Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Today the thermometer is reading below zero not even counting the wind chill! On a day like today, when the grocery supply is getting pretty grim, I am forced to get creative or go to the store. Go out in this cold? Not a chance! A quick trip to the pantry and it’s this three …
Our youngest daughter has a new, unhealthy obsession with donuts. For the last few weeks, she starts begging for donuts as soon as she wakes up. While we do have a Dunkin’ Donuts within walking distance of our house, their donuts are typically stale and leave me a with tummy ache. So while my child was …
Our kids appreciate fresh, homemade meals and often accept even the most spicy, weird looking, strange smelling and colorful food that we throw at them. Every now and then I do try to send a meal their way that is nutritious, delicious and fun. These easy chicken pot pie turnovers made with puff pastry dough …
Last week I made chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips and they were disappointing. So in hopes of turning that frown upside down, I decided to make the inverse cookie this weekend. These easy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies disappeared off the counter top faster than I could remove them from the trays! Check out …
Bacon. Let me say that again, BACON! There are so many uses for bacon, goes great on a English muffin with eggs and cheese, it is the essential beginning to pasta carbonara and it’s great to carry around in a baggie in your pockets….maybe not quite that last part, but it’s a crucial component to …
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 …
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 …