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No matter how tight your budget is, eating out is a social occasion that you can’t avoid – nor do you want to. As a luxury of your lifestyle, it’s about so much more than the meal. Going out to eat is about socializing, enjoying something different and experiencing a new environment. Thus, you’ll always Continue Reading

It’s Friday afternoon and you just heard that out-of-town friends are popping in for a visit at the dinner hour. You can certainly take them out for a meal but that can get expensive. Maybe you have a new kitchen gadget you really want to try out or you want to introduce your guests to Continue Reading

As a busy parent, there is little time in your life to make a lavish dinner for the whole family. Still, everyone has to eat eventually. If you’ve had a long day at work, the last thing you want to do is to run around a hot kitchen putting together a three course meal.

As a busy parent, there is little time in your life to make a lavish dinner for the whole family. Still, everyone has to eat eventually. If you’ve had a long day at work, the last thing you want to do is to run around a hot kitchen putting together a three course meal. If Continue Reading

It’s Friday afternoon and you just heard that out-of-town friends are popping in for a visit at the dinner hour. You can certainly take them out for a meal but that can get expensive. Maybe you have a new kitchen gadget you really want to try out or you want to introduce your guests to local foods. If you’re not the sort of cook who has a spare casserole in the freezer just waiting to be baked, try some of these ideas next time you entertain on the fly.

This flavorful baked Pork Chop and Potato dish is a family favorite. It’s a great recipe for chilly winter evenings and pairs well with a salad and rolls.

My boys are big on meat and potatoes. I guess it’s a Southern tradition. We do some lighter meals, but they always get more excited when I have what they call “real food.”

One of our favorite comfort dishes is this Baked Pork Chop and Potato recipe. The extra steps with the seasonings and browning give this recipe an extra ump in the flavor department. Then, it’s baked, so everything is good and tender. 

An added bonus is that this baked dish smells fabulous, so the whole house is filled with the aroma of a good home cooked meal. I just put it in the oven and grade papers while the boys do homework, and then in less than an hour we have a hot home cooked meal. Yum!

Corn is a favorite here at our house, and corn casserole is a special dish for holidays or when we have a community dinner of some type. It definitely takes longer to make a casserole with corn rather than just heating up a can and serving that, but when you want a special side dish, corn casserole is a wonderful pick.

Salisbury Steak is inexpensive to make, since it’s a ground beef dish. It’s also easy to make and tastes great especially with mashed potatoes and peas.

We enjoy Salisbury Steak for a nice comfort meal here at home. It does not take long to make the patties and the gravy, and it feels more like a home cooked meal rather than just doing hamburgers on buns.

After decades of decline, eating dinner as a family is slowly gaining in popularity. Yes. It can be hard to juggle the schedule to fit in a family dinner, but study after study indicates that there are real benefits in making time for food and family.

Many people shy away from doing seafood on the grill, because it’s something a little different. Folks will tell me, “I’m not sure if I can do it right? 

In fact, fish can be one of the easiest of the grilled dishes, but it’s also possible to make a mess trying to grill fish. You need the right kind of fish, the right grill temperature and the right method to get fish to turn out right on the grill.