Apricot Glazed Pork Tenderloin
In college and for a few months after graduation I worked at an Outback Steakhouse. It wasn’t a terrible place to work by any means, but at that point I had already bartended at a bowling alley bar where I made BANK for doing really easy work. To this day that remains my favorite job. […]
Italian Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
Don’t get cross with me now, but this recipe actually calls for TWO sheet pans. Am I a fraud? Does this still count as a sheet pan meal? As usual I only have your best interests at heart. I want you to use two sheet pans so that your dinner cooks evenly. Sheet pan meals […]
BBQ Bacon Meatloaf
Hallelujah, it’s another meatloaf recipe! If you don’t know this about me by now, you should know that I absolutely adore meatballs and meatloaf. No clue why. It might be because my mother has been conditioning me for 30 years to love meatloaf. It’s what she serves me every year on my birthday so I’ve […]
Taco Meat
A very simple health swap to make is to ditch those packets of spices you see on the shelves of the grocery store that people buy to cut down on the time it takes to make things like gravies, soups, dips, and, yes, taco meat. I haven’t purchased store bought taco seasoning in probably about […]
Oven Baked BBQ Chicken Breasts
Welcome to the second post in The Hungry Hungry Hiker BBQ Series! In case you missed it, I kicked this series off last week with the king itself, BBQ Sauce. Because you can’t have a BBQ Series without BBQ Sauce, naturally. I am aware that it is still April. But hey, it’s almost May. And […]
Instant Pot Shredded Chicken – 3 Ways
Shredded chicken is such a versatile staple to have on hand for prepared breakfasts or lunches for the week, or to help with cutting down the amount of time it takes to get dinner on the table on a busy weeknight. I love making a huge batch of chicken on Sundays and finding different ways […]
Date Night In Gnocchi Dinner
I was supposed to be on an airplane right this second with Mike heading to New Orleans. I was SO EXCITED to eat my body weight in beignets for three days straight and then see my best friend from high school because I was supposed to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. But then coronavirus […]
Garlic Mustard Eye of Round Roast
As you may know by now I am a pretty big fan of Butcher Box ever since my mom gifted me a one month subscription for Christmas a year and a half ago. I put it off for so long because I thought it was too expensive and I thought I wouldn’t like being surprised […]
Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce
I have visions in my head of having a kid or two, a house, and hosting Sunday dinner with my mom and Mike’s parents. Doesn’t it just sound so idyllic? To have your own and your whole family’s lives together enough to be able to host a nice dinner for 10 people every single Sunday […]
Cheeseburger Sliders
I am here to tell you once again that no cheese was harmed in the making of this recipe. But again, I just can’t bring myself to use quotations in the titles of my recipes. So if you are severely disappointed by the name of this recipe, I apologize. But give it a try! If […]