Pesto Chicken and Veggie Saute Pesto Chicken and Veggie Saute is a savory main dish recipe that uses the Homemade Pesto from yesterday’s post. This time of year I’m always looking for new ways to incorporate zucchini and yellow squash AND this recipe really came together well with the Homemade Pesto! …
Homemade Pesto Homemade Pesto is simply divine. We grow a beautiful garden, you can check out How our Garden grows and get a look at it from seeds to harvest. We have a ton of Basil right now AND one my favorite things to make with Basil is Homemade Pesto. It is SO easy and …
Debbie’s Peanut Butter Cookies Debbie’s Peanut Butter Cookies are flaky AND peanut-buttery AND everything you’d ever hoped a Peanut Butter Cookie would be! My daughter, Madi, came running home from our friend Debbie’s house about 4 years ago with the recipe to these delicious cookies in tow. Debbie had just pulled a pan of …
Chat with Ruthie Healthy Cooking and Cholesterol September is National Cholesterol Awareness Month… Do you know your numbers? If not, now is the perfect time see your doctor to get it checked. There are a lot of factors that can contribute to having high cholesterol. Some of them are : Heredity What you eat Weight …
Caprese Salad Caprese Salad is a beautiful arrangement of heirloom tomatoes fresh from our garden! This salad tastes like a little bit of heaven… fresh ingredients make all the difference! If you don’t grow a garden then be sure to look at your local farmer’s market for heirloom variety tomatoes or this salad is also …
Spicy Spaghetti Sauce We put this sauce together a couple of weeks ago when I was out of town. Sometimes we like recipes with a little more heat in them but, this spaghetti sauce – It’s really good 🙂 Spicy Spaghetti Sauce has just a little bit of kick to it, I’m not really …
What’s Cooking in your kitchen? A Weekly Dinner Menu Round-Up Sometimes we all need a little help figuring out what to make for dinner! What’s Cooking… in your kitchen, is a Dinner Menu Round-Up that will help take the guess work out of dinner! Monday: This recipe from a Kitchen Life …
Harvest Peach Smoothie Harvest Peach Smoothie is a tasty little treat I threw together today! How can you NOT with all these harvest fresh peaches everywhere? (except our house… our tree only produced 5 peaches this year!) I’m going to have to break down and by a couple of boxes of peaches from a fruit …
Sticky-Bun Coffee Cake Sticky-Bun Coffee Cake is a moist and delicious breakfast cake that doesn’t have a drop of butter in it! Really. My family was shocked about that… it tastes amazing and it uses a low-fat cream cheese and greek yogurt in place of any butter so it’s healthier too! *I scooped out …
Earthquake Cake is the cake we enjoyed for our Labor Day BBQ! Carol, my awesome friend, made this yummy spin off a German Chocolate Cake Mix for us to enjoy… and now I’m sharing it for all of you to enjoy too!! You’ll just LOVE it! Earthquake Cake has a cool …
Garden Veggie Salsa and Gourmet Garden AND a giveaway!! Have you seen these amazing Gourmet Garden herbs in the produce section of the grocery store?? I found them several months ago and fell immediately in LOVE with them! They’re just like having fresh garden herbs right in your fridge!! AND the best part? They …
How our garden grows I hope you’re all enjoying a nice relaxing Labor Day. Me? I was able to sleep in a little bit, mowed the lawn, and then we put on a BBQ! We harvested a lot of produce from the garden for our BBQ so, I wanted to share some photo’s with …
What’s Cooking in your kitchen? A Weekly Dinner Menu Round-Up Sometimes we all need a little help figuring out what to make for dinner! What’s Cooking… in your kitchen, is a Dinner Menu Round-Up that will help take the guess work out of dinner! Monday: You’re totally going to agree that this recipe …
Caramel Pecan French Toast A couple of weeks ago we went for a long weekend get-away to Park City, Utah with my family! We rented a large condo which are an awesome price this time of year because it is considered their “off season”. It was comfy enough for all 17 of us …
Chocolate Zucchini Brownies Our zucchini plants are probably going just as crazy as all of yours! It’s a little hard to spread all that zucchini around, right? Here’s a fabulous Chocolate Zucchini Brownies to try 🙂 Of course, I had to skinny it up but a bit from the original recipe that I …
Chat with Ruthie helping kids over come bedwetting! First things first– I’m totally labeling myself as a bed-wetter reformed (mostly) adult! I’m not ashamed that I wet the bed into the double digits of my childhood or that I often jump up running in the middle of the night to avoid accidents, even today! …
Vegetable Lasagna I whipped this up the other day with all kinds of vegetables from our garden! It turned out SO deliciously well that I’m sharing it with all of you too 🙂 Vegetable Lasagna is just cheesy-yummy-good! It even had some of our egg plant hidden in it that I shared with you on our …
What’s Cooking in your kitchen? A Weekly Dinner Menu Round-Up Sometimes we all need a little help figuring out what to make for dinner! What’s Cooking… in your kitchen, is a Dinner Menu Round-Up that will help take the guess work out of dinner! Monday: Do you have leftover pot roast or …
Farfalle with Mushrooms and Spinach is mouth-watering-fabulous!! Farfalle with Mushrooms and Spinach is another of my favorite pasta dishes… I’m the first to admit that I have a total weak spot for pasta! Farfelle with Mushrooms and Spinach is just delicious this time of year with fresh herbs from the garden!! …
Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites are part of a progressive tailgate party today!! A blogging friend of mine, Camille, invited me to join in this progressive blog-hopping-tailgate-party! I’m so excited to be involved!! What a fabulous idea AND a fun way to get 5 new recipes to use for your next tailgate party… after …
Artisan Pizza is a delicious little pizza we put together the other night! My husband was experimenting with our Artisan Bread dough recipe the other day and came up with this fabulous homemade pizza! It was a hit with whole family… we’re already getting requests to make some more 🙂 (The Artisan …
Chat with Ruthie How I survived Divorce I’ve thought about writing this post for awhile… several months actually. It’s not a fun thing to write about BUT, I’ve been asked by several different people to share about SO, here we go! It doesn’t super matter what the circumstances are that cause a divorce …
Firewire Chicken and Veggies is a quick and fun grilling recipe! Have you heard of a Firewire Grilling Skewer? Their an awesome little reusable skewer for the grill… that we’ve fallen totally in LOVE with 🙂 Firewire Chicken and Veggies… is such a great recipe this time of year with …
How our garden grows #14 It’s pretty much a jungle out there… this garden of ours! We’re well into the harvesting stage of our garden- we’ve enjoyed 3 different onions, carrots, spinach, chard, 6 varieties of lettuce, beets, turnips, radishes, red potatoes, purple potatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, peppers, corn, cantaloupe, eggplant, canary melons, …