Recipes

Summer is the season of cookouts, picnics, and get-togethers. It’s also the time for us to pull-out all the stops with our side dishes! I don’t know about you, but I’m super competitive when it comes to how my food is received by a group. I basically want it to be all that people are talking about.

Welp, friends, I have to be honest with you today and say that it’s my birthday. It’s my 40th birthday. I don’t even understand how I’m writing those words right now! But you know…the alternative to getting older isn’t really ideal, so I’ll just embrace it and keep looking for the positives! Part

26 days. What’s 26 days you ask? Well, that’s how long it’s been since Jason and I have eliminated as much processed sugar from our diet as we can. How am I doing with the whole thing? Actually…better than I thought I would when we started this whole crazy-schemed plan. We’re not going all out, like

What’s for dinner? That is probably the most classic question asked in every household across all the land. No matter who you are or where you live, you’re hungry or you’re in charge of feeding hungry people…and you need some ideas. It’s so funny to me how with the changes of the seasons, we all w

I am a creature of habit and that’s ok with me. As much as I love to see and do new things, there’s something very comforting about the familiar. That’s exactly what Knotty Pine Guest House has become for Jason and me. We had a chance to stay there this last week and it was just what this heart of m

Charcuterie boards are all the rage right now…and for good reason! Filled with a rainbow of meats, cheeses, crackers, nuts, spreads, and crackers…they’re basically a smorgasbord of everything that’s delicious in the world. I’ve been enjoying charcuterie boards for several years now, but it hasn’t be

Ok, so…I love to eat. I love delicious food and it makes me happy. When people say they forget to eat, I don’t understand that. That has literally never happened to me. I mean, I’ve had times when I didn’t have time to eat, but you better believe the whole time I wasn’t eating…I was thinking about w

I was thinking a while ago about the meals that we eat on the regular and had kind of a crazy realization…I almost never make actual meat as an entrée. What the heck does that even mean, Hilary, you ask? I mean, I make ground beef, crock pot roasts + chicken…but I pretty much never fix meat in the o

Okay…so you might not know this about me, but before I started my interior decorating business, I worked for a local grocery store for 20 years. I know, that’s bonkers. I’m clearly not old enough to have worked somewhere for 20 years…but it somehow happened. Ha! For those of you who are from Iowa, I

Who remembers that freak-out scene on Saved By The Bell when Jessie Spano is taking caffeine pills and Zack Morris comes to her rescue?? Oh man…one of my faves! If you haven’t seen it, you can find it over HERE – and you’re welcome for the laugh! But seriously…I’m pretty sure we’re all running

As soon as the weather turns a little chilly, my first response—what’s for dinner? Ha! Look, yummy food is important and tasty and is something that definitely gives me something to look forward to after a long day. I know that this time of year is extremely busy for all of us (who am I kidding, li

Do you have a food you could eat every day? My friend Abby + I discuss on the regular how meatballs are life and we could eat them every.single.day. I love them plain, with red sauce, or swimming in the delicious sweetness of bbq + grape jelly (sounds weird, tastes amazing). Speaking of meatballs,