Tender Slow Cooker Salsa Beef

For all you other insane moms out there who are also stretched beyond your limits, I have yet another slow cooker recipe for you. This salsa beef meets all the criteria of comfort food. It’s packed with flavor, tender and super healthy.

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The Easiest, Tastiest Roasted Vegetables

I love to roast vegetables. It doesn’t make them mushy, but rather crunchy on the outside, warm on the inside and gives them a great smoky flavor. Plus, you can use whatever vegetables you want.

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A Cheap Way to Add Color to Your Kitchen

We recently moved into a new house. And while I love my new house, there is one thing about the house I can not stand for. This is the most beige house I’ve ever seen. Luckily I found a way to accommodate a big punch of color in the kitchen.

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The Healthy Wendy’s Frosty

Girls’ night in college usually involved my roommates and I going to a movie, getting dessert at midnight in a restaurant, daring each other to do something really stupid and then dancing until 2 a.m. when someone would suggest making cookie dough, which we’d do, and then eat the entire bowl before falling asleep on the…

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Easy Cinnamon Apple Stir Fry Lunch

As I’ve mentioned several times, I love stir fry. Even though it’s May, today I was in the mood for the flavors of fall. That’s what I love about stir fry. You can eat the flavors you’re craving whenever you want. As usual, start out by cooking the vegetables in salt and pepper. Rather than…

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DIY Inexpensive Kitchen Pedestal

Last week, I decided I needed to add more color to the kitchen. I made this pedestal out of things I found at Goodwill. So far, my husband hasn’t mentioned it. Either he doesn’t notice, or he’s just resigned himself to the fact that for the rest of his life, he’ll come home frequently to brightly-colored additions to our home. I for one love my new pedestal.

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The Easiest Way to Make Eggs in just One Minute

I feel guilty calling this a recipe. Guilty because it’s like calling Easy Mac a recipe, except Easy Mac is terrible for you and eggs aren’t. But as far as difficulty level, these eggs and Easy Mac are on the same level. My daughter loves to have eggs for breakfast. The problem is, I have…

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Healthy Grain-Free Biscuits

I’m the youngest of three kids. The oldest is my brother. While he was a fabulous big brother (no really, he was) and is still one of my heroes, he was still a big brother and had to mock and tease me without remorse. In fact, now that we’re grown, he still feels it is…

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