Recipes

The Meal That Makes My Baby Girl Come Running to the Table Classic beef stroganoff is one of those meals that never gets old in our house. My youngest asks for it by name — and when she hears me pulling out the egg noodles, she’s in the kitchen before I can even get the…

The Easiest Meal I Didn’t Have to Cook Today Sweet Potato, Corn & Black Bean Enchiladas are one of those recipes that makes you feel like a genius — especially when you pull them straight out of the freezer on a busy weeknight and dinner is done before you can even think about what to…

The Dish That Makes the Rice Cook Itself and the Whole House Smell Like Dinner This chicken mushroom rice bake came to me as a new-to-me recipe and I am so glad I tried it. You stir the rice right into French onion soup and beef consommé, top it with butter and mushrooms and Parmesan,…

The One-Pot Meal That Feeds a Crowd and Makes the Whole House Smell Amazing This jambalaya recipe is one of my all-time personal favorites, and on crowd nights when I need to feed a lot of people, it is what I keep coming back to. I made two pots side by side — one shrimp…

Some Recipes Come With the Pan Included When I was first married, my mother-in-law made the best baked beans I had ever tasted in my life. I asked her what the secret was. She said it was the pot. And then — just like that — she gave me one just like hers. That was…

The Main Event Has Arrived — And It’s Wearing Pineapple Juice Every single Easter, this easiest ham recipe is the centerpiece of my table — and it has never once let me down. I’ve been making ham this way for years, and the moment I tell people how simple it is, they don’t believe me….

The Easter Dessert My Family Refuses to Let Me Skip This easiest most delicious coconut cake is the one my family asks for every single Easter — and if I ever showed up without it, I would hear about it for the rest of the year. I got this recipe from my best friend Michelle…

Sweet, Savory, and Gone Before the Main Course I know what you are thinking. Pineapple casserole with cheese? Trust me — this pineapple casserole is one of those recipes that sounds absolutely wrong and tastes absolutely right. It has been on our Easter table for as long as I can remember, and every single year…

The Make-Ahead Side Dish That Saved Sunday Dinner Sunday is our big family meal day, and after church everyone is hungry and dinner needs to be on the table fast. That’s why I reach for oven recipes on Sunday — I can get everything in before we leave and come home to a hot meal…

The Homemade Hot Pocket My Great-Grandma Would Be Proud Of My family has Bohemian roots, and my great-grandma used to make what she called krautburgers — cabbage and meat cooked together and wrapped in homemade dough. My Aunt Jane carried on that tradition and would also make her dough from scratch. I took the same…