Hello my lovely readers! As you know, I’m on a busy schedule these days. I don’t have much time for cooking. Rather than making several meals throughout the week, I’ve started to make several meals on one day. I try to put them in smaller pans so that Chris can pull them out of the… Read More Pioneer Woman Lasanga
Since starting the night shift, the amount of time that I have available to devote to cooking has gone way, way down. However, I’ve noticed that if I shop from a menu, our grocery bill is much more manageable. So it’s a quandary – to cook and save, or to spend and have extra time… Read More Menu for the Week
I’ve been preparing and shopping from a weekly menu for the last several months now. This is a fairly recent development in my life. At first I was skeptical, but I kept reading other bloggers’ menus and thought, “What the heck – I’ll give it a try”. It’s turned out to be a great thing… Read More Low-Fat, Low-Cal: 3 Amazing Recipes
Happy 4th of July everyone! Chris and I don’t have any special plans for today – just hanging out, making hamburgers, and eating some good food while hopefully watching some fireworks. If we were at my parents’ house we’d be surrounded by about 20 people and everyone would be engaged in different activities: jumping on… Read More Have a Happy, Yummy, 4th of July!
During my wolf down your food in 5 minutes or less lunch break at work yesterday, I called Chris to ask if I’d left my blackberry at home. Turns out that I did, but then we had the following conversation… Chris – “I left something sweet in your car.” Me – “You put something in… Read More Corn Syrup is Something Sweet
I’ve started to go through some of our stuff in anticipation of the move. I don’t want to take anything that we aren’t going to need/use within the next year, or that we won’t be bringing to New Zealand in 2010, or that doesn’t have strong sentimental value. I’ve gotten rid of a bunch of… Read More Photo: My Cookbooks
My mom always made fudge for all of us kids for Valentine’s Day, and she always made it in the shape of a heart, and she always used the Never-Fail-Fudge recipe from the back of the Marshmallow Fluff container. I decided to continue that tradition this year by making heart-shaped Never-Fail-Fudge for Chris’ Valentine’s Day… Read More Never-Fail-Fudge is the Perfect Valentine’s Day Treat
I’ve been an ambitious cook this weekend! Since I’m now working 5 days a week, 7:30am – 4:00pm, I typically don’t feel like cooking anything for supper once I get home. I decided to make 2 things this weekend that taste good all week, freeze nicely, and are easy to put together. On Friday I… Read More Cooking Weekend
…You’re Not Much! This was a saying I heard from time to time while growing up. I come from a very Dutch family. Lots of Postmas, Hendrijkas, Wilhelminas, Dykemas! My parents were both born and raised in South Holland, IL, went to Dutch Reformed churches, and many of my extended family now lives in and… Read More If You’re Not Dutch…
As you all know, I like to try out new recipes. And you probably also know that I have been trying some from “Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth”, by Jill O’Connor. Today, as part of my NCLEX study break, I decided to try another recipe from this wonderful cookbook. Unfortunately,… Read More Mmmm… Cupcakes…
