CONFESSION: We’ve eaten out every day for nearly a week. Crunch time at work means not a lot of cooking gets done in this house lest my husband cooks for himself. So when my craving for great buffalo chicken got the best of me today, a bottle of Buffalo Wild Wings Spicy Garlic sauce kept [...]

Tilapia used to frighten me. It still kind of does. Often found at my favorite grocer for between $2 and $4 for a bag of 6 delicious filets, I simply didn’t trust it. And yet I’m surprised every single time I make it how utterly delicious it is and I understand why it’s become one [...]

When my friend Samm asked me if I had a shortcut for Scottish Beef Pies, I was stumped but determined. Naturally, when she came over to work on her wedding invitations today, I had a plan to figure these puppies out.
Sometimes there just isn’t a shortcut for a recipe. In this case, by using refrigerated [...]

Seriously, can this get any cuter? The nearby Italian grocery always has the best frozen pasta, but I nearly fell over when I saw these adorable red and white heart-shaped cheese ravioli.
After a long day working overtime, I got home at 8:30 with no desire to cook. So I reached for some staples I always [...]

CONFESSION: Nearly all my über-gourmet ingredients come from the Clearance Bin. I can’t help it; I simply can’t pay full price for gourmet ingredients, and I don’t really care how fancy they are. $10 for infused grapeseed oil? Tell me $4 and we’ve got a deal. $6 for Japanese Panko breadcrumbs—hell no. But for $2, [...]

Tonight I discovered a new favorite recipe. It’s super simple and really has no business being so delicious! I love canned artichoke hearts and wanted to include them in tonight’s entrée, so I found a great recipe on AllRecipes.com and modified it slightly.
I served it with a spinach risotto made from some leftover spinach, chicken [...]

Ikea is awesome. But it’s not just awesome because of the inexpensive homegoods. The café, where you can get mounds of Swedish meatballs, complete with plenty of lingonberry sauce for just a couple bucks, now that’s where it’s at. It’s a favorite comfort food of mine, and lucky for me and my family, the folks [...]

There are some products that come along that are kind of like magic. I really and truly feel that way about Nasoya’s Cubed Super Firm Tofu. I love tofu in restaurants but I could never get the texture right when I made it at home. But once this came into my life, everything was instantly [...]

Since there are now three of us in the house packing lunches for the workday, I decided to make a quick skillet sauce and some pasta specifically for leftovers. It’s a super easy recipe that takes only about half an hour, makes a lot of food and is also nice and light. I had gotten [...]

Pizza Beer? Pizza-beer-bread? A wonderful addition to a standard Crock Pot Roast.

My husband’s favorite comfort foods seem to involve Polish favorites: sauerkraut, polish sausage, and pierogi of all sorts. File pierogi under the foods that aren’t worth making from scratch, by the way, but there’s a solution. Well, there’s two. You can make your own Shortcut Pierogi:
QUICK TIP:
For shortcut pierogi, boil some large pasta shells and [...]

An excellent recipe for a rich mushroom sauce that’s perfect for steaks, polenta or over pasta.