Today I was at Sam's and I was pondering over lamp chops and an older woman said it was rare to find them in stores, well this was all it took for me to initiate a conversation. I was thinking wow someone to talk food with! I mentioned how I'd seen a variety of lamb at Walmart and also how they had tripe, etc. She ask me if I was from Europe turns out she was, she moved here in 1964. She has four sons, one a chef in Santa Fe, NM, his name is Guy Mazire and another was a pastry chef, he used to own his own bakery! How awesome! Well we exchanged emails and she is going to send me some recipes! I am so excited! I think we would have stood and talked all day!
I haven't really been very creative the last couple of days, Skyler, my daughter was home sick the last three days and today I had to pick up my son Ethan from school. But maybe this weekend I'll come up with something exciting.
Tomorrow if everyone is well we are suppose to go to the maple syrup festival in Auburn, Kentucky. That might inspire something from me. Who knows!
In the meantime, Happy Eating!!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Beef Stew
BEEF STEW
1 1/2 lbs stew meat, brown beef in 2 Tblsp. olive oil
3-4 potatoes, scrubbed and diced into chunks
1/2- 3/4 cup matchstix carrots
3-4 asparagus chopped
1 onion chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced or grated
1 28 oz can italian chopped tomatoes w/herbs & olive oil
1 can beef broth
1/2 cup chicken broth
3-4 sprigs of thyme
and here's where it might get tricky because I didn't measure
splash of worcestershire sauce
splash of red wine vinegar
1 tsp paprika
salt and pepper
1/2 cup fresh parsley chopped
Preheat oven to 375. After browning beef use a slotted spoon to transfer to dutch oven (I use a cast iron). Then put in all other ingredients except fresh parsley, stir til mixed then place in oven for 1 1/2 to 1 hr 45 minutes. Check and stir a couple of times. Done when potatoes are tender but not falling apart. After removing from oven stir in parsley. May also garnish with fresh parsley. Serve with cornbread.
1 1/2 lbs stew meat, brown beef in 2 Tblsp. olive oil
3-4 potatoes, scrubbed and diced into chunks
1/2- 3/4 cup matchstix carrots
3-4 asparagus chopped
1 onion chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced or grated
1 28 oz can italian chopped tomatoes w/herbs & olive oil
1 can beef broth
1/2 cup chicken broth
3-4 sprigs of thyme
and here's where it might get tricky because I didn't measure
splash of worcestershire sauce
splash of red wine vinegar
1 tsp paprika
salt and pepper
1/2 cup fresh parsley chopped
Preheat oven to 375. After browning beef use a slotted spoon to transfer to dutch oven (I use a cast iron). Then put in all other ingredients except fresh parsley, stir til mixed then place in oven for 1 1/2 to 1 hr 45 minutes. Check and stir a couple of times. Done when potatoes are tender but not falling apart. After removing from oven stir in parsley. May also garnish with fresh parsley. Serve with cornbread.
Here's The Problem!
Well, this is where I'm gonna have trouble. I'm in the kitchen throwing together dinner and I realize I really need to write down what I'm putting into this recipe!!
So I'm trying to jot down as I'm preparing and this is not easy- for one I never measure anything! Big problem if you want to give someone the recipe and they are a stickler for measurements! Imagine! Someone wanting to know how much of this or that to put in. Of all the nerve! Just kidding! I totally get it just being a bit snarky.
Anyway, dinner is beef stew (for lack of a more creative name) so recipe and results will come later.
Enjoy your dinner!
Happy Eating!
So I'm trying to jot down as I'm preparing and this is not easy- for one I never measure anything! Big problem if you want to give someone the recipe and they are a stickler for measurements! Imagine! Someone wanting to know how much of this or that to put in. Of all the nerve! Just kidding! I totally get it just being a bit snarky.
Anyway, dinner is beef stew (for lack of a more creative name) so recipe and results will come later.
Enjoy your dinner!
Whats For Dinner?
The answer I don't know. I'm really to tired to even think about it, but if I don't do it noone will! I have thousands of recipes and still no clue! That's a challenge I need to undertake~going through all these recipes and deciding what I want to try and then actually trying them!
Mornings-Blah!
Gonna go have coffee and maybe my brain will wake up a bit......
