Supper
Momma is ringing the supper bell because supper is hot and on the table!
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How to Make a Traditional New Year’s Day Dinner
Can you believe how quickly we are approaching the New Year!? With the coming of a new year peaking around the corner, I begin to plan out our traditional New Year’s Day dinner. This dinner helps usher in the new year with a bit of luck and good fortune while sending the old year out with style and grace. This year has been quieter than 2020 ever was, but still full of change. We have continued to navigate our way through home construction. Thankfully, we are getting closer and closer to beginning our new life in a new home. I have also learned about homesteading and blogging in a way…
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Easy and Hearty Indian Stew (with Ninja Foodi Adaptation)
Cool weather is an invitation for hearty meals at the dinner table. One of our favorite hearty stews for cold weather is an Indian Stew that is chock full of potatoes and carrots and served over a bed of rice. You heard that right! Rice and potatoes makes this easy and hearty Indian Stew a stick to your ribs kind of meal. Indian Stew is a favorite of the family, but my daughter really loves it. It is always one of her top responses to the question, “what do you want for dinner?”. I always know that when I make it, there will be no issues getting the kids to…
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Easy Zuppa Toscana at Home
It’s Fall Y’all! That means it’s soup season, which is my favorite food season of all. Soup is one of those warm you from the inside out kinds of foods, and this easy Zuppa Toscana will have your family full and happy in under thirty minutes! Soup is my go to dinner when I am not sure what to make or I’m pressed for time. It is so easy to just chop up some veggies and throw them into a pot with some liquid and maybe a meat and Voila! Soup!! Okay well maybe it is a little more than that, but it’s pretty dang close. Check out our…
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The Tastiest Zucchini in the Ninja Foodie
Is your garden bursting at the seams with zucchini? Or maybe you just love it like I do! Either way this is a simple and easy recipe that you will not want to miss. Prepare yourself to be amazed at the tastiest zucchini in the Ninja Foodie! Kids and Zucchini Getting my kids to eat zucchini is like pulling teeth. They hate everything about the vegetable (to be honest, I think they just see that it was green and decide “Nope”). I on the other hand love zucchini, so occasionally I will make them eat it even though I know dinner time is going to be a fight. Given this…
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How to Make Cowboy Caviar
This recipe for Cowboy Caviar is a bight and flavorful twist on a Taco Tuesday side dish that your family will love. With just a few simple ingredients you will be on your way to a delicious and simple meal. Potlucks always bring a bit of stress for me. What in the world do you bring?! What if no one likes what you bring, or worse they love it, but you didn’t make enough! Then you have to decide do you make a desert, a main dish, a side. The possibilities are endless and quite frankly it is overwhelming to me. So to get over my potluck anxiety I have…
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Simple Honey Mustard Pork Tenderloin
This simple honey mustard pork tenderloin has been one of my go to’s when preparing a pork tenderloin. The marinade is so easy to whip up and the final product is so mouthwatering delicious. Whether it is made on the grill, like we will show here, or seared in a cast iron pan and finished off in the oven, this is a sure fire winner for dinner any night of the week. Easy Dinners are My Saving Grace If I have said it once, I have said it a million times already, easy dinners are the way to go on a busy weeknight. We all have tons of stuff going…
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Easy Beef & Bean Enchilada Casserole
Make ahead dinners are some of my favorite ways to cut time in the middle of a busy week and with all the continued renovations, gardening, and canning that has been going on lately I need to find ways to cut down on time wherever I can. One of the ways I get some time and sanity back is by making a make ahead dinner and throwing it in the fridge until it is time to bake and enjoy! That is where this Easy Beef and Bean Enchilada Casserole steps up to the plate. Not only is it a time saver on a busy night, but it is also packed…
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Easy Smooshed Potato Recipe (Crashed Potatoes)
Smooshed potatoes, as my five year old son calls them, are a real treat at our home. The combination of creamy potato, cheese, and garlic are bound to bring any tuber lover to their knees. If you love potatoes or just need a new simple side dish to try, you will want to try this super simple recipe for Smooshed Potato recipe, also known as, Crashed Potatoes. I was born and raised a meat and potato kind of girl. Rarely was there ever a dinner without a potato of some kind as either a side dish or in some cases the main dish. Occasionally we would have rice (and by…
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Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken and dumplings is the quintessential fall southern recipe. It is the kind of dinner you would expect to find when you walk into your grandma’s house on a chilly day. Thick chicken stew with buttery dumplings that warm you from the inside out. My favorite way to make chicken and dumpling is low and slow starting with a whole broiler chicken. This meal is Sunday dinner at its finest and with all the snow and rain we have been getting this past month, it has done its job with keeping our bellies full and our hearts warm. In this recipe, I simmer the whole chicken all day to develop…
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Spicy Shrimp and Grits
If you have never had shrimp and grits, you are missing out. This is one of our go to meals for my husband and I, especially if the kids aren’t at home. It is a beautiful combination of heat from the peppers and creaminess from the grits. We love seafood and spicy foods so this is a perfect combination for us. The tomato base is spiced up with a habanero while the grits get their own kick of heat from pepper jack cheese. You can tame down the heat by using a jalapeño instead or leaving the pepper out all together. However, we love the spice that this dish brings…
