When the weather turns cold, I love to make soups, stews, and … chili. Chili is one of my favorite cold-weather dishes to make. This dish is super flexible, so you can go with what you have on hand. You can create a myriad of dishes with the leftovers, too, if it lasts that long… Continue reading Instant Pot Game Day Chili
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One-Pot Ground Beef Stroganoff
I love when my family makes dinner requests! It’s not that I don’t like cooking, but sometimes I get tired of trying to figure out what to make. When they’ll tell me what they’re hungry for, it’s much simpler – and then I’m sure that everyone will like it! That’s one reason I like this… Continue reading One-Pot Ground Beef Stroganoff
The Secret Chefs: Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
The Secret Chefs, the teenage members of a cooking club dedicated to learning new cooking techniques and then blogging about them, has released another recipe! This month they learned several new skills, including : how to use a food processor and how to make a roux. Both of these skills are important in the recipe… Continue reading The Secret Chefs: Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
How to Hard Cook an Egg – a Secret Chefs Post
Earlier in the week I shared how reading the story Secrets and Scones by Laurel Remington for book club sparked an interest in cooking and blogging amongst the girls – so much so that we started a separate club just for this at virtually the same time. Four of the girls chose to come over… Continue reading How to Hard Cook an Egg – a Secret Chefs Post
“The Essential Amish Cookbook” by Lovina Eicher
Taste the goodness of Amish life. Bestselling cookbook author and food columnist Lovina Eicher brings together the best of Amish cooking in The Essential Amish Cookbook: Everyday Recipes from Farm and Pantry. Join Eicher as she shares traditional Amish recipes along with her own kitchen tips and secrets. Growing up, Eicher learned to cook and… Continue reading “The Essential Amish Cookbook” by Lovina Eicher
Easy Strawberry-Cheese Danish
I’ve loved breakfast pastries for years, and especially cheese Danish. Although I don’t remember ever eating the cream-cheese variety until an adult, they fascinated me immediately. I enjoy the sweet, rich cream inside flaky, buttery dough, and I’ve always wanted to try to bake it. I didn’t, though. It seemed quite intimidating, and while I’ve… Continue reading Easy Strawberry-Cheese Danish
Creamy Wild Rice Soup
I was a super picky eater as a kid. I didn’t like anything that had multiple types of ingredients. I was rather happy about having eating patterns that resembled my great-grandfather’s, and we happily avoided things like vegetable soup. Then I went to college. While it was still very possible to eat well with my… Continue reading Creamy Wild Rice Soup
Easy Chicken Chili
I love finding easy recipes, and ones that we all like are even better. My kids like this Easy Chicken Chili so much that they fight over who makes it – and I love any recipe that makes that happen! If you’re really in a hurry, you can use prepackaged ingredients that, while still whole,… Continue reading Easy Chicken Chili
Easy Cheesy Spanish Rice
I love being able to help people out, so when someone asked for our Easy, Cheesy Spanish Rice recipe, I excitedly said, “Sure!” My kids love this rice. They cheer every time I make it and fight over the leftovers – of which there’s never much. It’s easy to throw together, full of flavor, and… Continue reading Easy Cheesy Spanish Rice
Grandma’s Whoopie Pies
I hear it’s long been a debate between Pennsylvania and Maine bakers as to who first created the whoopie pie. My great-aunt even joined the fun and always told the story of one of her ancestors naming the treat at their family store; in my hometown they’re usually considered an Amish thing, but that doesn’t… Continue reading Grandma’s Whoopie Pies
