Category Archives: Food & Recipes

I came home from work last week and found a wonderful gift on the back porch: two eggplants and several banana peppers. When I saw the eggplant, I knew immediately that I wanted to make crispy oven-baked fries. I had … Continue reading →

  I’ve mentioned before that I’m a little tired of the rut we’re in when it comes to meals. Jon is a super picky eater, and we’re in a season of life where it isn’t usually possible to spend as much time … Continue reading →

It’s no secret that I love homemade pizza. Love it. Recently, though, I discovered a whole new use for the dough. I’ve been making calzones- or giant pizza pockets, if you prefer- and freezing them. I pull them out and … Continue reading →

This week’s menu plan is pretty flexible. We have a four day weekend, and we haven’t yet decided what, if anything, we’ll do. So I’m going with the menu plan I originally mapped out at the beginning of the month, … Continue reading →

My mom’s chocolate chip cookies are famous. At least in the tiny town of Sweet Home, Oregon they are. When I was in school she would make quadruple batches. With five children, including two teenage boys, and a various assortment … Continue reading →

This week’s menu is a standard spring break recovery plan. Nearly every recipe is a tried-and-true favorite, with the exception of Thursday’s chocolate chip cookie dough pancakes. Those will be a first in our kitchen, one that I’m really looking … Continue reading →

  If it wasn’t already evident from the recipe I posted last week, let me say that I love anything that combines peppers and cheese. If it has bacon? Well now you’ve got all your basic food groups covered. I … Continue reading →

I ate a lot of these sandwiches when I was pregnant with Bennie. In my defense, I made then on sourdough bread, and Jon doesn’t like sourdough bread. So once I bought a loaf, I couldn’t just make one sandwich … Continue reading →

Things are a little tricky this week. Our furnace stopped working on Friday, right around the time daytime temperatures in our area of Mississippi dropped to the low 40s. The part that’s needed to repair the furnace is in extremely … Continue reading →

  This baked spaghetti is my go-to the-labor-intensive-meal-I-had-planned-is-so-not-happening-tonight meal. It can be thrown together in just a few minutes more than the time it takes to cook the pasta, and it’s made with ingredients we almost always have on hand. … Continue reading →