An easy strawberry chile jam is slathered on thick and hearty toasted bread with crispy cooked bacon and a fried egg for the ultimate breakfast sandwich. I’ll admit, as much as I love (and do try to follow as much as reasonably possible) supporting local, organic farming, I sometimes roll my eyes behind this computer …
This brie burger is topped with a sweet and tangy blueberry BBQ sauce, crispy bacon and fresh arugula. For at least 15 years, a group of us have rented a piece of property on the lake in the town I grew up in. Knowing someone with lake rights was clutch growing up. There’s essentially no public …
These Canadian bacon pancakes are stuffed full of savory shallots, herbs and Canadian bacon then topped with a crisp watercress salad. Perfect for brinner! I’ve never been as thrown off by day light savings as I seem to be this year. 1 hour. How can 1 freakin’ hour mess up a body so much? I get …
This warm bacon and greens potato salad is tossed with a lemon mustard vinaigrette for a delicious side salad. Way better than those mayo-laden potato salads you’re used to. I’ve literally always hated deli case mayo-laden salads. One glimpse of them at a summer party is enough to make me want to gag (plus, mayo …
These smashed sweet potato guacamole bites have crispy sides with soft centers. Topped with a crispy piece of salty bacon, they’re the perfect game day bite. So we’re apparently getting anywhere from 18-36 inches of snow today and tomorrow. Even the low end of that forecast sucks. 18 inches pretty much guarantees power outages around …
This sweet potato carbonara is made spicy with some red pepper and sriracha for a great, noodle-less version of a classic pasta comfort food. After a week off and far too many episodes of season 4 of The Walking Dead (we finished it last night). Now I’m desperately researching how I can somehow find season …
This brussels sprouts pumpkin and apple hash is bursting with fall flavor. It’s the perfect side or serve it up as a meal with an egg on top! I used to get occasional insomnia in high school and college. It would come randomly in bursts but once it hit me, it’d get me good for …
This pumpkin bacon grits with poached eggs breakfast is hearty and perfect for fall. Now that tomorrow is the first day of fall I’m finally ready to officially do this pumpkin thing. I even got my first pumpkin coffee of the season yesterday as a “treat” to myself for working out at 10am, a time when …
These southwestern hash brown waffles are packed with green onions, ham, red pepper and topped with a spicy poached egg for a crispy delicious breakfast. When I thought of the idea to make hash brown waffles, I’m not gonna lie, I thought it was pretty genius. And up until just now as I’m sitting down …
This cream cheese BLT pasta salad is topped with garlic butter breadcrumbs. The first year we lived in this house, I got all ambitious and planted four huge pots with tomato plants. While we have a deck, it faces north and really doesn’t get great exposure for tomato plants so I kept them in the front …