Mexican Casserole to feed a crowd
The reality of my life is that I OFTEN feed a crowd. The other reality is that I’m always trying to do it on a budget. This is one of my favorite casseroles, often made ENTIRELY of leftovers. Best of...
View ArticlePineapple Coconut Chicken Curry
Remember that pineapple-marinating-in-rum that I played around with a few weeks ago? Well, last night we enjoyed the rummy fruit of our labors on that particular experiment as a part of a delicious...
View ArticleGreek Pizza — a homemade pizza recipe to love
Pizza. It always comes back to homemade pizza. A meteor could be racing towards earth, everyone could be in panicked crisis Armageddon mode, and my youngest son, Michael, and I will be in the kitchen...
View ArticleGourmet Chicken and Red Pepper Quesadillas
This week I needed something fast and easy for dinner and this was the happy result: Grilled Chicken and Red Pepper Quesadillas. In case you are unsure how to pronounce the word, quesadilla, it’s easy:...
View ArticleEgg Rolls: baked not fried!
We LOVE egg rolls around here. I’ve been apologizing for our homemade eggrolls for quite a long time because they don’t contain any eggs and aren’t dipped in egg before they’re cooked. Today I read...
View ArticleGetting ready for St. Patrick’s Day food
With a name like Kelley, how can I not revisit this topic of St. Patrick’s Day recipes every year? I want to share those recipes with you again, just in case you’ve misplaced them. Here are our...
View ArticleRoasted Tomatillo Chipotle Salsa
I love it when my husband sets his sights on creating something delicious in the kitchen. He researches and experiments and chops and dices and tastes…and inevitably, something fabulous gets served....
View ArticleHomemade Salsa in 5 minutes
We’re on the countdown to Cinco de Mayo and all the delicious Mexican food that holiday can involve. We’re also picking up speed as we move towards graduation…and this year I have TWO graduating. So...
View ArticleIn Which We Confess to Being Serious Rick Bayless Groupies
All right, I’ll confess. We are shamelessly besotted with Rick Bayless, television chef. Actually, to be precise, with his recipes. A few weeks ago, my husband was in the Chicago area for business and...
View ArticleSpicy Broccoli Chicken Stir-fry
We’ve reached that point in our summer when all my adventuring kids start wandering home, looking for some delicious home-cooked meals. I keep running out of food! I was actually trying to use up...
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