I’ve heard mixed reviews about making your own chicken stock. Many have said it is delicious, but is it worth the time it takes to make? Especially when you can just buy it all ready to go in a can or box? I have often thought about making my own chicken stock, but never have…

This recipe was for me. I could eat salmon every day. I appreciated Sara’s tips included on these pages. I easily skinned the salmon based on her suggestions. And I am very spatially-challenged, so I was super glad to have this page of step by step pictures explaining how to make the cooking bag. There…

My husband eats eggplant parmesan regularly. I do not. All of those times he has tried to get me to take a bite, I have declined. But I decided to flip to the vegetarian section and this recipe caught my eye first. Derek decided he would help out on this one. The first thing I…

Today I fixed another one pan meal. I’ll get to the more difficult tasks eventually, but right now I’m enjoying learning some new cooking techniques that I’ve never before used. I regularly make fried rice for my husband to take in his school lunches. Sara’s way of fixing the eggs was much easier and worked…

I love all things black beans. I figured before I made this dish that I would like it. However, this was an interesting dish to make because it started with cooking a shredded sweet potato. You need chicken for this recipe. It would have made sense to cook my own as a way to try…

I’m on my way!  This dish is going down in history as the very first one I cooked out of the cookbook (on 5/23/18). Not too bad, I think. It was a filling one-pot meal. It was easy to follow Sarah’s directions. I chose to use hot Italian sausage. Derek loved it and ate up…

Thanks for joining me! I have spent the past 8 years working on a PhD.  It was long.  It was tiring.  It was great.  But now – I’m ready to do something different!  As I inched closer to graduation day, I let myself begin to dream about how I might start spending my time once…