This carrot tomato soup recipe is an update from the archives. Originally posted in July of 2012, it’s still a family favorite that I just made with some fresh picked tomatoes and carrots from our garden. This beautiful carrot tomato soup is slightly sweet and […]

As you may have guessed from the title of the post, our new baby has arrived! Say hello to Larkin Nanikealoha Elizabeth Johnson. She was born at 2:30am on January 20th, 7 lbs 13 oz, 19 3/4 inches long and 13 3/4 head circumference. Not […]

  If you’re looking for one kitchen secret to get people begging for your most basic of recipes, it’s using seasoned salts. Anyone who’s ever watched a cooking competition show knows that salting your food is the number one rule in the kitchen. But grinding […]

Sandwiches are the unsung heroes of the kitchen. They can be as simple as spreading peanut butter and jelly, or melting a piece of cheese between two slices of bread. They can be piled high with healthy ingredients like avocados, cucumbers, and peppers, or battered […]

There are so many times that I pull a package of ground beef out of the freezer and wonder, “How am I going to do something new and exciting with this?”  Since we buy a part of a cow, we end up with about 50 […]

This week’s Chicken Change Up topic is near and dear to my heart.  Budget friendly recipes! I was excited to try their recipe for Tuscan Glazed Chicken because the flavor combination looked absolutely perfect.  While they didn’t give us a price breakdown, I immediately saw […]

I LOVE seven layer dip.  Let me rephrase that.  I’m so obsessed with seven layer dip that I’ve had dreams of swimming in a pool filled to the brim with seven layer dip, complete with a tortilla strip diving board!  Yep, it’s that bad.  Unfortunately, […]

This potsticker sauce is salty, spicy, tangy and perfect for dipping Asian dumplings, gyoza, potstickers, egg rolls, wontons, mandoo or anything else!