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It’s Time! More Details about the Eat at Home Tonight Cookbook!

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Available for orders now!

My cookbook, Eat at Home Tonight is available for pre-order now and we’re just three weeks away from the launch date of August 7!

I’m so excited to get this book into your hands and your kitchen! The feedback from early readers who are cooking with the Advanced Reader Copies has been so encouraging.  I’ve heard about a husband who asked his wife to make Skillet Chicken Pot Pie with a Drop Biscuit Crust for the 5th time!

I also heard about a six-year-old girl who decided to make dinner. She grabbled Eat at Home Tonight, turned to the recipe for Eggs Run Through the Garden and started pulling ingredients out based on the photo. Her mom pitched in to help and together they made a dinner to be proud of!

Reasons to pre-order:

It’s like a gift to your future self!

Pre-order now and Eat at Home Tonight will be delivered to your mailbox on August 7.  I love getting books in the mail like this!

Cook through the book with me – Eat at Home Tonight Challenge

I’ll have more details to share with you about this soon, but I’ll be hosting a challenge so we can all get back in the habit of eating at home.  Our goal will be to eat at home for at least six nights during Aug. 8-14.

We’ll be cooking recipes from Eat at Home Tonight – I’ve even put together a free meal plan and grocery list for you using recipes from the book!

We’ll have a private Facebook group, there will be giveaways galore and lots of Facebook Lives where we can cook together.

Pre-ordering the book now means you’ll be all set once the challenge starts.

The number of pre-orders for a book affects how many copies get printed.

More pre-orders mean more books printed, which means sellers won’t run out of stock.

Pre-orders make a difference in determining where the book will be sold.

The chances of getting Eat at Home Tonight into more brick-and-mortar stores goes up with every pre-order.  In fact, it’s already set to be in several stores because of the pre-orders that have come in so far.

Early orders create buzz and boost a book’s chance at hitting best-seller lists.

All those pre-orders count toward the first week of sales and those sales stats are an important part of reaching best-seller status. (It’s okay to dream a little! 😉 )

I wrote this book for you!

Eat at Home Tonight will help you solve all kinds of dinner woes. Take a look at the list of chapter titles on the back of the book:

  • I only have 15 minutes tonight
  • My refrigerator is empty tonight
  • Everyone’s on a different schedule tonight
  • I’m out of the house and won’t have time to cook tonight
  • I don’t have time for dishes tonight
  • I want to cook for tonight and tomorrow night
  • I have a bit more time tonight
  • We can’t sit down for a meal tonight
  • I want to make something extra tonight
  • I have a sweet tooth tonight

No matter what your dinner dilemma is, you can turn to a chapter in this book and find a recipe that will help you get a great meal on the table!

 

Cover Reveal for Eat at Home Tonight Cookbook!

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I’m so excited to show you the cover for Eat at Home Tonight!

I’ve been working on this cookbook for a very long time now and it’s getting so close to moving from my kitchen into your kitchen!  Each chapter is designed to solve a different dilemma surrounding family dinner.  You’ll find recipes for when you only have fifteen minutes, you’ve got no time for dishes, the pantry is empty, everyone needs to eat on a different schedule and more.

The thing about dinner is that we all want to eat it, but finding the time to cook it when we’ve got a million other things to do can be hard.  In fact, sometimes it feels impossible!  How to make dinner when we aren’t in the kitchen, but are driving a pre-teen across town to soccer practice instead?

This book has the solution for that!

The book releases on September 11, but it’s available for pre-order now on:

If you know you’d like a copy, pre-ordering is a great way to go. It’s like sending a gift to your future self. And it makes a big difference in how many actual books will be stocked in stores too.

I truly hope you love the book as much as I loved writing it! I’ve found myself turning to these recipes a lot for our family dinners and I can’t wait to share them with you.  I’d love nothing more than for your copy to be dog-eared, flour dusted, marked in and used!

No matter how you get dinner on the table, you’re part of a tribe of women who value family and connecting at the end of the day.  I don’t know about you, but that fills me with hope in this crazy world!

The Basic Chicken Skillet – Seven ways

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A few years ago I shared a recipe for a basic Chicken Skillet. It’s the dinner equivalent to the little black dress at the most affordable of prices. And you know how you can dress up a LBD with pearls and heels or go casual with a jean jacket & sandals? Chicken Skillets are just as versatile. You can dress it up with some feta a black olives for a swanky Mediterranean dinner or add rice and just the rice for a more casual Cajun flavor. You can even mix in corn, beans and some serious spices for a lively fiesta. It’s the perfect go-to dish for those evenings when you want something familiar with the possibility of exotic.

