With the eggs that we get faithfully everyday from our laying hens, I was trying to come up with another way to use some up. I then saw someone talking about eating egg drop soup on Facebook. Ding, ding, ding! Egg drop soup it would be. But, I wanted to make the soup a little … Continue reading
Happy New Year! Today, I made Hoppin’ John! This a traditional New Year’s meal, incorporating black eyed peas, or pigeon peas. I had always heard that eating black eyed peas on New Year’s Day was traditional, but never knew why. So, I went to Wikipedia and learned what it had to say: “Hoppin’ John is … Continue reading
Today’s post goes in the file for “The First Timer’s Club.” I don’t know what I really mean by that, except it was the first time I have made these great Black Bean Burgers! I didn’t use the traditional canned beans. I also didn’t go the old fashioned route and soak, then cook, then drain … Continue reading
Yesterday we made a decision to “get rid” of a few of the roosters around here, six to be exact. Our freezer now has a few more meals and I had some amazing chicken stock in the fridge that I made from one of the poor fellows last night. I was originally going to … Continue reading
Tonight my daughter and I had a butter making contest. The contest was her idea. She decided that whoever made the best tasting butter would get an extra bowl of ice cream! Not a bad prize (like mother, like daughter I’m afraid!) 🙂 The whole reason we decided to make butter was because my husband … Continue reading
Today’s post is a super doctored up version of cream corn. If you normally have cream corn, or just plain old corn, as a holiday side dish why not add my recipe of Savory Cream Corn to your menu this Thanksgiving or Christmas? It usually ends up on our table for most holiday or family … Continue reading
I wasn’t quite sure what to name tonight’s meal. It was sort of a hodge podge, throw together meal with ingredients that I had in the freezer and cupbard. But what turned out (Beef Corn and Broccoli Cornbread Pot Pie…kind of a long name AND “Beef’ sounded somehow more sophisticated than ‘Hamburger’ in the title) was a … Continue reading
Last night, as I was starting to think about what I could make for dinner my children started asking me, “Mom, what’s for dinner?! I’m hungry! Can we have sloppy joes mom?” Sloppy Joes. I couldn’t tell you the last time that I made them. It just isn’t something that I normally make. I don’t … Continue reading
For those of you who like, or even loooove, garlic – this is for you! Or even if you aren’t normally a garlic lover, give this Roasted Garlic a try! Roasting the garlic really tames it down. It becomes soft, golden, creamy and delicious! You can use the cloves to make roasted garlic mashed potatoes, some … Continue reading
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