I*heart* French Toast Casseroles! I love how you can take SUPER STALE french bread and turn it into a breakfast (or dinner) masterpiece! By soaking the bread overnight in a fruity, egg-milk mixture, stale french bread can be completely transformed and redeemed!!! When Andrea sent this recipe, I HAD to try it! Note: The marked down french loaf bread that I *knew* was in … [Read more...]
BBQ Mini Meatloaves and Meatloaf Bites
I intended just to make mini meatloaves tonight. With a "blop" of BBQ sauce on each mini-loaf. But there was extra meat mixture left after filling the "12 muffin tin", so I went to grab my "6 muffin tin" for the rest of the meat...but ended up pulling out the mini-muffin tin instead...to make "meatloaf bites!" The boys LOVED the meatloaf bites! We did NOT eat all 12 mini … [Read more...]
Taco Salad
So if I were to make pan roasted corn 2 days in a row, does that make me obsessed??? I pan roasted some fresh corn kernels (just like last night) to put on tonight's taco salad! They just taste that good! Taco Salad A great way to use up leftover taco meat, and feel like you're eating a different meal! 1 cup white rice 1/4 cup store bought salsa 1 … [Read more...]
Taco Pasta
This meal is "Dad Approved" and "Kid Approved!" The Hubs had a taste as he made his way through the kitchen after getting home...and he declared this Taco Pasta as "Dad Approved!" Taco Pasta Kid & Dad Approved! The Hubs had a taste as he made his way through the kitchen after getting home...and he declared this Taco Pasta as "Dad … [Read more...]
Angel Hair with Cherry Tomatoes
A perfectly TANGY pasta dish...we ate this until we were stuffed! And there's a ton of pasta leftover too! My camera battery needed a recharge, so this iphone photo and the below vlog will have to do! I'm *hoping* to do more vlogs from here on out! Angel Hair with Cherry Tomatoes Tangy and filling! 1/4 cup olive oil 1/2 tsp salt and pepper, … [Read more...]
Chicken Soft Tacos with Kickin’ Corn
Using up the leftover chicken from last week, with some peppers I sliced and froze before BlogHer...Yum! Having frozen the veggies and used leftover cooked chicken, this meal was an easy throw together!!! Chicken Soft Tacos with Kickin' Corn An easy and filling weeknight dinner recipe! 1 tsp canola or vegetable oil 2 cups leftover chicken1/2 green … [Read more...]
Pico de Gallo
One herb I failed to grow this year was cilantro. Bummer! I substituted fresh parsley and ground cumin in place of the cilantro that makes Pico de Gallo so scrumptious! Ingredients 6 small tomatoes (fresh from the garden) 1/2 red onion ($.35) 1 garlic cloves, minced ($.05) 1 hot pepper, optional if you wanna a "kickin' pico de gallo" (fresh from the garden) Few … [Read more...]
Pork Chops with Peach Salsa
Monique shared this recipe with me. Hello, scrumptious! I couldn't bring myself to buy the $2.49 jar of peach salsa. So I compromised and used the peaches I bought last week and the red onion from this week to make my own peach salsa. And ended up grilling it alongside the pork chops! I also grilled up some zucchini and tomatoes in the grilling basket! Pork … [Read more...]
Grilled Mojito Chicken
An easy marinade for the chicken...using the overflow of mint from the garden...I intended to grill this chicken, but ended up baking it because of a DOWNPOUR during dinner prep time. It was still delicious, but think it would have been better if grilled! Grilled Mojito Chicken An easy marinade for the chicken...using the overflow of mint from the … [Read more...]
How to Make Homemade Rice Milk
I have suspected a dairy allergy in both of my kids for a long time. Since nursing them, really. Without going into all the gory details, I knew something was just not right with their tummies and how they reacted to milk. I tried soy milk, and that seemed to help. But their the symptoms remained. We did several rounds of allergy and metabolic testing, only to come up short, … [Read more...]