If you haven’t joined the “Rotisserie Chicken Lover” club yet, it’s time! When I started to branch out from serving this meat simply as a meal’s main protein, I was surprised by all the different family-friendly ways to use rotisserie chicken in other dishes. They’re an amazing shortcut for so many recipes, and really, who couldn’t use a good shortcut? Most […]
Summer Slow Cooker Recipes
It’s been a hot summer over here and I have relegated any recipes that require the oven to the back of my mind. It’s just too much to stand in the kitchen next to a 400 degree oven when I really want to stick my head in the fridge! Not to mention all of that […]
Keep Healthy Summer Foods Healthy!
***This post about healthy summer foods is sponsored by Tessamae’s*** I have a teensy bit of a problem with recipes in my kitchen. As in, I don’t use them. While my methodically-bent husband gapes in horror at my wing-it approach, my favorite season to toss dishes together is summer. Grabbing a bunch of fresh veggies from […]
The Cheesecake Factory Menu Has It All!
Many of my working hours are spent hunched over a laptop nursing a cup of lukewarm coffee and whatever scrappy leftovers I piece together together for a meal. So when our family was invited to check out The Cheesecake Factory menu in exchange for an honest review, I jumped at the rare chance to change up the scenery […]
Grilled Pizza
I crave easy but fun weeknight meals year-round, especially in the summer months. I love pizza and salad as a quick go-to, but I don’t love heating up my house to bake it in the oven. I had heard of grilled pizza, but all of the recipes I found said that I would need a pizza stone and […]
Grilled Side Dish Recipes for your Summer Meals
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been searching for ways to lessen the dish-load at your house, especially during the summer months. I don’t want to be standing over a sink of dirty dishes when there’s fun to be had outside with my family. One easy way to do this is to fire up the grill! I know that […]
5 Zoodles Recipes the Whole Family Will Love
Zoodles! Zoodles! Zoodles! What’s that? You’re not sure? You haven’t tried them yet? Are you like me, who feigned ignorance under the assumption that they couldn’t possibly hold a candle to that old pantry standby; pasta? Well, it’s time. It’s past time. Get your hands on a spiralizer, and hold on to your hat, mamas. I’m here […]
5 Picnic-Friendly Potluck Dishes
We’ve all been invited to a picnic or BBQ where the host asks us to bring along a dish to share. And we’ve all brought bowls of uninspired salad and store-bought cookies, thinking there’s no easy way to bring something that will please a broad group of adults and kids, so why bother? I’m here with some of […]
Slow Cooker Poached Salmon
Looking for a little bump in your weekly menu? A meal that makes you feel like someone else cooked? One that can be prepped and forgotten while you tend to the house and still turn out perfect, every single time? A meal that even your kiddos will scarf down because it’s made with pink fish? Believe it or […]
Delicious and Easy Ways to Use Peanut Butter Powder
Please welcome new contributor Heidi to The Mom of the Year! She will be sharing ideas for family-friendly recipes and menu ideas and I’m thrilled to have her on the team! Who knew that pulverizing a peanut and removing the oil could cause such a frenzy? The idea of peanut butter powder seemed odd at first […]
