This Dirty Rice recipe was originally posted on Dine & Dish October 2010. Photos and some text were updated April 2021.

I have a confession to make. Let me tell ‘ya…if I didn’t get kicked out of the food blogging world for the post about blogging success that I wrote yesterday, I’m sure this revelation will be what does it. I have a very, very difficult time with side dishes for our family dinners. In fact, Zataran’s, Uncle Ben, Betty Crocker…if we are going to have a side in addition to fresh fruit, veggies, and salad or some kind of potato, it comes from a package. Pre-packaged side dishes are what save my dinners when I need more substance on the table!…

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I go through phases with my Instant Pot. Sometimes I love it and use it all the time. Other times it will go back into my pantry and I’ll forget about it for months. When it’s hot, it’s hot and when it’s not, it’s not. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who has this kind of relationship with their pressure cooker. Any small appliance, really. Out of sight, out of mind!

Well, today I have a recipe for Instant Pot Risotto with Shrimp and Veggies that is well worth bringing your instant pot out of hiding for. I promise! If you love risotto, but don’t love having to babysit it on the stovetop for a long time, this recipe is for you!…

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This post was originally shared on December 6th, 2011. Since it’s one of my favorite holiday cocktail recipes, I wanted to share it with you again!

So, I kind of made a cocktail for a BRUNCH party! It was an innocent mistake, honestly. When I signed up to participate in the Virtual Holiday Potluck with some blogger friends, I failed to notice the word “BRUNCH” in the title. I just was thinking holiday, friends, chocolate, cocktails! What’s more fun than sharing a Godiva Mudslide Recipe for a festive holiday occasion? Not much, I say…not much. …

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Can we talk about how much I love a good one pot recipe? First of all recipes like this make cleanup a breeze. Secondly, there’s just something about all the flavors melding together in one pot that makes a dish extra good. Finally, one pot meals usually equal comfort food. And who doesn’t love comfort food?

I love this One Pot Creamy Garlic Noodles recipe for all those reasons. It’s flavorful, comforting and easy! This is also what I love about the new cookbook A Year of Favorites. The delicious recipes found within are flavorful, comforting and easy. If you are familiar with the food blog Favorite Family Recipes you would expect nothing less from their cookbook. Their cookbook is full of the same kind of family friendly recipes you find on their blog….

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I love summer for a lot of reasons, but one of the big reasons is in our house, summer = burger season! We have burgers many times a week during the summer and honestly, I could eat them many times a week more. They are one of my favorite foods during this time of year. I pretty much stink at grilling, but my husband? He’s an absolute grill master and burgers are his specialty. I need to take lessons from him, but it’s actually kind of nice handing over the dinner reigns every once in awhile.

These Better Cheddar Burgers made with Certified Angus Beef® Brand ground beef and Pepper Jack Cheese are absolute burger perfection. Really, you could use any variety of shredded cheddar cheese, but cheese with a kick really make these Better Cheddar Burgers stand out!…

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Oh, what a week. We had our heating and cooling company come on Monday to do our annual winter furnace tune up. That all went fine and well until Monday night, when we realized our furnace had stopped working. Assuming it was an easy fix, we called the heating and cooling company and they came back out on Tuesday. Still not working. They replaced our furnace on Wednesday because our furnace was 13 years old. So, $3300 later and a new furnace and guess what…still not working. It’s now Friday and they have been out every day this week for hours and hours trying to figure out what’s going on. Meanwhile, the temps have been in the 20’s, and you know how I feel about cold… I am NOT a fan. …

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When I was first married I was a horrible cook. Well, I take that back…maybe I wasn’t such a horrible cook, but was working 60+ hour work weeks and didn’t have the time or desire to cook. Even so, things were pretty bad. When we’d have company I’d make Hamburger Helper (Chicken Helper if I was feeling extra fancy), canned green beans and an easy eclair dish for dessert. I don’t really remember much of what my husband and I would actually eat for dinner as newlyweds, but I guarantee it wasn’t much better.

After Jacob was born, I was still working, but from home and much less. I had more time to focus on “domestic” tasks, and I think because of a hope and prayer for a wife who would actually cook meals, my husband bought me my first KitchenAid mixer. Up until that point, if I made cookies, it was always using store bought dough. I just didn’t have the time or the desire to make cookies from scratch. Nick LOVES cookies and grew up in a household where homemade cookies were a daily thing. I decided to embrace my husbands love for cookies and began baking….

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I’m slowly giving into the fact that it’s no longer summer. The weather in Kansas has been so wishy washy…75 one day, 30 another. I’ve been holding onto those 75 degree days with all my might, but they have been slowly disappearing, giving way to gray skies and colder temperatures. I think we saw our last warm day for awhile at the beginning of this week.

With the cold weather comes the return to comfort food…those dishes that aren’t so popular in the hotter days of summer resurface for the season. My attempt to hold onto summer sometimes shows up in what I make for comfort food. For example, we have Ham and Swiss sandwiches all the time in the summer so to “winterize” that favorite, I like to make a Ham and Swiss soup. This is one of my absolute favorite “hearty” soups to make, for good reason. The flavors blend together so nicely and it really is one of those soups that warms you up from the inside out….

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