The best part about having a baby is the food.  Okay.. actually bringing home a newborn is pretty awesome and life changing but when your friends and family are super helpful and make you a yummy meal because your life at the moment has been consumed by diaper changes and newborn baby head smells comes […]

This meal made me proud.  Proud that I am finally getting back into the kitchen on a regular basis..but I might be a little embarrassed to admit how easy it was to throw together.  Dinner is dinner, yes?  The oohs and ahhs at the dinner table would have had you thinking that I put in the hard work to make this […]

Life since adding in a third babe to the mix has been busy.  Even when we don’t leave the house for the day’s entirety I still feel like I’ve been run ragged by 5pm.. and I still have 3 hours before bedtime. I use that word (bedtime) loosely as it seems to be later and later every […]

Really, this is for my eating.  While meal planning for this week, and browsing through the most recent issue of Cooking Light, I all but doggy-eared the entire magazine.  I have been looking for quick and healthy things I can make a big batch of and graze on all week – and this seemed to do […]

With summer upon us, we’ve been grilling a TON.  We’ve been sticking to the typical, veggies and protein. chicken.veggies.steak. Lots of steak actually.. I have been craving steak during this 3rd and final trimester and have been making every excuse to get it on our kitchen table. Often times we forget the versatility of the […]

We are at the very end of May (how this Spring season has flown by so quickly is still a question to me), and with that comes the heat of the summer.  I am guilty of seeking my slow cooker out for just those cool-weather comfort meals, but really, the crock can be used year-round. […]