With NaNoWriMo coming up I’m thinking ahead to fast and easy recipes. I love rotisserie chicken. I often pick up one for my husband and I on days I’ve spent shopping or running errands and don’t want to cook. Since it is now just the two of us at home, after the first meal we are left with half a chicken or more. While I … Continue reading Leftover Rotisserie Chicken Ideas
What do you do with instant mashed potatoes? Do you have leftover hurricane supplies or food pantry items you’re not sure how to use? For my homemade potato pancakes I prefer to use real mashed potatoes whenever I have them leftover. Of course, raising six sons, there weren’t many days when they didn’t finish the mashed potatoes. I learned that instant potatoes will work in … Continue reading Potato Recipes
Ingredients: 1 shot Birddog Blackberry Whiskey 1 shot Chambord Blackberry Liquor 1 shot Rumchata Also good over vanilla ice cream Especially with some toasted pecans Toasted Pecans ½ cup of rough chopped Pecans 1 Table spoon of Butter Coarse Salt 2 Tablespoons Pre-made Caramel sauce Melt butter, toast pecans, add salt and caramel sauce. Continue reading Blackberry Cream Triple Shot
“Yes, real men do eat quiche.” I never understood why men wouldn’t eat quiche, it’s little more than scrambled eggs in a pie shell, I mean really. A baked omelet! But I remember this add when I was a kid and I always thought that meant quiche was something refined and a bit too classy for the “meat and potatoes” type guys I knew. I … Continue reading Yes, Real Men Do Eat Quiche
When your freezer dies a slow cruel death and you have to throw away two garbage bags full of food, you get creative on what you are able to salvage. The frozen vegetables at the bottom of the freezer, the extra blocks of cheese and the packages of Jiffy Corn Bread mix. I found jalapenos in the cabinet and sour cream in the fridge. Hmm, … Continue reading Broccoli Soup and Jalapeno Cornbread
Ingredients: 2 rolls of ground turkey (Italian seasoned or season your own with Italian blend seasons) 1-2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil 1 Tablespoon corn starch diluted in 1/4 cup water (I use pasta water) 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese 1 cup Italian Blend cheese 1 cup mozzarella cheese fresh or frozen spinach 8 ounces Fresh basil Roasted red pepper garlic mushrooms (I didn’t add mushrooms because … Continue reading Spinach Basil Pasta
That will make you pucker. Sometimes called a dump cake but I don’t like that name. 2 cups of fresh or froze blueberries 2 packages softened cream cheese 1/2 cup lemon juice 1/4 cup sugar 2 packages lemon gelatin 1 Lemon cake mix 1 Table spoon corn starch Oil or non-stick spray 8 x 13 pan/dish Put blueberries and lemon juice in sauce pan and … Continue reading Lemon Berry Smash Cake
I love to cook but don’t always take the time to do so with a full-time job and trying to write. Usually on Sundays I’ll make something that will last a couple of days but this past Sunday I joined friends for a celebration of a dear friend’s birthday. I’d taken out boneless, skinless chicken breasts but when we arrived home from the party our … Continue reading Cajun Chicken and Rice Recipe
I haven’t shared a recipe in a while. I love to cook but between work, writing and my writers’ groups, I don’t have a lot of time to get creative. I’m not a recipe follower. I will use a recipe the first time I try something and then I have to tweak it and make it my own. I’m also an opportunistic cook, I look … Continue reading Ham and Cheese Casserole Recipe
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