When I first found out that I was highly reactive to grains and gluten, I wondered what that meant for some of the goodies that I love to eat.  The Paleo diet is the way I NEED to eat.  Meat, nuts, veggies and fruit are all delicious! But, seriously.  I can’t imagine not being able […]

As you know, we’ve been on a health journey this year.   We knew we wanted to make some changes, but felt so overwhelmed with ALL THE THINGS.   So, we decided to just focus on one thing at a time and practice that new habit over an entire month.  Our January goal was simply to give […]

    I recently asked for your favorite high protein lower carb recipes over on Instagram.  And I am still going through them all.  Once I taste test them, I will share them over here on the blog.  This one I’m sharing is a tried and true go-to recipe that we’ve made on the regular […]

Gooey Black Bean Brownies This blog post is written in collaboration with QVC. Thank you so much for supporting the brands that I absolutely love! ! I have been compensated by QVC for this post but, as always, all opinions are my own.   I have been absolutely dying to try this black bean brownie recipe that […]

Deb and I cook almost every single meal here at the House on Winchester.  And when I say “almost”… I mean with the exception of when we are out and about and ravenous and haven’t planned.  That means a quick jaunt to get a fast food veggie burger.  We get into the same routine as […]

Are you guys tired of my recipes yet?  Even if you are, I don’t care.  LOL  I have gotten so much canning and preserving done over the last several weeks.  We have canned salsa, tomato soup, tomato sauce and we just finished this spaghetti sauce.  Normally, we make regular tomato sauce and use it both […]

You know that Fall is coming.  YAY!  I love Fall but don’t like what follows, but you all know that by now.  Soup is one of our favorite things to cook.  I mean a big pot of soup will last a few meals here which is a plus in our books.  Leftovers.  Ahhhhhh.  My favorite!!!  […]

I don’t know about you, but we usually have so many tomatoes that we don’t know what to do with all of them.  We can lots of diced tomatoes, salsa, and pizza/spaghetti sauce and we still have leftover tomatoes.  Last year, I was given this recipe by a friend who swore this was the best […]