White button mushrooms are earthy, pleasing to eat, and the perfect appetizer! Mushrooms are available for many recipes but the holiday season is a great time to think about stuffing mushroom caps. The mushroom cap can be stuffed with a wide variety of fillings. This recipe is one of my […]
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Too Many Tomatoes. Too Little Time
Let me set the scene for you. It’s late at night on basket eve. You’re standing in front of an open refrigerator door looking to satisfy your sweet tooth, when you see it, behind the fat free sour cream and carton of leftover Chinese food from Tuesday night. No, it’s […]
Asparagus and Sardine Pasta
Did you luck out with a case of asparagus last week? I was lucky enough to share a case with a friend. I’ve got Asparagus coming out my ears…Here is one way that I used some this week. I started out following Gordon Ramsay’s recipe for a rustic pasta sauce […]
Pear-Apple Crumble
This is a quick and easy recipe for a cross between a tart and a pie. You have all the flavors of an apple pie with the crisp sweet addition of pears. And to save on the pie crusts, use a crumble topping instead.
Quick and Easy Pasta Carbonara
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. -Federico Fellini When I cook for my family, I do my best to set the mood. I always feel like I am more able to listen to the little things that the food is trying to tell me when I surround myself […]
Stuffed Pepper Soup Freezer packs
Its officially Soup Season! Its my favorite go to lunch, a steaming bowl of soup and a sandwich really hits the spot on cold days. I really love when I can go out to the deep freeze and grab a soup pack and have lunch or dinner on the table […]
Weekend Bounty
Saturday breakfast is hard. With getting up to volunteer at the BB site, bringing the bounty home, and then trying to get everything rinsed and put away, making breakfast on Saturday morning is generally the last thing I want to do. But this time, my husband woke up early to […]
Mango Coconut Banana Bread
Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all. -Harriet Van Horne (Vogue 1956) Is there anything more comforting than freshly baked banana bread? Growing up a friend and I would always make banana bread when we were down. We would spy each other […]
Fall and Comfort Food
I love the fall! I love the colors, the cooler weather, the holidays but most of all the comfort food that I can make my family on cooler nights. Over the last couple of months I have been able to vacuum pack and freeze several of the vegetables that either were […]
Asparagus, Pumpkin, Rice, and Sausage soup
When my kids decide that they actually LIKE asparagus, When they are a little more adventurous for new flavors, When my husband won’t be home for dinner, When I’ve been at doctors appointments or shopping all day, When I have some left over rice and pumpkin puree in the fridge, […]