Bringing "back in the day" back to today
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I know it’s hard to believe, but sometimes we have leftover turkey pesto meatballs. What is someone to do? We have done meatball subs using our great sub roll recipe, don’t worry we figured out the whole forming dough thing. They look legit these days. We were looking for something else to do with these …
Let’s rewind to approximately eleven years ago. Picture a small town girl, fresh out of college, whose most exotic lifetime food sampling had been sweet and sour chicken from the local Chinese joint. Now imagine that girl at a small potluck dinner function with a group of coworkers who had come all over the world. When my colleague handed …
I have written about fresh made pasta before. This is to update my processes. This summer I picked up a hand cranked pasta roller. This really simplifies the process and produces a much more consistent end product. Plus the cutter that came with my machine cuts in two different sizes, thin like capellini pasta, or …
Ever have one of those nights, the ones where you need to get a dinner on the table and the day has gotten away from you so the food shopping didn’t get done. Tonight falls into that category. When the natives start getting restless, you start to survey the situation and see what you could …
Between the tomatoes that we grew in the garden and the ones that we bought from a local farm for canning, we ended up with quite a few jars of crushed, pureed and whole tomatoes. Since we were going to be home all day I decided to make a spaghetti sauce, turkey meatballs and homemade …