Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork |
I am on a mission to clean out the pantry and freezer. We have our first cow coming back from the butcher this week and we are going to need every inch of freezer space for the hundreds of pounds of organic, grass fed, free range, home raised beef. Can’t wait. Anyway,...
Food & Recipes, Pasta, Veggies |
Fresh Tomato and Mushroom Arrabiata Pasta is a quick and easy pasta dish with tons of flavor! If you like heat this is for you. The spicy Tomato and Mushroom sauce can be tossed together on the stove top any night of the week and makes a great meatless Monday or...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Salad, Veggies |
Giving my family a chicken salad for dinner can backfire on me, I get the look. You know the look, the one that says I am going to push the lettuce around my plate until I can bolt from the table and hit the chocolate bars. Thus I am always working on ideas to make...
Beef, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork |
I have been making the same meatloaf with a sweet and spicy tomato and honey glaze for a while now, and I was getting sick of eating it even if my family was not. Thus I decided it was time for something new: pesto meatloaf. The cup of left over pesto from my last...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta |
Pasta alla Vodka Plus I like a nice hot bowl of pasta with a rich creamy pink sauce once in a while, and alla vodka sauce is one of my favorite variations of the pink sauce. Adding the meat from a half a leftover roasted chicken and a pint of mushrooms made a lovely...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta, Turkey |
White Lasagna with Turkey and Mushrooms I almost always have everything need to make white lasagna on hand in the house, and for a impromptu weekend family style dinner my turkey lasagna is the perfect one dish meal. In fact, this meal was created when I was low on...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pasta |
This fennel sausage and mushroom pasta is a quick and inexpensive pasta dish perfect for any weeknight. With a green salad and nice bottle of wine you could easily transform this into a casual dinner party meal. The fresh made tomato sauce is a great way to use up...
Appetizer, Dips and Sauces, Food & Recipes, Pasta |
Growing Basil is not that difficult of an endeavor, trust me I have killed enough plants to know what horticultural tasks are within my capabilities, and I almost always manage to have a live basil plant back porch. But even with your own plant you can come up short a...