peanut ginger chicken
grilling season is my favorite. i have a hubster that loves to grill, and does a fine job, i might add. it is easy. i whip up a marinade the day before and boom dinner is halfway done. but i mostly love grilling because it …
for the love of creating
main dishes
fiesta lime chicken
i love knockoff recipes. most often, you can usually tweak them to be better than the original! this is the case with fiesta lime chicken. i’ve been making this dish for quite a long time (as in about the time tom and i started dating …
shish kabobs
it’s mid february and i’m ready for grilling season. here in wa, we’ve only really had one week of true winter, and the rest could just be called late fall/early spring. it. is. awesome. our grill is in the garage for “winter”, but i am …
mexican shells
this dish is a hybrid of mexican food and italian. it was another pinterest find and it has definitely found a permanent spot on our dinner rotation! i originally halved the recipe (as shown in the pics below) but now make a full batch, …
peach whiskey bbq chicken
this dish is very simple to throw together, but tastes like it took all day. it is another dish that i have made a few times before blogging about it. the most recent time, i used my new favorite kitchen “thing”… my dutch oven. swoon! …
pollo rosa maria
carrabba’s italian grill is one of my all-time favorite restaurants. there is not a single restaurant to be found anywhere near the lovely state of wa, so i’ve had to take matters into my own hands. i believe i first made this dish back in …
popper grilled cheese
i missed out on a lot of awesome food growing up, due to my excessive pickyness. food was too spicy, too meaty, too sour, yadda yadda yadda. i think i could have lived on mac and cheese, chicken patties from the freezer and ice cream. …
chicago style pizza
on my first trip to chicago in 7th grade, i had a slice of chicago style pizza. it was love at first bite. years later, i discovered that my mom had a stonewear chicago style pizza pan and have been making my own chicago style …
chicken mediterranean pizza
one of the things that i miss the most about tennessee is publix. i can’t say enough wonderful things about the store. one of my favorite things to pick up there was pre-made pizza dough and top it with just about any topping i’d like. …