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 […]
Recipes
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, […]
Eclectic Eggplant
Comfort food can be healthy. I admit, I love ground beef. I could use it in a hundred dishes and each one is different and homey and just yummy to me. I can’t even explain why other than possibly it wasn’t something we had much growing up? Maybe it’s like […]
Ratatouille
The secret of a good ratatouille is to cook the vegetables separately so each will taste truly of itself.” —Joël Robuchon, The Complete Robuchon The Italian pack add-on has many vegetables and herbs that can be used to make a wonderful ratatouille. When you open the herb package that is […]
Peaches ‘N Cream Plunk-it Bread
Growing up in Arkansas, my Granddad always brought a few 5-gallon buckets of peaches home for my Granny during the summer. I could never get enough of them then, and I can’t get enough of them now! In fact, I think I could eat enough peaches to make myself sick […]
Surefire Squash Saute
We all have our go-to recipes. And when I get summer squash, I grab my recipe box and make a large pan of Southwest Summer Squash Saute. Why you ask?