A Working Mom's Guide to Food, Family & Fun
Last week I shared this Coconut & Mango Sweet Rice recipe on What’s Cooking with Ruthie and today I’m sharing it with you!! As you all well know, we recently moved and in an effort to truly clean out the pantry, I came across my bag of Jasmine rice way back in the back of the [...]
Pizza! Pizza! I love pizza!! Pizza for breakfast, pizza for lunch, pizza for dinner, pizza for snack! I LOVE PIZZA! You know what else I love even more than pizza?! HEALTHY PIZZA!!!! And that’s what you’re gonna get with these two pizza recipes! I used Flatout Flatbread’s new thin crust flatbread that come in at [...]
Never one to shy away from a challenge, I was recently asked by Heluva Good! the maker of delicious sour cream dips to participate in a recipe contest using their products they provided me. The recipe could have no more than 5 main ingredients and needed to be fairly easy to make. I have had [...]
I originally featured this party in Nashville Lifestyles Magazine in May 2011 and is making a reappearance on the blog to help get your creative energy flowing for your upcoming Mother’s Day brunch!!! “When it comes to party planning, I say it’s better to make it than to buy it. Digging into your own creativity allows [...]
So like this recipe, I will keep this post short and sweet! Last week when EVERYTHING in our house was in boxes to move except for a very few essentials, I needed a quick and easy dinner. I honestly don’t know where the inspiration came from, but after scanning the kitchen for what I had [...]
It’s Earth Day!! In honor of this green day celebration, how about putting some green on your plate. This dish can simply serve as your meatless Monday meal or you can use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth and it can be a tasty vegetarian dish. Since I can’t fathom not eating cheese, I am [...]
As I sit here with strep throat for the first time in my entire life among stacks of boxes and overall domestic chaos while my husband is in Mississippi on a semi-”work” golf trip, I am having little difficulty finding lots of nice things to say about him and why I made this special rub [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE me some diet coke!! Too much and I know that I have admitted that I am, in fact, addicted to the stuff! That being said, when I was asked to become a member of The Republic of Tea‘s Enlightenment Team, I was a little concerned that I wouldn’t be [...]
This is the second recipe from my “kitchen interview” with Chef Will from Table 3 Restaurant & Marketplace. The step-by-step for the honey & chive fromage blanc can be found here. Soft scrambling eggs requires quite a bit of active time, but with the other components already made, it is worth the effort. This [...]
The first time I ever had a portabella mushroom was a moment I shall never forget. I was in college and working as a teller at a local bank that happened to be located in a Kroger store. Remember those? It was by far my favorite job that I ever had and I know [...]
Welcome to my blog! I'm Amanda and I am a busy mommy! When the work day is over I drop my heels at the door, slip on my apron and kick domesticity into high gear! I love my family, I love food and I love to have fun. Join me and we can celebrate the joys of life that bring us together.
