Here is a quick chicken marinade that you can throw together to make your chicken taste fantastic! What’s a marinade? A marinade is a liquid in which you soak raw meat or vegetables. Marinades infuse food with flavor, and tenderize meat. Tough meats can be marinated for as long as a whole day and night, but usually you don’t marinate chicken for that long. A few hours will do the trick! Salt can toughen meat, so we’ll add that after the meat is cooked instead of putting it in the marinade. After your chicken has taken its flavor bath you […] Read more »
100% Whole Wheat Bread
For years I searched for a 100% whole wheat bread recipe that was actually edible. All the recipes I tried either turned out like bricks, or required part white flour. I was so happy when I found this recipe! A dozen years later, I no longer remember my original source, but I’ve made the recipe our own with unique modifications. – Mrs. Brown This bread is delicious. My favorite way to eat it is cut in thick slices, fresh out of the oven, with butter and cheese. It’s nice to know what ingredients are in it, and that it doesn’t […] Read more »
Texas Sized Cowboy Cookies
Cowboy Cookies are big-as-your-hand wild-west concoctions full of chewy crispy chocolatey yumminess. These are basically oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with pecans and coconut and a loooooot of butter. Oh yeah! I originally got this cookie recipe out of the newspaper… way back in the days when the internet was not my primary source of news. As a result I can’t properly attribute it. I’ve been making Cowboy Cookies for the last fifteen years or so. They are a big hit with guests (and the pecans make them oh-so-Texan.) Now, I don’t especially advise you to eat a Cowboy Cookie while […] Read more »
Blackberry Muffins (Trim Healthy Mama S)
Blackberries are in season and on sale, so now the time is ripe (get it?) to take advantage of the yummiest blackberry recipes you can get your hands on! We posted a super fresh and delicious Kale and Blackberry Salad last week, and this week, once again courtesy of my favorite meal planning site Build A Menu, we bring to you Blackberry Muffins. No regular old blackberry muffins are these… these muffins are grain-free, gluten-free, Trim Healthy Mama on-plan, and seven year old approved! Win win winnety win! If we could, we’d have you out to the farm for muffins […] Read more »
Roasted Garlic
I use a lot of garlic when I cook. I could do nothing but saute garlic in butter and my family would come running to the kitchen in anticipation thanks to the amazing smell! Garlic is not only delicious, but it is also chock-full of health benefits, including cancer prevention and promoting heart health. Check out these fascinating scientific studies on garlic. Garlic is often an ingredient in savory dishes, but did you know you can eat garlic by itself? Eating it raw takes a pretty strong tongue (it has quite the bite!) But roasted garlic is mellow and creamy. […] Read more »
Kale and Blackberry Salad
(Trim Healthy Mama – S)
Blackberries are coming into season here in Texas. We have wild dewberries, a small rather hard blackberry cousin, growing all over the farm. Soon our big blackberry patch down the hill will start fruiting. We sure are hoping for some good berries, but we need more rain for them to grow big and juicy like the blackberries that have started showing up in the grocery store. And yippee! Our local store has massive, plump, dribble-down-your chin blackberries on sale right now for only 87¢ a container. Needless to say I stocked up! I am currently eating according to the Trim […] Read more »
For Kids Only – Make Your Mom Breakfast in Bed!
Since Mother’s Day is just two days away, we decided to share an idea for how to make the day start off great for your mom – breakfast in bed! Read the full instructions for our breakfast-in-bed recipe at Build A Menu If you are looking for very elaborate breakfasts-in-bed, I would probably be the wrong person to ask. I have made french toast, eggs (fried, I still haven’t worked out omelets yet), and pancakes, but I would be useless if you were trying to make quiche or “triple fluff bon appetit egg and cheese supreme soufflé” whatever that would be. If you can […] Read more »