Welcome to the Retro Re-pin Party! Happy St. Patrick's Day! As an Irish girl and lover of Corned Beef and Cabbage along with Irish Soda Bread, I'm always excited for St. Patrick's Day to roll around each year. Did you make anything special for today? It's not too late to make a loaf of my Irish Soda Bread! Here's what I've been up to this week: The Retro Re-pin Party ...
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Recipe Challenge: Blood Orange Chicken (A simplified version of Chicken L’orange) + Meal Plan Monday Week 11
I've got a very full post for you today with a recipe for Blood Orange Chicken, a Recipe Challenge link-up, and another installment of Meal Plan Monday. This month, Jenna from A Savory Feast and I collaborated to each create a recipe with a challenge ingredient: Blood Oranges. We enjoyed the collaboration so much that we've decided to make it a regular occurrence and let you link up ...
Slow Cooker Oriental Snack Mix
This salty and slightly sweet Oriental Snack Mix is made by mixing soy sauce, garlic, chow mein noodles, cashews and cereal together in your slow cooker for a few hours. Nobody will believe something like this came from your slow cooker! I'm not sure exactly when this recipe for oriental snack mix showed up on the side of the Quaker Oat Squares box, but it became a staple in our house for snack ...
The Retro Re-pin Party Week 33 Featuring Friendship Cookies
Welcome to the Retro Re-pin Party! This week has just been flying by! I can't believe it's already time for another party. This week had some great highs and lows. If you follow me on Instagram, you'll remember that the low was when I stripped a gear in my beloved KitchenAid mixer while making my favorite pizza dough. I pretty much just stood there in shock and started crying. Thankfully my hubby ...
King Ranch Chicken Casserole + Meal Plan Monday Week 10
King Ranch Chicken is a creamy, cheesy, layered chicken enchilada casserole and Tex-Mex comfort food. If you've ever lived in Texas (or eaten with Texans), you've probably heard of King Ranch Chicken. This dish is a staple in central and southern Texas. (They even had a deep fried version at the Texas State Fair a few years back!) It's a popular dish for potlucks down south because it comes ...
How I Use CoSchedule to Grow My Blog
Today I'm sharing my workflow for How I Use CoSchedule to Grow My Blog. Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links for CoSchedule. This means that if you choose to sign up with them using my link, I will earn a credit. I only recommend products & services that I use and love myself, so I know you’ll be in good hands. Today I want to share my workflow using a ...
The Retro Re-pin Party Week 32 – Featuring Pretzel Chicks and New Hostesses!
Welcome to the re-launch of the Retro Re-pin Party! We have some exciting things happening this week with the Retro Re-pin Party. You may have noticed some new blog names in your reminder email and in the list below. That's because we're changing things up a bit and have brought some new hostesses on board to re-launch the party! First off, since many of you are new ...
The Guys Behind the Blog – February Link-up + An Instagram Giveaway!
An interview with the guy behind my blog, my hubby, Nick. One of my blog friends, Betsy from Heavens To Betsy, started this Guys Behind the Blog link-up last month and I thought it would be really fun to join in. My hubby is an amazing supporter of my blog and my food-related creative endeavors. (Maybe it's because I feed him?) There have been many time I've doubted myself along ...
Recipe: Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork Sliders and Coleslaw + Meal Plan Monday Week 9
These Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork Sliders are made with sweet Hawaiian rolls, piled with pork, drizzled with BBQ sauce, and topped with homemade coleslaw. How has your weekend been? Ours has been full of snow. Being Texan, I'm still not used to the crazy amounts of white stuff that fall from the sky. Every time it snows I feel like I'm in a fairy tale! (At least until I have to drive my car in ...
Tech Tips Thursday: How to Create and Install A Favicon On Your WordPress Blog (The Easy Way!)
How to Create and Install a Favicon for your Wordpress Blog using a simple plugin! One of the biggest things you can do to brand your blog is to create a custom favicon. If you don't know what a favicon is, it's that little square on your browser tab that looks like this: Favicon is short for "favorites icon". In addition to your browser tabs, it also shows up when you ...