Freezer meals are a handy way to get dinner on the table in a hurry. They're designed for those days when a meeting runs late or you need to deliver a last-minute dinner to a friend or you have zero desire to pull out a pot at 5 o'clock. I've used several different methods for big-batch freezer meal cooking. Some involved doubling and freezing one recipe at a time as I made dinner. Others required spending a whole day in the kitchen with 1-3 other people and divvying up the dinners at the end. Each one worked well for different reasons at different times. If you're tired of the same ol', same ol' when it comes to making dinner, this Keep Reading

Homemade Hummus Recipe Until this past week, I had never cooked dried chickpeas/garbanzo beans before. It's funny how something so small can be so intimidating, but I guess you stick with what you know until you realize what you are missing. Who knew cooking beans was so similar to having children?! Then I read this line in my trusty Bean Bible (Amazon), "Dry chickpeas are the most challenging bean to cook." What's that, a challenge? It's on. Determined, I filled a small bag of dried beans in WinCo's bulk section. (You can also find dried beans on Amazon with fantastic reviews!) I came home and continued reading, "Check that your chickpeas Keep Reading