Share Chicken Marsala on the Lighter Side Dinners Entertaining Healthy I’ve recently come across a pretty spectacular cookbook find. It’s so great, in fact, that I could probably cook from it every night of the... Christine Carlisle September 22, 2015 Like 1 Read More Comment
Share Garlic Confit Toast Breads People ask me all the time why I started writing a blog. It’s probably a question I get at least once a week. Blogging, though increasingly common, still has this kind... Christine Carlisle September 16, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Cake Desserts Entertaining Make Ahead Three ingredients. That’s all is takes to make this incredibly fun, crispy, crunchy, chocolatey, cool dessert. This ice cream cake is so easy to put together, and it knocked the... Christine Carlisle September 8, 2015 Like 1 Read More Comment
Share One Pot Coconut Chicken and Rice Dinners Healthy Vegetables And just like that, it’s September and I’m back to playing extracurricular taxi driver after school. Wow, that was fast. Getting back into the swing... Christine Carlisle September 1, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Pork Chops with Fresh Tomatoes, Onion, Garlic, and Feta Dinners Gluten Free Healthy Make Ahead Before I get into the heart of this recipe, let me just state that this tomato-onion-garlic-basil concoction is delicious on pork chops. It would be delicious over chicken, or delicious... Christine Carlisle August 28, 2015 Like 4 Read More Comment
Share Oatmeal Coconut Raspberry Bars Baking Cookies Desserts Entertaining Make Ahead A couple of weeks ago, I got to cross off something on my bucket list. My dear friend Kristin told us earlier in the summer that she had two extra... Christine Carlisle August 25, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Spiralized Italian Pasta Salad Entertaining Gluten Free Make Ahead Pasta Salads Side Dishes Vegetables Vegetarian Zucchini noodles seem to be all the rage right now and spiralizers are moving from a fancy garnish tool to an everyday kitchen gadget. My... Christine Carlisle August 20, 2015 Like 0 Read More 1 Comment
Share Middle Eastern Chickpea Burgers Dinners Entertaining Healthy Make Ahead Vegetables Vegetarian My husband is not a veggie burger guy…at all. I can’t keep track of how many times he’s given me that “Why would you do that?” look in a restaurant... Christine Carlisle August 18, 2015 Like 1 Read More Comment
Share Chicken Cutlets with Strawberry, Avocado, and Basil Salsa Dinners Gluten Free Healthy The Dog Days of Summer have finally hit us in Indiana. After a pretty cool and soggy start, now that it’s just about time to go back to school, the... Christine Carlisle August 4, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Blueberry Quinoa Pancakes Breakfast Vegetarian One of the reasons I started this blog was because friends and family often turned to me when they needed an idea for a recipe,... Christine Carlisle July 30, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Rich and Fudgy Zucchini Brownies Baking Cookies Desserts Healthy Vegetables Vegetarian When I was young, my mother had this wonderful little garden on the side of our house. I used to love watching the garden grow each summer, and daily trips... Christine Carlisle July 28, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Chilled Summer Veggie Salad Entertaining Gluten Free Healthy Make Ahead Salads Vegetables Vegetarian When it comes to summer food, what do you look for? I look for light, crisp, clean, fresh, and flavorful. In the sticky summer heat, I don’t want food that... Christine Carlisle July 21, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Penne alla Emiliana – Dinner at Indy’s Sangiovese Ristorante Dinners Entertaining Pasta Sauces I’m tough to please when it comes to Italian food. My dad’s side of the family is Italian, so I was lucky to grow up... Christine Carlisle July 9, 2015 Like 1 Read More Comment
Share Grilled Steak with Chimichurri Sauce – Red Gold Summer Grilling Giveaway Dinners Entertaining Gluten Free Grilling Sauces Summertime means grilling time, and my friends at Red Gold Tomatoes have come up with a giveaway that I’m sure will make many grilling aficionados pretty darn excited. From now... Christine Carlisle July 7, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Patriotic Layered Berry Pavlova Entertaining Gluten Free Healthy Make Ahead It’s July! And almost the 4th, which means it’s time to get your 4th of July plans in order! This deceptively simple dessert is sure to knock your family’s socks... Christine Carlisle July 2, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share BLT Macaroni Salad Entertaining Make Ahead Pasta Salads With the 4th of July right around the corner, I’m pretty sure a lot of you are in BBQ menu planning mode. If you’re thinking... Christine Carlisle June 30, 2015 Like 5 Read More 2 Comments
Share Copycat P.F. Chang’s Chicken Lettuce Wraps Appetizers Dinners I’m not usually a big preparer of “copycat” meals, because in my experience, they’re never quite as good as the original. That said, I’ve had this one in my files... Christine Carlisle June 23, 2015 Like 3 Read More Comment
Share Shrimp Arrabbiata Pasta Fish Healthy Pasta Sauces Gosh, I love shrimp. You know that scene in Forrest Gump, where Bubba goes on and on, and on, about everything you can do with shrimp? I never saw anything... Christine Carlisle June 4, 2015 Like 1 Read More Comment
Share Chicken-Avocado Salad Sandwiches Healthy Salads Sandwiches Vegetables Today is the last day of school. HOW? I know the teachers may not be in agreement with me, but this year simply flew by.... Christine Carlisle May 27, 2015 Like 0 Read More Comment
Share Chicken & Gnocchi Dumplings Dinners Healthy Sometimes, even though the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and you break a sweat when you walk outside, you just need some good, old-fashioned comfort food. This was... Christine Carlisle May 12, 2015 Like 20 Read More 5 Comments