Menu Plan Monday 11/09 + Sweet Potato recipe

Monday: Tacos, refried beans, chips & salsa

Tuesday: Spaghetti, garlic bread, corn

Wednesday: Roasted Turkey Breast – I’m doing a soy sauce-brined turkey breast, I’ll share the recipe!

Thursday: Leftovers

Friday: Pizza

Saturday: Cook’s Ham, au gratin potatoes, peas

Sunday: not sure yet

Here’s a recipe for Betty Crocker’s Classic Candied Sweet Potatoes, this is [...]

Beet & Apple Salad

Beets are packed with nutrients, naturally sweet, low in calories and make for a great summer dish. Beets are also a fantastic immune system booster and are even thought to have cancer prevention qualities. This recipe combines beets with apples and sweet pecans for a tasty crunch.

Beet and Apple Salad Ingredients:

· 1 Tbsp [...]

Swanson Natural Goodness Chicken Broth

Good Housekeeping magazine recently ranked Swanson Natural Goodness Chicken Broth number one in a taste test of 15 reduced sodium stocks and broths.  When I visited the Campbell’s Kitchens this past January, Swanson was one of the brands that I didn’t realize was made by Campbell.  The Campbell Kitchen website has lots of great Swanson [...]

Quick & Easy Chicken, Broccoli & Brown Rice

This recipe, created by the Campbell’s Kitchen, uses ingredients that I always have on hand. I buy bags of individual frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts, bags of frozen broccoli, and cans of cream of chicken soup at Aldi about once a month. For the rice part of this dish, I’m using a product I was [...]

Four Foods on Friday #65

This week’s questions are about funny-sounding foods, pronounciation, and something made with mozzarella cheese. Here we go!

1. What’s the funniest sounding food or ingredient you know of?

I’ll admit it, I have a totally juvenile sense of humor. I still giggle when I see the word “wiener” for hot dog. And there’s this dessert [...]

McCain Sweet Potato Fries

My new favorite potato side dish is McCain Sweet Potato Fries. I had seen recipes for making them homemade but I always hesitated, unsure of whether I would like the taste or not. Then at BlogHer this past summer, McCain’s was a sponsor of one of our afternoon snack breaks, and they set up pans [...]

Just One More for Healthy Living

The makers of Del Monte and Starkist want to help you and your family live a healthier life, so they teamed up to create the Just One More for Healthy Living website. There you will find the “Eat Just One More” pledge-Add Just One More serving of fruits and vegetables each day, Just One [...]

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 [...]

Four Foods on Friday

I am SO late on this, it’s actually 11:44 pm on Sunday! But I wanted to get this in, so here is this week’s Four Foods on Friday questions, and my answers.

#1. What’s your favorite food smell? The smell of chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. #2. What’s your favorite kind of apple? [...]

Really easy Shepherd’s Pie

When I tell people that at 41 years old, I am just now learning to cook, they always react incredulously, but it’s true. I’ve been a SAHM for nine years and I can’t honestly tell you what the heck my family has been eating all this time! But I’ve finally started not only looking for [...]