Recipe: Charro Beans

Comfort food. When I think of the types of dishes that would fall in this category, this particular dish stands at the top of the list. There is nothing like a pot of charro beans on a cool fall evening. This weekend was our pumpkin patch weekend. My sister and I loaded the kids up…

Recipe: Cast Iron Skillet Beef Lettuce Wraps

I love food that is cooked in a cast iron skillet...it just tastes so much better. Recently, while visiting them, my dad made a little concoction that I thought was quite good. I decided to replicate (with a tweak or two here and there) it at home and make some lettuce wraps with it. Cast…

Recipe: Snickerdoodle Cookies

On this really cool fall day, I was absolutely determined not to turn on the heat. As evening started to inch closer, the cooler my house was becoming. 66/67 degrees is just a little too cool for me. So, my need for some sort of heat source led to me baking some cookies. I always…