11 Top (Most Popular) Recipes from 2011, “Leapt-Over” Recipes & Other Popular Posts

On this Leap Day, we present to you… Our 11 Top (Most Popular) Recipes from 2011: #11 Lemon Lime Ice Cream Soda Shots#10 Pecan-Encrusted Tilapia#9 Crockpot Turkey Meatloaf#8 Strawberry Freeze#7 Easy Slow Cooker Barbecue#6 No Bake Cashew Butter Oatmeal Cookies#5 Homemade Limoncello#4 Kicked up Crockpot Cube Steak#3 Frog Eye Salad#2 Slow Cooker Italian Sausage, White […]

Roasted Carrots and Mushrooms with Thyme Recipe

If your family, like ours, is ready on occasion for something different from the “same ‘ole, same ‘ole” when it comes to your side dishes, this Saturday Evening’s recipe, Roasted Carrots and Mushrooms with Thyme, is one you may want to try, especially if you like carrots and the flavor of Thyme. This was the […]

Poor Man’s Stir-Fried Rice Recipe

This Saturday evening’s recipe, Poor Man’s Stir-Fried Rice, is yet another “open up the cabinets and use what’s available” creation. If you have followed our blog for any length of time, you have probably realized that our family loves rice in its many forms. We also love Asian flavors of any form. This dish is […]

The Crockpot Chronicles ~ Our Daily Paper {Crockpot/Slow Cooker recipes}

We published our first daily paper, The Crockpot Chronicles, today, featuring crockpot and slow cooker recipes, information and news. Check it out! If you have a great crockpot recipe you’d like to be considered for a future issue, follow us on Twitter and tweet the link to us with the hashtag, #crockpotchronicles. Most featured content […]

Clipix ~ Fun way to organize/share recipes, foodie event planning, and so much more!

clipix Recipes, event planning (think birthday parties, graduation parties, baby showers, weddings, etc.), music, shopping, favorite blogs… you name it, anything you go to do online, you want a place to keep track of things you’d like to be able to find and view again later. There are numerous options and they all were developed […]

Marinated Lentil Salad {Published by Yahoo! Voices}

This is a recipe The Lucky Wife adapted from one she had been given by a former co-worker. I am not a big fan of salads, but this is one of her favorites. And it was also a recent request by The Well-Fed Son, who is only 5 years old. We’ve never seen another young […]

Sauteed Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta Recipe

This Saturday Evening’s recipe, Sauteed Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta, is actually one we tried with our 2011 Thanksgiving turkey. We had grown tired of the more “traditional” menu selections, so we decided to find some new recipes to try. The Lucky Wife surfed the net, and this was one of the recipes she discovered. Now, […]

Romantic Tablescapes ~ Perfect for Valentine’s Day or Wedding Anniversary

Even though I do not really “set a table” at this stage in the life of our family (two young children, need I say more?), I am becoming addicted to the beautiful tablescapes I see pictured all across blogland, and I have fallen in love with some romantic tablescapes I discovered while looking for Valentine’s […]

Curried Hamburger Goulash/Soup

This Saturday evening’s recipe can be eaten as goulash or soup (add more broth when serving) and is a super quick and easy meal to put together for your family. Recently, I made this soup using the ingredients listed in the variation below. The flavor was milder and surprisingly, we found that we actually preferred […]