Later
Mornings-Blah!
Gonna go have coffee and maybe my brain will wake up a bit......
Later
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Honey-Lemon Chicken with Potatoes
This was a very good recipe, except I didn't score with everyone! Let me critique: David and I liked it, Skyler thought the chicken was to lemony and Ethan just really didn't care for it! Well-go figure!!! Actually there was things I will do differently such as decrease the lemon slices and increase the honey slightly, also, when finishing I wouldn't put the lemon zest on top and maybe leave off the balsamic drizzle. David didn't care for the balsamic drizzle but that might have to do with the fact that it didn't exactly turn out, I didn't have enough brown sugar or I just didn't let it boil down enough, truly don't know!
If anyone wants the recipe I will post it, just leave me a comment, you can also find it at rachaelray.com!
But this was not a family friendly recipe. David said it was a little to fancy for us hillbilly's! Oh well. So on to the next thing......Whatever that might be!
Happy Eating!
If anyone wants the recipe I will post it, just leave me a comment, you can also find it at rachaelray.com!
But this was not a family friendly recipe. David said it was a little to fancy for us hillbilly's! Oh well. So on to the next thing......Whatever that might be!
Happy Eating!
Here We Go
Let me start out by saying yesterday's mission was not fun! I went to 3 stores looking for my ingredients for today's recipe. Well, 4 if you count Walmart twice. Three ingredients proved to be my biggest challenge: baby potatoes, flat-leaf parsley and pine nuts. Okay pine nuts I can kinda get but potatoes and parsley come on! Well my first mistake came by forgetting to look at the potatoes at Walmart which was the first store I ventured into, but I had it in my mind that Sam's would still have the bag of baby potatoes that they've been carrying for about 2 months-yeah right!! Walmart didn't have parsley (I actually have a plant but I didn't have enough for this recipe) so I figured okay after Sam's I'll run in Kroger. So, as you might have figured no potatoes at Sam's so into Kroger I go looking for all 3 ingredients-still! I did find the parsley, yeah me! Back to Walmart and guess what they actually had baby potatoes, even the exact amount which is 1 1/2 pounds, can you believe it? Well, I was thinking that I'd check the salvage market in Smiths Grove for the pine nuts, I buy alot of odd things there. As luck would have it they didn't have pine nuts either! So I thought maybe since they were just for finishing touches I could skip that! Now listen when I say this: Check your cupboard before shopping it will save you stress! Nut of all nuts I had them in my cupboard!!!! Whew!
If you are wondering about last nights dinner it was a very simple throw together: Pork tenderloin, cut into strips and cooked in 2 Tblsp EVOO
1 bag of frozen sugar snap stir fry veggies (thawed)
and some teriyaki sauce.
Very basic and I heated some leftover rice for David, and also I fixed a spaghetti squash b/c I didn't want rice. Which turned out to be very good with the teriyaki pork stir fry on top of it.
I will let you know how tonight's affair turns out!!
Happy Eating
If you are wondering about last nights dinner it was a very simple throw together: Pork tenderloin, cut into strips and cooked in 2 Tblsp EVOO
1 bag of frozen sugar snap stir fry veggies (thawed)
and some teriyaki sauce.
Very basic and I heated some leftover rice for David, and also I fixed a spaghetti squash b/c I didn't want rice. Which turned out to be very good with the teriyaki pork stir fry on top of it.
I will let you know how tonight's affair turns out!!
Happy Eating
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Dinner and Conversation
Well tonight's dinner was a success! Everyone liked what we had. The menu was
Rock Cornish Game Hens, Whole Green beans and Mystery Mac & Cheese! The mystery was in the cheese, I used some shredded mozzarella and Velveeta and some other Mexican cheese that I had in a bowl but forgot what it was called. It all turned out great! It was all pretty basic, the conversation on the other hand was interesting! We discussed tattoos, if and when you should get one and we all had an opinion. I'm neutral on the subject. I've seen decent ones and some that are just all wrong. I think placement and content are important when choosing a tatt! But to each his own!
We were pretty divided on the subject.
I'm still trying to decide what's for dinner tomorrow night but I think Tuesday I am going to try a Rachael Ray recipe, slow cooker meal: Honey-Lemon Chicken with Potatoes.
