Cooking from scratch: healthier, cheaper, and a great creative outlet
My grandmother and mother used a pressure cooker in order to cook food quickly and /or to make a tough cut of meat into something fall apart tender. Under pressure and steam, anything cooks quicker. There's been a lot of recipes I've noticed for both an Instant Pot and a Ninja Foodie. I mean, there … Continue reading Quick N Easy Pressure Cooker Ribs with an Instant Pot or Ninja Foodie
A beef pot roast simmering away is a pleasure to cook and to eat. I usually cook it in a slow cooker, but simmer on the stove top or in the oven also works. Any way of doing it low and slow, as the saying goes, so that the fat and connective tissue break down. … Continue reading The Best Way to Make Pot Roast
Beans are super healthy, and make easy, less costly meals compared to using other proteins. We love baked beans, and while that usually means opening a can and either just heating them up, or dressing them up a little with other ingredients from the pantry, homemade from scratch baked beans are easy, economical, and quite … Continue reading From Scratch Terrific Homemade Baked Beans!
I love making bread. The kitchen smells so inviting, and oh, a warm slice of bread dripping with butter. Is anything better? So when I saw a recipe in Dutch Oven & Cast Iron Cooking using yogurt, I thought, okayyyy. It was called Easy Sourdough Bread. Now, I don't really like Sourdough bread. I do … Continue reading Noteworthy Easy Yogurt Bread
Autumn is here! And that means one thing to me - Soup Season! We eat a lot of soup, usually for lunch. It's so easy to just heat up a bowl, add some crackers or bread and I'm all set. Meat falling off the bone, ready to dice up for soup I had a ham … Continue reading How to Make an Exceptional Warm and Tasty Ham & Bean Soup
Rolls and bread were a staple in our farmhouse growing up. Not a meal went by when there wasn't bread on the table. Holidays always called for ready to bake dinner rolls. My favorite part of any dinner was the rolls smothered in gravy! Yeast rolls are so easy to make at home given a … Continue reading How to Make Light Fluffy Dinner Rolls
I received huge green bell peppers in my Misfits box last week. I mean big. More than I could just slice up to use in salads. We don't eat stuffed peppers all that often, but I thought these were quite large enough to make a meal out of. And although I have plenty of ground … Continue reading Stuffing Peppers with Sausage and Brown Rice
We love corn pudding. Most recipes use a can of whole corn and a couple cans of creamed corn. I have left over corn on the cob, cooked, and wanted to use that for a corn pudding. corn pudding is one way to use already cooked sweet corn Googling found several of the exact same … Continue reading How to Make Corn Pudding with Summer Corn on the Cob
My recent issue of Bake Magazine contains a recipe for Glazed Oat cookies. I love oatmeal cookies, and the infinite variations that they may contain. So of course I took the Glazed Oat Cookies and twisted it a bit to make it my own. First, the cookies contain 2 kinds of oats - that's healthy … Continue reading Healthy Double Oat Cookies
Peach pie is one of our favorite late summer desserts. The smell of fresh just ripened peaches can be intoxicating. So when the farmers market had boxes of peaches, I quickly scooped one up! Homemade pie crust can be mastered in another post, so feel free to use pre-made purchased crust if making pie dough … Continue reading How to make Peach Pie