Do we look a little… um… different? What’s with my bushy eye brows and Ryan’s “bear claw” beard, you may be wondering? Movember, of course! Every November, the guys in my office take the month off from shaving in an effort to raise money for prostate cancer. Then, on the last day of the month,…
Growing Dumplings
Apparently dumplings grow when you place them in a bubbling bowl of chicken soup! After preparing a pot of chicken soup, I plopped several tablespoon-sized dumplings into the pot to simmer and cook. Within minutes the dumplings nearly tripled in size. More doughy goodness is fine by me! To make the soup, I combined the…
Black Bean Chili
Today’s adventure took us to Zellwood, Florida to explore a corn maze at Long & Scott Farms! We were a little apprehensive about making the 45-minute drive to the farm because the weather was quite dreary. However, I purchased discounted tickets to the maze through Groupon a couple of weeks ago, and this weekend was…
Curried Chicken Salad
Two-ingredient crock pot chicken is so versatile. With a big bowl full of moist, shredded chicken ready to go after cooking in the crock pot all day, the uses for the meat are endless. Two of my favorite ways to use the chicken are in buffalo chicken and BBQ pulled chicken sandwiches. Though I typically…
Crab, Corn and Potato Chowder
Toot, toot! <—That’s me, tooting my own horn after making this: That would be Cooking Light’s chunky potato-crab chowder… though I would consider it crab, corn and potato chowder because it’s chock-full of delicious sweet corn. The recipe was really easy to follow and I had a pot of homemade soup ready in about 40…