Just FYI the following recipe is made from leftover ingredients
Mystery Mac & Cheese Recipe:
6 oz (dry) Ratiatore pasta, boiled according to package, drain
Add to pasta the following:
1 oz shredded mozzeralla cheese
1 oz mystery cheese
5 oz shredded Velveeta cheese
Splash of Milk
1 Tblsp sour cream
1/2 stick of butter
This made enough for the 4 of us to have one serving.
(I like not having leftovers)-sometimes)
Rock Cornish Game Hens, Whole Green beans and Mystery Mac & Cheese! The mystery was in the cheese, I used some shredded mozzarella and Velveeta and some other Mexican cheese that I had in a bowl but forgot what it was called. It all turned out great! It was all pretty basic, the conversation on the other hand was interesting! We discussed tattoos, if and when you should get one and we all had an opinion. I'm neutral on the subject. I've seen decent ones and some that are just all wrong. I think placement and content are important when choosing a tatt! But to each his own!
We were pretty divided on the subject.
I'm still trying to decide what's for dinner tomorrow night but I think Tuesday I am going to try a Rachael Ray recipe, slow cooker meal: Honey-Lemon Chicken with Potatoes.
Just FYI the following recipe is made from leftover ingredients
Mystery Mac & Cheese Recipe:
6 oz (dry) Ratiatore pasta, boiled according to package, drain
Add to pasta the following:
1 oz shredded mozzeralla cheese
1 oz mystery cheese
5 oz shredded Velveeta cheese
Splash of Milk
1 Tblsp sour cream
1/2 stick of butter
This made enough for the 4 of us to have one serving.
(I like not having leftovers)-sometimes)
Let's See If I Can Blog
I love to cook and I want to get my recipes out there so I figured this was the best way for me to do that. I will use this blog to post my recipes and recipes that I have tried from various other sources! Maybe one day I will even create my own cookbook!
Like I said I love to cook but unless we are a food network chef we don't always have on hand what the recipe calls for, so we learn to improvise. But, in everyday life we need to be able to put together quick, easy, family friendly meals. I mean we can still make gourmet recipes but those always take extra planning and shopping so those I reserve for the weekend.
Yes, my husband will eat anything, the kids not so much. I want something they will all eat.
This morning I wanted something different, not a big breakfast (I fixed that yesterday!) So I looked in the fridge and found a tube of Pillsbury crescent rounds so I began to wonder.......
Here's what I came up with:
1 roll of crescent rounds (use any kind of pre-packed dough), roll out and pinch seams together
Press into pie plate
Bake @ 375 for about 7 minutes put under broiler until top just starts to brown, rest on counter while preparing the filling
Whisk 8 eggs w/a splash of milk
Add 1 Tblsp of fresh parsley, basil and oregano
Dash of salt and pepper
6-8 oz of cubed ham
Cook egg mixture in heated butter
Spoon over baked dough
Pop into oven about 5 minutes
Top with cheese (I used mozzarella but whatever you have on hand is fine)
Pop back into oven until cheese is melted.
Enjoy!
Yes, even the kids ate this one!!
Like I said I love to cook but unless we are a food network chef we don't always have on hand what the recipe calls for, so we learn to improvise. But, in everyday life we need to be able to put together quick, easy, family friendly meals. I mean we can still make gourmet recipes but those always take extra planning and shopping so those I reserve for the weekend.
Yes, my husband will eat anything, the kids not so much. I want something they will all eat.
This morning I wanted something different, not a big breakfast (I fixed that yesterday!) So I looked in the fridge and found a tube of Pillsbury crescent rounds so I began to wonder.......
Here's what I came up with:
1 roll of crescent rounds (use any kind of pre-packed dough), roll out and pinch seams together
Press into pie plate
Bake @ 375 for about 7 minutes put under broiler until top just starts to brown, rest on counter while preparing the filling
Whisk 8 eggs w/a splash of milk
Add 1 Tblsp of fresh parsley, basil and oregano
Dash of salt and pepper
6-8 oz of cubed ham
Cook egg mixture in heated butter
Spoon over baked dough
Pop into oven about 5 minutes
Top with cheese (I used mozzarella but whatever you have on hand is fine)
Pop back into oven until cheese is melted.
Enjoy!
Yes, even the kids ate this one!!
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