Four Foods on Friday #60

This week’s questions are: #1. What’s your favorite crunchy food? #2. How often do you try new recipes? #3. Name a food that you almost always have in the house. #4. What kind of food do you leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve?

1. Favorite crunchy food? Chips! Plain, ruffled, barbecue, sour cream & [...]

Four Foods on Friday 56

#1. What’s the worst tasting food you’ve ever eaten? #2. Share a funny or embarrassing story about a meal you’re made. #3. What food do you burn or have problems cooking most often? #4. Name two foods you’ll be eating on this Thanksgiving.

1. Thinking back to all the foods I’ve eaten in my life, [...]

Easy Salsa Chili

In my Menu Monday post I listed that I would be making a slow cooker chili recipe I found in Kraft Food & Family.  When I went to buy the ingredients today, I took advantage of sale prices, and when I went to assemble the dish, I found myself having to improvise a bit. Here’s [...]

Four Foods on Friday #53

Here are this week’s questions:

#1. What kind of pretzels are your favorite?-I like soft pretzels with a little salt, dipped in mustard. And I like Tiny Twist pretzels dipped into chip dip!

#2. What’s your favorite way to eat pancakes?-Mmm, with butter, sugar free Smuckers syrup, and extra-crispy bacon on the side.

#3. Do [...]

Secret Recipes from Pixie Hollow!

To celebrate tomorrow’s release of the very special Tinker Bell DVD from Walt Disney Home Entertainment, I have two recipes for you that come straight from the home of the fairies, Pixie Hollow. After a hard day of helping her fellow Tinker fairies build wagons and baskets and tools, Tinker Bell can sit down [...]

Halloween Poke Cake

The classic poke cake has been around for as long as I can remember, and the best thing about it is that it is so easy to customize. For Halloween or Thanksgiving, use Orange gelatin powder, for Christmas, use Red or Green. And having Cool Whip be the “frosting” couldn’t be easier.

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Menu Plan Monday Sept. 29-Oct. 4th

I’ve been really slacking off on planning my menus lately, but it’s going to be a busy week so I need to not have to worry about running to the store at the last minute. Here’s what I’m planning to make:

Monday- Fish filets, candied yams, roasted green beans

Tuesday- Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and [...]

Healthier Cream of Tomato Soup

Hey everybody, I’m sorry it’s been so long since I updated! We went to the circus last Saturday night, and we must have sat near someone who was sick. One by one each of us has come down with some version of the same thing-sinus pressure, extreme fatigue, upset stomach. Lovely.

For lunch today, I [...]

Fruit and Potato Crisps Giveaway

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the two winners, danielo and Lisa!

Edited to add: Since “danielo” had an email address that was invalid, and didn’t actually digg this post even though he said he did in his comment, I have decided that he is, as Lisa says, a LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE. [...]

Sometimes a BLT really hits the spot

For lunch yesterday, I made BLTs. For the four of us, I used a whole package of bacon, which I cooked in the oven because I like it to be flat and crispy. Just line rimmed baking sheets with a double layer of foil and place the bacon slices flat and not touching, bake at [...]