Tag: homemade

Grown-up Sloppy Joes

There’s a reason that people love comfort food.  You know- the good stuff.  The foods that you ate as a kid and still kind of love as an adult.  You know what that reason is?  It’s delicious.

General Tso’s Chicken

We all have our guilty pleasures, don’t we?  Even though we know it’s no good for us, we just can’t quit.  For some people, it’s a double cheeseburger from McDonald’s. (Come on, you can admit it.) For others, nuclear mac and cheese, from a box, 

Vanilla Coconut Cashew Butter

My boys love peanut butter.  Like, seriously love peanut butter.  Between the two of them, we go through large jars of the stuff like it’s water.  Now, I like peanut butter, but I can’t eat it for lunch every single day (like some toddlers I 

Homemade Flour Tortillas

Well, what did you think?  That I was going to give you a great recipe for refried beans, and not for the warm, soft, impossibly delicious tortillas that I slathered them on?  No way!  I wouldn’t leave you hangin’ like that.

Homemade Ketchup

Homemade Ketchup

As I’ve been trying to transition our little family away from processed convenience food, and towards whole, nutritious foods, there have been a few things that I’ve, admittedly, conveniently overlooked.  There are just certain things that you know are bad, but you have a feeling 

Homemade Mayo in a Minute

Homemade Mayo in a Minute

Mayonnaise is divisive.  People love it; people hate it.  I love it, slathering it all over sandwiches and burgers, and dipping my fries in it. I’m one of those people.  But I’d like to make a bold assertion: If people were making their own mayonnaise, at