Category: Recipes

  • Meat & Veggie Package

    Meat & Veggie Package

    Grandma Pat made this for me. She got the original recipe from some magazine and it used chicken and green beans. We’ve messed around with this recipe a lot. But you can use any combination that you find tasty. You need four things for the filling: meat, cheese, a veggie, some lemon juice (or other…

  • Swiss Cheese Gnocchi

    I make this for Aia quite a bit. It’s like mac and cheese but the potato pasta is chewier and way more satisfying. 1 package Gnocchi – boiled and drained. Two cups of shredded Swiss Cheese 1/4 cup Brandy, Dark Rum, Mead, Sherry, or other dark strong tasting alcohol. 1/4 cup Milk 2 tbsp. Capers 2 tbsp. Butter 2…

  • 7 Layer Cake

    Part of going to Grandma’s meant she might make 7 Layer Cake. Since I was so young I have a vague idea that it appeared only at random times. I know my Dad loved it. I’ve made it myself a few times. It is best in thin, thin slices and you can freeze it well.…

  • Tilapia

    3 Tilapia Fillets, pounded Parmesan cheese Garlic 1 Tomato 1/2 Shallot 1 Lemon 2 tbsp Water Fresh Green Beans Fresh Thyme Salt and Pepper Crush garlic and Parmesan cheese. Coat tilapia in the mixture. On a piece of large foil, place water then tilapia. Chop shallot and tomato and place on top of tilapia. Pull…

  • Slow Cooker Chicken with Artichokes and Mushrooms

    So eating has been bad lately. I never seem to know how something is going to make me feel. However I’ve had some great success with recipes, slightly modified, from Against All Grain. I don’t have celiac as wheat is one of things I can eat without any difficulty. This book though has really stripped…

  • Butterscotch Sticky Pudding

    It’s interesting what leads you down a path and where that ends up. In this case, a tweet by one Simon Pegg, about having a sponge with cream. So obviously, (in my head this all makes sense. So if you’re shaking your head already, don’t worry, I’m the crazy one), this led to about sticky…

  • Two Minute Chocolate Muffin

    This is not a sweet muffin. In fact, it’s an adaptation of this recipe from Lucky Peach Magazine. If you want sweet molten cake (why wouldn’t you?) go there. This is a little less sweet but more room for crazy toppings. 3 tablespoons of oil 3 tablespoons of milk A drop or two of vanilla…

  • Salted Caramel Butter Cream

    J. had some extra molasses laying around and I thought we should use it up. He bought different types of molasses (not different brands, different types), so I couldn’t combine the bottles. The interwebs brought me this: Always With Butter The cake is okay. It really is a molasses cake. Tastes better after being refrigerated. Makes it kind…

  • Chocolate Ganache

    So for the Halloween party, I decided to make chocolate ganache to dip the cupcakes in. I make a similar one for truffles but this recipe is much simpler and very tasty. 8oz of heavy cream or whipping cream 6 oz of unsweetened chocolate 1/2 cup of sugar Dump the ingredients in a bowl and…

  • Cooking Chicken

    1-2 eggs Shredded Parmesan chicken. Olive oil Dip chicken in beaten egg then in Parmesan. Cook in skillet with olive oil. Die happy.

  • Quick Blueberry Cobbler

    I was craving something with bread and sweet. I didn’t want to take the time to make soda bread even if it only takes 30 min. So I pulled out a mug and used some microwave fu. I choose blueberries cause I started craving them recently and found no one makes blueberry pie or cobbler…

  • Chicken Tortilla Soup

    A clean up of an old post. Tortilla soup is a spicy take on chicken soup to which adding sour cream, fried strips of tortilla and cheese enhances the flavor at serving time. The base of this soup uses premade spice mixes to add an extra dimension of flavor to the soup and keeping the…