Recipes
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???? Taco Tuesday: How a Simple Family Meal Still Brings Everyone to the Table
Most everyone on the planet knows Tuesday is none as #TacoTuesday and in my home Taco Tuesday isn’t fancy. It’s not styled. It’s not perfect. It’s not something I plan three days ahead with matching plates and Pinterest boards. How about you? It’s more like this: we open the fridge, and we see what we’ve got, and turn it into something that makes everybody come back through the kitchen at the same time. Because that’s really what Taco Tuesday does—it gathers people around the dinner table. For my family there is something about building your own plate that makes even teenagers pause for a second and join in. One adds…
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Down-Home Crockpot Chicken & Gravy Recipe (Easy Sunday Family Dinner Idea)
Disclosure: This is a home-style recipe shared from my personal family cooking routine. All opinions are my own. In my parents home as a child growing up, Sundays were built around the dinner table not only in my parents home but also in my grandparents home as well. That was just how life was in our home. No, tv was on and we spent time talking to each other. No matter what kind of week we had, for dinner Sundays meant slowing down, gathering together, and sharing a meal that brought everyone into the same space. More times than not we had people we didn’t even know stopping in for…
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Chicken Alfredo, Family Opinions, and One Very Busy Thursday Night
In our home last night was Thursday night and dinner turned into one of those real-life family moments that didn’t go exactly as planned, but somehow still ended up being one of the better meals of the week. I was going to make Chicken Alfredo, for Charlie because this is one of his favorite meals and something he hasn’t had since he got back from Hobart, Oklahoma. Then David decided to make chicken Alfredo for dinner using what we had on hand and what we could find on sale. We picked up the chicken at H-E-B because it was on sale which always feels like a small victory when grocery…
