Bringing "back in the day" back to today
I got home from work today and checked the weekly recipe page and found that we were scheduled to have some chipotle popcorn chicken. I look in all of our usual places and I am not finding the recipe anywhere. Next, I do a quick google search and find a couple references to the same recipe. …
It’s almost Valentine’s Day and nothing says love quite like chocolate covered strawberries. Show your favorite person exactly how much they mean to you by making them a gift that they will adore, almost as much as they adore you! If you have never worked with melting chocolate, now is the time to start. It’s …
One of the challenges when you start baking your own bread is that you sometimes end up with bread that isn’t going to get eaten and is about to go completely stale. This is where this french toast recipe comes in. All you need is eggs, milk and your favorite flavorings. Growing up, my mother …
There are few foods that are synonymous with being homemade. Macaroni and cheese is one of those. It tastes so good because of its simplicity. There are recipes out there that add all sorts of foreign objects into the dish, but I like it the old fashioned way. There are only 8 ingredients used when …
This recipe is my hat tip to Vermont. We live on the eastern side of NY, which puts us in reasonable driving distance to Vermont. We don’t get there very often, but whenever we go we have a good time. One of those times we attended one of my friend’s weddings at Stratton Mountain Resort. …
Since we have been doing this experiment of cooking everything from scratch I have found that weekend breakfasts can be a bit of a challenge. This morning we had a little time so I thought that I would make an actual breakfast. We had some ground sausage in the fridge that was going to be …
When my wife and I were first married we received a Rachel Ray 30-minute meals cookbook. Neither one of us had really ever had to cook for anyone and at that time we needed all of the help that we could get. The problem that we had was, there were almost no recipes in the …
January has been one cold month this year! This week’s menu is the result of cravings for some old fashioned winter comfort food and soups!
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. …
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 …