Happy New Year, friends! I’m coming to you in the new year with a recipe that fits into my New Years Resolutions perfectly. It’s one of my goals in 2019 to eat more meals at home. We do a decent job of this most of the time, but when we fall off the wagon, we fall hard. Life is busy for all of us. Sometimes I forget that creating a delicious meal at home doesn’t have to take a lot of time.

For this Beer Battered Fish Tostadas recipe, I partnered with Gorton’s Seafood. Gorton’s Seafood products are a staple in our house and something I turn to often when I need a tasty meal, quick. I love that I can bake and serve the fish fillets as they are with a little tartar sauce. A simple fish and chips meal is a family favorite. If I want something a little more involved, I will dress the fish fillets up into something like this tostada recipe. In addition, the fillets are so easy to bake, my kids can help out by making them if I’m tied up with work and need a little help….

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I mentioned earlier how much our life has changed lately now that our kids are older. One thing that having teens in the house has afforded Nick and I is more frequent date nights. As much as we love going out on the town for a night out, often times our date night preference is to cook a nice meal in and hanging out at home. We both love to cook, and home is our favorite place, so date nights in tend to be our norm. …

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Learn how the new Alexia Premium Vegetable Sides are changing the way we do dinner and enjoy this Easy Baked Shrimp over Butternut Squash Risotto recipe.

The Thanksgiving holiday is over and I’m sure many of you are like me and craving some healthy “re-set” foods. Let’s just say I went way over my points limits one too many times over the holiday weekend. Weigh in on Saturday was not pretty, but it’s done, and I’m back in a healthy mindset today.

You may be wondering why I would share a recipe that includes creamy, cheesy, delicious risotto if I’m back on the health focused train? Because, friends, this is butternut squash risotto, one of Alexia’s newest premium vegetable side dishes! This Butternut Squash Risotto is a much healthier alternative to the typical starches you find on our dinner table. Plus, it’s Gluten Free and only 3 points per delicious serving. You won’t miss the starch when you add these new vegetable side dishes from Alexia to your dinner table….

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I think one of the challenges I have with food blogging, especially today, is the fact that it’s such a profession  now. Every picture you see out there is a gorgeous display of incredible styling and photography skill. In fact, I was going through my archives from 11 years ago trying to see if there were any photos I could salvage that were considered “good” then, and felt a bit embarrassed by them. In today’s standards, they were pretty terrible!

I love food photography and styling so much, but sometimes I just want to share what I’m having for dinner like in the early days of blogging. Lately I haven’t been up for the fuss, so instead of sharing not professionally looking styled pictures of recipes I love, I just haven’t been sharing anything at all. And that’s a shame. Some of my most simple, family friendly, staple kind of recipes come after the “studio” is shut down and I’m simply cooking for my family. …

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Scallops are one of those things I’ve always been a bit nervous to cook at home. For some reason, because they aren’t the least expensive type of seafood, I felt they were better kept for enjoying at restaurants. Boy was I wrong!

A few months ago I discovered the Jumbo Sea Scallops in the freezer aisle at Trader Joe’s. Since I’m in Kansas, getting fresh scallops is next to impossible, but finding frozen scallops that are high quality, taste as good as fresh and are reasonably priced is a possibility now. I’m so happy!…

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Happy March, everyone! This year is flying by so fast, I simply can’t believe it.

Today also marks the first day of the 2017 Lenten season. I’ve decided I’m not giving anything up this year for Lent…instead I’m going to focus on doing things to get my life on track some. First things first, starting with clutter. I’m participating in the 40 Bags in 40 Days Challenge, and am so ready to get some of the excess in my house out of here. Through this challenge you simply fill any size bag each day of trash or things to donate and continue for the entire 40 days. Can you imagine how much more free I’ll feel after getting rid of 40 bags of clutter? I’m really ready to simplify, and this challenge will definitely help me to do that!…

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Have you all heard of “Dinner en Blanc”? I hadn’t either, but it’s a pretty cool thing where a bunch of guests dressed in white meet for a secret dinner, in an all white decorated location. You can read about this coveted dinner on the Forbes Magazine website. I can guarantee you I will never be a recipient of a “Dinner en Blanc” invitation because me eating while wearing all white and surrounded in all white sounds a bit like a nightmare for this klutz. I’d be the first to spill and stain everything around me.

My friends at California Avocados decided it’d be fun to take an avocado inspired spin on the whole “Dinner en Blanc” idea with “Dinner en Green”. Do you see where they are going with this? Dinner, with green accessories and green food. Green, just like the beautiful California Avocado. …

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If you are into basketball, love the University of Northern Iowa and are following the whole March Madness thing, you may have experienced something in your house over this past week similar to mine.

As someone who doesn’t follow college basketball, I can often tell how the games are going simply based on the sounds coming from our basement. Last Friday night, while I was in my PJ’s doing old lady Friday night things (aka drinking tea and reading), I heard shouts of amazement and joy from the basement, where the boys in my family were watching UNI play against Texas. Apparently UNI won the game against Texas with an amazing half court shot right at the buzzer. You would have thought we won the lottery, the excitement was so huge!

Fast forward a few days later, when UNI went on to play Texas A&M. Let’s just say that game earned news headlines like “How Northern Iowa suffered the greatest collapse in NCAA Tournament history.” Apparently UNI had every chance to win the game, but completely choked in the last 35 seconds. (They were up 12 and still lost because of throwing away the game in the last half a minute.) Can you imagine the yells from my basement then? They were not happy, cheerful yells…the boys were not happy with the end result of that game, understandably. (I’m sorry but even I can’t figure out how a team can lose a game in 35 seconds!)….

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