Disclosure: Contains affiliate links. Full disclosure policy here. I've already talked about how I like to make a whole roasted chicken.  It's just delicious!  But I like to do it for more than just the meat.  I also like it because I use the chicken bones to make homemade chicken broth!  You can even do this Continue Reading...

Minestrone is a classic Italian soup - at least what we consider an Italian soup here in America.  I don't often have it and that's a shame!  I often think about ordering it when I go to Olive Garden, but I love their salad so much that I just always go that route.  Occasionally, my Continue Reading...

Disclosure: Contains affiliate link. I've made a few different soups with my Instant Pot (I have this one).  There have been some definite misses.  I'll keep working on those.  But there has also been some hits.  This started off somewhere in the middle - it was just okay.  But a few tweaks later and I love Continue Reading...

Ahhh...chili.  Such fond memories of it. Football season is drawing to a close.  High school football is done.  College football is done.  The NFL is in playoffs.  I don't know why I associate football and chili together.  I have images in my head of big football parties and a whole vat of chili on the Continue Reading...

Summer cooking. Had me a blast. Summer cooking. Spring just couldn't last. Summer's a comin'!  Got your pool body ready?  Got your kids' activities planned out?  Nailed down any summer vacation plans? For me: My pool body looks a lot like my snow shoveling body. My kids' activities looks a lot like bike riding and Continue Reading...

Have you heard this song by Nichole Nordeman?  If you're a parent, it'll hit you hard. If you have very little ones, it seems like time isn't going fast.  But, one day, you wake up and you have a 5-year-old - even though it feels like you just gave birth to him.  I can easily Continue Reading...