Spinach and Egg Casserole

We love breakfast for dinner around here. This Spinach and Egg Casserole (with some sausage thrown in for fun) was fantastic for dinner, but would also be great for breakfast!

Mini Calzones

Are you getting ready to host a football party? Need some snacks to serve? Or are you just looking for a fun twist for an otherwise boring weeknight meal? Try these mini calzones!



From Gooseberry Patch’s new cookbook, “Hometown Harvest” these mini calzones are sure to be crowd pleasers! (Don’t forget – I’m giving away a copy of this cookbook this week! Stop by this post to enter for your chance to win!)

Hawaiian Chicken

Is it fall? Is it summer? This sweet Hawaiian Chicken from Gooseberry Patch’s “Hometown Harvest” is perfect in your crockpot for this transition weather!

Hometown Harvest Cookbook Giveaway

Are you ready for fall yet? The weather around here just turned, and it is finally feeling a little more like fall. I am sure ready! To celebrate, I have this wonderful cookbook from Gooseberry Patch to giveaway – their new “Hometown Harvest”!


This fall-themed cookbook hits all the high points of a great fall. The chapters include:

• Hometown Pancake Breakfast (some amazing breakfast recipes!)
• Church Social Soup Supper (chock full of new soups to try)
• Thanksgiving Dinner to Remember (some classics, and some new twists on side dishes)
• Game Day Get-Together (tons of appetizers and finger-foods for a crowd)
• Pumpkin Patch Sweets (what's fall without dessert?)
• Slow-Cooker Potluck Pleasers (my favorite - crockpot meals!)
• Over the River & Through the Woods (heart warming stories from Gooseberry Patch families everywhere!)

Tangy Pineapple Meatballs

Are you looking for a crowd-pleasing appetizer for your next football party? Need something easy for a big family get-together? Just want a juicy meatball sandwich? This is the recipe for you!




These Tangy Pineapple Meatballs are from Gooseberry Patch’s new cookbook, “Hometown Harvest”. I am so excited to have a copy to review! I’ll also have a copy to give away to one lucky reader! That giveaway is live right now, so stop by this post for your chance to enter!

Lazy Pierogies

Did you catch the Real Farmwives of America & Friends over the weekend? We had a freezer cooking extravaganza! (Search #FarmGirlsFreeze on Twitter or Instagram to see what we were up to.) Ten of the ladies got together and cooked 11 batches of each meal to share. Holy moly – that was a lot of cooking! We worked hard, we had a blast, and we each came home with a freezer full of meals for this harvest season!

We all cooked from Gooseberry Patch’s cookbook, “Our Favorite Freezer-Friendly Recipes”. And we found some great stuff in that cookbook! I made the lazy pierogies, and from what I hear, they were pretty tasty!

Cheesy Cornbread Sloppy Joes

It is finally September! While I still have 7 weeks to go before Baby Doc makes his arrival, it also (hopefully) means that this weather will start to cool off! (So I’m hoping that these last few weeks are a little more bearable than the last two weeks of 95+ weather have been!)

Autumn is my favorite season – I love the weather, the decorations, and the cooking! I had an amazing time two years ago cooking my way through Gooseberry Patch’s “Autumn with Family and Friends.” I am so excited that this year I have a chance to review Gooseberry Patch’s new fall cookbook, “Hometown Harvest”

The first recipe I tried were these Cheesy Cornbread Sloppy Joes. Farmer Doc’s response to this recipe was, “This is great, definitely make it again!”



There are more yummy recipes from “Hometown Harvest” coming your way, so get ready for a very yummy fall!

Chicken Paprika

This recipe isn’t quite as quick as some of the others I have posted recently, but it certainly is tasty, and it’s still a one-pot stovetop meal! Plan this for a night when you’ll have a little more time before everyone is screaming for dinner, and you’ll be in great shape!



This recipe is adapted a little from Gooseberry Patch’s “101 Stovetop Suppers” cookbook.

Skillet Tacos

These last few weeks have been absolutely crazy for us! Farmer Doc and I have been traveling a lot, working a lot, trying to get ready for Baby Doc, dealing with the bounty of fresh veggies from our garden, and now Farmer Doc has started rehearsals for a play for the Gibson County Theatre Company this fall! Having the Gooseberry Patch “101 Stovetop Suppers” cookbook has come in quite handy for some quick and easy dinners for us lately!

