yumminess

Tonight's dinner:

Chicken Cordon Blue (don't be too impressed - it was frozen)
Mac & cheese
Green bean casserole (I need to remember to buy two containers of french fried onions, one for me and one for the top of the casserole)

I even got the boy to try a bite! He said he liked the sauce - little does he know it's cream of mushroom soup! haha :-P

I'm a good Irish wife

Corned beef with cabbage, potatoes, carrots and onion.

Homemade grape ketchup

Irish soda bread

Hot cross buns

YUM!

valentine's dinner

We went to the Gondola Restaurant in Leominster - it wasn't too bad. The service was somewhat slow, but the food was pretty good. I had eggplant gondola - it was eggplant wrapped around cheese, kind of like manicotti. The boy obviously had ravioli, what else?

Tonight I made cajun catfish, homemade french fries, and garlic bread. yum!

Chex mix

My house smells lovely.

It smells like Chex Mix.

yum.

Wow-I need to post more often

Ugh - I need to post more often, I keep forgetting.

I am busy!

However, I have found this piece of amusing information.

I am currently cooking dinner with a LOT of garlic! I am making garlic chicken, stuffed peppers (garlic in those too), and sour cream and onion mashed potatoes (ok, so no garlic there). Earlier, I made banana cookies to freeze for my party next month.

I like having Tuesday off. We should do it every week.

mini-Thanksgiving

Tonight I had my in-laws for dinner. Mom, dad, and brother.

I made them Orange Spiced Chicken, Peapod & Orange Salad, Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Sweet Potato Salad, and a Black & White Angel Food Cake.

Mom brought some pasta with vodka sauce, Dad brought an apple pie, and brother-in-law brought some wine.

We had to pull the leaf out in the table, and I used a tablecloth and cloth napkins with napkin rings. I even bought a small bouquet of flowers for the center.

It was a feast!! We even watched football! It truly was a mini-Thanksgiving.

Spaghetti Sauce

I made homemade spaghetti sauce today!

Really homemade - the tomatoes were from our garden!!

Yummy.

You're jealous, I know.

when I get bored

For no apparent reason, I decided to make a lemon poppy seed cake with cream cheese frosting. I obviously decorated with strawberries.

mmmmm

I am the future betty crocker

Did she just bake? If she did, I mean someone else...

Wednesday I made fish stew. It was very good. Downside: I showed up to NVCB rehearsal REEKING of fish. :-(
Another downside: I brought leftovers for lunch and stunk up Ms. S's room for her students coming in after lunch. She didn't seem to care, but the kids sure did! ;-)

Saturday I made Shrimp Tettrazini. It's spaghetti in a creamy sauce with shrimp and peas, then baked with a topping of breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese. yum!

I also made banana bread yesterday. New recipe with cream cheese and a cinnamon/brown sugar streusel in the middle. VERY GOOD! :-)

Tonight's leftovers, but I might bake some bread to go with it. We have a lot of leftovers to use up.

Oh yeah, and the light has gone out in our fridge, which is making me constantly checking things to see if they're cold. I know the light doesn't make things cold, but in my head, it's apparently all connected.

yumminess from the past

After getting warmed up from playing outside, I decided to bake. I made mom's Layered Peanut Butter Bars. Anyone remember those?

getting ready!

Today I bought the ingredients to make the peanutbutter pecan pie for Thanksgiving. I also bought the ingredients for and made my hot and sweet snack mix. It's pretty yummy.

You mix together:
Chex, Cheerios, Popcorn, Pretzels, and Craisins

Drizzle vegetable oil and tabasco sauce over it

Then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar

Bake for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

YUM! The first taste is sweet, and then a few seconds later you feel some heat. :-)

crock pot goodness

Crock pot lasagna...mmmmm....yum.

not that I'm bragging...

I'm not trying to brag or anything, but...

I made quite possibly the most delicious pie in the history of delicious pies tonight.

Lemon Chess Pie

Simple to make.

Simply delicious.

yum.

mmm...yumminess

So not only did I make golabki (cabbage stuffed with ground beef and rice mixture), I also made pierogis. Homemade pierogis!!! Some had mashed potato, some had sauerkraut. I've never made either of them before, and I think I did a pretty good job, if I do say so myself!!

I made the boy try a golabki and a sauerkraut pierogi, which he ate, but I don't know if he really liked them. He did, however, like the potato-filled pierogis.

I am stuffed. It was a GREAT dinner. :-)

it's going to be a polish labor day!

In trying to decide what to do with pork chops for dinner, I have decided to save them until tomorrow. Instead...

I'm going to make golabki! I'm heading out to the grocery store in a few to pick up some ingredients that I don't have, and to see if I can also pick up some pierogis. I'm so excited! :-)

Pork chops are going to be for tomorrow night's dinner (a little easier to prepare after work).

Woohoo!

I'll let you know how they turn out!

all I have is weiners

I looked in the fridge and freezer tonight to figure out what to have for dinner. All I had was weiners. HOT DAWGS

I made a hot dog casserole. Spinach, egg noodles, sour cream, milk, cream of mushroom soup, hotdogs, peas, and crumbled bacon. YUMMY.

And the boy ate it!

He picked out most of the peas, but he ate the spinach. I guess I should call him Popeye from now on...

I am a food magician

I turned muffins into biscuits!!

I'll even let you in on my top secret trick!

When the recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of flour, just simply add 2 1/2 cups!!!

This is why I should not make muffins first thing in the morning when I am half asleep...

(They taste alright, just a little dense - kinda like me, I guess...)

yumminess

Ok, so I HAD to try it!! MOUNTAIN DEW CAKE?!!?!?! It was DELICIOUS!!! It was a big hit at the boy's parents' house! There were six of us, and this is all that is left. The boy didn't want to share with anyone else. When it was baking last night, I had to beat him off with a stick to keep him from eating it. I like to eat mine with blueberries...mmmm...

I forgot how much I love to cook!

It's too bad the boy dove into the food before I could take a picture. (I could take one now, but it would be a half-eaten chicken carcass, which doesn't seem as appetizing).

For tonight's dinner, the menu was:

Herbed Roasted Chicken with a Balsamic glaze
Corn on the Cob
Buttery Crescent Rolls
Cheesy Mashed Potatoes

Ok, so the rolls and potatoes were made by Pillsbury and Betty Crocker, respectively, but when you put your time and effort into making a REALLY good main course, who cares about the sides??

Mother's Day cake

This is the cake I made to bring down to Marshfield for all the mothers!

It was a spice cake with cinnamon frosting. It came out pretty good, if I do say so myself!

I made a basket-weave frosting pattern on the sides. I used my new Pampered Chef frosting decorators. I loved them, they worked really well, and were easy to use. (I sound like a commercial...a bad one...but a commercial).