Bringing "back in the day" back to today
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 …
If you take a look at our last few posts, you will see a theme. Fall is in full swing and we have done our apple picking and are now looking for ways to use these apples. We’ve made a traditional apple pie and apple pie egg rolls, but what now? That got me thinking …
If you read my recipe on chicken samosa egg rolls you read about how I used a bunch of ingredients I had laying around to make a tasty meal for the family. What was left out of that recipe is that I had about a half package of egg roll wrappers left over. In the …
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 …
Once upon a time, before I owned a stand mixer or a pastry blender, I attempted to make a pie crust. It was a dry, crumbly disaster. From that moment on, every pie crust came from the refrigerator section. And I was okay with that. Until recently, when my dear husband Eric discovered a …
Write the date down. This day will go down in history as the last day that you open up a bag of tortilla chips. Once you make these light and crispy pieces of snack transcendence, there is no going back!
Today is the actual last day of summer. I know, right? It seems like it was just Memorial Day. But alas, summer is over. Time to start thinking about all of those fall things that we love to do. There are two key activities that my family needs to do during the autumn season: apple …
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 …
After a wonderful, albeit rainy at times, summer it was time to start thinking about getting back to the real world. Kids back in school and all of the after-school and sports activities that come with were upon us. With that we wanted to have one last full-on BBQ before all of that craziness started. …