This was an instant hit with my grandson. Anything to do with pasta and meatballs always seems to be a winner in his book. The recipe calls for prepackaged frozen meatballs and jarred marinara so it really does make for …
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Cranberry Buttermilk Scones
I love scones but I have a very hard time eating bakery scones. They are too big and dry. These are the perfect size and not the dried out bricks you may get elsewhere. Straight out of the oven they …
Cranberry White Chocolate Fudge and Christmas Baking
Whew! I swear Christmas has come and gone at the speed of light. Here I was thinking I had all the time in the world to get everything done before Christmas but then, BAM, Christmas was here and I was …
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Swiss Chard and Black Bean Tacos
Finally a recipe shared from my Acme (CSA) box. Tweaked and adjusted of course to suit our tastes but it was definitely a winner according to my carnivore son. He said he could eat meatless dishes as long as they …
Strawberry Margarita Squares
Let me tell you this is one refreshing summer dessert. Fresh, sweet strawberries and whipping cream over a layer of smooth cream cheese with just a hint of tart lime flavor atop a graham cracker crust. Sound like your kind of dessert? …
Cookbook Software
Do you use any cookbook programs to store your recipes? What do you use? I have been spending quite of time trying to organize my recipes in some sort of electronic format. I have been collecting cooking magazines and recipes …
Cranberry White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
I really love the combination of white chocolate and cranberries in an oatmeal cookie. I’ve tried a couple of recipes and I liked them but decided to tweak one of my loaded oatmeal cookie recipes and think they turned out pretty …
Pappardelle Pasta with Sausage and Apple Ragu
What do you do with extra apples, fresh pappardelle pasta and pork sausage from your CSA box? You make this delicious pasta dish. First you use your handy dandy little cookbook database and you see if you have any recipes …
Carrot Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Instead of making a carrot cake with all the carrots from my CSA box I decided to make cupcakes. I found this recipe on the Taste of Home website. There were no raisins, no pineapple, no coconut…well at least not in …
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Lentil and Sausage Soup with Kale
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m honestly not a huge Rachel Ray fan. I haven’t really found any of her recipes to be one of those that I just had to go make right away. Until now. Her …
Pasta Salad with Pickled Beets and Asparagus
This was basically a throw together salad to use some of our pickled beets and pickled asparagus. My daughter picked up the pickled asparagus at Thorp Fruit and Antique Mall in Ellensburg, WA. It’s a huge, wonderful place with fresh seasonal fruit …
Falafel with Tzatziki
I said that one day I was going to make Falafel from the over abundance of dried garbanzo beans I have from my CSA box. Well I finally did it last week and it wasn’t nearly as bad as I …
Fusilli with Asparagus and Truffled Fromage Blanc
Because I had a few other things to do last Thursday I didn’t get a chance to share my CSA box with you all. It had the usual eggs, pasta, some greens and veggies, etc. One of the recipes was …
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Chicken Chilaquiles Casserole
I was going through old cooking and food magazines trying to clean things up a bit and came across this recipe from Cuisine at Home Magazine. I even had most of the ingredients from my CSA box a week ago …
Homemade Pizza with the Works
I received fresh pizza dough in my CSA box this week and the recipe was for Pizza Margharita, but I didn’t have any fresh basil. What I did have was some frozen Italian bulk sausage that came in the box a …
A Little of This and a Little of That 