Slow Cooker Tortilla Soup Save Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 8 hours Total time 8 hours 10 mins This is a simple Mexican soup. If you would like to add corn tortillas as a garnish, toast and cut them into thin strips. I prefer my soup with a lot of…
Oatmeal Cranberry Energy Bites
These little nuggets are as good as stolen bits of cookie dough, serepticiously swiped from the bowl. Made from gluten-free oats, cinnamon, cranberries, maple syrup and crunchy almond butter, there’s also a little flaxseed for Omega-3s and cinnamon to stabilize the metabolism. Oatmeal cranberry energy bites are a bite size nutritional bomb. Basically, you just throw everything…
Pork Chile Verde
Earlier this year, we had an interesting run in with food allergies around here. After a blood test showed that our oldest had 20 class III food allergies, I had to cook pretty creatively until we could get her into Texas Children’s Allergy and Immunology Center. During that time, I scoured cookbooks and the internet to…
Weeknight Lasagna
For birthday celebrations, welcome-home-from-camp and back-to-school dinners, this is our go-to easy family meal. It’s a creamy, rich lasagna without much effort or mess. That’s why we call it “weeknight lasagna!” You can make it even faster (and meatless) by eliminating the sausage. Pop open a jar of store-bought tomato sauce, open a box of no-cook noodles and mix up…
Taquitos with Creamy Chicken and Green Chiles
My family could survive on Mexican food alone. And I’m talking any incarnation or Americanized version — street tacos, fajitas, queso, enchiladas, nachos, you name it. For a quick fix at home, these baked chicken taquitos are a new gold standard around here. They tend to disappear off the cooling baking sheets, so now I make…