LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
This is one of those recipes that I tend to change up a little bit every time. I had always wanted to make my own chicken nuggets, strips, tenders, or whatever you want to call them, and tried out a few different methods. I’ve found that pan-cooking them seems to yield the best results, and…
I asked Tom what he wanted for dinner tonight, and he responded: Chicken Parmigiana. That’s unusual in that whenever I’m looking for dinner inspiration he doesn’t normally have any for me. I was reluctant at first, but decided: why not. I make Chicken Parmesan on occasion and it had been quite some time since I…
I’m not a huge soup person but when the days grow short and the temperature drops, it does sound good. I wanted to make broccoli cheddar soup the other day; I couldn’t remember which recipe I had used last time, but I remembered liking it. As it turns out, I somehow failed to find the…
I was trying to decide on what to make for dinner tonight, thinking through what I had just purchased at the store. Without an exact recipe in mind, I asked Tom if he wanted some “cheesy pasta deliciousness” – and got a pretty favorable response. Next step: defining what that meant. I have a rough…
I’m not yet to the point of growing enough in my garden to make a whole meal out of only home-grown foods, but I do love it when I can incorporate veggies from my garden as a main part of my dinner. Last week I tried something new: homemade spaghetti sauce. For some reason, I…
I have been trying to get this recipe right for some time now. Kung Pao Chicken is my favorite dish to order at a Chinese restaurant, and I still dream of the amazing Kung Pao at the restaurant we used to frequent in my home town. Without a decent Chinese restaurant in our area now,…
This is another one of those recipes from necessity…you know, where I have a few ingredients lying around that I need to use up, so I decide to make up a new dish. This time, I had jalapeños from the garden that I needed to use up, plus some orange bell peppers. I had some…
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I found this recipe for Garlic Dill Twists—breadsticks, essentially—a while back and have been dying to try it. I finally had (almost) all of the right ingredients; step two was trying to figure out how to justify making breadsticks for dinner. I decided if I paired them with a big green salad and a healthy…