Roasted Chipotle Chicken with Black Bean Salad over a Baked Potato

I hope you are enjoying this week's challenge.  I know I am.  I love getting creative in my kitchen and this has definitely helped me to see my pantry in new exciting ways.  We enjoyed tonight's meal in particular.  It is filling, flavorful and healthy!  So let's get started!

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A little memory from my grandmother's kitchen....

This morning I was standing at my stove, making a fried egg sandwich, and all of the sudden I was totally overwhelmed with the presence of my grandmother.  Odd, I know, but this morning I was taken back to her little farm kitchen, where she taught me how to make the first dish I ever learned to co…

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Sometimes You Just Have to Look Outside of the Can...

I think I am probably more excited about this post than any other post to date!  As I said yesterday, I have set a challenge for myself to utilize my pantry to make amazing meals with canned goods as my main ingredient!  Today's canned weapon of choice... Chicken Noodle Soup! As I looked at t…

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Curried Chickpeas Over Rice

How many times have you said these very words "I have nothing to eat!"?  Yeah, me too.  That was until the first week in January when I pulled everything out of the pantry and realized that I had all of this...

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Thai Sausage and Kale Noodle Bowl

One of my favorite things to do is get together and cook with my girlfriends!  There is just something about women getting together, in the kitchen, eating, laughing, and having a good time that  nothing else can match.  I am also very lucky to have some great foodie friends as well.  Take my frie…

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Fur Baby Love from a Corespondent Kitchen...

I am so excited about today's blog for more reason that one!  Today I am not coming to you from my kitchen, but from the kitchen of a friend and fellow dog mom, Katie White!  Katie lives here, in the Mid-Ohio Valley, with her wonderful husband, James and these two adorable little ones! Fenix …

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Homemade Taco Seasoning with Oven Shells

Let's face it, not every meal that comes out of your kitchen is going to be a culinary masterpiece!  There are certain dishes, that, if Ina Garten were to come over for supper one evening, I would never serve.  However, sometimes you just have to get something fast and inexpensive on the table…

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