It’s been a TOUGH few weeks. Between shifts at the hospital, homeschooling (teachers y’all need a billion dollar raise) and trying to keep everyone on some sort of a schedule, it’s been a little trying. But one thing that has helped is cooking large batches of food. You know, meals like this Chicken Pesto Pasta that can be packed up for work, lunches, and just available for the multiple times a day my kids think they need to be eating.
Given the choice, I am always going to pick savory over sweet. Every time. Recently though, while trying to decide what to have for dinner I decided that I wanted sweet AND savory. Enter BBQ Chicken Pizza. Every restaurant has some version of this pizza, and sure you can certainly go out and buy this kind of pizza (or even order it for delivery). But I’m here to tell you how easy it is to make-without leaving your home! So easy you should try it tonight! And even my kids will tell you, there is nothing better than homemade pizza….
Lighter Lasagna Soup. Yup, lasagna soup. In the summer. Have I lost my mind? I know that some people out there view soup as a cold weather food. For the record, I am not one of those people. I have an unabashed love for soup and would happily eat it every day, all year long. Hot, cold, thick, thin, full of exotic flavors or a simple classic – I’ll take them all. One of my go to soup recipes for any time of the year is an adaptation of Bobby Dean’s Lighter Tastes Like Lasagna Soup. His recipe (which is a lightened up version of his mom’s Lasagna Soup – so yes, technically this is an adaptation of an adaptation) is full of flavor but requires little time to throw together, making it an ideal weeknight meal….