Ina Garten’s Minestrone 🍴 What’s For Dinner Wednesday
We’re off to Mexico for fall break today, and we’re driving which will no doubt completely freak out anyone who is not from Arizona (and more than a few who are). I have never made this trek as I’ve...
View ArticleEnchiladas Two Ways 🍴 What’s For Dinner Wednesday
One of the blogs I love most is Aesthetic Nest. Anneliese has such a beautiful, gentle, gracious way with everything she does (whereas I feel lumbering and clumsy most of the time). With three girls...
View ArticlePumpkin Chili with Sausage and Peppers 🍴 What’s For Dinner Wednesday – and...
There’s finally a chill in the air, I’ve finally got my Halloween ducks in a row (Medium’s Chuck Norris trucker hat better come in today’s mail!), and we’re finally carving our pumpkins tonight. This...
View ArticleChicken Tortilla Skillet 🍴 What’s For Dinner Wednesday – and GIVEAWAY!
We’re into the final week of soccer and have had gale-force winds for the last two days – fall is fallin’, even in the desert! Good grief the wind was such this morning I was afraid to let my...
View ArticleWeeknight Spinach Cannelloni🍴What’s For Dinner Wednesday
I am not sure exactly what I have been doing to Facebook’s algorithm, but I have been inundated with posts by Two Peas And Their Pod lately. Maybe they are just posting a lot, and the hell if I care...
View ArticleBanana Bread Snack Cake🍴What’s For Dinner Wednesday
OK, this isn’t about what’s for dinner, but that will have to wait another day. Today, these are your instructions: if you have 3 bananas practically melting into your countertop, do not throw them...
View ArticleMexican Chicken & Rice🍴What’s For Dinner Wednesday
We had a spectacularly difficult day with Medium on Monday. I rarely have to appear in court, but I had an adoption hearing at 9 a.m., so I was trying really hard to get out the door just five minutes...
View ArticleM&M Cookies🍴What’s For Dessert Wednesday
Today begins Lent. I do not personally give anything up for Lent as I was not raised doing so, but I do try to be a little more conscious of what I am giving out into the world, at least for the first...
View ArticleCheesy Chicken Salad Pita Pockets 🍴 The Lunch Rush
Today is Big and Medium’s first full day of school (they actually went back Tuesday for a half day and had early release yesterday). YES I KNOW. No one has been able to explain why Arizona goes back to...
View ArticlePressure Cooker Spicy Cilantro Hummus 🍴 Let’s Eat
Hummus: you either love it or hate it. I can’t claim I was always sold on hummus, and there’s some I still don’t love, but now that I’ve started making my own (in the pressure cooker!) hummus has...
View ArticlePressure Cooker Chicken & White Bean Chili 🍴 Let’s Eat
Although it’s currently 82 out, we’ve had a few cool days and are regularly into cool nights, which means fall has fallen even here in the Arizona desert. This is my favorite season. I got my first...
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