Slow Cooker Beef Tacos with Homemade Flour Tortillas

Summer has arrived and tacos are a great meal to enjoy all season long. These slow cooker beef tacos with homemade flour tortillas and pickled red onions satisfied my family’s street tacos craving. I also love that my kitchen helper was involved in making the spice rub and rolling out the flour tortillas. I’m pretty

Budget Friendly Dinners To Kick Off The New Year

Happy New Year! This time of year is always filled with reflection and goal making. Many may look to save additional income and in light of the current government shutdown in the US, this is especially true. That is why today’s post is all about Budget Friendly Dinners to Kick Off The New Year. Over

Guest Feature: Heirloom Tomato Tart

Last  Sunday morning, I was enjoying coffee and  pancakes with my family over an episode of “Goldie and Bear.”   Usually I’m half tuned in to my daughter’s cartoons, but one of the scenes in this episode caught my eye.  “Goldie’s Do-Over Day,” a story about a spell “that lets you do things over. lt comes

Your Guide To Homemade Pasta With Kids (+ Videos)

Making homemade pasta with kids is possible. You just have to know your child and what they are capable of. When my kitchen helper was 2.5-3 years old he wanted to make the dough, be part of turning the pasta machine (only a few turns) and eat as much pasta as possible. At 4, he wants

A Winter Family Tradition: Tourtiere Meat Pie

As we start to say goodbye to winter, these cold nights are perfect to enjoy a tourtière, or meat pie. This double-crusted savory dish is hearty and feeds your family for a few nights. Growing up my mom made this dish every Christmas eve to honor my dad’s french-canadian roots. But honestly, who could resist

Guest Feature: Sausage and Vegetable Lasagna

Last week, we experienced a “Bomb Cyclone” on the East Coast. True to its name, it wreaked all kinds of havoc on our daily schedules, flight cancellations, road closures, and burst pipes. But some nice things came out of it too. On Tuesday, the deep freeze prompted county officials to delay the start of school

Dinner Your Children Will Make, Taste And Love

Homemade Pasta, one of my kitchen helper’s favorite dinner to make and taste. Making pasta in my house happens at least once a month.  My son loves to pour the flour on the table, make a well and crack the eggs. Once the dough comes together he is all about kneading until his hands get

Guest Feature: California Campfire Pizza

If you’ve been following our family through Make & Taste at all, you know we are avid campers and most of my contributions revolve around camping. This one has camping written all over it! We love pizza, but generally, you don’t associate pizza with camping. But, we managed to have a family favorite in the

Homemade New England Clam Chowder

Growing up in New England, clam chowder is a right of passage.  Every New Englander has their favorite place to go for their favorite style of chowder.  Thin or thick stock, potato chunks with skin on or off, bacon or no bacon, the list could go on.  I always stop by my go to chowder

Northern California Road Tip: Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas

Traveling across the country with a four year old is both terrifying and exciting. My son and I went on this same journey to visit my sister and her family a year earlier, so I knew he would enjoy the airport, planes, people and flying a bit more.  Or I hoped he would. With zero