The Basic Chicken Skillet

It won’t take long at all for you to toss together the Basic Chicken Skillet, but to get you started I’ve included the ingredients and directions for you. And from there, it’s kind of like a culinary world tour. And this month on Facebook Live we’re doing just that – a little world tour Chicken Skillet style!

Want to make your own dinner, starting with the Basic Chicken Skillet …

Click here to grab your FREE eBook 7 Skillet Dinners

All the recipes start with the Basic Chicken Skillet and go from there.  You’ll find 7 recipes to try, plus get encouragement and inspiration to find your own combos!  Enter your email over here to grab your own copy.

 

basic chicken skillet

Be sure to catch me on the Eat at Home Facebook page on Wednesday mornings around 10 am for some Basic Chicken Skillet recipes in the coming weeks and you can add lots of new twists to this go-to recipe.

And in the meantime, I’m curious as to which skillet recipe you’ll start with?

Join the Countertop Cooking Challenge 2018!

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Get your slow cooker ready!  Pull that new Instant Pot that you aren’t sure what to do with out of the box, because we’re going to be using both of these appliances this month!

I’m really excited to partner with Laurie from Passionate Penny Pincher to bring you Countertop Cooking Challenge.  Laurie and I are both going to be cooking from Eat at Home Meal Plans (you don’t have to be a member to follow along though).  The Countertop Cooking Challenge officially starts Feb. 26!

She’s going to be focusing on the slow cooker recipes and I’m going to be cooking Instant Pot recipes.  You can catch both of us cooking on Facebook Live videos.  Laurie will be on the Passionate Penny Pincher page and I’ll be on the Eat at Home page.  Be sure to go like both of our pages.

All of the Eat at Home Meal Plans feature some Instant Pot and Slow Cooker recipes.   You’ll find both types of recipes in Traditional, Wholesome Traditional, No Flour/No Sugar and Slow Cooker plans.

But even if you aren’t a meal plan member, you’ll want to join us in this challenge.  We’re going to making dinner simple and delicious using both the slow cooker and Instant Pot.  You’ll get new recipes and cooking tips and have your dinner done too!  (If you are interested in becoming a member, you can use the code COUNTERTOP at check out to get a discounted price.)

You’ll also want to sign up for the Countertop Cooking Challenge emails.  I’ll be sending out links to the FB live videos and other tips for you through email.

Sign Up Here:





I’m so excited to have you join us for this Countertop Cooking Challenge!

Make Your Own Pizza – It’s easier than you think!

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Ever wished that making pizza was as easy as picking it up from your local pizza joint? Well, it takes a little more forethought but it really is much easier than you might have imagined. I’m excited to talk about one of my favorite family foods and tell you some of the tricks I’ve learned along the way while making lots of yummy pizzas for my family’s pizza night each week over the years.

First, let’s just talk about pizza for a minute. It’s an all-American nod to a classic (though not quite the same) Italian dish. And one of my favorite things about it is that there are a million ways to make it, so it’s a great way to make everyone happy. I love that you can go savory, and never run out of different ways to top it. And you can go sweet, and make a treat that will be a massive hit with everyone too.

To me, pizza night is one of the easiest, most fun nights of the week. But to make pizza night easy, you do need to plan ahead a little. I make up my dough in batches. I freeze portions of it so I can pop it out an hour or so before dinner and let it thaw on the counter. That saves me so much time since I don’t have to make the dough from scratch every time we want pizza. Plus the extra rise helps give the dough an even better texture!

I like to make my own sauce, but you don’t have to. And you can go as elaborate or as easy as you want on the toppings. One of my favorites is the chicken alfredo pizza on the blog. It’s delicious and easy, and it is a great option if you don’t like or want all tomato sauces on your pizzas, too.

 

Tricks and Tips for Making Your Own Pizza

Some of Our Favorite Pizzas

  1. Need a gluten-free option for pizza night? We love this fun BLT Pizza!
  2. This homemade alfredo sauce is SO easy to make and it’s delicious on this alfredo chicken pizza. This is a huge favorite of mine!
  3. These mini deep dish pizzas are a fun take on personal pizzas. Lots of cheese!
  4. Here’s another fun take on chicken pizza. Good way to get some spinach in. You’ll really like Chicken Florentine Pizza!
  5. Don’t have time for a crust? French bread makes a fun, crispy alternative in this French Bread Pizza.
  6. Here’s a tex-mex way to make some pizza. Try out Cornbread Pizza!
  7. Who else loves pesto? I love this  Pesto Tomato Pizza!
  8. Need a little heat? Try this Spicy Garlic Chicken Pizza!
  9. This is not a pizza. But it’s another fun way to enjoy those pizza-y, cheesy flavors we love in pizza. You’ll love this Sausage Mozzarella Calzones
  10. Does anyone lovee a deep dish Chicago style pizza? This pizza pot pie was SO good!