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Instant Pot® Stuffed Poblano Pepper Soup
November is National Pepper Month. How to celebrate? With everything else that is going on this month the easier thing to do is to incorporate some peppers into your diet. Today’s recipe uses poblano peppers and an Instant Pot®. How easy is that? Here’s another pepper recipe: Slow Cooker Stuffed Peppers Do you want to know more about peppers? Check this post out.
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Turkey May Not be King on Thanksgiving
Turkey has long held the top position as the family favorite for Thanksgiving. There are many ways to prepare a great turkey. Some favorites might include: Smoked Baked Fried While turkey is a staple, there are people who don’t care for it or simply want a change. It won’t break any etiquette rules to forgo turkey for something fun and new this year. If you’re looking to stress less this Thanksgiving, consider an alternative to a traditional turkey dinner. You can easily choose a theme, or simply go with a family favorite that you don’t typically serve. Here are a few ideas to try- Go international Why not try something…
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How to Improve Your Child’s Digestion
It can often seem like digestion problems don’t start until you are an adult, but many children and teens also experience issues digesting food. In some cases, it is from food sensitivities or allergies, like lactose intolerance, but in other kids, it has to do with what they’re eating and often how much. Here are some helpful tips for improving your child’s digestion. Know the Common Food Sensitivities Among Kids The first way to help your kids with their digestion is by understanding what food sensitivities they might have. They don’t need a full-blown allergy just to experience digestive issues from what they eat. There are many foods that cause…
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Prepping for Christmas During Thanksgiving
One of the ways the holidays become stressful is lack of time. Being pulled in too many directions creates stress and overwhelm. Streamlining activities makes it easier to batch your activities so you’re more efficient with your time. If you do double duty with holiday activities, you can actually prep for Christmas during Thanksgiving time. A lot of the prep you do for Thanksgiving is the same for Christmas. Thinking ahead and doing double duty can help you cut your activities in half and free up important time in December. If you’re focused and take some extra time to prepare, you can get twice the benefit from one action. Here’s…
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National Vichyssoise Day
It’s another National Day — today for a potato and leek (among other things) soup with a French name. National Vichyssoise Day! This soup is customarily served cold during the summer months. However, it can be served warm as well. History debates the origin of this soup. Many believe that it was created in 1917 by Chef Louis Diat in New York City. He would make a hot potato soup and add milk to it to cool it down. Others trace it back to King Louis XV’s court. The story is that the king wanted potato soup but worried about people poisoning his food. The servants had to taste it…
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Gratitude: The Reason for the Season
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans. Though the origins are different, the sentiment is essentially the same. Thanksgiving is a day set apart to celebrate the bounty and blessings of the year. Reminding us to be thankful for the abundance and wonderful things that have happened — even when a lot of things have not gone to plan or have actually gone wrong. In America, there are a lot of traditions that go hand-in-hand with Thanksgiving. Football, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and large dinners with turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Certainly, these are things to be thankful for, but there’s plenty of other reasons…
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Orange-Pomegranate Salad with Orange Champagne Vinaigrette
Hello! I hope everyone is doing well as we near the end of the year. Looking forward to seeing the back of 2020 — what a year! Busy Month Today’s recipe contains some of my favorite things and one that I can’t eat anymore. Since this month is National Georgia Pecan Month and National Pomegranate Month, this recipe covers both of them. Two birds, one stone! I love pecans — especially roasting them in the oven, adding a little salt, and munching away. They are the nuts I like the most so when I have the opportunity to have them in a meal, I just have at it! Here’s the…
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Shawarma-Spiced Chicken Wraps
It’s National Greek Yogurt Day! So today’s recipe, Shawarma-Spiced Chicken, has a greek yogurt sauce. Chicken shawarma is traditionally prepared on a vertical, rotating spit over open flames. As a result, it can be challenging to prepare an authentic version of this dish at home. Fortunately, this tasty recipe delivers great shawarma flavor using tools you probably already have in your kitchen. Tip: For quick make-ahead meals, double or triple this recipe and prepare several freezers bags with chicken and marinade at once. Then, place each bag in the freezer until ready to use. Pull out a bag the night before preparing to give the chicken a chance to defrost…
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Loaded Sheet Pan Nachos
Hi! Are you getting ready for the weekend? Today’s recipe could play a part in a fun weekend! It’s National Nachos Day! Yum! So here is a recipe for Loaded Sheet Pan Nachos. Cooking with a sheet pan has become really convenient, hasn’t it? Notice that red onions are used in this recipe? White onion is a more traditional choice to add flavor to the browned ground beef. However, in this case, the rest of the red onion used to prepare the Pico de Gallo is used instead. This lends a very subtle, yet distinct, sweet note to the garlic and savory taco seasoning. In addition, baby mixed heirloom…
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BLT with Creamy Avocado Spread
National Sandwich Day! I have a special connection to the sandwich. As a child, I grew up eating sandwiches almost every day at school. I took my homemade and packed lunch to school up to around 10th grade. My lunches were pretty straight forward: a sandwich, bag of chips, some kind of dessert (Little Debbie snack cakes, anyone!), and a piece of fruit. Little variation in the composition of the entire lunch over the years. Little difference in the sandwiches — different luncheon meat and cheese. I was a kid — it was cool! Today’s Recipe: BLT with Creamy Avocado Spread Most sandwich “recipes” are actually just templates because there…
