Pancakes can be an easy breakfast to pull off on weekends or weekdays without a lot of trouble. Making a homemade pancake mix keeps you from making trans fat filled pancakes that are an ingredient standard for most box pancake mixes. I need a large 13-Quart mixing bowl to mix my dry ingredients in and then I store the…
Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Smoothie
Here’s a smoothie that satisfies your peanut butter and chocolate cravings, but you don’t have to feel totally guilty about it. This smoothie is a favorite in our house. Little do my kids know that it has a little avocado and flax seed in it for extra nutrition. Even though my kids love to eat…
Black Bean & Chickpea Burgers
Most meat eaters love burgers, as we do. Most meat lovers might think that you couldn’t possibly be satisfied with a Black Bean burger even as my husband thought before making them for the first time. Add a little spice and they can be as satisfying as the real deal. They’re a great way to cut…
BBQ Chicken Jalapeno Pizza
This pizza recipe represents our need for heat in our cooking. This pizza recipe is on the low to moderate heat side. It’s slightly different from a typical BBQ chicken pizza because we add fresh jalapeno, a spicier rather than sweeter BBQ sauce and whole fresh cilantro leaves for a fresh unexpected flavor. Bringing Spicy Back!…
Basic Pizza Sauce Recipe
One of the Easiest Recipes you’ll ever make! Pizza sauce is one of the easiest recipes you can make on your own, especially if you’re already making the effort to make your own homemade pizza from scratch. This is literally the fastest part of the pizza making process. It’s so easy that if you didn’t even have…
Vinegret Russian Beet Potato Salad (Винегрет)
This beet potato salad is a vegetarian salad I grew up with. My mother used to make it for holidays mostly as it can be a chore to make. There are ways to cheat a little and make this salad faster though. This is my personal take on this Russian salad. I might get some critiques…