when a few minutes is all you have
I still can’t believe my mom wouldn’t let me go. I was 16 and all my friends were getting these amazing make overs. Their mothers would take them to the mall, they’d have their hair and make up done and then their glamour shot session would begin. After a few days, (remember it was an [...]
When people ask how it’s possible to get dinner prepped in 10 minutes, they always assume that meals must come from a quick fix solution like boxed meals or canned food. While I definitely will use canned items in some of my recipes, like our favorite Dump and Run Taco Soup, there are many other [...]
Please raise your hand if your children continually bypass the last third of a bag of tortilla chips for the fresh bag? What’s with that? Is there something inherently wrong with chips at the bottom of the bag? Obviously, my children think so because last week I found FOUR, yes, I’m admitting this knowing full [...]
With five children, four of them teenagers (3 big boys), feeding this crew dinner, and actually filling their bellies so they aren’t reaching for a cereal bowl at 10pm, is a full time job. Rarely does it work (the not reaching for cereal part), so I have kind of given up on that, but one [...]
The phone rings at 5:00 and it’s your husband informing you that his sales team is coming home for dinner. They are in town for this last evening, and this is the only opening they have available. Your mouth starts foaming, your hands sweat profusely, and the thought of getting the house in order, let [...]
There are times when I bite into a new recipe and I just exclaim, “Wow.” Rarely do I hear “ooh and ahhs” from our children on something that is 100% healthy and delicious. Well, with this Citrus Herb Chicken, it was a bit more than that. Out of my full mouth came something like, “Oh [...]
