Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Cooking from scratch can sometimes be a challenge when you are in a rush. During the week when we need to be running kids in different directions it can sometimes be difficult to get a good meal on the table and still get to practice on time. We started making a quick San Marzano tomato …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One of the vegetables that we were most looking forward to from the garden is kale. We became quite fond of it when we were receiving it from our CSA last summer so we planted quite a bit of it. This time of year is prime time for kale and our garden is no exception. …
Pasta comes from a box that you find at the supermarket, right? Not true, before there were supermarkets, or markets of any kind pasta was made from scratch in the home. You need only four ingredients and 99% of you have them in your home right now. The process is fairly easy, but the rolling …
I am a big fan of meals that make large amounts that can be used for left over night. Stuffed shells always goes over well in our household and isn’t too difficult to prepare. Ricotta cheese isn’t my favorite so it’s taken me awhile to find a cheese ratio that works well.
Another one of my Thai takeout favorites is Pad Thai. Since the spicy fried rice turned out so well, I decided to try my hand at making Pad Thai. From my searching, I found that there are quite a few variations on this recipe, some of them are quite complicated and some are pretty basic. …
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 …
Illness struck our house this week. As the virus finished its sweep through the household what better way to tempt fate and see what you’re really made of than to challenge your stomach with a rich, creamy dinner full of cheese, eggs and bacon than with a delicious pasta carbonara recipe? Go big or go …