Jan 18, 2013 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Every Christmas and Holiday season, I underestimate the sheer amount of food I will consume. It’s just that with every party, every get-together, the food is so “festive” and rich. Nonetheless, I return home from our annual New Year’s...
Dec 15, 2012 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Happy Holidays! This year for the December Tasty Table edition, I thought it might be fun to ask some fellow Triad friends to share their favorite holiday recipes. I have some amazing fellow friends who love to bake, to cook, and that have some...
Nov 17, 2012 | Entertaining, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Ahh, Thanksgiving is here, y’all! What a special holiday. I often hear people say that they love Thanksgiving more than the Christmas season, because it is one day of quiet, peaceful, family-oriented time, with so little hustle and bustle....
Oct 21, 2012 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Tasty Table Blogger Jenny Stauffer Here are some delicious, easy protein-packed dinner ideas. All of them have minimal prep time and are super flavorful. Enjoy! Pork Loin Milanese I just recently got Melissa d’Arabian’s new cookbook. She is the host of...
Oct 5, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Helpful Lists & Directories, Local Resources, Parks & Outdoor Activities, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Kelly Melang of Forsyth Family Magazine (with contributions from TMoM) The symbol of the apple has had different meanings through the ages, from the poisoned apple given to Snow White to the Apple Logo gracing every iPod and iPhone. The symbol of fall is the apple...
Sep 29, 2012 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Aahhh, Fall is finally here! With the early warm temperatures, I personally could not be more ready for fall this year. Fall is probably my most very favorite time of the year. Football, the fall festivals and the fair, eating dinner on the deck…I...
Aug 31, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By TMoM Team Member, Dani Luft In my younger days, choosing what to eat was always a “what I would like to eat now” kind of thing. As a parent, menu planning has becoming a necessary part of day-to-day living. Some of us are planners. Some think it takes too much...
Aug 26, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Summer has come and gone and it’s back -to-school time already! I know that as my own kids start school next week, it will be a shock to our internal clocks! Now is the time for easy, quick dinners that we can put together in a snap so that we...
Aug 13, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Lisa Witherspoon The next three weeks are going to be filled with Triad kids heading back to school. TMoM is here to help you get off to a great school year with tips for kids of all ages. Today’s guest blogger tackles the daunting task of packing lunches...
Jul 21, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer I have posted before about finding new recipes and this month I have found some delicious new recipes that will definitely make a regular rotation in our house. I also have started something new this past month. Normally, I jot down a weekly menu of...
May 27, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Guest Blogger Jenny Stauffer It’s that time of year again! Time to heat up our grills, enjoy the outdoors, and let our kids chase lightning bugs and stay up to enjoy the warm weather! These recipes are perfect for nights like these and are ideal for either...
Apr 28, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Holidays, Parenting & Family, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Happy Cinco De Mayo! Next weekend we will be celebrating this day that commemorates the cause of freedom and democracy during the first years of the American Civil War and celebrates Mexican heritage and pride. Don’t y’all just love another reason...
Apr 15, 2012 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
I recently went on a girls’ weekend and we enjoyed a fun-filled trip to the mountains. In perfect “girl weekend style” we ate, drank, talked, and then ate, drank, and talked again. The food was, as always … delicious! We gorged ourselves...
Mar 17, 2012 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer This month I was challenged to create a St. Patrick’s Day menu, and it was so much fun! Though I grew up with German and Irish and Catholic families, I was never much turned on to corned beef or beef and potato meals. But lo and behold, I managed to...
Mar 8, 2012 | Adult Health & Wellness, Children's Health & Wellness, Food & Nutrition, Groceries & Couponing, Health, Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Julie Lanford, MPH, RD, CSO, LDN. The top 12 most researched cancer fighting foods are in your grocery store. That’s right. There are foods you can buy today that will satisfy your family and fight cancer, too! There is no magic food. I’ve been working...
Feb 20, 2012 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Tasty Table Blogger Jenny Stauffer Snow has finally reached the Triad! It’s a great time to get your crock pots and dutch ovens warmed up. Today I am sharing some recently discovered – and some all-time favorite – recipes that will warm you right...
