I keep thinking my life is going to slow down and I am going to get my family on a lovely schedule. I am not sure if I hang on to this vision because I am optimistic or delusional. While I would love to have orderly evenings with plenty of time to cook three course meals, it isn't happening. So on busy nights I content myself with … [Read more...]
Vegetable Lasagna with Spinach “Noodles”
Summer finally arrived and all of my cool weather crops reacted to the heat by bolting. One nice thing about spinach when it bolts is that the leaves along the flower stalk are flat making them a great substitute for noodles in lasagna: I overlap the spinach leaves to create a layer. If you only have curled spinach leaves you can flatten them out a bit by making small … [Read more...]
Spinach and Tomato Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Oh please. Please. Please, for all that is good and right in this world. Please, make these. When I asked for spinach recipes last week, I had this one in the back of my mind to try as I asked. Last summer when on vacation with my family, I made for them a similar recipe that used sun dried tomatoes, spinach pesto, mozzarella, stuffed/rolled in the same … [Read more...]
Spinach Meatballs with Spaghetti
Look at these green babies simmering in homemade spaghetti sauce. After rummaging through the freezer and pantry last week, I discovered that I had everything on hand for these Spinach Meatballs. A reader mentioned them on Facebook recently, and I had to make them. I was really worried that the boys wouldn't eat the meatballs because they had "green stuff" in them, but it … [Read more...]
Spinach Tomato Saute
Picked a bunch of cherry-type tomatoes from the garden...opened the fridge to figure out what to do with them...and the $2 box of spinach practically fell of the shelf. When that kind of thing happens, I take it as a sign... And here's the result... Spinach Tomato Saute 1 Tbsp olive oil ($.10)2 garlic cloves, crushed ($.10)2 cups grape or cherry … [Read more...]
Chicken and Bacon Florentine Pasta
Every had one of those super productive days...only to forget one very important thing on your to-do list. That thing: Make dinner. Eeps! That's what happened to me tonight. I scurried around all day, catching up on Mt. Washmore (yes, we have been home for 10 days and I still haven't caught up on laundry from the Savvy Blogging Summit!), helping … [Read more...]
Grilled Mushroom Burgers
Grilled Mushrooms and Onions atop a Grilled Burger. Yes, please! Drizzle a little steak sauce over the top. Scrumdidily-umptious! Grilled Mushroom Burgers 1.5 lb ground beef ($2.23)2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce ($.05)1 small white onion ($.40)1 pint mushrooms, sliced ($.99) Bought on Managers Special3 Tbsp Marsala cooking wine ($.25)Few dashes of salt … [Read more...]
Grilled Salsa Chicken
Alrighty friends...here is the Grilled Salsa Chicken that I intended on posting last night. But my day just didn't play out as I thought it would and I did not get a chance in the early evening to get it all together! A big thanks to Steve for photographing some of the pictures below. You might notice that 2 hands are in the photographs, and I don't quite trust … [Read more...]
Grilled Chicken Spinach Pesto Pasta
I've been waiting. And waiting. And waiting...to try this pasta! A l-o-n-g time ago, I made some Spinach Pesto from the garden. And it's been patiently waiting in the freezer for me. To eat it! *I wish I had not waited until now!* The reason I've been waiting...I didn't think the boys would go for "green pasta" for dinner. They like green foods. Broccoli, peas, green … [Read more...]
Spinach Spaghetti
Sneaky chef concept here. In a not-so-sneaky way! This has become my "go to meal" lately...for those days when a curve ball gets thrown at me...and my brain can't seem to form a coherent thought...much less a plan for dinner. This meal is a one pot meal. Starch, protein, veggies. All in one pot. Easy to make, easy to clean up. Even if … [Read more...]