Category: What to Eat

  • I finally tasted Crockpot victory

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    As I have mentioned, I am one of the very few Crockpot challenged. I wanted to succeed at being a slow-cooker mama, I just couldn’t seem to get it right. Until now. Since I became blissfully married nearly 10 years ago, my slow-cooker meat always tasted like paper with sauce on it. What happened to…

  • Menu Plan Monday: Ike Evacuee Edition

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    As many of you know, I often post our weekly menu here. It’s a great way to start off the week with grocery list in hand, and in planning out the meals I take a look at all the week’s activities, so I’m better able to tackle the week, as well. This week is a…

  • So you want juicy, tender meat?

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    Last week I had the privilege of serving as the kitchen of the week over at Happy to be at Home. On my last day I prepared a Maple Brined Pork that is quite popular in my house. A reader asked about the brining process, so I thought I might share a little more about…

  • What can I do with so much chicken?

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    If you’ve been following along over here you might know that we cooked fajitas for lots of friends the other night. Well, check out how much chicken we had left over: Yes, that’s just the chicken we had left over. We decided to go ahead and grill it all in the event that Gustav headed our way and…

  • Indiana Jones birthday party!

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    The Indiana Jones birthday party was a huge, hilarious hit! About a month ago, we were trying to figure out what to do for my son’s 7th birthday. Quite a few ideas were thrown around until we came across this. Then we knew what had to be done. Indiana Jones and a fellow blogger to…