Christmas morning is very much about traditions. For as long as I can remember we’ve spent it at my Aunt’s house. There are a few factors that never change: we are always late because of church and the menu. It would be weird if we didn’t have blueberry french toast and egg sausage casserole. Even…
We have a cookie contest this coming week at work and despite all my prior cooking efforts, I’ve never been in a contest before. I wasn’t sure where I stood on the contest, was I going to take it seriously and really bring my A game? or keep it casual and do the bare minimum?…
We had our first snow this past weekend … which pretty much had me craving all things hot with tomatoes and meat. Options lead to meatballs or chili. I had a pretty long day of looking at appliances at multiple appliance stores… so a low impact chili was the winner. In the effort to try…
I think just last week I was commenting on how unenthused I was about quinoa. I probably said the exact same thing the last time I made quinoa cakes. But, as I was wrapping up my weekend I felt the need to treat my body a bit like a temple. I had some leftover butternut…
As previously documented, I was responsible for brining two things to Thanksgiving Dinner. Cranberry Sauce… and Butternut Squash. The cranberry sauce went much better than the squash. The squash was too lumpy and unimpressive. I tried to fix it by adding candied walnuts and that was really just a bandaid for a bad dish. So…
Cranberry sauce is a pretty straight forward dish. It could not be easier to make and customize to your own tastes. You have a better chance of screwing up everything else on your table than the cranberry sauce. About a month ago I went to a cooking demonstration at a local appliance store. The chef…
I’ve been itching to make scones for several weeks now – and today was the day. When I put up my Christmas tree last week, I felt like I had some gingerbread scones on the brain. But with Thanksgiving happening, I pulled a switcheroo and went with some pumpkin. I am not a “pumpkin” person…
I had broccoli cheddar soup the other day for lunch and it was pretty solid – but like grocery store solid, not like “make at home” solid. It reminded me that I had this recipe flagged from last winter but had not gotten around to it. To be clear, this is absolutely not a broccoli…
I really love macaroni and cheese. Like, really love it. It would be hard for me if someone were to tell me that I couldn’t eat Kraft Macaroni & Cheese anymore. I’m a bit of a traditionalist. I don’t believe in white cheddar, I just want normal Kraft. I also don’t put milk in it.…
So, we’ve been planing the menu for this birthday party for like a month, actually probably more. When I first started to think about it, I thought about any dish that would be theoretically easy to prep ahead of time and wouldn’t be bad leftovers. So with the menu set to be hot dogs, mac…
