Something special from Mandy's kitchen...
Who doesn’t love apple sauce? There’s an acceptable childish feel to it; it’s just so basic and delicious and comforting. In my opinion, apple sauce should be completely unadulterated. Nothing needs to be added. Even if you start off with apples that are less than …
Food is a love language in our family and always has been. My grandmother, Mom-mom we call her, and I love sharing recipes with each other. Whether it’s new recipes we read about in a magazine or an email, or even a recent discovery in …
Last summer we grew carrots for the first time, and as first time “real” gardeners, we actually reaped a pretty decent harvest! We grew an excellent crop of carrots with huge, bushy green tops! What a magnificent joy it was to see these wispy carrot …
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 …
We do wings a lot around here. Whenever organic chicken wings or organic chicken drumsticks are on sale, as they happened to be at Whole Foods this week, I grab a bunch to store in the freezer. Sometimes I prefer the buying just drumsticks because …
I am always on the hunt for more clean vegan yogurts. Unfortunately, many of the ones I find on the shelves at the grocery store are full of sugar, natural flavors, gums, thickeners, oils, and other unwanted ingredients. And almost all of these yogurts have …
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 …
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 …
My grandmother makes the best pumpkin pie. Her scratch-made pie dough is the perfect flaky crust for her creamy, sweet, and wintery spiced custard. And she bakes her famous pie in a well-seasoned, weathered, almost cracked ceramic pie dish that actually has a pumpkin pie …