Spiced Apple Pie with Fluted Round Cutouts

Overlapping disks of pate brisee top a highly spiced apple pie. You will need a 1 3/4-inch fluted round cutter to create the layered effect on the top crust.

Chicken Noodle Soup

In addition to broad egg noodles, you can make this heavenly soup with angel-hair pasta broken into short lengths or other shapes, such as alphabet pasta or pastina, or add cooked grains like rice.

Chicken and Rice Soup

Note: To freeze, cool soup to room temperature; transfer to airtight plastic containers, leaving 1 inch of space. Freeze up to 3 months. When ready to use, place plastic containers upside down under hot tap water to help release frozen blocks of soup. Place blocks in a large saucepan; cover and reheat over medium-low, adding water to thin if necessary. Serve.

Better than Takeout Chicken Fried Rice

I mean really.  Who doesn’t like fried rice?  Ok maybe my six year old doesn’t because of the veggies inside, but I am pretty sure he is the only one out there.  :) For my birthday dinner with my family I chose to go to our favorite little chinese restaurant.  And it was the bomb.  But their fried rice was excellent.   But I kept thinking, I can make this just as good at home and I have been craving it ever since!
Since I learned a few awesome tricks on how to get the perfect fried rice in my recipe here, I wanted to make a big old batch for myself for lunch.  The baby was craving it that day.  But I thought, why don’t I add in some protein and make a meal out of it.  You guys.   The chicken gave it such amazing flavor!  I really couldn’t believe how good it turned out.  I promise that you can stay at home and have this better than take out chicken fried rice.  You will really be impressed with yourself. :)


WIAW and Sesame Chicken Recipe

I thought summer would open up my schedule and give me time to run whenever I chose.  Wrong.  Only a few days in and already my running motivation has fell by the wayside.  Yesterday instead of my scheduled interval workout, I just went for a five-mile run.  Gasp.  More often than not, I wish I could just go for a long walk with my mom in the morning and be done with it.  With so many things to do and people to see, I hope I can stay motivated throughout the summer to stick with my training.