I adapted this one a little bit, from their Taco in a Pan. I give you… Skillet Tacos!

One-Pot Beef Ravioli

Are you tired of easy, fast, one-pot dinners yet? Of course not, how could you be! We’re big fans of pasta around here, especially ravioli, tortellini, and lasagna. (I prefer ravioli and tortellini because they take a lot less effort than lasagna and taste similar, depending on how you prepare it.)

Here’s a recipe for some yummy ravioli, all done in one (large) pot.

Too-Much-Zucchini Stovetop Dinner

Have I mentioned the plethora of zucchini we have had this summer? A girl can only bake so many loaves of zucchini bread before she goes insane…

This was a great (and tasty!) way to use up some of that extra zucchini.

101 Stovetop Suppers Giveaway!

I’ve been talking about this cookbook. A lot. Because it’s awesome. Seriously. “101 Stovetop Suppers”? All things that are pretty fast and easy, done on the stovetop, and plenty yummy? Count me in!
And to celebrate just how much I’m loving this cookbook, I’m going to give a copy away to one lucky reader!

Spicy Sausage and Rice

I think this was the easiest dinner I have made in ages. Seriously. It really doesn’t get any easier than this. And, to top it all off, it was really good! Farmer Doc even wanted leftovers the next day! (He was too late, I ate it all. )

One-Dish Speedy Couscous

I have got another Gooseberry Patch cookbook to share with you, and boy am I excited! I’m cooking from “101 Stovetop Suppers”. So far, this book has been great for quick and easy meals for those busy summer nights. Here’s the first recipe I tried… Be sure to stay tuned for a few more recipes from this cookbook, and a giveaway coming up in a few short weeks!

Peppermint Snow Ball Cookies

I picked these cookies out of Gooseberry Patch’s “Garfield… Recipes with Cattitude!” cookbook because they remind me a lot of the butterball cookies that my mom always made at Christmas. (I’m not really sure why we decided those are Christmas cookies. These are more Christmas-y with the peppermint addition. But I guess it means there’s not always powdered sugar- and butter-filled cookies sitting around the house. Which is good. Most of the time.)

Super Saucy Meatballs

Are you ready for another Garfield-inspired recipe from Gooseberry Patch? Here come the Super Saucy Meatballs!

Strawberry French Toast

We made this Strawberry French Toast over the weekend. With fresh strawberries all over the grocery stores now, this makes a great springtime breakfast!

Gooseberry Patch Cookbook Giveaway

Oh yes, here it is! Before you can get it from the stores, I have a copy to give away to one lucky reader! Introducing Gooseberry Patch’s newest cookbook, “Garfield… Recipes with Cattitude!”


We are definitely Garfield-lovers around here, and we have an appreciation for his love of… fine dining. Okay, so he’s not quite a 5-star restaurant connoisseur, but he knows what he likes, and this cookbook does it so very well!

Tortellini with Ham and Peas

I’ve got another recipe for you from the not-quite-released-yet new cookbook from Gooseberry Patch!




“Garfield… Recipes with Cattitude!” is available for pre-order, and will ship in June. Until then, I’ve got a copy to review! (And I’ll be giving away a copy starting this weekend, so be sure to come back to enter to win!) I’m having a blast with this cookbook, and I can’t wait to share more recipes with you!

Bow Tie Lasagna

Okay. I promised one more crockpot recipe before I moved on from “Slow Cooking All Year ‘Round.” And I cooked another one. But I can’t find the pictures. Anywhere. Honestly, I’m starting to wonder if I even took the pictures. Sorry to say that you are missing out on Crockpot Chicken Parm! (You’ll just have to buy the cookbook to get the recipe for that one.)

So I am switching gears to another brandy-new Gooseberry Patch cookbook! This one is “Garfield – Recipes with Cattitude!” And guess what! It’s so new that it’s not even available yet! I’ll be giving you a few sneak peaks, and I’ll be giving away a copy of this cookbook next week, so be sure to check back!

In keeping with the Italian theme of my missing chicken parm photos, I’m starting off my Garfield experience with a “cheaters” lasagna – using bow tie pasta instead of lasagna noodles!