My friend Nicole hates to cook; it’s a complete chore to her. I think she’d rather pick up poop from her pet sitting business or scrub her bathroom floors than make dinner.

But I love Nicole.

So I’ve made it my mission in life to find delicious crock pot meals that she can easily throw together. Are you reading Nicole? I AM SO THERE FOR YOU.
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Continue reading Crock Pot Honey Sesame Chicken

I say who needs the Superbowl as an excuse to do away with forks and spoons…I have enough snacks bookmarked to last me an entire year. I can’t keep up!

And it doesn’t help when I find something I really like, and then make it a couple four times, getting in the way of trying others.
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Continue reading Baked Chicken Taquitos

It’s 2012. How many checks have you already messed up by writing 2011 on them? Oh, that’s right…I’m the only one still using a checkbook. What can I say? I’m old school. Some things die hard.
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Continue reading Salsa Verde Chicken Bake

Up until last week, my kids and the guns going off (apparently from duck season), were the only two things that could get me out of bed at 6 o’clock in the morning on the weekends.

But then I got invited to go meet Martha Stewart. And when you get invited to meet Martha Stewart, you go. You go any which way you can. Morning, night time, a 2-hour car ride, with the flu, bad hair day, big pimple on your nose, through a blizzard, about to give birth…you go.
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Continue reading Martha Stewart Got Me Out Of Bed Saturday Morning for Braised Chicken and Dates

I couldn’t wait for Haley to start Kindergarten. Those extra hours that would finally be mine. I looked longingly at my to-do list of what I could finally get accomplished.

Then she started. And everyone on Facebook knows how that went down. Not even this or this or this could make me feel better. But let’s put aside the drama and emotion for a minute. My lists? Untouched. My fantasies of relaxing? Squashed. Like a bug. I cannot believe I actually have less time than I did before.
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Continue reading Roast Chicken with Potatoes, Lemon, & Asparagus