Feb 4, 2012 | Family Time, Food & Nutrition, Parenting & Family, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Lisa Witherspoon, author of www.thegoldenspoons.blogspot.com We often hear chefs like Rachael Ray and Emeril Lagasse talking about Cooking with Kids. In 2007, Disney-Pixar even released an animated movie called Ratatouille that was all about cooking. The main...
Jan 14, 2012 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Tasty Table Blogger Jenny Stauffer One of my biggest passions is browsing recipes. I love new cookbooks. I will go to my friends’ homes and look at cookbooks. I love cooking magazines and can’t get enough. And I watch Food Network a lot. So I am always trying new...
Dec 18, 2011 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Tasty Table Blogger Jenny Stauffer Well, I just cannot believe the holidays are here! Doesn’t time fly by faster the older we get? I know many of you will be dashing here and there, from party to party, house to house and may need some new ideas of how to entertain...
Nov 24, 2011 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Happy Thanksgiving! Between now and the end of the holidays, all of us moms will be busy visiting relatives, shopping and wrapping, or hosting company of our own. Having a casserole in the freezer or on-hand is a lifesaver when we are frazzled. It is...
Oct 19, 2011 | Birthday Parties, Entertaining, Food & Nutrition, Local Resources, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Tonya Steward No matter the occasion – a special birthday, a wedding or baby shower, Mother’s or Father’s Day, a holiday, or just because – a homemade cake is not only fun to make but also means so much more to the person receiving it....
Sep 26, 2011 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Tasty Table Blogger Jenny Stauffer Fall is in the air! I am not sure about you, but Fall is probably my favorite time of the year! I love the change of seasons, yet this particular time of the year packs a lot of punch and excitement….back to school, sports, and...
Sep 23, 2011 | Entertaining, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Guest Blogger and Loyal Dream Dinners Customer Tina Kneisel As a working mom with four children, my desire to come up with new and creative meals – and my fatigue at the end of the day – tend to battle with one another. This death fight often ends with...
Sep 17, 2011 | Food & Nutrition, Our Favorite Finds, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas, Restaurants
By Guest Blogger Fran Fried, mother of four boys and loyal friend of Dinners on the Porch It’s the middle of the week. It’s 5:00 pm and it’s time to face the music: dinner must be prepared. There are “witching hour” children hurtling through the kitchen, grumpy and...
Aug 27, 2011 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer This month includes more of our family favorites! We are all busy right now, starting back to school, getting into a routine, and these recipes will get your family to dinner with little effort on your part. All of these are in our family’s regular...
Jul 23, 2011 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Guest Blogger Jenny Stauffer This month, I have decided to share some of our family’s favorite dinner recipes. Some of them are more suited for company, but most of them are recipes that are in our regular rotation of meals. We are so busy this time of year, it’s...
Jun 28, 2011 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer We North Carolinians are fortunate enough to be close to the mountains and the beach, and local produce is abundant in June. When I was growing up, my dad had a big garden. He would order seeds from catalogs and plant the seedlings that he grew in...
Jun 6, 2011 | Food & Nutrition, Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Guest Blogger Carrie Friesen, MD My two-year-old claims that her favorite food is brussel sprouts. I’m not convinced that she really likes them more than Chick-fil-A waffle fries, but she does like them. It may be the yummy way my husband cooks them (see recipe at...
May 30, 2011 | Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Guest Blogger Jenny Stauffer Happy Grilling Everyone! Enjoy the day and more importantly, enjoy your SUMMER!!!! I hope you all enjoy these tasty summer recipes that our family loves during grilling season! And on the flip side, if you don’t have too much time...
Apr 25, 2011 | -, Food & Nutrition, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Jenny Stauffer Happy (almost!) Cinco de Mayo! Why not have a piece devoted to my favorite food in the world, other than Italian? Well, Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner, and I didn’t want you all to miss out on some great Mexican recipes that we use all...
