The holidays are coming up, and for many of us, this means a lot of time spent cooking in the kitchen. Between Thanksgiving dinner, holiday cookie exchanges, Christmas morning breakfast and feeding any family and friends who stop by for an evening or weekend visit,...
As I mentioned in my little meal planning schedule last week, we tried a lasagna recipe from The Harley Biker’s Cookbook and it was SO good. I didn’t get to follow the recipe exactly because I didn’t have any Italian sausage or ricotta (I used ground beef and cottage...
Stefan and his dad have a serious love of stuffed bell peppers. Over the last year, I think they have probably talked about them every time they’ve seen each other in person, which is every few months. And I’m sure that there were a few phone calls in between when...
I was wandering around on the web last week and came across a recipe that I just had to try on Simple Organized Living / Andrea Dekker (which is always chock full of great simple living tips). But seeing as I’m not able to leave well enough alone, I had to tweak the...
By now you’ve undoubtedly caught on to the fact that I am addicted to making broth from leftover poultry bones. I have made some mighty fine chicken noodle soup and chicken soup with rice over the past year and since we had a huge goose on Christmas day, I just...
Our Christmas Eve dinner was a very hefty T-Bone steak from our local butcher, lobster tails, baked sweet potatoes and a lovely lamb’s lettuce salad with fried smoked bacon and champagne vinegar. SO delicious and way too much food. We all ate the lovely filet cut out...