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.