You will find our original home cooking recipes here! We experiment with ingredients and create budget-friendly, healthier simple meals that have all the taste and flavor! Family Approved! When we write our recipes, we try to give helpful tips and suggestions of ingredient substitutions that we use. We like to eat great food but with better ingredients and do it all on a budget! You will see my hubby and me in the photos of our family recipes because we want to show you how much fun you can have in the kitchen together! Get creative and keep coming back for more Dining in with Danielle recipes!
Rice, Chicken and Onions Smothered in Cheese! My family loves this quick rice and chicken casserole we created one day because we didn’t have enough chicken! It’s delicious and the ingredients we use are healthier, but this comfort food will not be lacking FLAVOR, LOL! You may think cheese isn’t healthy but as long as …
Homemade No Sugar Added Barbecue Sauce Barbecue sauce is one of those condiments that we usually keep around because it goes with so many meats! About 6 months ago, we started really checking out the ingredients in all Barbecue sauces to find one with more natural and less sugar ingredients. What we found is some …
Chicken, Balsamic Vinegar And Lemon Juice We love to grill and a frequent meat in our household is chicken! Chicken can get boring but we have come up with so many different chicken recipes, but this one is one of our favorites! It cooks great on the BBQ grill or in your oven, making it …
How to cook a juicy turkey! I wanted to share with people on how to cook a juicy Turkey! I think I cooked my first Thanksgiving turkey when I was 13, but it wasn’t juicy even though I followed directions! Over the last 20 years since I have had my own family, Turkey is served …
Pasta, Cheese and Taco meat This recipe came about when I made too much Taco meat filling on taco night! I have been cooking for a family of 4 for 20 years, so when our oldest joined the Air Force and left, I had to start adjusting the size of meals (not too much, we still …
Delicious Sour Cream Garlic Sauce is Full of Garlic And Cilantro with Creamy Sour Cream! I originally created this sour cream garlic sauce for our Family Favorite Tacos! In the process, we experimented with different ingredients. I started out making it with Mayonnaise and I changed it because almost ALL Mayo has Soybean oil (not …
Our Tacos with Ground Turkey Meat are Slightly Healthier because they do not have all the Fat! Ground Turkey is also Higher in Protein! Coming up with our own Taco night recipe was based on wanting to eat fresher but yet still on a budget! Usually most of us who want to serve Tacos on …
Broccoli, Ground Turkey and Cheese Quiche After many years of cooking, a cook always has some simple, homemade quick meal ideas for fast nights! One of those is my own creation of Quiche, Yummy! Of coarse, we have several creations but this is my fast, easy and delicious dinner Quiche! Great thing is, this tastes …
Budget is very important! I don’t consider myself an expert at this but, I can tell you I shop on a budget for my family of all boys without clipping coupons! I have done the searching and collecting of coupons but found, I rarely used them! Why? Because we like to eat REAL food, Fresh! …
