Mom, the Lunch Lady

  Use leftover ham and asparagus, to create a delicious hearty frittata. When meats go on sale for certain holidays (like Thanksgiving here last week), I often buy extra to have for a later date. Even though my sister in law was cooking the turkey this year, I still bought one. It's in the freezer, until I get a craving for Turkey Dinner next month, LOL. Same goes with ham. Sometimes the deal is so good, that you can't pass it up.  With my SO working afternoons, it's just the kiddos and me for dinner during the week. We often love to have breakfast for dinner. I love it because it's a simple and low cost meal. With both kids learning at home, and me still being off work, our grocery budget it taking a beating. So I'm always happy when I can sneak in low cost dinners! A great example is a frittata, It's quick easy dinner and you can throw almost anything into it; so it's a great way to use up leftovers. I quickly popped some scrubbed potatoes in the microwave...

 Healthy K ale and Artichokes take centre stage, in the BEST creamy warm baked dip. Perfect for entertaining, or while watching the game on TV Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn commission from these links. I offer them to you at no extra charge.   My family is all about dip. Anytime we go out to eat, we get some sort of dip, as an appetizer.  Most restaurants offer Spinach Artichoke dip, so we've had just about any variation you can make. Years ago I attended a blogger event at Summer Fresh and they sent us home with the most fabulous kale dip. It was slightly sweet, creamy and delicious. Well, I haven't been able to find the kale dip in any of our grocery stores since then, so I decided to make a Kale Artichoke Dip. It basically is the same as a spinach artichoke dip, but using kale in place of the spinach. I made ours using cream cheese, which is a base I enjoy in warm dips. This is a very simple dip, yet it's so addic...

  Meal Planning is a great way to save time and money, every week! Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn commission from these links. I offer them to you at no extra charge. Last weekend was Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. My SO's sister, and her partner, hosted a lovely intimate dinner for us, and SO's mom. I fell in love with the tablescape, that they created for our meal. It was great to get a bit of normalcy in, even if our dinner was not as big as years past. I wasn't able to visit my family for the holiday, but we decided it would be more prudent to stick to our social bubble.  Dinner was delicious! We started with a Curried Butternut Squash Soup, followed by turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, rutabaga, green beans, fresh cranberry sauce and homemade rolls (which I brought). Dinner was followed by a fire in the back yard and a video call from family, to wish each other a Happy Thanksgiving. We ended the night...

  Ground beef, vegetables and pasta make up this hearty Italian inspired soup. Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn commission from these links. I offer them to you at no extra charge. Brrrr! The temperature has been dropping fast. I am still trying not to turn on the heat, so there's plenty of snuggling with blankets going on, LOL.  When the weather starts to change like this, I crave soup. Soup warms you up from the inside out, which in turn makes the cold weather outside seem a little less severe. I made this soup for dinner last week, on one of these cold days. I needed something hearty enough for my SO, and two hungry teenagers. So I went with an Italian soup, bursting with hearty ground beef and pasta. I served it with grilled cheese, which has perfect to dunk. It was fantastic! So much so, that there wasn't a drop of soup left, by the time dinner was done. The kids ate with gusto and everyone was warm, all the way down to...

 Delicious shrimp and crab are mixed with ricotta, stuffed into pasta shells and baked in a sinful roast garlic cream sauce. Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn commission from these links. I offer them to you at no extra charge. This recipe won the  Great Cream Challenge , back in 2014. When approached to participate in this challenge, I really didn't know what I was going to make. I had to create a stuffed pasta recipe, that used cream. After thinking about it for a few days, I decided I wanted a decadent stuffed pasta, since the cooler weather is now upon us. So I went the seafood route, because shrimp and crab both pair well with cream sauce. Once we tried it, I knew this had to be my entry recipe.  So I sent it off, crossing my fingers that everyone would like them. I'm not really a big fan of voting contests, since it often turns into a popularity contest, rather than which recipe really deserves to win. Thankfully, ...

  Vegetables are the star in this creamy, thick and cheesy soup. Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn commission from these links. I offer them to you at no extra charge. Every week I try to make one or two meatless meals, to help ease our grocery budget. With prices of meat and poultry on the rise, eating meatless dinners really helps us stay within budget. It's been a bit of a challenge trying to find meals that will appeal to the whole family. What would appeal to me and my SO, won't necessarily appeal to my daughter, she's the pickiest of the two kids; so you never know what she will or will not like on any given day. It becomes quite tiresome at times. I figured, since she loves my  Broccoli Soup , she would be OK with a veggie chowder. I used very similar ingredients, to make this delicious, creamy and thick soup. Using veggies I always have on hand, I had dinner on the table in under 30 minutes. Served with homemade bi...

These decadent muffins are studded with tender spiced apples and dipped into a sweet glaze. You'll think you're eating an apple fritter. Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn commission from these links. I offer them to you at no extra charge. Part of being a food blogger, is being part of the food blog universe on Facebook. My timeline is bursting with delicious photos from all the food bloggers I follow. At least once a day I save a recipe that I've seen, because it looks so good I have to make it. This is the case with this recipe. I saw it years ago and bookmarked the link to make. By the time I went through my bookmarks and remembered this recipe. it had disappeared from the blogosphere. So I decided to create my own version of this muffin and I must say they are out of this world good!!!  I decided to cook the apples down before adding them to the batter. The result is like muffin ,meets caramel apple pie ...