I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm in the mood for a big, hearty meat and potatoes meal. But I need to feed a whole family of seven people, and I'm always looking for ways to stretch that meat-and-potatoes meal to feed us all for less. That's why I love making shepherd's … [Read more...]

When it comes to fall flavors, I have a hard time deciding between pumpkin and apple. Pumpkin chocolate chip will always be one of my favorite combinations (like in these muffins), but I can't argue with a good apple cider or apple crisp either. If you're an apple lover, these … [Read more...]

I love using my Instant Pot to cook food hands off, and one of my favorite things to make in there is soup. And really, as long as you have enough liquid to pressurize, and you don't overfill the thing, soup is pretty hard to mess up. I like to just keep adding things I … [Read more...]

I don't know about your family, but my family loooooooves tacos. Those and pizza we could eat pretty much every week and be okay with it. Repeating other dinners? Not so much. But these two are standbys. And as our family has grown, we've needed to make more taco meat to fill … [Read more...]

Sometimes it's hard to convince kids to eat vegetables.  Actually, sometimes it's hard to convince adults that they want to eat vegetables!  But I always feel a little leery about hiding vegetables in food, since I want to teach my kids to appreciate how vegetables taste and what … [Read more...]