Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Is there a restaurant out there that you have been to a bunch of times, but not frequently? One example of this is the Ohana restaurant at the Polynesian Resort in Disney World. Our first experience with Ohana was during our honeymoon and have gone back every chance we could get. It’s the Disney take …
It’s funny where inspiration comes from. My mother shared a video of someone braiding bread in several different ways. It was interesting, who knew that you could braid bread into 10 different patterns? I didn’t. The video was in a different language and the subject of the video was obviously a professional bread maker because …
It’s pretty well established that I am a huge fan of breakfast. Eggs Benedict, hash and eggs, french toast or pancakes with bacon or sausage: sign me up! We had sausage gravy with biscuits for dinner on Friday and then bacon gravy with biscuits for breakfast on Saturday. Needless to say, on this Sunday morning …
Sometimes you cannot finish all of the bread that you make before it starts to go bad. There are a few things that can be done with the bread once it becomes stale. One of my favorites is using it to make fresh homemade croutons. It’s a quick and easy way to get a couple …
I am officially old. I asked for silicone bread pans for Christmas and I squealed like a little girl when I opened them. These babies needed a test run, so imagine my delight when I spied three past-their-prime bananas that desperately needed to be dealt with. Bread pans + Bananas = Delicious banana nut bread!
Doughnuts, who doesn’t love them? I know that they are pretty popular around our house. I have written about them in the past; check out this post about baked chocolate glazed doughnuts. In that post I had intended to buy a real doughnut pan, I finally did and it worked great! I have been craving …
Homemade dumplings are better than the boxed mix: Dumplings are pretty much necessary when I am making beef stew. Since we started cooking from scratch we don’t seem to have things like Bisquick in the house anymore. Really, what is Bisquick, anyway? I am pretty sure its nothing more than flour, salt, baking powder and …
Another key component to cooking things from scratch is ensuring that you waste as little as possible. I mean, who cares if you throw away half of a frozen meal from the store that you had little to do with the actually making of? Now, if you had made the pasta and meatballs into a …
Update – we now have an electric slow cooker in our life. This is a cross between a crock pot and an electric pressure cooker. It makes this process even easier. You will have perfect stock from start to finish in about an hour. For us the holidays is a time for everyone to get …
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 …