When you can get your kids involved in making dinner, getting them to eat is easy. Help your kids get good cooking and eating skills by making dinner time begin before they sit down to the table and encourage them to be little chefs!
When Friday rolls around in Wisconsin, it means two things. First, the weekend is nearly here and, second, it's fish fry time! If you are thinking the only way to enjoy a fish fry is to head out to the nearest local tavern or restaurant, it's time to consider a quick, easy way to enjoy a fish fry at home.
Spring is supposed to arrive this month, but given our snowy weather, you wouldn't know it. What's a girl to do? Make soup. Make warm, comforting, delicious soup. Then, surrounded by family, enjoy it with warm bread. Yeah, spring can take its time.
Weekends are a time for decadent breakfasts, but that doesn't mean you must limit yourself to eggs, bacon, and toast on a plate. Get the ultimate in decadence with a truly inspired breakfast sandwich and you'll be happy to start your day with it and a cup of coffee.
Kitchen tools can help make the difference between cooking drudgery and cooking bliss. Whether they can multi-task and take on many kitchen duties or they reliably perform one important task faithfully, a good cook loves good tools. This time around, my stand mixer and I tackle a sweet challenge: brownies.
It's dinner time. Are you going to go out for Tex-Mex or Chinese? Why not stay in and have both without spending much effort or money on the meal? Think it's the stuff of pipe dreams? Think again! It's time to get out your crockpot and let it cook dinner for you!
Sometimes, you just want something sweet. If you are lucky, you can reach for a candy bar … one you've made, of course! Get a simple recipe for a decadent treat just in time to start your weekend right. Oh, how sweet it is!
No -- really! You can let your slow cooker make a perfect pot roast for you while you spend a busy day working, playing, or some combination therein. All you need to do is plan a little ahead and be ready to pour some glasses of wine and set out some bread to soak up the gravy this super dish provides for you.
The evening before Valentine's Day brings a talk about love to the table and hilarity ensues. Here's hoping your day includes love and brings you joy. In the end, that's what Valentine's Day is really about for me, even if Hallmark might have its own ideas about that!
Watching a cute film together inspires a mid-week menu that's bursting with flavor and featuring incredibly simple ingredients and methods. It's time to share the best part of being a pirate with you. I'll give you a hint: it's not the cutlasses or the looting!
