While we were dating, my husband surprised me with a dinner date, where he made pizza. He used a pre-made Boboli crust and topped it with pizza sauce, pepperoni, and shredded cheese. After we got married, it became a tradition to make pizza on our wedding anniversary. Our pizza recipe has come a long way …
30 Minute Instant Pot Frozen Ground Beef Spaghetti
I’ve forgotten to defrost something from the freezer for dinner more times than I can remember. On those days, we’ve had to resort to our emergency reserve of frozen chicken nuggets. Now with this Instant Pot Frozen Ground Beef Spaghetti, I can still make a meal in half an hour! We can save those emergency …
15 Minute Crispy Skillet Sweet and Sour Chicken
Here’s another dish that utilizes the quick batter – shallow fry that we discussed in a previous post 10 Minute No Dredging Skillet Chicken Nuggets. You can easily make this Crispy Skillet Sweet and Sour Chicken in 15 minutes. Why bother with Panda Express? Adapted from Omnivore’s Cookbook Sweet and Sour Chicken
Foil is NOT non-stick!
I can’t count the number of times that I’ve been foiled by the foil, where yummy deliciousness is stuck to the foil making it inaccessible to my taste buds. When will I learn my lesson? Foil is NOT non-stick. In my younger days, I recall putting foil on cookie sheets when baking biscuits from a …
Perfectly Fluffy Instant Pot Quinoa
The first time I had quinoa was in Peru, while hiking Machu Picchu. I really liked the light, fluffy texture and the nutty taste of quinoa. A year ago, I bought a bag of 4.5 pound bag of quinoa from Costco, thinking it could replace the nutrition-less white rice that my family loves. I was …
15 Minute Crispy Skillet Mongolian Chicken
A couple of months ago, I posted the 10 Minute No Dredging Skillet Chicken Nuggets and mentioned that this would be the base to many new recipes. Well, this is the first of the many possibilities – 15 Minute Crispy Skillet Mongolian Chicken. The first part of this recipe is just like the 10 Minute …
Instant Pot Quarter Cup Chicken
Have you heard of the classic Taiwanese dish Three Cup Chicken before? If you like this one, 40 minute instant pot red cooked pork shoulder is the pork version we make just as often. Story has it, the original recipe used 1 cup each of the three main ingredients: sesame oil, soy sauce, and shaoxing …
10 Minute No Dredging Skillet Chicken Nuggets
Yes, only 10 minutes – 5 minute prep, 5 minute shallow fry in a skillet – to get yummy, dippable chicken nuggets! Sounds too good to be true? Prove it to yourself by trying these 10 Minute No Dredging Skillet Chicken Nuggets! I’m not a big fan of dredging. It takes time to dredge each …
No Knead Crusty Artisan Bread
Here’s a No Knead Crusty Artisan Bread recipe for ya! No knead means none of that sticky dough on your hands and fingers. Just give a stir, let it rise, shape, rise, and bake! Sound easy? It is! If your bananas are going dark on the counter at the same time, five ingredient banana bread …
Cardboard Marble Run for Kids
Every free space in our house is slowly being eaten up by cardboard crafts. The backhoe cardboard costume started all of this. Sometimes I feel like I’m swimming in cardboard! Since there’s almost no space on the floor, the kids have moved to filling our blank walls with cardboard… like with this Cardboard Marble Run. …









