Chai Spiced Sweet Potatoes

My October Secret Recipe Club assignment was the blog Tara’s Multicultural Table which features “fresh, family-friendly recipes from around the world.” After having lived abroad in Japan and Germany, Tara was exposed to and learned to love many different types of cuisines, namely Japanese, German, Italian, Greek, and Vietnamese. Tara’s blog is vast and categorizes her recipes by either continent or ingredients.  You’ll find everything from Vietnamese Salad Rolls to German Donuts, all adorned with beautiful food photography and step-by-step … [Read more...]

Broccoli Soup

  We’re all about soups in my house.  We feel so grateful to have benefited from so many of Seriously Soupy’s amazing homemade recipes.  In addition, after realizing just how easy it is to make soup, I’ve been experimenting with some of my own recipes. The other night I was inspired to make some broccoli soup since I had three heads lying around.  My kids love broccoli any way it's prepared so I figured the probability of them liking a broccoli based soup was fairly high. I found a very healthy Broccoli Soup recipe over at … [Read more...]

Vegetable Minestrone Soup

It’s Seriously Soup day today, featuring one of my favorite bloggers, Serena, who authors a blog called Seriously Soupy.  Serena started Seriously Soupy as a creative outlet for herself after her first daughter was born, which combined her passion for cooking with an interest in learning more about soups and soup making.  Since it started, she has given soup tours and taught soup classes and has a catalog of over 100 soups on the site!  You can join Serena on her Soupy journey at SeriouslySoupy.com and twice a month you can find her here, at My … [Read more...]

Mom’s Broccoli Casserole

  Don't forget, only two more weeks to help go BANANAS for BOOBIES and Bake it HAPPEN for Breast Cancer Awareness! We've received some awesome press and loaves and muffin photos are coming in from all over the country.   Keep the love coming. Since I'm focused and baking Banana Chocolate Chip loaves, I'm reposting one of my favorite recipes and memories of Mom, written by another foodie fan of hers from the UK!  Lisa Gair is not only a fellow blogger but also a celebrated cook/baker for her business The Yummy Yank. The Yummy Yank … [Read more...]