Let me tell you about these loaded breakfast potatoes. H-E-A-V-E-N. If you love breakfast as much as I do, you know the importance of perfectly cooked potatoes. They're seriously the perfect side dish for many breakfast foods, whether you're having easy scrambled eggs with some sausage on the side side, or a filling breakfast burrito. A good breakfast potato recipe just goes with everything! I've been perfecting mine for years, and I remember those earlier years where I would up with oily, … [Read more...]
Chorizo, Egg and Potato Breakfast Quesadilla with Chipotle Sauce
Disclosure: This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. As always, all opinions are mine alone. Being a California girl, I've had my fair share of Latin food. Even though there is no Latin blood running through my veins, I've grown up eating and cooking Mexican food courtesy of my many friends and their willingness to add a seat to the table when I was growing up as well as the many taquerias and restaurants scattered all over the bay area that I've visited. I … [Read more...]
#ad Copycat Chicken Bowl with Tyson Chicken Nuggets #HungerHeroes
Last weekend I spent the day with my mom and it was just the two of us, with none of the kids. This is a rarity, and we had a great time! We did some shopping at Sam's Club and she decided it was time for her to go ahead and get a membership. We went on a Sunday afternoon when all the great demos are present with the taste testing in full effect. While I went browsing the frozen food aisle, we ran into the Tyson Chicken Nuggets demo and learned all about the Tyson Hunger Heroes Champions for … [Read more...]
One Skillet Chorizo & Andouille Hash
There's two things that I absolutely love. That would be breakfast and one skillet meals. A hash is like the perfect marriage of the two, and a good cast iron skillet is essential in the cooking process.There's many ways to make a hash, but I love to start mine with a meat and potatoes base, add some veggies, and of course the eggs on top. I topped this with Sriracha (aka "Rooster Sauce"), it just flowed perfectly with the flavors.The very first ingredient of this particular hash was Chorizo. I … [Read more...]
Fourth of July Recipe Ideas!
Okay, let's just get it over with.I've recently discovered that I'm a bad food blogger.I happen to follow some pretty wonderful food bloggers and they have themed posts for each and every holiday prepared well over two weeks in advance. Their food is gorgeous and I always think to myself, "Man, I need to do that!"Problem is, I'm so busy! D-Man started Pre-Kindergarten last week, I'm still having pain from my tooth issues, and my husbands schedule is always SO sporadic (and crazy busy!). Add to … [Read more...]
Easy Classic Potato Salad
We had a very relaxed Easter. RoRo has been teething something fierce, so our nights have been pretty long. We got a late start Easter morning, since we were up so late the night before.A few days prior I had eaten three lemonheads in a row, and have been suffering from a painful raw mouth, which seemed to have ignited some tooth pain as well. I've been pretty medicated, and RoRo and I have been sharing the same tube of Orajel. Fun times, my friends!So we kept it pretty low key for Easter. We … [Read more...]
Cheesy Au Gratin Potatoes
Au Gratin Potatoes is originally a french dish that is common in the boxed mix area in your supermarket. It's a dish I grew up eating and another favorite that I consider a comfort food. I've mentioned before that I love to make those old comfort foods and instead of making the boxed mix I like to learn how to make them from scratch and ingredients that I typically can find in my pantry at home, free of preservatives and additives.This was made for Christmas dinner with a beef roast and red … [Read more...]
Herb Seasoned Smashed Potatoes
OK friends, this is just one of those recipes that is super easy, and absolutely delicious. The kind where you proclaim, "That's it?!" after taking your baking sheet out of the oven. The type where once all the food has been eaten, you want to make it again the next night. It's just that easy and good!Before I did the blogging thing, I was addicted to Pinterest. Let's be honest here, I had a few friends that had dabbled in blogging, but I just didn't know what it really was, and didn't know how … [Read more...]
Hearty and Comforting Shephard’s Pie
One of a handful of the first things I made when I started really getting into cooking was a Shephard's Pie.This came at a time when money was extremely tight for us, and it cause me to get very creative in the kitchen.(You can read a little more about that here) Sometimes piecing together ingredients with a tight budget can be the times you get most creative in the kitchen! I wouldn't trade those hard times for anything, because that's when I was forced to learn to try different things when it … [Read more...]
Buttery Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
There's one thing that always makes my family happy, and that is good old mashed potatoes. In these photos I paired them with my savory boneless pork chops and my garlic Parmesan asparagus, but mashed potatoes are really great with anything. Mashed potatoes are always a staple around the dinner table for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and this version is sure to please! The great thing about them is you can make them up to 24 hours in advance, refrigerate them, then pop them in the … [Read more...]
