Crossing biscuits and gravy with chicken pot pies !  Our deconstructed pot pie?  Or our open-faced pot pie?  Whatever it is, it's fre...

When we go grocery shopping, we always go with a budget and a list which means we generally have the week's meals planned out.  Som...

We've been making soup about once a week.  Throughout the week, we often have roasted vegetables several times and will often make a sal...

Justin's made an Eastern-European style cabbage rolls a few times and we have a recipe for them here.   But ever since he did, I was thi...

This soup came out a little like a cross between tortilla soup and a Mexican minestrone... way tasty!  I was pleased with it.  Just enough h...

A few weeks ago, the idea for this meal came to mind... I don't even remember why.  But it's one of those delicious southern comfort...

I like my creamy soups real thick... like a gravy!  Justin, however, prefers his a bit thinner, and that's how we usually make them.  Th...

Giardiniera is a pickled, spiced vegetable mix, often used as a condiment for food in the Midwestern U.S.  Jennifer grew up in the Chic...

Jen and I love pickles.  Jen a little more than me, I think, but we both like the Claussen brand refrigerated dills. We set about trying t...

In keeping with Justin's summer theme on the last post, I made this fantastic summery vegetable salad with a homemade Italian dressing. ...

I'd grabbed a Chinese chicken salad at our local co-op the other day for lunch.  Forgetting how much I love Chinese chicken salad, I cam...

I really love red cabbage and its EXTREME CRISP!  (I just wanted to hop on the EXTREME bandwagon.)  So the night after Justin made Ribolita ...

I'm a guy who loves game meat.  My former father-in-law and myself used to raise chickens and rabbits for meat.  We had coveys of quail ...