LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
So, I have to be honest. I am not sure that I have ever tried French Onion Soup before tonight. It always sounded intriguing, but looked kind of weird, so I shied away. I’ve been searching for interesting recipes for my new handy dandy Crock Pot I got for Christmas, and I came across this…
I’m not sure if it’s the old age kicking in or what, but I had a bit of a brain fart at the grocery store yesterday. I knew I had seen a recipe on Pinterest that I wanted to try that was some sort of Asian / Ramen noodle bowl. It sounded like a fairly…
With Thanksgiving this past week and Christmas around the corner, I’ve been in a festive mood lately. We didn’t travel over the holiday weekend so it allowed me the chance to have some good downtime and also do some experimenting in the kitchen! I’ve been spending [too much] time getting ideas from Pinterest, and I…
Saturday at our house felt a little chaotic. After some morning cleaning and some trips back and forth, we finally dropped my car off to get new tires put on in the morning. From there took Happy to the dog park for a last romp before the snow really started to fall. We got home…
I’ve been stepping out of my comfort zone a little this year and have been cooking a lot of squash! I need to find and post some of the other recipes I’ve tried, but I thought I would write down tonight’s meal right away, before I forget! Tom had gotten a home grown acorn squash…
I’ve seen several recipes for salads with a warm bacon dressing, and I have to admit, I was intrigued. I’ve been wanting to try it out for some time now and finally got a chance to last night. I was in the midst of making some other food for the week to come and bacon…
This post may surprise some of you who know that I am not typically a fan of cooked fruit. However, after some conversations about Blueberry Cobbler at work last week, I decided I wanted to give it a try. I had made a Blackberry Cobbler once before after picking fresh wild blackberries with my mom…
After going out with Tom for drinks and appetizers a few weeks back — and the appetizer plate not coming as specified on the menu — I had been wanting to make my own appetizer platter as a fun and different dinner. I wanted to do a set of spreads that I could put over…
I wanted to make a special Christmas breakfast this year. I was perusing Pinterest and saw a recipe for Cranberry French Toast Casserole (which sounded pretty good), when an even better idea hit me. There’s a restaurant in downtown Northville (Rebecca’s) that Tom and I love and used to frequent. Every time we went for…
I made up another new recipe for dinner tonight. I had several late season tomatoes sitting in my kitchen that were just begging to be made into some sort of sauce. At least, I think that’s what I heard them saying. I thought of doing goat cheese ravioli made with wonton wrappers and putting a…