It’s Fall, and that means Chili!

This is the time of year when I start thinking about making pots of chili. My recipe is really simple, just ground beef, canned tomatoes, and canned kidney beans. I like to throw it together on a Saturday morning, let it simmer on the lowest setting for a few hours, then dish it up. Chili [...]

Ew. This was really bad.

This recipe came from a magazine I picked up in the grocery store checkout line in the Fall of 2006, called “EAT: easy family food”, and it’s a Better Homes and Gardens special interest publication. This was the Cover Recipe, titled “Bean and Beef Enchilada Casserole”. It looked good, it sounded good, so I made [...]

All-American Burgers

How I made it to almost 40 without ever making my own hamburgers is a mystery to me. Last year, I finally worked up the courage to try making them myself, and the first thing I did is Google “how to make hamburgers”. Fortunately for me and my family, one of the first search results [...]