If you’ve been around me for a hot minute, you know that I love to cook, grill, entertain and be around people. I love to feed people, to see their smiles and to hear the boisterous laughter and conversation drop to murmurs and mumbles when delicious food is being consumed. I love empty, messy, fork-…
Sometimes the pivotal moments in life, the epiphanies come out of nowhere. Last Thursday we woke the kids up to watch an amazing lightning storm out on the horizon and then everyone went back to bed/reading/baking/TV. and then … 80 mph winds, hail, tornados and craziness. We ran out of our house to check on…
I don’t know if you need an excuse to have a delicious, relaxing, refreshing, cool, crisp glass of wine, but if you do… Let me introduce you to your new favorite day. The Gallo Family, yes those Gallos, have named today, May 9, 2012 – the First Annual National Moscato Day. To celebrate – they’re…
Do you like spinach dip? Do you like chicken? Do you like quick, easy, classic and delicious? If you answered yes to those 3 ‘questions’ ooo baby, do I have a delicious and easy baked chicken recipe for y’all. Spinach & Almond Baked Chicken This is the 3rd and final recipe for the Hellmann’s Chicken…
“Rachel, I don’t want you to grow up” – Granny, to a young me my response “Why Granny, Won’t you love me when I’m bigger?” I don’t know how old I was at the time of that conversation, and I don’t remember her response to me, but now that I have my own children –…
These honey mustard marinated, cornflake and parmesan crusted, baked chicken tenders are the 2nd recipe I’ve made and am sharing with y’all as a part of my participation in the Hellmann’s Chicken Change Up program. Last month, I talked about our busy lives and shared with y’all my time saving Baked Chicken with Cream…
I have yet to figure out WHY, but for some reason February and March kick our family’s collective tails. Just when we start to feel like we’re getting our feet back under us again… BOOM!!! It’s kickball season and that consumes 4 to 5 nights a week. Between kickball, school, work, and just living life……
School. Kickball. Work. Homework. Play. Life Somewhere in between all of that, we’re supposed to fit in quality time, family time and healthy meals. Go ahead, laugh. 🙂 Sometimes I do. One of my favorite recipes is pork chops with a dijon cream sauce, the only problem – it’s somewhat time consuming and with kickball…
One Thousand Posts This is the One Thousandth post on this blog. One thousand notes, recipes, tidbits, pictures, random thoughts… One thousand moments of my life our lives recorded here. I admit, I had no idea what I was doing when I started From The Land of Monkeys and Princesses I had no clue when…
In Sunday’s Weekly winners, I shared a few teasing pics about my trip to Los Angeles. Today, I want to share a few more details about that trip with y’all. I flew out to Los Angeles with some other Child Hunger Ends Here Ambassadors to tour the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and help stuff…
I can’t believe this is month 5! The final month of my VELVEETA and Ro*Tel® partnership with BlogFrog! This month was a recipe of my choice and since I grew up on Chicken Spaghetti, I decided to update my own chicken spaghetti recipe and use Penne pasta instead of spaghetti noodles, and topping it with…
I wrote a post a few years ago about my amazing husband and how he expresses his love with his own language – when I comment about not having enough storage space in my pantry, he goes out to the garage and builds me new shelves; when he knows I’ve had a long day…