The St. Charles Home Show Is This Weekend!

We love the St. Charles Home Show! You can just smell the home improvement in the air! Whether you’re thinking about remodeling your kitchen or bath, updating a few items around your home, or want to spruce up your landscaping . . . everything you need for your home will be there (including us!). Hope …

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Kitchen Lighting by Rejuvenation

Here at Affordable Kitchens & Baths, we love putting the finishing touches on our kitchen designs, particularly selecting the perfect lighting to pull together the overall style of each kitchen. One of our favorite sources for lighting is Rejuvenation. Their selection is vast, varied and very, very fun.  download movie Madraza Here are just some …

Cooking in the Kitchen: Blue Cheese & Cheddar Sweet Potato Rounds

WARNING: The following recipe is highly addictive . . .   We first made Sweet Treats & More’s recipe for Baked Blue Cheese & Cheddar Sweet Potato Rounds for a Super Bowl party. As a slightly more healthy, more nutrient-packed (courtesy of the sweet potatoes) version of your typical nacho, they were the hit of …

Cooking in the Kitchen: Lighter Chicken Parmesan

We try our best to share healthy, family-friendly recipes here on the Affordable KB blog (as evidenced here & here), but we believe in indulging every now and then (as evidenced here and here). This recipe for Chicken Parmesan collides health and indulgence is such an incredible and foolproof way, that we can’t believe we’ve …

Cooking in the Kitchen: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Braised Chicken with Green Olives and Lemon

It’s official. This is the last chicken recipe you will ever need. The “Braised Chicken with Green Olives & Lemon” from Gwyneth Paltrow’s It’s All Good is crispy, flavorful, falling off the bone, juicy, healthy . . . all the things you hope for when you make chicken or order it in a restaurant. Aaaaand …

Our KBIS Favorites

We weren’t able to make it to Las Vegas for the 2014 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) last month, but luckily, what happens at KBIS doesn’t stay at KBIS. We followed the show closely via various social media outlets and saw lots of cool new products and innovations. Here are just a few of …