Bringing "back in the day" back to today
I really must have been been in a carb coma. About two weeks ago I wrote about my pulled buffalo chicken sandwiches served on a pretzel roll. I was going to write up the recipe for the rolls after I woke from my nap. If only I were to actually get that kind of sleep. …
Any meal that requires this many moving parts and continues to make it to my table on a regular basis has to be outstanding. The recipe is intimidating. One of my colleagues requested my chicken and biscuits recipe and laughed at me the next day when she discovered that I do not use refrigerator biscuits. We …
Last week’s blueberry muffins disappeared rapidly and the recipe has been our most popular to date (driving tens of visitors per day to our infant website). I decided to whip up another batch for breakfast this week and while pawing through the cupboard, found some chocolate chips left over from my Christmas baking bonanza. Since …
Only From Scratch is over one month old and things are finally rocking around here. We have learned a lot about food blogging in this short time, particularly about taking pictures of food. What have we learned so far? Don’t use your iPhone to take pictures of food: The reviewers at Foodgawker and Tastespotting probably wanted …
You will find no sea creatures in this jambalaya recipe. Collectively, we just can’t agree on seafood. My oldest loves fish and shrimp. I’ll eat haddock, lobster and crab. Eric is a scallops and clams kind of guy. My youngest can’t have shellfish. See why we avoid it? This is a creole jambalaya recipe that …
One might ask how we go about looking for new things to cook. Our inspiration comes in all forms. This decision to make this came from one of our website visitors. Not in the traditional sense, though. I am pretty crazy when it comes to looking at stats about our web visitors; one of the …
Making everything from scratch means no more buying Oreo cookies, boxed brownies or grocery store “bakery” cupcakes. Tasty treats were in low supply this weekend and with another school week on the way I was in some serious need of a sweet treat for my children’s lunches. My plan was to make chocolate chip cookies. …
Before I left work today, everyone was talking about what type of food that they were ordering for dinner tonight. I must admit that I was seriously considering ordering a pizza. When I arrived home, I found Eric toiling away in the kitchen whipping up homemade Chinese food. The results were 1000x better than anything I’ve ever …
Wow another week has flown by and it’s time to post this week’s menu. This menu was scribbled out on a piece of scrap paper during the whopping 10 minutes that I had to myself for lunch on Thursday. Whenever I throw together a menu that quickly, it’s almost always filled with family favorites. My …
My two year old daughter reviewed this meal tonight without even being asked. About halfway through dinner she shouted out “Yummy in my tummy!” Toddlers are a notoriously difficult crowd to please, so I take any positive comments about the food I put in front that kiddo very seriously. Needless to say, this meal gets …
