Jolene's Recipe Journal

We eat a lot of chicken, and it's very easy to burn out on it if you don't change it up. I've had black beans on my 'new foods to try list' for a while now, and when I saw this recipe, I knew it would be perfect.  It had components we'd all eat, and it was easy to customize it for myself, but also for my guys.

In 2015, Camilla at Culinary Adventures of Camilla enlisted her blogging friends to help her celebrate her 15th wedding anniversary by sharing 15 cheesecakes.  The event was a huge hit, and I'm so excited to be a part of it this year for her 18th anniversary!

It's Maple Month here in New Hampshire, and we've already hit the sugar shack to stock up on our syrup and other goodies for the year.   I had some apples leftover from the Upside Down Apple Pie I made, so when I searched the Taste of Home site, I knew this recipe would be perfect. Recently I've been eating a lot of oatmeal, and I've been searching for ways to switch it up.

It makes me so happy when I can get good produce here in March.   After 3 huge snowstorms in a row, I needed a little taste of spring, so when I saw fresh asparagus at the grocery store, I grabbed it.

Welcome to #EasterWeek! I'm still a little thrown off by how early Easter is this year, and to be honest, I haven't finalized my menu yet.   My son has become the typical teenager who likes to sleep until noon, so I've been focusing my search on brunch type recipes.

One of my cooking goals for 2018 is to master pie crust, and what better reason to give it a go than #PiDay? My grandmother tried to teach me when I was growing up, but I just couldn't get the hang of it.

A little while back I inventoried my freezer and pantry and discovered that I had lots of duplicate items, among them, large canisters of quick cooking oats.   I searched out recipes to use them on the Taste of Home site, and these cookies had amazing reviews.

I talk a lot about my Italian ancestry and the food that surrounds it, but I also have Irish in there from my Mom's side.   We didn't eat any Irish food growing up that I can recall, so I went on a recipe search.  Irish soda bread kept catching my eye.