• home grown tomatoes

    Simple Home-Grown Tomato Sauce

    Did you plant tomato plants this year? How are your plants producing? My plants are producing a ton of tomatoes this year, many more than we can eat on sandwiches or in salads. What do I do with the rest?…

  • crockpot chicken chili

    Crockpot Chicken Chili – A Simple Midweek Meal

    Chicken chili is one of my favorite comfort foods. Using my crockpot ups the game making it one of the easiest busy weeknight meals. Any recipe that allows me to make dinner anywhere from 7am to Noon and have people…

  • Summer BBQ Ready Baked Beans

    Summer is my favorite time of year.  The world seems better with warm weather and sunshine.  One of my favorite parts of Summer is all the backyard BBQs.  These crockpot baked beans take very little effort, but are big on…

  • lentil soup in a crock pot

    Hearty Lentil Soup – Set it and Forget it!

    I love soup. I also love things I can throw in a crock pot and not worry about for the rest of the day. Crock pot recipes with stages and steps are not my favorite.  I honestly want to “set…