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 …
This is another recipe adapted from my father-in-law. He makes the absolute best fried rice, but it is not gluten free and it also contains eggs, so unfortunately I never get to enjoy it when he makes it. It’s requested at all family gatherings, whether …
I love lasagna. In fact, I posted a vegan-gluten free recipe on my web site several years ago made with almond milk ricotta cheese and lentil lasagna noodles that was absolutely delicious! Check out that recipe here! But for those of you who can enjoy …
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 …
As I mentioned in a previous post, we’ve had two breakfast staples in our house as of late: baked oatmeal and homemade muffins. Depending on what ingredients we have on hand, we make one or the other, and we change our muffin variety all the …
Another staple in my house: noodles with meat sauce. I used to make meatballs with pasta for my kids, but I found myself just chopping up the meatballs into tiny, bite-sized pieces for their tiny little mouths anyway, so to save myself the hassle, noodles …
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 …
Baked pasta dishes are some of those classic comfort foods I grew up with. Mom-mom’s lasagna and Grandpa’s baked ziti were holiday staples. Cheesy, ooey, goodness! In fact, lasagna is a Christmas Eve tradition in our family. Mom-mom always makes three or four trays of …
When I was a little girl, one of my favorite meals my dad would make for us was his chicken and dumplings. All the creamy, inner goodness of a chicken pot pie baked either in a glass dish or his famous deep cast-iron pan, topped …
I absolutely love oatmeal. I went through a phase a few years ago where I ate oatmeal for breakfast every morning, Monday through Sunday, all seasons of the year. No matter how hot it was in the summer time, it was oatmeal for breakfast. And …