My favorite hearty chicken salad, loaded with garlic chicken, tomatoes, bacon, and feta. So good, you won't mind eating your greens! How is everyone doing after the holidays? Feeling a little heavier, a little slower? Did you have to loosen your belt buckle a notch or two? No? Just me. Okay. That's fine. December was a glorious, sweet-filled extravaganza, but we're in January now. It's time ...
How to Cook Perfect Chicken Breasts for Salads and Sandwiches
Quick and easy instructions for cooking perfectly juicy and tender chicken breasts for salads and sandwiches. Boneless skinless chicken breasts are a great cut of meat. They're lean, healthy, versatile, but they can be surprisingly tricky to cook. If you've ever struggled with cooking chicken breasts on the stove, maybe your chicken always comes out dry or the outside burns before the inside ...
2016 (Mostly Cooking) Resolutions
Yesterday, I wrote about 2015 in review. Today, we're looking ahead to 2016. New Year's Day means New Year's resolutions. And New Year's resolutions mean dreams big and small. These are mine for the year: In 2016... ...
Shortcut 5-Minute Caramel Sauce
Quick and easy shortcut 5-minute caramel sauce! This is a quick and dirty post for 5-minute caramel sauce. I've used this caramel in a ton of recipes across the site, like my Caramel Macchiato, Apple Pie Sundae, and Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Milkshake, and I will certainly use it in many more, so instead of re-typing the recipe every time, I thought I'd give it it's own dedicated ...
2015 (Mostly Food) Superlatives and Year in Review
It's our last day of 2015! You know what that means. It's time to take a look back and reflect on the year we've lived. Did we accomplish all the goals we set for ourselves? Did we put more good into the world? Did we eat enough cookies? My 2015 was pretty uneventful, but I spent it with people I love and people I like, and I definitely ate enough cookies, so I'm calling it a good year. ...
Authentic Japanese-American Breakfast Fried Rice
My grandmother's breakfast fried rice, stuffed with bacon and eggs for a quick and hearty meal. The recipe I'm posting today is one of those family-favorite, special-occasions recipes. Growing up, we always served this fried rice for birthdays and New Year's day breakfast. It's white rice, fried up in bacon drippings, with chopped bacon, mushrooms, and scrambled eggs throughout. Top it ...
