Category: Meal Ideas for Picky Eaters

  • Four Ingredient Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo

    Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo is quick and easy to make. It can be made with many variations. It can be purchased already made. An example of that is a frozen meal that is heated up. Some people make this entirely from scratch from the sauce to the pasta itself. While that would taste delicious, I am…

  • Meatloaf-Uncle Bill’s Favorite

    At first when I had thought of making meatloaf, it was a bit intimidating. I thought, “Would I make it right;” “Would I put in the proper ingredients;” “Would my family like it the way I choose to make it or would they want it a different way;” “What was the best recipe…”? After much…

  • How to prepare Pierogies and Sausage

    My husband and I both grew up in Pennsylvania, but in different parts of the Commonwealth.  We both remember pierogies as a yummy potato-filled food, but learned to make them differently. I had pierogies with vegetables and a meat, or just alone. He had pierogies and sausage, similar to how we eat them as a family…

  • A French Toast Bake on the menu for dinner

    Breakfast for dinner is a change from the normal meal. Though it sounds fairly jump simple, this may prove to be a little tricky at first.  Sometimes when we serve breakfast for dinner, or Brinner, as some call it, my boys are hungry soon is ti this oneafterwards.  Some ideas for this include scrambled eggs…

  • How to make Poor Man’s Lobster

    Poor Man’s lobster, also known as Mock lobster, was a favorite of mine growing up.  Poor man’s lobster is boiled haddock. I always knew when my mom was making this meal. I could smell the sharp smell of white vinegar and old bay seasoning boiling on the stove top.  She always used the same beige…

  • Cooper Chili; Easy Must-have Recipe for a Cold-weather Favorite

    Cold-weather dinner Cooper chili is a recipe that my husband and I came up with before my kids were born. We wanted a chili recipe that we could enjoy. Sometimes when I was younger, and always as an adult, I made my own dinner. One of my favorite foods to make to eat was chili. I…

  • Tuna melts- a quick and easy meal

    If your kiddo does not care for tuna, tuna melts are probably not the right meal for you.  My boys like it how I make it, most of the time. Tuna salad can be made several ways, with many different combinations of ingredients.  I have been making and eating tuna salad for many years and…

  • Hamburger Cabbage Soup approved by picky eaters

    Hamburger Cabbage Soup approved by picky eaters

    Yes, you read that right-cabbage! This recipe for hamburger cabbage soup was a huge hit with my whole family. One day my neighbor gave me a large head of cabbage, about the size of a basketball or volleyball, and I was not sure what to make with it.  Of course, there is the popular stuffed…

  • My Nana’s Stromboli – an easy comfort-food recipe

    My Nana’s Stromboli – an easy comfort-food recipe

    Nana My Nana’s Stromboli was a staple at Hollen reunions. Family reunions are a time to get together with relatives we might not see any other time throughout the year. To see families grow; to remember years and generations that have gone by. It is a time to eat food made with recipes to remember…

  • Chicken Cacciatore- Easy 5-ingredient Crockpot dinner

    Chicken Cacciatore- Easy 5-ingredient Crockpot dinner

    Chicken Cacciatore in the crockpot is simple and quick to put together. The most difficult part of this recipe is chopping the onion, especially if you react to the vapors as I do.  Most of the time my gracious husband will jump right in and volunteer to cut them. He is more tolerant of cutting…