All-American Burgers

How I made it to almost 40 without ever making my own hamburgers is a mystery to me. Last year, I finally worked up the courage to try making them myself, and the first thing I did is Google “how to make hamburgers”. Fortunately for me and my family, one of the first search results [...]

Slow-Cooked Pork Chops

This is the easiest recipe ever for pork chops! You only need three ingredients-pork chops, chicken broth, and onion soup mix.

3 pounds bone-in pork loin chops 1 cup chicken broth 1 packet dry onion soup mix

Step One: Assemble your ingredients. Also shown is the cooking spray I used on the bottom of the [...]

Guest Chef of the Week-Angie!

Please give a warm welcome to my very first Guest Chef of the Week, Angie from Suncoast Scribe! I asked her for a short bio:

I’m Angie, a 37-year-old single mom from Florida. I have several active blogs, but I try to keep the Florida-centric material over at Suncoast Scribe.  Since I cast off my [...]

My first meme

Leigh at Key West or Bust tagged me for a meme, and since it’s food-related, I’m posting it here. Here are the rules:1. Link to the name of the person who tagged you.

2. Include the state and country you’re in.

3. List your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location (locally).

4. [...]

Spaghetti sauce

I have been trying for YEARS to come up with a recipe for spaghetti sauce that tastes like the kind I get in Italian restaurants. I have looked online, in cookbooks, watched Food Network, and have not found one that has just the right balance of flavors and consistency.

I’m about ready to beg the [...]

A great cooking blog!

Now that I’m writing a cooking blog, I’m paying much closer attention to other food-related blogs, noticing their design, their layout, what kind of ads they run. Merry’s Kitchen is one of my favorites, it has a great color scheme that pops right off the page and she includes recipes as well as sharing her [...]

Cola Chicken

One thing I will always do when I post a recipe here is give credit where credit is due. I found this one in a cookbook called Taste of Home’s Quick Cooking Annual Recipes, the 2000 edition. The recipe was submitted by Keri Scofield Lawson of Fullerton California. My kids and I LOVE LOVE LOVE [...]

Releasing my blog to the world

It’s all fine and well to buy a domain, install it on WordPress, upload a theme and write a post, but then you have to get it out on the Internet so people can find it! The first thing I did was log in to my Technorati Profile and claim the blog. Once it gets [...]

Creamy Italian Noodles

This is one of my family’s favorites. I serve it as a side dish with baked chicken and steamed vegetables. The great thing about this recipe is that it is completely customizable. An 8 ounce package of egg noodles serves our family of five with usually a scoop or two left over for me to [...]

Welcome to MomCooks!

Hello, and welcome to MomCooks, my brand-new baby blog! I am Elizabeth, you may know me from my blog Table for Five. I also have another blog, MomReviews. When I’m not parenting or reviewing, I like to cook! I thought it would be fun to start a cooking blog to post my family’s favorite recipes, [...]