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3-Bean Veggie Filled Spicy Chili Soup

3-Bean Veggie Filled Spicy Chili Soup

This soup is one of the best soups that I enjoy making in the late fall/winter. It’s a very filling and comforting soup, but is also full of chili flavors and spices. Leftovers stay fresh in the refrigerator for a few days, but most of 

Baked Sweet Potatoes With All The GOODS!

Baked Sweet Potatoes With All The GOODS!

What’s your favorite way to prepare sweet potatoes? Or are you like me and like to use it in a wide variety of ways from roasting, baking, adding it to soups, stews and taco bowls. I love roasting a big pan of sweet potato fries 

How To Roast Garlic

How To Roast Garlic

I don’t often use roasted garlic, most of the time I just saute it on low heat on stovetop with other veggies. Recently I made a roasted garlic steak sauce and all the ingredients of this sauce blended perfectly with the roasted garlic.   Garlic is 

ROASTED GARLIC STEAK SAUCE

ROASTED GARLIC STEAK SAUCE

When I think of steak sauce I automatically think of A1 sauce, but we quit buying it a couple years ago because of its’ long list of preservatives that included corn syrup, potassium sorbate and carmel color. I have always wanted to make my own 

Lamb Meatballs With Moroccan Inspired Tomato Sauce

Lamb Meatballs With Moroccan Inspired Tomato Sauce

September 29th is our anniversary and this year my husband planned a weekend trip to Chicago  to celebrate our sixth anniversary. As expected we had a fabulously delicious food filled weekend. Breakfast at a French farm-to-table, La Pain Quotidien. Dinner at The Kitchen, an upscale 

SPAGHETTI MEAT SAUCE SERVED OVER SPAGHETTI SQUASH

SPAGHETTI MEAT SAUCE SERVED OVER SPAGHETTI SQUASH

  As I’m writing this blog it is cloudy, rainy and dreary outside. I’m also listening to Frank Sinatra which has nothing to do with food blogging but he happens to one of my favorite fall time musicians. Anyways, back to business. This is perfect 

How to Roast A Spaghetti Squash

How to Roast A Spaghetti Squash

This year I am having a healthy obsession with SPAGHETTI SQUASH. Therefore on this blog I am providing simple instructions on how to roast a SPAGHETTI SQUASH & some easy weeknight dishes that go well with it. Over the last couple of years I’ve tried 

GLUTEN & GRAIN FREE BAKED CABBAGE

GLUTEN & GRAIN FREE BAKED CABBAGE

Growing up my mom always made baked cabbage and as an adult it has become one of my favorite dishes to make in the late spring & again in the fall. It’s a simple dish, but it highlights the flavor of cabbage by using very 

HOMEMADE APPLESAUCE

HOMEMADE APPLESAUCE

  I’ve always liked applesauce but for several years I would just buy it from the grocery store forgetting how good the homemade applesauce was from my childhood. When I first started making homemade applesauce, I would go back to northern Indiana and my mom 

My Favorite Fall Dessert, Apple Crisp

My Favorite Fall Dessert, Apple Crisp

The fall season brings with it some of my favorite things: crisp cool air, pumpkin pie spice and all dishes that involve apples. In my tradition we only used apples for pies, crisps, half moon pies, cobblers and applesauce, but in a previous blog I