New Year’s Dinner

Start the new year off right with the traditional New Year’s meal dishes. Who couldn’t use the extra luck, fortune, and wisdom in one’s life? The pork tenderloin’s in the slow cooker, the beans are soaking, and later I’ll begin peeling/boiling red potatoes to mash while the greens cook… Pork = for moving forward/progress Black [...]

Homemade Chicken Dumplings

Winter time is the perfect season for soups. There are so many comforting soups that will warm your bellies. Not only is homemade soup soothing to the soul, it’s so much cheaper than buying canned and you can freeze the leftovers to reheat and eat later.Today, I’m going to make some homemade chicken dumplings with [...]

I Survived…

I survived the pre-Thanksgiving day grocery store trip with not one, not even two, but THREE kids! Yeah, you read that right, THREE kids in a very busy chaotic grocery store THE day BEFORE Thanksgiving. You know, the day you swear you’d NEVER set foot into a grocery store? The aisles were insane and let’s [...]