• Thin Crust Pizza

    Homemade thin crust pizza is an easy and delicious weeknight meal! We’re BIG fans of pizza over here — delivery, restaurant, or homemade thin crust pizza. It doesn’t really matter to us, so long as the cheese-to-sauce ratio is adequate (meaning it needs to have lots and lots of cheese),…

  • Easy Homemade Gravy

    It’s easy to make delicious, savory, smooth homemade gravy in only fifteen minutes! Mashed potatoes and gravy can either be like heaven on a plate, or they can go horribly wrong — think college dining hall or hospital lunch plate, wrong. Generally speaking, if you’re able to find a simple…

  • Whipped Mashed Potatoes

    Once you make mashed potatoes from scratch you’ll never resort to the flakes in a box again. Potatoes can be your family’s best friend. Versatile and affordable, potatoes are a part of a wide variety of cuisines, ranging from American, to Irish, to Indian, and on and on. Oddly, despite the general ease…

  • Beefy Taco Cheeseburgers

    These taco cheeseburgers are a fun twist on both tacos *and* burgers! My family has a love-love relationship with cheeseburgers. All of them. And, even though we could all happily nosh on the traditional beef patty with American cheese, sometimes I like to try and change things up a bit.…

  • Glazed Cinnamon Cookies

    These glazed cinnamon cookies are delicious little bites of yum! I got in the habit of baking cookies (almost) every week for a couple of reasons. First off, it’s so easy to make cookies at home that it’s nearly offensive to think buying them from the grocery store is easier.…

  • Mashed Potato Pancakes

    Mashed potatoes might be the quintessential comfort food. Or, at least, my quintessential comfort food. Mashed potato pancakes? Ahhh … divine. It’s rare that I whip up a batch of mashed potatoes and have leftovers “just because,” so I have to be intentional about it and throw in an extra…