"beef barley"

This hearty, healthy soup will free your taste buds from their boring dinner rut. We make it with ground beef and barley and pair it with colorful vegetables and tangy tomatoes. A dash of red wine vinegar adds a bright…

Culvers is my favorite fast food restaurant to get salads! This copycat Culvers Strawberry Fields salad has amazing flavor and will save you loads of money by making this at home! Culvers is my favorite restaurant chain in the Midwest!…

Here in the Midwest, comfort food is king!   We love our casseroles or “hot dish,” soups, meatloaves, chilies, and affordable food that can comfort us on cold, dark winter days.  Many classic meals in the midwest were developed out of…

About a mid-school year, my kids started to get sick of peanut butter sandwiches in their lunch and started asking for hot lunches in their thermos.  There’s nothing like a nutritious hot lunch to help you get through your school…

I have started to love cooking with stew meat in my Instant Pot! I love how you can pressure-cook inexpensive cuts of beef and make them mouthwatering tender!  You can create many recipes using stew meat that isn’t stew!  I…

Soup might be the most frequented meal that I make in my electric pressure cooker.  It is amazing how soup can cook in the electric pressure cooker with a 12-15 minute cook time but taste like it has been slow…

Cooking soup in your pressure cooker is a game changer!  Most soups in your Instant Pot call for a high-pressure cooking time of 10 minutes or less and produce a HUGE flavor!  Plus, you can use the sauté function on…

For all three of my sons, I have made them homemade baby food, and I loved coming up with different combinations for them! Before I get to all of my favorite baby food combinations, I should tell you a few…