Bringing "back in the day" back to today
It’s pretty well established that I am a huge fan of breakfast. Eggs Benedict, hash and eggs, french toast or pancakes with bacon or sausage: sign me up! We had sausage gravy with biscuits for dinner on Friday and then bacon gravy with biscuits for breakfast on Saturday. Needless to say, on this Sunday morning …
Sometimes you cannot finish all of the bread that you make before it starts to go bad. There are a few things that can be done with the bread once it becomes stale. One of my favorites is using it to make fresh homemade croutons. It’s a quick and easy way to get a couple …
Sunday: Chicken Riggies with salad Monday: Pork Tenderloin With Sundried Tomato Cream Sauce Tuesday: Beef Short Ribs with Mashed Potatoes Wednesday: Honey Garlic Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs with Broccoli Thursday: Random Chicken with Rice and Broccoli Friday: Leftovers
Doughnuts, who doesn’t love them? I know that they are pretty popular around our house. I have written about them in the past; check out this post about baked chocolate glazed doughnuts. In that post I had intended to buy a real doughnut pan, I finally did and it worked great! I have been craving …
Homemade dumplings are better than the boxed mix: Dumplings are pretty much necessary when I am making beef stew. Since we started cooking from scratch we don’t seem to have things like Bisquick in the house anymore. Really, what is Bisquick, anyway? I am pretty sure its nothing more than flour, salt, baking powder and …
Another key component to cooking things from scratch is ensuring that you waste as little as possible. I mean, who cares if you throw away half of a frozen meal from the store that you had little to do with the actually making of? Now, if you had made the pasta and meatballs into a …
Sunday: Leftover rib roast beef stew with dumplings – NEW! Monday: Pulled port sliders Tuesday: Pork tacos Wednesday: New Years Eve – Out Thursday: Tandoori-Sriacha chicken Friday: Ravioli with salad Saturday: Chicken and wild rice soup
Update – we now have an electric slow cooker in our life. This is a cross between a crock pot and an electric pressure cooker. It makes this process even easier. You will have perfect stock from start to finish in about an hour. For us the holidays is a time for everyone to get …
Our menu for this week is going to be a bit truncated as we were away for a few days to recharge our batteries. This will get us through to the weekend. Monday: Macaroni and Cheese Tuesday: Chicken Milano with broccoli Wednesday: Chicken with Wild rice soup Thursday: Chicken parmigiana with gnocchi w/ gorgonzola cheese …
Now begins another busy week in our house. The first dish on the menu this week is compliments of some inspiration gathered at the farmers market this morning. It started with a sample of locally made hummus. Not just locally made, but awesome hummus regardless of where it was created. We are just fortunate enough …