Let’s celebrate the holidays early with a giveaway from Anderson Seafoods… for a $300 Gift Card to order their seafood online. I can see this being awesome for a holiday party or for Thanksgiving or Christmas Day. Or even New Year’s! Wouldn’t it be nice to add a little seafood to your menu? I receive…
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Farro with Seafood Recipe {Weekly Menu Plan}
Our family friendly menu plan for the week, including this weight watchers friendly recipe for Farro with Langostino Tails and Spinach. I officially joined Weight Watchers today. Or should I say, joined again. For like the 5th time. I’ve been really successful on Weight Watchers twice in my life and I love the program. The two…
The Happiness Report #32
My new motto…”If at first you don’t succeed, pie, pie again.” Happy Friday, friends, and happy Happiness Report! I hope your weekend is off to a great start. This is such a busy time of year for most people…I think it’s so important especially when times get busy to take a few minutes out of…
Connect Through Reading Cozy Up Book Reviews
Book reviews of some of my favorite books I’ve recently read to cozy up with this fall. The photographer in me really doesn’t like the time change… the earlier setting sun means the less time during the day for photography. The book lover in me loves daylight savings time because I feel like the colder…
The Truth Is…
Photo by Wrenn Bird Photography An excerpt of this was originally posted on my personal Facebook (where I received some incredibly, touching support) but it’s been on my mind all day, so I thought I’d share some more thoughts here.
Dinner Party Ideas for an Italian Themed Party
Some practical dinner party ideas for hosting an Italian-Themed party as well as an amazing recipe for Caramelized Onion Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms. How many of you host regular dinner parties? My husband and I used to host a themed dinner party every month with a group of friends, then life, kids and busy schedules got in…
Hot Buttered Rum Cocktail
A Hot Buttered Rum recipe gets a fall like twist with spiced rum and pumpkin spiced butter! Hot Buttered Rum… I can’t think of a better cocktail to curl up with on a cold, fall day. I actually hadn’t had Hot Buttered Rum before until a few weeks ago. I was visiting a friend one evening and…
Weekly Menu Plan {Dan Dan Noodles Recipe}
It’s the return of the Dine & Dish weekly menu plan for the week of November 3th – 9th and a PF Chang’s Copycat Dan Dan Noodles recipe. My goal with the NaBloPoMo challenge is to get back to posting some of the regular type content that I used to post, but for various reasons (like my…
Happiness Report #31 – NaBloPoMo Edition
The Happiness Report #31 is also my first post for NaBloPoMo, where I’ll be sharing content each day this month. Hi friends and happy first day of November (and first day of NaBloPoMo)! It is all of a sudden freezing cold here in Kansas. Yesterday was chillier than we expected… maybe even one of the…
Easy Appetizers: Bacon Cream Cheese Rollups
Easy Appetizers are my favorite! This recipe from the 70’s gets a modern update with PHILADELPHIA Bacon Cream Cheese Spread. These Bacon Cream Cheese Rollups will be a hit at your next gathering! Sometimes I think my mom’s generation had it easier when it came to cooking. All you have to do is look at an…
