Author: ReneeBirchfield

Chicken, Recipes, Soup

Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili

     I typically don’t make chicken in the crock pot, I tried when we first got married and it turned out dry and one time burnt. I thought it was the crock pot, but it made everything else perfectly, so I decided no more chicken in there. But when I saw this recipe and […]

Tips

Tips for Eating Healthy while Eating Out

   The end of this week we are moving so the majority of our house is packed. That includes the kitchen, which means we can cook limited things. We decided to have hamburgers a couple of nights but the rest of the time we plan to eat out. We are attempting to stay healthy during […]

Recipes

Building the Ultimate Sandwhich

   Hubby loves sandwiches, he thinks that everything can be made better by turning it into one. While I was gone last weekend at AWBU he decided to make him a special one. He began thinking that he wanted to make a muffuletta but decided he didn’t want to mess with the olives at the […]

Dessert, Recipes

Chocolate Chip Cookies without Butter

   Everyone has been there, you want to make a batch of cookies and you realize you don’t have butter, or in my case you forget to buy the butter when getting the chocolate chips. I had to hit the ever-faithful Google to find what could take its place. I ended up using oil, and […]

Reviews

Cook Book Review: Infuse

I received a copy of Infuse for free to review and write this post. All opinions and thoughts are my own.  Infuse: Oil, Spirit, Water by Eric Prum & Josh Williams is a book all about infusions what they are and how to make them. I picked this book because I had been interested in […]

Recipes, Side Dish

Sweet Potato 3 Ways

   If you follow me on Instagram it is no secret that I am in love with sweet potatoes. I cannot get enough of them; I could eat them with lunch and dinner every day. They are known as a superfood, so I can eat them every day. Their health benefits include; they contain good […]

Dessert, Recipes

Vanilla Cupcakes and Maple Buttercream

I love making cupcakes just about as much as I enjoying eating them. Vanilla is one of the hardest to make with the right consistency and flavor. This recipe comes right up there with the best. Vanilla Cupcake Ingredients   Flour mixture. Its very important to SIFT everything.   Sugar added into the eggs.   […]

Recipes, Side Dish

Fresh Green Beans

   A couple weeks ago I went to the Conway Farmers Market, and came out with some great looking green beans! I wasn’t completely sure wit what they would go in but for $3 I could not pass them up. Here is what I did with them. First I cleaned them up. I washed them […]