Recipes

Fire up the grill and break out your favorite grill-safe baking pan, instead of a big hunk of meat today we are grilling a delicious Creamy Chicken Pasta dish! Chicken tenders make this so simple to throw together, and the wood fire adds notes to this dish you won’t get any other way. Wood Fired Creamy Chicken Pasta We use our Traeger for just about everything, especially in the summer when the thought of turning on my oven or stovetop and further heating up the house makes me want to run for takeout or just skip cooking completely. This dish...

Unless you’ve grown up in Columbus, Ohio, you’ve probably never heard of Johnny Marzetti. This isn’t a person, by the way. It’s a casserole.  The easy-to-love meal is the stuff childhood dreams are made of: macaroni, ground beef, red sauce and cheese, baked together and dished out in thick slices like a lasagna. “My first sign that someone is not from Columbus,” says Jennifer Williams, owner of Weiland’s Market, “is [that] they go, ‘What’s Johnny Marzetti?’”  The most common origin story of the Johnny Marzetti comes from the long-gone Marzetti family of restaurants. Teresa Marzetti's family immigrated from Italy in...

Here’s a look at our groceries and meals from the first part of May 2023 for our big family! Everything feels a little bit EXTRA right now. We just finalized the adoption of our four girls. Elias and our daughter-in-law, Kelsey, just graduated from college. Malachi graduated from high school. And oh yeah, we’re moving. I adore this recent photo of Malachi with our youngest babe. It is so significant that Malachi used to be the youngest and as of his graduation last weekend, we would have been empty nesters. But here he is now, the oldest of 8 at...

Crepini recipes are all the rage these days since the wraps can be found at the local Costco and used in a variety of low-carb and keto dishes. They are free of gluten, dairy, carbs, and sugar and taste simply delicious. Since my discovery of them, I have been scouring the internet to find all the meals I can make, from a healthy breakfast dish to a scrumptious dessert. I decided to make this collection for those like me who are looking for easy, mouth-watering crepini recipes. If you enjoyed this collection of crepini recipes, check out these other articles:...

When I think “easy pasta dish,” an easy lemon garlic pasta recipe is one of my go-to’s.I love my “comforting noodles,” but this recipe is arguably even easier to make. Known as pasta al limone in fancier circles, garlicky lemon pasta is a classic for a reason.I’ll show you how to vary the recipe to suit your tastes, offer some variations to make it a main course, and explain my use of a “secret ingredient” that makes this easy pasta recipe so more-ish.You may also like my easy creamy pasta sauce recipe.For ease of browsing, you can find all my...