My name is Megan. I love cooking, eating, photography, working out, horseback riding and spending time with my family.












My name is Megan. I love cooking, eating, photography, working out, horseback riding and spending time with my family.
Foods of Our Lives
 
Mexican Chopped Salad
Sunday, March 27, 2011
This was a delicious salad that made us feel like spring is just around the corner (even though it snowed last night).

It’s pretty easy to put together, all you have to do is chop a bunch of stuff...
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Salmon Salad Sandwich
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Ok.

This was SO yummy.

So yummy in fact that all my two oldest children (who both love salmon with all their hearts) took one look at them and proclaimed, “I don’t that.” and then proceeded to eat...
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Seafood Chowder
Friday, February 18, 2011
This was a super fun chowder to me. I love just throwing a bunch of food into a big pot and having it actually be good. Pretty exciting stuff for me. So that’s what happened with this one, the...
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Grilled Chicken, Bacon, Pesto and Smoked Gouda Sandwich
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
So I was watching PBS the other day. It was Saturday and my kids had been, well, this is food we are supposed to be talking about so lets just say they had this stomach bug earlier in the week and...
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Chicken Noodle Soup
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
So in the last 48 hours (or something like that) it has snowed like, I dunno, a foot. It’s hard to say when you don’t pay attention to weather report and because of the drifting, different spots get...
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Cheddar and Broccoli Soup
Friday, February 4, 2011
So I was out to re-create the Broccoli Cheese Soup from Panera Bread, except that I wanted more big chunks of broccoli. But rather than come up with the whole thing and go through trial and error to...
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Grilled Portabella and Brie Sandwiches
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Can I just say, these were surprisingly easy, and so yummy I couldn’t stop eating. I spread the brie on pretty thick (of course!) and it was amazing. I just used canned roasted red peppers I had in...
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French Onion Soup
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Perfect after church on a cold winter day!

Ingredients

1 stick Butter
4 whole Large (or 6 Medium) Yellow Onions, halved root to Tip, and sliced thin
1 cup (generous) Dry White Wine
4 cups Low Sodium...
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Pesto Chicken Salad
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
This is one of my favorite summer salads. Something about grilled chicken and the combination of toasted pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes and raisins is so different and amazing. I find myself coming...
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Butter Soup
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
This soup recipe was originally given to me by Lisa Peterson when I was working at Miracle Ranch. It really is called Montana Chicken Soup but one of Jeremiah’s co-workers in Ohio always called it...
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How I do Chili
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
I think I have mentioned before I don’t eat beef, so when I saw this recipe for chicken chili I had to try it. Well, I have made a few adjustments of my own and it is now a staple in our house....
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French Dip
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
So I am sure my mom will see this and go, “Well that’s how I’ve been making it for 30 years! Why has she just now figured it out??” Well, I just now figured out how to make French Dip. Let me just say...
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Creamy Cauliflower Soup
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ingredients

1 stick Butter, Divided
½ whole Onion, Finely Diced
3 whole Carrots Finely Diced
1 stalk Celery, Finely Diced
1 whole (to 2 Whole) Cauliflower Heads (roughly Chopped)
2 Tablespoons Fresh Or...
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Chipotle Chicken Sandwich
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Yes please! We were extremely pleased with the yummy-ness of this sandwich. The only thing I maybe would have done differently is to grill the chicken - if you have a George Forman grill that would...
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Clam Chowder
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
For our honeymoon, Jeremiah and I drove down the coast, covering Washington, Oregon and Northern California. We ended that part of our honeymoon in Monterey where we found ourselves on the Fisherman’s...
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Chicken and Dumplings
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Guess what I’m having for lunch??! This was amazing. Good ol’ fashioned comfort food. The chicken was moist, the dumplings, well let’s just say Linus only ate dumplings. He even passed over the...
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Meatball Soup
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Last night, I asked Linus what he wanted for supper and he said, “Meatball Soup”. I have no idea where he got the idea but since I actually had some ingredients I thought could be used for it I went...
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Homemade Tomato Soup
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Today is windy and I assume cold. I haven’t been outside to actually check but since it is October I will just trust my instincts on this one. So being what the weather is outside I lit some candles,...
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Chicken Salad
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
We love Chicken Salad around here. I discovered Juliette really likes it when I took her out to tea with a couple friends of ours and I ordered some. She just kept eating and eating it, which was good...
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Pear and Candied Walnut Salad
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Yummmmmm. I honestly am not a huge pear fan when it comes to just eating a pear. But put them in something and I LOVE them! The other thing I absolutely love is a good balance of sweet to salt or wine...
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