Let me just say that I don’t really have a green thumb. I can’t really say that it’s brown, either. In fact, I think I would have to call it a red thumb. Why? Because the one thing that I seem to have a lot of success with is growing hot peppers. In the last [...]
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Sometimes you just need tater tots…
Last year, I asked my husband what he would like me to make him for dinner for his birthday. He replied, “Tater Tots.” At first I thought he was joking… Nope, he was serious.
My husband is a good sport and will try just about anything that I cook at least once. I rarely make pre-packaged, [...]
Tex Mex Lettuce Wraps
I would love to say that I had some great inspiration to make this dinner. On the contrary, I decided to make this for dinner tonight because flank steak was on sale (buy one get one free!) at the store today. My first instinct with flank steak was to make fajitas, but I wanted something [...]
Spicy Sweet Shepherds Pie Stuffed Peppers
I often find myself paging through my cookbooks trying to come up with ideas of what to make for dinner during the week. I rarely end up actually following a recipe, but I often use the recipes as inspiration. This stuffed pepper recipe was inspired by a shepherds pie stuffed pepper recipe I saw in [...]
Sweet and Spicy Oven Fries
On Sunday, the weather was nice and I made some grilled BBQ chicken. To go along with it, I wanted something sweet and spicy that would compliment the BBQ sauce – so I decided to make some oven fries. I had a few yams that needed to be used, so I whipped up some sweet potato [...]
