Bringing "back in the day" back to today
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 …
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 …
Fall is officially here. Fall is my favorite season, we still have beautifully sunny days without the heat and humidity that comes with summer. The leaves change and create a portrait of color that shows nature’s true beauty. Fall is also the beginning of all the great family holidays. Just think of all of the …
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 …
This week’s menu includes some old favorites! Saturday: Homemade Pizza, Salad Sunday: Chicken Stew with Biscuits Monday: Turkey Pesto Meatballs with homemade pasta, Salad Tuesday: Italian Pork Tenderloin, buttered eggs noodles, broccoli Wednesday: Vegetable Samosas with Tandoori Chicken tenders Thursday: Jalapeno Chicken Tenders, couscous, corn Friday: Out
This may have been the most terrifying canning process to date. Only the truly daring handle massive amounts of hot peppers during the peak of allergy season. As I prepared to embark on this journey, I was pretty convinced that I would land in an emergency room with chemical burns in both eyes because …
