Bringing "back in the day" back to today
One of the vegetables that we were most looking forward to from the garden is kale. We became quite fond of it when we were receiving it from our CSA last summer so we planted quite a bit of it. This time of year is prime time for kale and our garden is no exception. …
Lately I have been enjoying yogurt with granola for breakfast pretty much every day. My granola of choice has been Bear Naked Vanilla Almond Crunch. It seems good enough, has no high fructose corn syrup or anything like that, but the ingredients list seems a bit longer than I would like. Plus, when one is …
Although we have been thinking about our goals for the garden this year, we did not really sit down and plan it all out until last weekend. We decided what exactly we were going to plant and based on that we came up with a design for the raised-bed garden that we are going to …
There are two foods that are synonymous with Utica, NY: chicken riggies and greens. I already covered the riggies, this time I am making Utica greens. There are many ways to make greens, the Utica way of making greens adds a prosciutto, hot peppers, bread crumbs, cheese and chicken stock and then goes in the …
Pasta comes from a box that you find at the supermarket, right? Not true, before there were supermarkets, or markets of any kind pasta was made from scratch in the home. You need only four ingredients and 99% of you have them in your home right now. The process is fairly easy, but the rolling …
This month has been busy. I mean B-U-S-Y. Add to our typical busy weekends two weddings, two baby and one bridal shower. Mix in two children’s birthdays and it makes for a month where you don’t get much chance to catch your breath. We do have a few minutes today so we are going to …
I think that I am going to call this my ‘I don’t think that this winter will ever end’ tomato soup. Winter not ending isn’t such a great thing, but this soup is pretty darn good. I just kind of winged this one. I was hungry for some lunch and we didn’t have a lot …
Saturday: Out Sunday: Eric’s special meal Monday: Chicken Riggies Tuesday: slow cooker pot roast Wed: Hamburgers Thursday: Left overs Friday: ?
Saturday: Kids: Fish Sticks and cous cous; E & K: filet mignon, pan fried potatoes and broccoli Sunday: Beef short rib stew with mashed potatoesMonday: Sweet and sour chicken with rice and broccoli Tuesday: Pasta fagioli with Italian rolls Wednesday: Chicken stew with biscuits Thursday: Leftovers Friday: Macaroni and Cheese with broccoli
I don’t eat a lot of donuts, normally. For some reason when I woke up this morning I really had a craving for them. Usually on these occasions I would have two options, go to one of the two Dunkin Donuts stores within a couple miles of the house, or to go to this great …
