Homemade flour tortilla chips
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!
Weekly Menu 9/21
Crockpot tacos Buffalo chicken sandwichesBaked penne with Italian sausage Crockpot chili Macaroni and cheese
Thanksgiving pumpkin pie
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 …
Weekly Menu 9/14
This weeks menu, not sure on the order just yet. Chicken and wild rice soup Lasagne (Homemade and frozen) Utica chicken riggies Pasta fagioli Pasta carbonara Slow cooker beef stroganoff Pizza
Best homemade spaghetti sauce recipe
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 …
Lemon chiffon cake
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. …
Quick baguettes from scratch
Since we started our journey to make as much as we can at home and from scratch we have made quite a few different kinds of bread. We have neglected one of my favorite types of bread: the baguette. I had looked up some recipes early on, but they took days and I was …
Blueberry Apple Zucchini Bread
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any recipes to the blog due to a variety of factors, including lack of both time and motivation. You can thank my pager for this blog post. It kindly blasted me out of bed, just after I fell asleep. Now, two hours later, I’ve thrown in the …
Grilled honey jalapeno chicken salad with citrus vinaigrette
Summer is in full swing and our garden is rewarding us for the work that we have put in so far. Part of our reward is rows of beautiful, fresh lettuce. We planted two different types of lettuce and ended up having some the lettuce that we neglected last year go to seed and grow …
English Muffins From Scratch
Breakfast has been seriously lacking around here since we gave store bought bread products the ole heave ho. This weekend I had decided that my usual breakfast of yogurt, fruit and granola wasn’t going to cut it. I was about to set out on a 9 mile run and I wanted to return to a greasy bacon, egg …