salad

Honey Dijon Salad Dressing

February 26, 2024February 23, 2024 RefreshHer4 Comments

A special salad can add so much to a simple supper of fish (like this Dijon Crusted recipe) or Grilled Chicken Breasts! A fabulous salad may be all you need to add to the protein you’re serving. The good news is that it doesn’t take lots of effort to come up with a salad that is a special addition to your meal! I love making my own salad dressings to make my salad really delicious, and I’ve shared many different varieties here on my blog.

Recently I made another kind of dressing – Honey Dijon, that was the perfect blend of tangy and sweet! I also lightened it up a bit by using a light Mayo.

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Meeting Jamie Deen

February 23, 2024February 18, 2024 RefreshHer4 Comments

I am a huge Paula Deen fan! I love her old show, her You Tube channel, and her restaurants! I’ve gotten to eat at Paula Deen’s Family Kitchen in Pigeon Forge and it was delicious!

I learned from Whitney that her son, Jamie’s restaurant in Savannah was really good, too. So when my husband and I recently took a road trip to Florida, I asked if we could stop and eat at The Chicken Box. Not only did I want to try the fried chicken, I was in hopes of getting to see and possibly meet Jamie. Well…

I was not disappointed!

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Biblical Womanhood · Speech

The Power of a Woman’s Words

February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 RefreshHerLeave a comment

You can listen to this post on Refresh Her podcast.
(This transcript/post was last week’s episode)

Has someone’s words ever cut you to the quick? Words are a powerful thing. They can help in such a great way, but they can also destroy.

Have you ever seen the illustration of a tube of toothpaste and how it illustrates our speech?

If we take the toothpaste and just squeeze it out onto the counter, we see that it’s easy to get the toothpaste out of the tube. But now if we try to take that same toothpaste and put it back inside the tube, it’s impossible. That is such a great illustration of what our words are like. Once they’re out, there’s no retracking them. There’s no taking them back.

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Chicken · Fast meal · Lunch

Bacon, Chicken, Corn Quesadilla

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 RefreshHer2 Comments

I often struggle with what to fix for lunch!! It needs to be quick, but I also want it to have protein, and of course, I want it to be delicious!

If you get stuck on what to fix for lunch, I have a great “recipe” for you! Recently I found three simple things in my fridge and freezer that made for a scrumptious quesadilla!

Cooked chicken breasts
Cooked bacon pieces
Corn

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Cleaning · Kitchen Tips

Scrub-free Oven Cleaning

February 16, 2024February 14, 2024 RefreshHer4 Comments

I had the blessing of making dinner for my daughter’s family this week. Well, it was a blessing until the pot pie filling seeped out of the crust and baked into a hard, crispy shell in my oven! What a mess it created!

My oven has the self-cleaning feature, but I’m not really a fan of using it. It just gets too hot in my opinion. So when the mess in my oven cooled, I did my normal routine to try to get it clean. I scraped up what I could using a scraper, and then scrubbed it with a Brillo pad. Not much came up. Ugh. Then I Googled for a solution and I came up with a method that was called “Scrub-free!” I was a little skeptical, but it gave it a try. I was blown away with the results!

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