• Easy Savory Dinner Recipe: Green Bean Skillet

    It’s full of rich beefy flavor, it’s melty and cheesy, and it packs a mean veggie punch! The best part is the savory + cheesy flavor helps mask the greens, meaning even our pickiest eater asks for seconds! This recipe is so simple and uses only one pan. We love using our cast iron but a regular pan / skillet would work too! Love Your Cast Iron Skillet with these 5 simple tips! The links in the post are a part of the Amazon Affiliates Program. This means I get a small percentage back from Amazon from any potential purchase. This is what keeps my blog running, and keeps me…

  • Slow and Simple Tips To Bring Peace This Holiday Season

    Back again with more holiday drama? Not here at House of Eilers. Well, not intentional drama anyway! 😉 The holiday bustle seems to bring enough of that on its own! Here are a few ways I give myself a much needed break during the holiday season as a busy mom of four little ones. But still keep up our most important holiday traditions! 1. Ditch Perfection Beautiful + Pinterest Perfect Christmas, is that you, knocking at our front door? Sorry pal, you aren’t welcome here! B.K. (before kids), I found so much joy in creating photo worthy holiday moments. But alas, with all things children, grace prevails. Besides… I’ll take…

  • Thanksgiving at Home, Keeping This Year Simple

    With 2020 throwing all sorts of curve balls our way, the holiday season is officially turned on its head. We want to give our kids all the same holiday spirit and joy as years past. And I know there are a lot of families stressed about how different things look this year. Mama, don’t worry about this year missing the mark. Trust me when I say, there is beauty in the simple. Especially the simple holiday. This is exactly why this year I’m going to relax, focus on the few main traditions we know and love, and let the rest slide! How to Simplify Thanksgiving Dinner And the whole day…

  • RECIPE :: Best Pancakes Ever

    This is normally where someone writes a long and intense narrative about their Saturday morning. How the winter white surrounded their woodland cabin. How the smell of their Foldgers engulfed the kitchen as it was warmed by their wood burning stove. How these pancakes changed their life. That isn’t going to happen here. I know what you want. You want the goods. And I wanted to try multiple ‘from scratch’ recipes to ensure I had in fact found the best one. Well, IT IS TIME. The links in the post are a part of the Amazon Affiliates Program. This means I get a small percentage back from Amazon from any…

  • RECIPE :: Yummiest Protein Bites

    If you’re a mom and you were born after 1980, chances are you’ve made protein balls a time or two. We’ve tried a ton of recipes on Pinterest, but this has by far been our favorite hybrid of them all. So today we wanted to share our fave protein ball recipe with you. We think a few additional simple pantry ingredients really add some flavor you’ll like too! Ingredients 1 cup oats 3/4 cup nut butter of choice 1/2 cup crushed pretzels 1/2 cup chia seeds 1/3 cup honey 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips 1 TBSP coconut oil (melted) 1 tsp vanilla extract Substitutes To make your protein balls nut…

  • RECIPE :: Sausage+Pepper+Cauliflower Fried Rice

    So easy. So quick. So Fresh. So simple. This recipe is a new go to in our household. And even better yet if you use these awesome chicken sausages from Aldi! Tomato & Basil is our fave, but so many of their flavors would go well with this dish! I was surprised how simple it was to make cauliflower rice, which is a stellar alternative for those on Keto, Whole30 or Paleo diets. I loved this recipe and hope you do too! For the full recipe, visit eatwell101 here! xo Amy

  • Creamy Chicken Wild Rice Soup + The Easiest Italian Bread

    I’ve been loving the rhythm we’ve added to our dinners lately. Giving each weekday a theme makes it so much easier to meal plan and prep. It also adds great predictably for our children. Slow Cooker Saturday has surprisingly become one of their faves. To learn more about how we plan a months worth of dinners in 10 minutes, and get the free printable I use to do it, click here! I never thought my toddlers would eat soup, let alone beg for seconds. But getting their little hands involved, which is super easy with dump and set crock pot dinners, has them so intrigued and excited to sample the…

  • BEST brownies ever

    I’m going to give it to you straight, these were the best, and easiest brownies I’ve made to date! So good. So fudgy. And only one bowl required. One bowl recipes are my kind of recipes. It’s a really great recipe because it uses things I always keep stocked in my pantry, so I can pull up this recipe and whip up a pan of brownies in no time. Perfect for days like today, when we are in a Wisconsin blizzard warning! The links in the post are a part of the Target Affiliates Program. This means I get a small percentage back from Target from any potential purchase. I…

  • the BEST chocolate chip cookies

    Many thanks to my kids’ Alpha-Bakery cookbook from Gold Medal for this recipe! I have no idea where we got this cookbook (my suspicions and weak memory tell me it’s from our baby shower), but it’s definitely a vintage thrift that I’m so obsessed with. It’s the ONLY cookbook we have in our home. And every recipe I make out of here is legit GOLD (no pun intended). The links in the post are a part of the Amazon Affiliates Program. This means I get a small percentage back from Amazon from any potential purchase. This is what keeps my blog running, and keeps me home with my babies every…

  • Simple and Gluten Free: Oatmeal Banana Blender Pancakes

    These quick, easy gluten free blender pancakes hit all the marks. They’re healthy, quick, easy to customize and hold up great to batch baking and freezing. The links in the post are a part of the Amazon Affiliates Program. This means I get a small percentage back from Amazon from any potential purchase. This is what keeps my blog running, and keeps me home with my babies every day. So thank you for your support, and for reading my blog! For more info, please visit my disclosure policies here.  TIPS for this Recipe Blend your oats dry first, for a smoother texture. Don’t be afraid to taste your batter before you…