Month: February 2012

Slow Cooker Creamy Chicken Pot Pie


This is a great weeknight dinner option. It’s creamy, filling, packed with veggies, and the best part is you can just throw everything in the slow cooker and forget about it. Using squares of puff pastry baked separately keeps it easy and worry free. Plus – you don’t have to worry about the pastry getting soggy when reheated because you just bake it as needed. (more…)

Leftover Roast Beef Sandwiches


So you have made a delicious fancy holiday meal and you have left over roast beef – what do you do with it? Make roast beef sandwiches of course!


Slice that beef up really thinly, which is easier to do once it has been in the fridge overnight.


Throw it on the griddle with some butter and let it get nice and crispy on the edges. Pile it up on some fluffy toasted buns with some horseradish sauce and you are good to go!

Valentine’s Day 2012

I LOVE Valentine’s Day, I really do. I didn’t before I met Jasper, but now that I have someone to share it with I love to have a day to just appreciate and treat each other. We like to spend it at home so that we aren’t distracted by other people/things, or feel like we have to act a certain way. So I spend all day cooking and setting up and we have a wonderful romantic dinner together.

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Mediterranean Salad


This salad is packed with a ton of flavor, and all the vegetables make sure that it is actually a healthy salad. For those who don’t know – it is easy for a salad to get out of control with cheese and dressing and restaurant salads can have well over 1000 calories. This salad doesn’t need a whole lot of dressing, b/c the ingredients have a lot of flavor. Also – Feta cheese is low-fat and it has a strong flavor, so you don’t need to use much. (more…)

Berry Trifle


Trifle is a British layered dessert involving cake, custard, fruit, whipped cream, and sometimes jello. There are many different ways to make it, but the following is my favorite. (more…)

Roasted Salmon with Grapefruit


In trying to stick to my resolution to cook more salmon I was looking for something a little different and fun. To my surprise, I stumbled across two different recipes involving salmon and grapefruit. “Is that a thing?” I wondered, “A common pairing?” I had never thought of it before. I decided to take elements from both recipes to make one complete meal. (more…)