5 Ingredient Cheesecake Bars Five ingredients. Five minutes to mix. Delicious too! I have to love anything that uses few ingredients and is easy to boot. These 5 Ingredient Cheesecake Bars really fill that bill. These are also items that most people have in their fridge or pantry already. In the southern USA, I believe…
Roast Pork with Herbed Roast Potatoes (BONUS POST)
Roast Pork with Herb Roasted Potatoes This is for everyone on my Facebook fan page who asked how I flavored my pork roast and the pan-roasted potatoes. You can always make herb roasted potatoes even without a roast. The drippings do give the potatoes some extra flavor, but you can roast them by themselves. Just…
Smoky Beef Mac & Cheese
Smoky Beef Mac & Cheese Chipolte peppers make this smoky beef mac and cheese flavorful. I’m a sucker for chipoltes and anything it’s in. I forget where I heard about using them in macaroni and cheese now, but I always thought it was a good idea. Rather than make a meatless mac & cheese,…
Acorn Squash Cups
Acorn Squash Cups A fall treat! Sweet and buttery. Who doesn’t love the first squash of fall? You can do this technique with any “winter” squash, but by far it tastes best with acorn. This is roasted at a lower temp than most recipes since I tend to make this along with a roast pork,…
Chocolate Chip Muffins
Chocolate Chip Muffins Just like the bakery. Loaded with chocolate chips! I felt chocolate chip muffins today so went looking for something that was more like cake than a muffin so it’d last longer. Didn’t have to look far. Found a great recipe over on King Arthur’s site. Only thing I changed was to reduce…
Coconut Banana Spice Cake
A timeless classic. Improves with age. This is a cake I reworked ages ago out of an old Pillsbury book. Made it as directed but it had only a very faint banana flavor and it was pretty heavy on the cloves too. So I increased the banana, cut down the cloves, played with the…
Biscuits & Sausage Gravy Pot Pie
Biscuit & Sausage Gravy Pot Pie An old-time favorite in casserole form. Not unhealthy if made with reduced-fat ingredients. I have always loved this dish. However, as I aged, the fattiness tended to give me “agita” so I rarely ate it. I found a way to do it by using reduced-fat alternatives to the usual culprits….
Roasted Root Vegetables
Roasted Root Vegetables Nothing better! And a treat for fall. Roasted roots are a meal in themselves. Not much to be said here–just use whatever you like and go to town. As these veggies roast, they develop a wonderful caramelly sweetness. They are delectable. I served with roasted herbed pork chops. However, chicken or fish…
Totally Loaded Potato Soup
Totally Loaded Potato Soup This soup is a meal, baby. All I could think about when I got back from Montana was eating soup. Potato soup in particular. And this potato soup. OK, it’s a little bit of a pain to make, but trust me, IT’S WORTH IT. I use a nice well-aged Provolone for…
Provincial Chicken Stew
Provincial Chicken Stew Sort of a white coq au vin, but much easier. Great fall/winter weeknight meal. Done in just a little over 30 minutes. I came back from Montana with a vicious cold that I can’t seem to shake. Friends kept telling me, “Make chicken soup,” and I really felt like that except I…
