by Lisa Barnes | Dec 12, 2020 | Meal Planning, Recipes
So this week, seems I got my second wind, y’all. After struggling through a bit of a cooking slump last week (Thanksgiving tends to do that to me), I finally turned a corner and got inspired to test a few new recipes to add into my rotation. After some very...
by Lisa Barnes | Nov 28, 2020 | Meal Planning, Recipes
Welp, as of this week, we’ll have made it to December. Wow. That’s 48 weeks of family dinners under your belt, most likely at home, all during an extremely stressful and uh, unusual 2020. If you are human, which I can presume you are, the burnout is...
by Lisa Barnes | Oct 23, 2020 | Recipes, Meal Planning
I believe that good food is like a warm hug from the inside out. And we can all use more hugs right now, since we are not all getting as many of the actual physical hugs. Leading up to Halloween and election day (VOTE VOTE VOTE) I have designed next week’s meal...
by Lisa Barnes | Oct 9, 2020 | Meal Planning, Recipes
For next week, I am planning some of my family’s favorite fall-inspired dinners that are easy to make, prep and clean up. Because Fall seems to be full of all kinds of busy even though we are doing all of the things from home. And honestly, fall cooking is my...
by Kate Etue | Aug 5, 2020 | Tips + Tricks, Columns
If you haven’t noticed, it’s summer. And it’s hot. Like, miserably hot. My family thought we’d enjoy a relaxing dinner al fresco on the back porch and, just…nope. But it got me thinking…is there anything to the saying that spicy...