Oh, chicken sausage. What would I do without you and your ability to bring together a quick and easy meal?! This time I paired sundried tomato and garlic sausage with Trader Joe’s spinach and chive pasta. The great thing about these flavored pastas from Trader Joe’s is that you can actually taste the herbs and…
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Rotisserie Chicken Tacos
One of the items on my Fall To-Do List was make Taco Tuesday a thing. There are a million ways to make a taco so you won’t get bored if you have this meal once a week. There are so many options when it comes to fillings and fixins! For my first official Taco Tuesday…
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Pizza Spaghetti Squash
I love pizza but feel like a terrible person if I serve it during the week. I have to set some guidelines; otherwise, like I would with mac and cheese, I could eat pizza every single day. As a substitute I used a spaghetti squash as the vessel for all that delicious pizza flavor. I…
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Meatloaf Muffins
Meatloaf may sound to some like a cafeteria meal or at least something from a bygone era, but I love it. Meatloaf is freakin tasty, y’all! Here’s the problem, it usually takes about an hour and a half to make. It makes sense since you’re talking about cooking a mound of meat, but that’s just…
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Skillet Broccoli Casserole
This recipe for broccoli casserole doesn’t use any cream of mushroom soup – you’re pretty much making that ingredient yourself; now, don’t you feel fancy?! Though there’s a “from scratch” element, this is still a simple recipe. Basically you boil a head of chopped broc for about 3 minutes and then toss it in a…
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Braised Beef Shank in Red Wine
Slow cookers are supposed to make cooking easier, and they do. But some slow cooker recipes require as much prep time as it would take to cook a full meal; they’re sneaky like that. In the case of this recipe, I had to spend nearly an hour getting everything ready (searing the beef, sauteing onions…
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Seasonal Tastes: October – Figs with Balsamic Glaze
I’m 30 and I just tried my first fresh fig. There were so many things I didn’t know when Karina put a bowl of figs in front of me after her Rosh Hashanah dinner. Can you eat them fresh or only dried? Can you eat the skin? Are there pits? Turns out, yes, you can…
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Roasted Fingerling Potatoes with Herbs
When I saw these lil baby fingerlings at Trader Joe’s I just couldn’t resist. They’re so cute I could pinch their little potato cheeks. At this size they only take about 20 minutes (maybe less) to cook at 425 so flavor them up and get them in the oven for a quick side dish. I tossed…
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Snickity Snack: Old Bay Peanuts
Matt put me in charge of apps for Rosh Hashanah dinner so I started by making prosciutto, arugula, and blue cheese bundles. It was such an easy app to throw together that I decided to make something else, too. These Old Bay peanuts are also ridiculously simple to make and are the perfect bar snack.…
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Chicken and Zucchini in Peanut Sauce
Usually, when you build a meal around a jarred sauce, also known as taking the easy way out, it’s some sort of pasta with marinara. That doesn’t have to be the case if you can shop at Trader Joe’s. They have tons of jarred sauces for all sorts of cuisines. I recently picked up a jar…
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Peaches to Apples 