Tilapia, Broccoli, and Rice Recipes

I have permission to share with you these four recipes from Women’s Health magazine, they all sound delicious!

HERBED RICE PILAF

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

3 Tbsp minced red onion

1 ½ tsp minced baby carrot

2 tsp canola oil

¾ tsp thyme

¾ c instant brown rice

1 ¼ [...]

MomCooks is One Year Old!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you! Happy Biiirthday dear MomCooks, Happy Birthday to you!

You’ve stopped by on a very special day, it’s MomCooks’ First Birthday! Guess I should bake the blog a birthday cake now, huh? I can’t believe it’s been a year already, and what a year! I figured I [...]

Cinna-spin Cookies

The winners have been announced in the Betty Crocker 2008 Bake Life Sweeter™ recipe contest. Entrants were asked to use one of the nine flavors of Betty Crocker Cookie mix, and add their own special touches. The Grand Prize winner was Lynette Spence of St. Paul, MN who won $5,000 for her “Cinna-spin” Cookies. She [...]

Get Dine Without Whine and get dinner back!

It used to be that every week I had the same problem-needing to shop for a week’s worth of meals and having absolutely no idea what to make. Isn’t it funny how, even with shelves full of cookbooks, cooking magazines, recipe cards, plus an entire Internet with MILLIONS of recipes available, it’s still hard to [...]

Four Foods on Friday

This week’s questions are about frozen food. I buy a lot of frozen vegetables because here in Michigan, they are fresher than fresh vegetables. Frozen vegetables are frozen and bagged within a few hours of picking, whereas the “fresh” vegetables here have been picked, gassed, boxed, and trucked here. It’s a crime what passes for [...]