Spinach Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette Dressing One of our many cooking missions is to help folks to ditch their bottled salad dressings. You can just as easily make delicious vinaigrettes and dressings with a few pantry essentials. It’s healthier, cheaper, and most importantly, a lot more fun to get out your whisk and exercise some wrist strength. Today’s recipe post

Shortcut Twice Baked Potatoes With the low-carb, paleo, Atkins movement, potatoes are no longer the food staple they used to be, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t love them in moderation. After all who could say no to twice baked potatoes. They’ll always be a comforting presence at any dinner. However, to get them on the table for a

BBQ season is coming up, and even though I love grilling every type of meat on my Weber, we have a lot of vegetarian friends, so BBQ season also means it’s time to get creative with our veggie burger options. We could easily purchase one of the many pre-made options. However with a large food processor, you can make the filling for any veggie…

So, we’re one week late with May’s #CookMoreIn2013 tip but better late than never. That actually is my philosophy on learning to cook too – it’s never too late to learn, and it definitely is a skill that you and the people around you can always benefit from regardless of how late in life you start. Anyhow, I digress. Let’s

This taco soup recipe is the kind that you’ll copy down onto an index card and pass onto your children. It’s just the kind of comfort that will be appreciated for years to come. I made a huge pot of this the week before we launched our new meal plan site, and it was just the soulful eats I needed to get through a…

Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu In last week’s “Heroes in the Kitchen” post, Carla Graves shared her story about how cooking has remained a constant through all of her life stages. Family dinners were an important part of her childhood, and Carla has made home cooked meals a priority with her 2 year old son. I asked her to give us one