pot for Christmas and I have used it almost every day since. Of course, not knowing Hubby bought me one, I had coincidentally bought …
In the mood for something a little different? Something a little exotic, but yet still somewhat familiar to your taste buds? How about kofta? Kofta is essentially ground meat, typically lamb, but in this case I used beef, that is well seasoned with aromatic spices and …