This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Welcome to the Taste Creations Blog Hop! The first Monday of every month, my blogging friends and I get together to share recipes -- each month we share a different type of recipe. This month's theme is soup, so I am sharing one of my all-time favorite soups, udon soup! I decided to make my soup a chicken udon soup. My family and I love to go out for udon soup. Now I can also make this savory soup at home!   Udon soup is filled with thick wheat flour noodles called udon. Those thick udon noodles are so delicious! The udon and chicken in Continue reading...

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TasteIt2BelieveIt #MorningStarFarms #Collectivebias I adore falafel. This tasty vegetarian food is made with chickpeas/garbanzo beans and a mixture of spices. My family has been trying to eat more vegetarian meals, so I came up with a quick and easy falafel green salad with tahini sauce recipe I could make on meatless Mondays or any day of the week. I came up with my salad recipe when I discovered MorningStar Farms® Falafel Burgers made with garbanzo beans, rice, cilantro, parsley and Continue reading...

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I received the Twin Dragon Asian Gyoza Wrappers free for this recipe as part of the Twin Dragon Asian Wrapper Blogger Recipe Challenge. My family and I love dumplings -- but we usually eat dumplings that are stuffed with an Asian mix of vegetables or veggies and pork. I thought dumplings would be delicious stuffed with apples instead, and served as a dessert. Each month, I get together with some of my blogging friends for the Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the Continue reading...

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ShopRiteFamilyMeals #RootedInFrontera #WholesomePantry #CollectiveBias My twin daughters are in their high school’s marching band. They get home late from band practices, football games and band competitions. When they come home, they are hungry! I’m always on the lookout for quick and healthy dinner ideas. My great grandparents were originally from Great Britain and Europe, and my husband’s parents were from Korea, so we like to eat a broad range of foods at home. We adore Continue reading...

I received the Twin Dragon Asian Gyoza Wrappers free for this recipe as part of the Twin Dragon Asian Wrapper Blogger Recipe Challenge. Happy Monday, everyone! As a kid, I grew up with pierogi. A Polish dish, pierogi are delicious envelopes of dough often stuffed with potato and later pan fried with onion. My husband, whose parents were from Korea, grew up eating Asian-style pot stickers (called "mandu" in Korean)  and kimchi, a fermented spicy cabbage dish. I've always wanted to make my own pot stickers, so I combined the best of our food heritages and made sweet potato and kimchi pot Continue reading...

  This post was sponsored by ShopRite. My husband has been following a low-carb diet lately. So, I've been looking for delicious low-carb meals that I can make for dinner. I recently served easy foil packet meatballs that I marinated three different ways and prepared in foil packets on the grill. I served the meatballs with fresh steamed broccoli. The meal was quick, easy, delicious and low carb! Foil Packet Meatballs The fall weather has been very mild in New Jersey. The mild weather makes it very pleasant for grilling outside! I like to use our grill whenever I can. I can spend time Continue reading...