Bringing "back in the day" back to today
My apologies, we have been so slow with updates this week. Sunshine has been in short supply and beautiful pictures of our food have not been happening! We continued our quest for tasty wheat bread this week by trying this recipe from the King Arthur flour website.
We have gotten to be pretty pampered when it comes to chicken noodle soup; between canned soup, boxed stock and dried egg noodles from the pasta aisle at the store. Today I set out to do homemade chicken noodle soup the old fashioned way, use vegetables from the garden, homemade stock and even …
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 …
Today’s lunch options were limited to PB&J sandwiches. The kids probably would have been happy with that but I found some frozen fish in the back of my freezer and decided that a fish sandwich sounded mighty fine for lunch today. Eating that on my homemade bread sounded gross so I decided to embark …
If you are looking for fat, salt and calories there is no better way to get it than to go out to dinner at a popular chain restaurant for Chinese food. My exposure to chain Chinese food is limited to lunches that are delivered to our office. Although tasty, I find myself drinking copious amounts …
Right now we are plunged into darkness before I can get dinner on the table every night. After my photos were rejected over and over again I decided that no matter what I do with lighting at home, it is near impossible for me to take a quality photograph without natural light. Therefore, until the …
If you are in are need of a sweet treat, don’t want to dedicate too much time, and have limited ingredients on hand, this is the recipe for you!