This healthy update on the comfort food classic can be thrown together in 20 minutes flat – but you’d never know by the rich flavors and creamy sauce. Chicken Pot Pie. My family has been in heaven eating these mini-casseroles of tender shredded chicken and vegetables in a thick creamy fresh sage sauce topped with…
Jack O Lantern Pancakes
Light and fluffy pumpkin pancakes perfect for any fall breakfast – or dinner! My idea began with this creative everyday take on pancakes: Trix Pancakes from Shawn @ I Wash You Dry But we don’t routinely have brightly colored cereal in our cupboard. So I tried to arrange Cheerios to make my pumpkin pancakes look like…
Canning with Kids: Best Peach Salsa Recipe
Canning with kids isn’t as scary as it sounds – especially when the result is the best peach salsa you’ve tasted. ~ by Serena Ball, MS, RD Last week I did some old fashioned canning with my kids. Now before you assume I have gotten too enthusiastic about kids in the kitchen and have gone whacko…
Cherry Oatmeal Bars with Yogurt Frosting | The Recipe ReDux
Hearty oatmeal combined with cherries and almond to make a portable bar for breakfast, snacks or dessert. ~ by Serena Ball, MS, RD Over the summer, my little girls and I built several fairy houses. We made some out of shoe boxes using cotton balls for fairy pillows and sardine cans for beds. Other fairy houses…
How to Make Snow Cones
Summer is the season for snow cones; last year when we visited my sister in Montana, we had the rainbow version with 4 flavors of sugary syrup on a scoop of snowy ice at a baseball game. This summer, when my four kids, husband and I visited my sister and her family there were s’mores…
Frozen Chocolate and Fruit Veggie Pops in Baggies
Ahh….the merry month of May! Even though it’s packed end-of-the-year school events, several work projects and travel, I couldn’t be happier to see the calendar turn with the promise of summer right around the corner. Which puts me in the mood for fresh produce and cold treats which is why I chose these Chocolate Pops and…
Salsa Deviled Eggs and Egg On A Stick with Salsa Dipper
Give deviled eggs a salsa-kick; or just serve them on a stick. ~ by Serena Ball, MS, RD We called Grandma the Picnic Queen. She loved to dine outdoors – with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop and preferable beside a rushing Montana stream with just-picked wildflowers strewn about her tattered old picnic blanket. She would…
Wild Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Pizza with Nutella®
Oatmeal cookie-like crust spread with Wild Blueberry Sauce and Nutella® ~ by Serena Ball, MS, RD Disclosure: Wild Blueberry Association of North America compensated me to write about their Feed Your Wild Side Mother’s Day Giveaway. My thoughts and opinions are my own. When my sisters and I were kids, my Mom’s morning menu read like…
How to Make Healthier Grilled Cheese
This trick will make your healthier grilled cheese ultracheesy and melty.~ by Serena Ball, MS, RD Disclosure: I received a free sample of delicious Cabot Cheese however I was not paid to write this post. My thoughts and opinions are my own – and it’s no secret that I’m a big fan of all Cabot cheeses…
Frozen Yogurt Fruit Bites
This month’s Secret Recipe Club post is short & sweet – both in words and in ingredients! I was assigned to Heather of It’s Yummy to My Tummy. The name of her blog came from her daughter who would say something was yummy to her tummy if she liked it (how cute is that?) There were several…
