Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Saturday – Roast turkey breast, mashed potatoes and stuffing Sunday – Away Monday – Tandoori Chicken, rice and broccoli Tuesday – Creamy potato soup Wednesday – Pizza and salad Thursday – Pierogies and Salad Friday – Vodka Cream Penne and salad
Monday – Butter chicken with rice and broccoli Tuesday – Homemade chicken noodle soup with grilled cheese sandwiches Wednesday – Gnocci with pomodoro sauce and salad Thursday – Sausage gravy with biscuits and fruit Friday – Homemade pizza with salad
This recipe is one that really brings back a part of my childhood. When I was young my grandmother would always make lemon meringue pie. When I was old enough to help out, she taught me the tricks to making a great pie. There are three main components to making a great lemon meringue pie: …
Sometimes inspiration comes in the strangest ways. For example, tonight we were going to have pizza for dinner. The plan was to use our standard homemade pizza dough recipe one with some homemade sauce that I had in the freezer and one garlic pizza. The dough was made at lunchtime and left to rise …
Saturday: Garbage Bread with garden salad Sunday: Greek Chicken Skewers, pita with mixed salad greens Monday: Chicken Pesto Pasta Tuesday: BBQ Chicken with Salt Potatoes Wednesday:Random Chicken with rice and broccoli Thursday: Mini Sausage Mushroom, Roasted Red Pepper Fritattas Friday: Grilled Turkey Pineapple Burgers
Friday – Grilled Chicken breast with tabouleh salad and broccoli salad Saturday – Out Sunday – Hamburgers with leftover tabbouleh and broccoli salad Monday – Grilled Honey Jalapeño chicken over salad Tuesday – Asian Peanut Noodles Wednesday – Hotdogs baked beans and salad
It is Memorial Day weekend and in addition to honoring our fallen heroes, we often have a cookout with the family to remember family members that we have lost. Since we started this project to live without store-bought breads, the bun situation has been pretty spotty. We have made these buns in the past and …
The winter that seemed like it was never going to end seems to be relenting and giving way to warmer weather. With warmer weather we start to move some of the cooking outdoors to the grill. This recipe came to us via an excursion during the cruise that we took last fall. In St. Maartin …
Today is St. Patrick’s Day. The traditional meal is corned beef with cabbage. I really like corned beef and I don’t even mind the cabbage. My mother would boil the corned beef and cabbage along with carrots and potatoes. That’s pretty much the St. Paddy’s day recipe and I am on board with that. The …
This particular winter has been exceptionally cold, like ‘WTF, why is it so cold?’, cold. While I don’t care for the cold the bright side is that great soups, stews and chowders are the best antidote to cold weather. This winter we have eaten all of our favorites a few times each and have been …