Chocolate brownies work great for snacks and desserts. These brownies can be cut up into smaller bite-sized pieces for a delicious snack or kept in the larger size and served with cream or ice-cream for a dessert. This is also a great option for the whole family to join in with. Let the kids mix […]
Garlic, Herb, and Sugar Oven Roasted Chicken
One of our favorite meals as a family is to oven-roast one of our home raised chickens. My father-in-law salt-and-sugar brined this chicken so it was already tender and flavorful and I wanted to give the chicken a treatment that would complement that as much as possible. The solution was a twist on the typical […]
Colorful Winter Tossed Salad – Easy and Healthy!
We often make New Year’s resolutions, and for a lot of people (including myself) one of those is getting healthy. The concept of healthy eating, to me, means including as many whole and colorful foods as possible and getting my kids to enjoy eating this way as well! Last winter, my mom served a really […]
Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Thanksgiving wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without cranberry sauce. This iconic side dish gives a burst of color and bright flavor to the Thanksgiving table. Many people enjoy jellied cranberry sauce from a can, but I prefer the chunky homemade kind. Here in Massachusetts, cranberries are the state fruit. One of the few fruits native to North […]
Homemade Cornbread Stuffing
Need a recipe for Thanksgiving this year? Of course you do! It’s a staple of the holiday. This recipe takes out all of the unhealthy additives that are in the box varieties but is nearly as simple to make! Homemade Cornbread Stuffing Ingredients 4 tbsp butter 2 onions 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 […]
Sweet Success Strawberry Cocktail – Drink Recipe
New Year’s is a time to reflect on successes of the previous year, and plan your goals for the coming year. And as it’s often an evening for celebrating with friends and family. A couple weeks ago I shared a couple drink options in my previous Sierra Mist post, that you could easily adopt for […]
Bruschetta – Italian Appetizer with Fresh Tomato Salsa Fresca
Bruschetta was developed in Italy as a way of using up old stale bread. It goes best with baguette or sourdough slices and iced tea. It is simply toasted, stale bread topped with an Italian style raw tomato salsa (salsa fresca). Sometimes, other additions are made, such as chicken, cheese, or other vegetables, and then […]
Hearty and Healthful Curried Bean Stew
Hearty and full of fiber, this bean stew with chicken satisfies a curry enthusiast. Visiting my dad’s house recently, I found the refrigerator quite empty. I didn’t want to go shopping so I scrounged for ingredients and came up with a delicious, main course I’d be happy to serve to guests. It involved canned black […]
Chocolate Coconut Popcorn
As a mom who wants to feed her children a healthy, whole foods diet, I always make sure to have popcorn on hand. If we have an unexpected play date or there’s “nothing to eat” according to my children, I can always pop some popcorn and nobody will go hungry. I buy organic popcorn kernels […]
Healthy Cookie Dough Bars
Healthy snacks can be a mom’s best friend, and these high-protein cookie dough bars will help energize your kids through their busy days. Adapted from this recipe for peanut butter cookie dough bites, these bars are nothing more than dates, nuts, and a little chocolate. They’re perfectly healthy, but they taste like dessert. When my […]
Mug Cakes!
Confession: my husband and I almost never get to go out on dates. For most of you, this is probably a common story. With three little ones, it is pretty hard to find someone who is willing to (affordably!) watch them for us. We can get the grandparents to do it sometimes, but most of […]
Restaurant Style Sweet-n-Sour Chicken
We love Chinese food. And my family goes gaga for the Sweet-n-Sour Chicken. They practically beg for it on a regular basis. What I don’t like about Chinese take out, other than the price to feed 2 growing teenagers and a little brother who tries to keep up, is the added ingredients. MSG being the […]
