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Staying with my theme this week I made another put together ahead meal.  For this one I pulled out chicken quarters from the freezer and put my brain to work.  Poking around in my refrigerator and pantry led me to the rest of the meal.  I had purchased some wonderful beets, both red and yellow …

Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, some are recorded forever in cookbooks, others are even sent viral on the inter net, this is not one of those recipes   This is one of those meals created out of the leftovers in the fridge, and the pressure brought on by a hungry family.  …

Well you know a recipe is great, when you adapt it into over three different posts! This is the third version of the easiest dessert bars ever.  Only 5 ingredients, and 1 hour and your done!  This week my son had a band pot luck dinner and I thought these bars would be perfect.  Went …

Even thought the weather is getting warmer I still find myself gravitating towards crock pot recipes, and today was no exception.  I had pulled out earlier some beef stew meat from the freezer and thought beef stew would be great.  As I leafed through my plethora of cookbooks I pulled out a little here and …

While I have been busy in the kitchen making and posting recipes, spring has arrived! So I have been going through my phone pictures and found some great ones! So I’m sharing some of them with you!             There are more, I will post later!    

This is part recipe, part love note! I love Spring for many reasons, but one of the top reasons is Asparagus comes in season.  I no longer have to make due with flash frozen spears, or pay out the nose for fresh.  I can bake it, roast it, steam it, grill it, and just eat …

Well I’m back on track with my cookbook challenge.  For those of you new to this I am attempting to use some of my bazillion cookbooks (yes I have that many).  I challenged myself to cook 2 new recipes from my cookbooks a week.  Today I headed to my newest and most favorite (for now) …

This week has been not so successful for the cookbook challenge.  Take this recipe for example, I started finding a recipe for chicken that I could put in the crock pot.  I found Tagine of Chicken in Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Slow Cooker Recipes.  I was just going to change 1 ingredient, the olives, I detest …

As spring is here in full force, I bring to you another rhubarb recipe.  This one comes from my grandma Barnard.  I copied it from my mom’s recipe box and put it my recipe box before I moved away.  This is my favorite dessert with rhubarb! I like them all, but if I have a …

This started out as a cookbook entry, but instead ended up a mish mash of many recipes and some additions of my own.  It all began with the planning for Easter dinner.  We were having a very casual meal with just us, no extended family or friends, a bit unusual for us.  We live out …