At our house, we try to buy birthday gifts without going hog wild (read: we don’t to spend our life savings on birthday presents, not even for ourselves). But there are still good things to be had for your birthday. During birthday week, you get to pick the menu for dinner every night, you get…
Tag: Cooking
Weekend Food Edition: Taco Salad, Corn Puddin’, and Strawberry Granola Pancakes
You know what all of these summer fruits and veggies could really use? Some dairy and grain. Yum. No really. We had some family visiting this weekend, so I got to whip out my recipes again. There were some definite keepers in there, and I would hate to forget them in my sporadic blogging. I’ve…
Fried Green Tomato BLT (a.k.a. Summer Love)
Sadly for me, there’s still no spare time in my life to write. Happily for me, there’s still time in my life to cook. Yay! Sometime last week, we tried a new-to-us recipe for Fried Green Tomato BLT sandwiches. Or actually, Scott tried the recipe while I was at work. And it was a hit. …
Ode to the Can Opener
Oh, OXO. You make such a lovely can opener. ‘Tis a thing of beauty. Because, as advertised, it opens a can. No muss, no fuss, just food and fingers intact. Why the big deal about the can opener? Well, we had a lousy can opener for the last few years. It was the 99-cent special…
Beef with Veggies–Plenty o’ Options
This week has been a week of trying new versions of things we already love. First there was ravioli. Then last night, there was The Pioneer Woman’s Beef with Broccoli. Yum! The “original” that I fell in love with was beef with snow peas. It’s a good thing. It takes less than 20 minutes from…
Standard Life: February Edition
You know, sometimes life doesn’t seem bloggable. Sometimes it’s just dinner and dishes and TV and work. Plenty of work. I don’t mind when life gets into normal ruts, but it does make it more challenging to present interesting material to you. Sigh. So today? Today we’ll go through the quick and dirty of what’s…
Chicken Marsala for a Drizzly Sunday Night
Drumroll, please. It’s time for Tyler Florence’s Chicken Marasala. But before you make your own Chicken Marsala, I have a confession to make about this recipe. It sounded good when I started making it, but somewhere between pounding the chicken flat (which Peanut hated) and causing our fire alarms to go off a half-dozen times…
Small, but valuable. 