I apologize because I should have posted this recipe much sooner. Tomato season is rapidly coming to a close here in Wisconsin, but hopefully you can find a few to make this recipe. I made these stuffed tomatoes several weeks ago while visiting family in the Twin Cities. Honestly, I […]
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A Delicious Slow Cooker Dessert from the $5 Dinner Meal Plan
Wow, adjusting to our new everyday has definitely been a challenge. I still haven’t figured a lot out yet. The way the dance schedule has turned out this year, dinner has been quite late most days of the week. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday dinner is after 8:00 or 8:30, […]
Chinese Red Cooked Bear
Towards the end of last spring, one of Andy’s co-workers sent him home from work with a goody bag. This co-worker is a hunter, and had heard that we were very curious about playing around with venison and bear meat. Historically I don’t have a good relationship with venison. I […]
Delicious Pizza Bites!
I have a love/hate relationship with pizza. Mostly, I love it. Our whole family loves pizza- we could eat it most days of the week and never tire of it. We love it homemade and we love to get it out as well. The hate part of the relationship is […]
Making An Effort
I made the decision this week to make a hearty effort to get back into this blogging thing. I miss it- I really do. Strange as it may sound, I miss the dialogue in my head as I cook and prepare a dish, and start planning the words that will […]
Quick, Easy, Delicious Chicken Marinade
I’ve been meaning to share this really simple recipe for some time now, but first I had to figure out the recipe. I’ve made this chicken a few times for company, and every time I get asked for the recipe. So I try to explain how I take a bit […]
Finally- Homemade Macaroni and Cheese!
It has taken me YEARS to find this recipe. I have tried many homemade mac and cheese recipes over the years in my quest to find THE recipe. I have tried simply winging it, I’ve tried stove-top, baked, and crock-pot recipes. Yet none of them would convert my mac-and-cheese loving […]
Purple Sweet Potatoes
I feel like my family does not eat near enough sweet potatoes. They truly are one of my favorite foods, but I don’t prepare them too often because one person doesn’t like them much. (It’s interesting how that one person can affect the family dining habits.) Earlier this week I […]
New Bread For A New Year
I can make my standard sandwich bread with my eyes closed. I love this bread, and acquired the recipe from my trusty old Joy of Cooking- one of the first cookbooks my mom bought for me. It’s become the standard by which I measure all homemade bread, yet there are […]
Buh-Bye 2013
Seriously. And don’t come back. While this was a spectacular year on the food front here at home with our diligence in seasonal eating, it was not a spectacular year on every other front. It seemed like every area of our lives was tossed into upheaval at one point or […]
And You Thought Canning Season Was Over!
Leftover week is going quite well so far. Last night I made a delicious pot of soup using leftover crudite veggies, turkey, wild rice and frozen corn on the cob. Lunch the last two days for the kiddos has been leftover BBQ cocktail sausages wrapped in biscuit dough- kind of […]
Thanksgiving Reflections
The best food holiday of the year is already behind us, and just like that, it’s December and Christmas is just three weeks away. I know the media has been saying that the Christmas shopping season was short, but I didn’t realize just how short until I actually flipped the […]