Never “Beef” With a Woman’s Fantasy Football Team
If you have kids then you know what I mean when I say your life changes after they come into your life. In a big way. I am extremely blessed to have two beautiful, smart, loving little boys and a ...

Recipe 64- Jambasta: Jambalaya Pasta
AMAZING dish! Although I am quite sure this is not the healthiest of dishes, it is extremely delish! I would never dream of incorporating these flavors and even ingredients together that Rachael Ray did to make this “Jambasta”. How genius ...

I Am A Competitor—I Do Not Fail
Due to the fact that it is humanly impossible to finish tonight, as well as other contributing factors like unreal expectations/goals I set for myself as well as the fact that my bestie’s Chasity & Sandy threw me a killer, ...

Recipes 58 & 59--Panzanella: Bread & Tomato Salad & Chicken Short-Cut-a-Tore (Dedicated to my rockin-almost-92 year old-aerobic-doing-skit-acting-domino-winning-and-rubbing-it-all-up-in-yo-face-Grandma)
I know I’m turning the big 3-0 this Sunday but really, bread salad? What’s next bread pudding? Fruit cake, dates and that weird jello with the fruit sneakily & peculiarly placed inside of it? I am not quite sure why ...

Recipe 56- Macho Mix & Match Enchiladas—Warm Salsa Verde w/ Mexican Pulled-Chicken Filling—Kids Better Get Their Bee-hinds Out of my Kitchen!
So I apparently need a few lessons. One being in a quick and efficient version on how to pull chicken (aka: tear the heck outta some poached chicken breasts with two forks) and the other being how to correctly “soften” ...

ELEVEN Recipes—One Day! And That’s Why They Call Me Crazy Carla…
Once upon a time, in a far away land, very distant in time, possibly lost in history, there was a type of humankind, a species called woman who actually enjoyed slaving over the stove all morning, day and night to ...

Sammies, Pigs & Life's Little Realizations
Every now and again I get empowered. Empowered as a woman, as a mother, as an individual, as a wife, as a daughter, as a sister, as a friend, as a stranger, as a good samaritan and today, empowered by ...

Recipe 37- Margherita Pizza: Tomato, Basil, & Mozzarella
My littlest man, Carter, and I, fully dressed in our chef gear, in total “Italiano” character (using words in our best Italian accent, “peeetsaria” aka: pizzeria, “mautsaraella” aka: mozzarella as we made “voila” gestures every other sentence), had the best ...

TEN Kids In My House Mexican Pulled-Chicken Filling
DELISH! My sista from another mista, Chasity, came over this night with her 4 kids. Three of these kids are little boys ages 2, 4 & 6. My boys are 4 and 8. Throw in a handful of neighborhood kids ...

Recipe 30- Curry in a Hurry-Giving Dinner Time a Little Flare!
I am a few days behind on blogging due to my little guy, Carter, who quickly possessed a red rash all over his body which we now know is Scarlet Fever. With that, Friday was Curry in a Hurry, a ...