Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Over the last few years, we have managed to ruin trips to almost any restaurant by coming home and using their food as inspiration to make it better (and cheaper) at home. What we are left with is an ever shrinking list of places to go out to eat. Recently, we went out for sliders and …
For many years, I never really gave much thought to the whole brownie making process. Buy the box, add the wet ingredients, mix and bake. Super simple right? I imagined that to make brownies from scratch must be a messy, labor intensive process so I never really looked into what it would take to make …
Do you crave homemade cinnamon rolls but don’t want to get up at the crack of dawn to pull it off? Plan ahead and make the dough for this pull apart bread the night before and you can enjoy all of the sticky, sweet goodness of cinnamon rolls in a warm, gooey mound that will …
Today the thermometer is reading below zero not even counting the wind chill! On a day like today, when the grocery supply is getting pretty grim, I am forced to get creative or go to the store. Go out in this cold? Not a chance! A quick trip to the pantry and it’s this three …
Our youngest daughter has a new, unhealthy obsession with donuts. For the last few weeks, she starts begging for donuts as soon as she wakes up. While we do have a Dunkin’ Donuts within walking distance of our house, their donuts are typically stale and leave me a with tummy ache. So while my child was …
Our kids appreciate fresh, homemade meals and often accept even the most spicy, weird looking, strange smelling and colorful food that we throw at them. Every now and then I do try to send a meal their way that is nutritious, delicious and fun. These easy chicken pot pie turnovers made with puff pastry dough …
Last week I made chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips and they were disappointing. So in hopes of turning that frown upside down, I decided to make the inverse cookie this weekend. These easy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies disappeared off the counter top faster than I could remove them from the trays! Check out …
This coconut curry chicken stew recipe has been in my possession for over ten years but it wasn’t until now that I decided to try it. Growing up, I was not terribly adventurous when it came to food and curry was one of those spices that seemed too exotic for me. It it truly a …
Saturday – Coconut curry chicken stew with homemade flatbread Sunday – Beef tips, rice and broccoli Monday – Deep dish pizza with salad Tuesday – Slow cooker chicken chipotle stew Wednesday – Chicken pot pie turnovers with sauteed kale Thursday – Sausage and cheese quiche Friday – Gnocchi with sauce and salad
This week we spent extra money and bought a large chuck roast from the local butcher to make into crock pot tacos. Although the tacos were tasty, I wasn’t thrilled about eating them for left overs all week long when we were faced with a giant slab of left over meat. Determined not to let …