Instant Pot Ground Beef & Pasta

It’s Day Four of being indoors due to insanely cold temps here in Nebraska and I’m quickly losing interest in my usual diversions. So while the hot coffee brews, the chicken bone broth bubbles, and my laundry dries, I’ve been organizing my office. I found this hamburger helper-esque recipe in a pile and I recall…

Avgolemono Soup

My friend Joanna shared this recipe with me and it’s a winner! I took a long time with it as I wanted to use ye ol’ Ninja Foodi. I cobbled together Joanna’s Avgolemono recipe and another one utilizing an Instant Pot. My own mishmash is below. 1-2 T olive oil1 yellow or white onion, diced1/2…

Ina Garten’s Chocolate Cake

Ms. Garten calls this recipe Beatty’s Chocolate Cake, but I don’t know who Beatty is, so I’ve renamed it for my own filing purposes. It’s been a hot minute since I baked a cake from scratch—and goodness knows that if I bake you something it means I REALLY love you. A gift from my kitchen…

Crispy Pork Carnitas

I’ve been dying to make carnitas and, as it turns out, my husband’s Christmas gift to me of a Ninja Foodi made easy work of the whole shebang. I am highly tech-reluctant and had decided the stress of figuring out a new appliance could wait until summer (as that seemed logical in the moment), however…

Chickpea-Tomato Curry Soup

I’m a fan of soup, and an ever bigger fan of unusual but delicious soups. Homemade soup is ALWAYS the best and, IMO, tops even the best soups at restaurants. I grabbed this recipe from a friend on Facebook and cannot stop oohing and aahing over it. It’s crazy good. (While I very rarely crave…

Best Ever Beef Stew

Damn Delicious knocks it out of the park again! The flavors in this stew are fantastic. I love the wine, spices, and tomato paste combo. Sirloin steak isn’t cheap, but it does yield a delicious bite of beef so I felt it was worth the money. I followed this recipe almost exactly, making a few…

Sauteed Sweet Potatoes

I’ve recently started to enjoy sweet potatoes. In the right context they add wonderful flavor and nutrition to a meal. We’re trying to eat less carb-rich starches in our dinners around here, so I paired this side with parmesan chicken and broccoli and everyone was pleased. Note: I used one large sweet potatoes and added…

Roasted Cauliflower

I roasted broccoli recently and got overenthusiastic with spices as I pretended I was a chef on Chopped. After literally rinsing the veggies in fistfuls to make it palatable (God bless my family for still eating it), I decided to follow recipes a little more faithfully. Here’s a simple one that we all love to…

Creamy Chicken & Sweet Potato Curry

We’re working on eating low(er) carb in this house… and this recipe not only fit the bill but I ate the leftovers for lunch two days in a row. I am told this is normal behavior, however I usually, uh, don’t like eating leftovers. The whole family liked this one so I’ll definitely make it…

Cauliflower Puree

Another recipe lifted (and slightly altered) from Dana Carpender’s The New 500 Low-Carb Cookbook. I am not a fan of pretending cauliflower is not cauliflower. Do whatever floats your boat and call these Fauxtatoes if you will; I, however, cannot. I have melded Carpender’s recipe with a few others found online and absolutely stand by…