April 2nd is National Peanut Butter Day – in the US Peanut Butter is a favorite of children and adults alike. There is nothing like a Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich to get you to drink your milk. When I was a child, it took lots of Milk to wash down the Peanut Butter and unlike […]
Month: March 2012
Most people think of Sourdough as a Sour dough French Bread and yes, it can be. Sourdough can be traced back time many thousands of years and and as with many discoveries and innovations, it was most likely by accident that our ancestors figured out what to do with it. Sourdough is a bread […]
April Holidays It is nice to be aware of other people throughout the world and what better way to lelarn about them than to inform ourselves about their cultures than through Holidays and the food associated with them? Every culture in the world has […]
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 & Wednesday Since my car is in the shop today, thought it would be a good day to get some cooking and baking done. (For a Change!) Removed one quart container of Chicken Broth from the freezer and cut up the center portion of a head of celery and […]
March 25th – March 26th Sunday – 3/25 – Looks like this Sunday is another day filled with cooking and baking which is the perfect thing to do in rainy weather. Started the Day with making Ebelskivers and Sausage for Breakfast. My Ebelskivers actually have apples inside (as the name proclaims). We had them […]
Monday, March 19th- Saturday, March 24th Monday – 3/19 – Cheeseburgers – After all the cooking and food prep yesterday (Lobster Lasagna) we decided to take it easy and make something simple for dinner. This turned out to be Cheeseburgers which really need no elaboration, except that I used the leftover Shrimp Dipping Sauce […]
Sunday, March 18 – 2012: Today is David’s Birthday and since I invited him for dinner I also asked him to choose what he would like for dinner. He had lost 30 lbs. since December and thought this would be a good day to indulge himself, just this once! So Dinner was Lobster Lasagna, […]
Mushroom Barley Soup Saturday, March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day and many of us will be making Corned Beef and Cabbage for the Green Event. Almost always when Corned Beef and Cabbage is prepared for dinner, there are bound to be leftovers. The usual leftover fare for Corned Beef and Cabbage is Corned Beef […]
How many times do you think, “Oh, if only dinner was already made. We all get in that position sometimes, especially if you are a working Mother, Housewife or Father in charge of meals. One solution to this is to take a couple of hours over the weekend and prepare a few meals ahead of […]
There are actually many types of Tubular Pasta. There is Penne, rigatoni, ziti and more. Penne is my favorite of the Tubular Pasta. Rigatoni are so big that for my taste there is just too much pasta to bite into at one time. Penne are considerably thinner than Rigatoni, but they are still tubular […]