Open-Faced Tuna Salad Sandwiches

Secret Family Recipe: Open-Faced Tuna Sandwiches (A Quick Meal From the Pantry!)

As I mentioned earlier this week, we’re working on clearing out our freezer and cooking up meals from our pantry in order to keep our grocery budget at $250 for this month, all as part of our challenge to save $1000 in 100 days. This is a quick meal option that uses ingredients I almost …

Banana Chocolate Drop Cookies // The perfectly delicious and quick way to use up all your brown bananas!

Secret Family Recipe: Banana Chocolate Drop Cookies

It’s so random what I remember from my childhood–while I don’t remember some bigger things hardly at all (like the first time I was asked to play the organ in church or my first day of kindergarten), I do remember odd snippets here and there about memories seemingly unconnected to anything important, like wheeling the …

The Best Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies // Secret Family Recipe from To Love and To Learn

Secret Family Recipe: “My Boys’ Favorite Cookies”

The past few family recipes I’ve shared have all been from MY side of the family, but luckily for me, I married into a family of phenomenal cooks (especially my mother-in-law, who has the happy talent of being able to seemingly come up with delicious meals out of the most random odds and ends, and …

Secret Family Recipe: 10-Min. Prep Chicken & Rice

I grew up in a family with six kids, and my mom, for all 18+ years that I was at home, had dinner on the table by 6:00 p.m. sharp 90% of the time (or at the very least, we knew that we could expect a home-cooked meal at roughly the same time each night). …

Chocolate Eclair Pie // A super quick and easy dessert that's perfect for large gatherings!

Secret Family Recipe: Chocolate Eclair Pie

When I was 12, my mom and all three of my older sisters worked at a reception center, doing everything from prepping the little finger sandwiches to cleaning up spills during the reception to getting the knife and plate all ready for the bride and groom to cut the cake. And when the reception involved …

Secret Family Recipe: Almond Punch

One of my most treasured possessions from my grandmother is a cookbook she gave me years ago for one of my birthdays that’s filled with family recipes—from her, from my great-grandma, from my mother, from my aunts–all written out in her elegant script handwriting. While I wouldn’t say anyone in my family is OBSESSED with …