This is a sponsored post with S&W Beans. All opinions are mine alone. As a mainly vegetarian family, we eat a lot of beans. Thankfully, the entire family loves beans. Black beans happens to be our favorite. As a busy mom, I love being able to open a can of organic black beans and quickly and easily add them to Mexican recipes. What is your favorite variety of beans? One current go-to recipe that is a hit with the whole family is a fun spaghetti recipe with a twist. This Mexican … [Read more...]
World Pasta Month: Easy Vegetarian Pasta Ideas
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Buca di Beppo® for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. This last weekend, to my absolute delight, my husband and I left our kids with my parents and stayed the night in a hotel. Not only did we get a entire night and almost two days away from home but we walked around a mall, visited a book store, ate dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, and visited a local church service. All without the kids. It was so un-stressful and easy. I felt … [Read more...]
Chipotle Tofu and Cheddar Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
There are very few meat dishes we eat here in our family. In fact, we actually only eat fish (salmon and cod really). That is why I am so thankful that there is organic baked tofu on the market that we can easily add to recipes. Baking my own tofu is time consuming - I like products that save me time - Nasoya TofuBaked is awesome! The perfect addition to your recipes. If you are wanting a great meatless Monday recipe - adding their baked chipotle tofu to your mac-n-cheese is an awesome … [Read more...]
Pasta Primavera with Salmon Recipe
This is a sponsored post with Mode Media and Bertolli®. All opinions are mine alone. My husband is half Italian. His ancestors came to America and changed their Italian sounding name to something simple and settled and flourished here in the United States. My husband has memories growing up of hearing his family tell him - "Mangia" or "Eat!" So this half Italian (half German) Navy man met me - half Native American (the other parts are German and Puerto Rican) woman and our crazy cross … [Read more...]
Macaroni and Havarti Cheese Recipe
I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Arla Dofino. I received product samples to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation. I planned a fun menu for our Seattle Seahawks NFL Thursday night game day opener a couple weeks ago. I decided to have vegetarian chili, macaroni and cheese, corn bread & vegetarian hot dog muffins and chips and cheese dip. Not just game day approved but also a kid approved menu … [Read more...]