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Jill is a Mom, wife, teacher, artist, creative genius, and writer. She works everyday on her blog at SimpleDailyRecipes.com. When she's not home schooling her kids or writing for her blog, Jill likes dancing to Brazilian Jazz while cooking up something good in the kitchen.
Minestrone with Pasta and Beans
Another rockin’ soup from my favorite Italian cookbook. A total bowl of comfort full of creamy northern beans, big pasta, tangy roma tomatoes and yummy smoked bacon in between, oh! and carrots.
I am SO GLAD I made a big pot of this soup!
Of course, I didn’t follow the original recipe, EXACTLY. I used canola oil, [...]
Simple and Hearty Tuna Wraps
I forget how delicious, healthy and filling tuna salad can be for us. I skipped toasting whole wheat bread slices this time and filled a few large spinach leaves instead. YUMMO! I was completely satisfied.
“Now I’m strong to the finish, cuz I eats my spinach.
I’m Popeye the sailor man! TOOT TOOT!”
I don’t know where that [...]
How Much Food Do We Really Need On Our Plates
It doesn’t matter what time of the year we are in, we can find a reason why we need to go on a diet. As soon as the next mealtime comes around, we can find a reason why we can start that diet tomorrow.
In my efforts to research how much food we should be measuring [...]
Sweet Butternut Squash
After roasting a couple of butternut squash in the oven, I got the idea to finally try out that old squash recipe. You know the one. When someone tries to pass off an unknown gourd to you and says,
“All you have to do is cut it open, take the seeds out, sprinkle it with a [...]
Simple Black Bean Soup
This has got to be the SIMPLEST black bean soup in the world!
The secret to this soup is buying the right canned tomatoes to season the beans. Around here, Charlie and I are addicted to Food Club’s Diced Tomatoes with Chipotle Peppers. If you live around a Brookshire Brothers, you can pick up a can [...]
How To Make Recipes Healthier
This is a simple list of baking and cooking tips for making healthier recipes. No matter what time of the year, we should turn our recipes into healthy choices for our families.
With all good intentions, sometimes our attempts to a make a recipe ‘healthy’ produces a poor product. And that’s frustrating when we don’t have [...]
13Nov2008 | Jill | 4 comments | Continued
Ten Best Cooking Oils
Choosing the right oil to go with a particular cooking method is IMPORTANT. Some oils are good for high heat cooking, while others are better for drizzling over soups and salads and nothing more.
According to the American Diabetes Association, American Dietetic Association, and the National Institute of Health, here’s a good guide to the healthiest [...]
This Shirt Cracks Me Up!
My friend, Jerry from Cooking By The Seat Of My Pants (cbsop) designed this T-shirt for our holiday pleasures! Isn’t it GREAT? I like it so much, I wanted to promote it here on SDR. Notice any new vigilant turkey ads? Keeping refreshing the page and you’ll see them. Anyhoo.
I am SO WEARIN’ THIS on [...]
11Nov2008 | Jill | 2 comments | Continued
Simple Butternut Squash Breakfast Muffins
These simple butternut squash breakfast muffins are SO EASY to make- 25 min. to roast the squash + 20 min. to bake the muffins-YOU ARE READY TO EAT!
If you enjoy eating pumpkin and sweet potatoes, then there’s no reason for you not to use butternut squash, too. The taste of roasted butternut squash lingers between [...]
Butternut Chicken Stew
Butternut squash, chicken, kidney beans, red bell pepper, tomatoes and corn make up this simple hearty stew.
This recipe is similar to the Butternut Squash Chili recipe I posted last January. Only this time, I added a couple of roasted chicken breast I had stored in the freezer, a red bell pepper, and made it with [...]
This is the kind of thing I love to take for lunch. I can make it right there at ...
This is a simple, comfort soup. Perfect for folks under the weather who just need something warm & mild ...
That is too funny. Going to go check out Jerry's store right now! 
Looks delish! Think I'll make this for lunch today! 
Oh Jill, that looks yummy. I go in cycles with tuna and I haven't had it in a while. ...
Thanks for sharing this post... Very helpful, especially I'm on a strict diet and wanted to know how I should ...
