Monday – Grilled Tri Tip Roast Tuesday – Bacon Ranch Pasta in the Instant Pot We used shell shaped pasta today and it worked great with the 3 cups pasta and 4 cups beef broth. We cooked it with the frozen hamburger and seasonings in the instant pot on manual for 4 minutes. I drained…

Whoop! Whoop! We made it to Sum Sum Summertime! Monday – Baked Pulled Pork Eggrolls Tuesday – Grilled Steak, Bacon Wrapped Asparagus and Salad This was amazing! Bacon wrapped asparagus makes my heart happy. Wednesday – Meatball Subs with Salad We sauteed some jalapenos to put on ours today. The kids love meatballs for dinner…

Monday – Quesadillas My middle kiddo is starting to enjoy cooking. She recently got a new cookbook and this is one of the recipes in it and she was excited to make them again tonight. I love that she also wants to plate the food. Tuesday – Monkey Bread and Scrambled Eggs with Sausage We…

Saturday – Grilled Chicken Wings Yum! I mixed my salad up today and did a vinaigrette instead of ranch dressing. Pretty wild and crazy on this Saturday night. Monday – Baked Ranch Pork Chops These were tasty and baked faster than I anticipated… thank goodness because the kids were ready to eat. Tuesday – Thai…

May is here! My Mom’s Birthday starts off the month. ❤ Hard to believe another school year is almost in the books and summertime is quickly approaching. (The featured image this week is my son’s favorite snack these days and I was finally able to sneak a picture. He made it up himself and seems…

Part 2 of what we ate in April because I ran out of time and mojo when writing out part 1 over the weekend. I’m skipping dinners that are frequent repeats that our family loves because you have seen those before and trying to share a few more meal ideas to add to your meal…

Time flies when you’re having fun. April was a busy month, for sure, with highlights of fun times and memories made. I took a lot of pictures of food because that comes naturally but I know that I’m feeling mentally spent when I don’t spend down time writing about food. With some focused rest, it…

This felt like a busy (but good) week of jumping from one thing to the next. As I think about it – March is always a super busy time. There seem to be big pushes for the kids at school and they are feeling super ready for spring break. Springtime was starting to feel like…

March is flying by and there are days when springtime feels like it’s in the air. This seems like a great time to pull out a few cookbooks and be thinking about springtime meals. (I’m secretly hoping there are a couple cold days in our near future for soup dinners before we are in the…

There were several meat section items on sale at Costco and we took advantage of them. I realized when I was unloading at home that I overestimated what I could get done with freezer meals on Sunday and ended up needing to take an evening during the week to get them all done. They are…