Everyone in our family loves mushrooms. We love them raw as snacks. We love them sliced and fried in butter or mixed into stir fries. Fresh mushrooms are great to have on hand to add to all sorts of recipes. But as our kids went off to university and college, we found that sometimes a package of mushrooms didn’t get…
We started making our own meat stocks years ago and let me tell you, we will never go back to buying store bought stock or broth again. The difference in taste and quality are amazing. Not to mention, they are very inexpensive to make; especially chicken and turkey stock because you’re using the bones leftover from roasting the bird (for chicken…
A little over a month ago, I wrote a post about how to make homemade paninis without a panini press. Well, the loaf of tomato basil bread from Panera was quite large and we had part of it left over. We also had some meat, cheese and sliced peppers leftover, but not enough for another entire meal for the three…
With it being so hot here in Northwest Georgia, we’re trying to do most of our cooking outside. One of our favourite quick, easy summer meals is Paninis. Here’s how we make ours without a fancy Panini Press. First, to make the spread: Mix ½ c Miracle Whip with ¼ c Spicy Brown Mustard. Lay out your thinly sliced bread…
Since moving back to the mainland from Maui, we always laugh whenever we see an item on a restaurant menu or a recipe with the name Hawaiian Something or Other. Invariable, it has been labelled Hawaiian because it has pineapple in it. And so when I created this recipe, I just couldn’t resist naming it Hawaiian Chicken. Sauce for Hawaiian…
I’ve already posted the Freezer Cooking Days results for Saturday and Monday. But I thought I’d make one more post this evening to show how the combination of having a well stocked pantry and cooking and freezing ahead helps to get supper on the table in a hurry and also how you can incorporate freezer cooking into your every day…
Our son is on the Senior High Student Council and they are planning a bake sale at school this week to raise funds. Things that can be sold individually for 25 or 50 cents a piece work best for this kind of bake sale. He’s claimed the baking of cupcakes. So that leaves me with baking some cookies for the…
I love bran muffins, but I’ve been trying to eliminate as many processed foods from our diet as possible and most recipes for bran muffins call for some kind of bran cereal. After searching on-line for different recipes, I borrowed a little from this recipe and a little from that recipe and I came up with a recipe of my…
WOW, it’s been two months since I last posted. It’s definitely time to do some catching up. I’ve got some projects that I’ve been working on and hope to get those posted over the next little while. But in the meantime, Crystal over at MoneySavingMom and Jessica at LifeAsMom are once again hosting their freezer cooking days and since I’d…
Crystal over at Money Saving Mom and FishMama from Life As Mom are hosting a couple of freezer cooking days. I plan to do most of my baking and cooking tomorrow but this is what I’ve got on the agenda for this afternoon. Cut up and peel pumpkins we used for jack-o-lanterns Steam pumpkin pieces, cool a bit and then…