It’s fall, y’all 🍂🍁 which means it is officially soup season 🥣 aka the time of year when I make a vat of something in the Instant Pot and act like I’ve solved dinner for the next six business days. 😂 This is my Hearty Instant Pot Split Pea Soup, and I need you to understand something: this is NO

This was supposed to be filmed. Then Ziggy chose violence against my toe. 😂 I was getting ready to make dinner, opened the fridge, she got spooked, launched off my foot with her back paws and suddenly I was sitting there icing my boo-boo toe instead of setting up cameras. So… filming got c

This is one of those sides that proves simple food does not have to be boring. Thin Persian/Japanese cucumbers, wakame, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame seeds and just enough sweetness to balance the tang. I also like a tiny drizzle of sesame oil, but that part is completely optional because a li

Outback is charging about $21.49 for their seared peppered ahi around here. Meanwhile, Walmart sold me a 1-pound bag of ahi tuna for $9.97. There were four steaks in the bag, which means each one was roughly $2.50. My son and I ate three steaks total between us — because apparently “appeti

This is one of those meals I’ve been making forever without ever thinking of it as a “recipe.” My go-to steak marinade is stupid simple: soy sauce, sesame oil and Montreal steak seasoning. I’ve used that combo on everything from skirt steak to chuck eye for more than 30 years, and it has never let

I was supposed to film this. Life said fuck your content calendar. 😂 So here’s what I managed to photograph before we ate it. Brasato al Vino Rosso — beef slowly braised in red wine with carrots, onion, celery, garlic, rosemary, thyme, & the mushrooms I didn’t have on hand 🤦🏻‍♀️ until

After running around with my older son getting his driving test & then the tax collectors office…good lord 🤦🏻‍♀️ what a nightmare that was 🫤 the last thing I felt like doing was cooking 🙅🏻‍♀️ this is when freezer stuff comes in handy 🙌🏻 Both the SeaPak Shrimp and Seafood Shrimp Spring Rolls

These are basically jalapeño poppers’ Italian cousin who showed up loud, cheesy, and ready to start shit. 😂🇮🇹 I took sweet mini peppers, stuffed them with an obnoxiously good Italian cheese filling, coated them in crispy Italian-seasoned panko and gave you two ways to cook them — air fryer or de

This recipe exists because one of YOU noticed something in my pantry that I had basically forgotten was there. 😂 Shoutout to @brendastuemke ! She spotted a bottle of Kinder’s Black Garlic BBQ Sauce in the background of one of my posts and mentioned that it was a flavor she hadn’t seen before. W

Some recipes are carefully developed, tested three times, measured down to the teaspoon… This is not one of those recipes. 😂 This is one of those meals I’ve been making from the top of my head for about 22 years, and it has basically evolved right along with my life. It actually started ou

🚨 NEW RECIPE — and this one started with me staring into the refrigerator trying to figure out what the fuck to do with what I already had. 😂 I had fresh seasoned pork meatballs. I had those little sweet snacking peppers. And somehow my brain went, “What if a chile relleno had an Italian c

I had 20 oz of shaved steak in the fridge, but we’d already done Philly cheesesteaks this week, so I wanted to turn it into something completely different. A little cornstarch. A screaming-hot pan. Let that beef sit long enough to get those crispy little edges… then grab whatever bottled sauce y

Tonight’s dinner was decided by a 12-year-old. 😂 I gave my son two choices: Shcatole & Beans or Crispy Teriyaki Beef Noodle Bowl. He chose Shcatole & Beans. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So Shcatole & Beans it was. 🇮🇹❤️ And that choice meant a little more to me than just “what are we having for din

My little guy requested this for dinner tonight 😊 he’s autistic 🧩 when your autistic kiddo actually asks for a specific dish, mama makes it!! 👩🏻‍🍳 It was SO good! I will say, Gruyère isn’t for everyone 🤷🏻‍♀️ if you find it a bit too funky, shredded Swiss or fontina would be bomb as a replacement

Made this tonight LIVE as a cook along with me in real time kind of thing. No viewers just yet, but it was just the first of more to come 🤨 I got it done in under 45 minutes! 🙌🏻 That included cutting my chicken breasts into manageable pieces…and dicing the scraps for the doggos 😊 plus it was

French onion soup is one of those foods that just feels like a hug in a bowl. 🧅🧀🥣 It’s easily one of my all-time favorite comfort foods—and yes, it takes a hot minute to make it right. This is NOT the recipe where we rush the onions. 😂 Those babies are going low, slow, brown, deglaze, scrape, re

one of those meals that feels a little fancy without requiring you to completely lose your shit in the kitchen. The chicken gets that classic Francese treatment — seasoned flour, egg, a quick pan-fry for gorgeous golden color — but I don’t cook it all the way through the first time. That’s the t