Let me start by saying my family gets annoyed with my soup attempts. They do not believe that a soup course is necessary with big family meals. This year, though, we were eating Thanksgiving dinner later - around 3:30 pm - due to work schedules. I served the soup at 1 pm as a way [...]
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Pumpkin Soup with Bleu Cheese and Bacon
Posted in Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged pumpkin, recipe, soup on 30 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Posted in Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged potatoes, recipe, thanksgiving on 24 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
The only thing I truly hate about holidays is the amount of time I spend in the kitchen. Now, at my house, this is not truly an issue as the house is small but at others, it isolates the cook. One way I get around it is to make items in advance. Today I made [...]
Pumpkin Bread
Posted in Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged recipe, baking, pumpkinbread, quickbread on 22 November 2008 | No Comments »
Back about four years ago, a friend gave me this pumpkin bread recipe that does not use eggs. Most of my quick breads use three or four eggs and I am not a big egg person so was trying to find ways around it.
I love this recipe with a good mug of cocoa in the [...]
Grocery Store on a Budget
Posted in Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged budgetshopping, coupons, groceryshopping, grocerystore, pantry on 12 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
A recent blog in my local online paper Pressconnects.com asked if you thought you could eat for a dollar a day. While I am pretty sure that is not realistic, even in my area where I think the cost of living is relatively low, I do know that there are certain things that can help [...]
Two of My Favorite Things
Posted in Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged fetacheese, personalpizza, sparkpeople on 31 October 2008 | No Comments »
I love pizza! I also love feta cheese! I was so excited when a recipe for Spinach Feta Personal Pizza came directly to my inbox this morning. I cannot wait to try this recipe out. You will know when I do as I will take a picture of the pizza. The recipe and nutritional information [...]
Road Trip!
Posted in Collegiate Sports, Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, Sports, tagged familyweekend, niagarauniversity, sunyfredonia on 23 October 2008 | No Comments »
Yes, I am off on a road trip at 7 am tomorrow morning. My kitchen table looks like it is time for a college visit so…
… The soon-to-be 18 year old and his 14 year old brother and I head west along the Southern Tier Expressway tomorrow morning. Initial destination - SUNY-Fredonia. The high school [...]
The Family Grocery Budget
Posted in Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged budgeting, budgetshopping, groceryshopping on 10 October 2008 | No Comments »
My friend Lisa recently wrote a blog entry entitled “no bailout.” No, she wasn’t talking about her views on the recently passed government “rescue” plan, though she could have been. She was talking about tightening the familial belt and surviving the rough times that are already upon us and to come.
Lisa got me thinking how [...]
Freezer Cooking
Posted in Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged freezercooking, oamc, onceamonthcooking on 6 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was going to start this post a while back but it, instead, turned into a post about pantries. I have several friends who freezer cook. You may also hear it called Once A Month Cooking. It is extremely popular with busy families as your food is in your freezer. One group of friends even [...]
A Morning Routine
Posted in Family, Food and Recipes, Just my Thoughts, tagged celestialseasonings, kristenroby, pressconnects, republicoftea, tea on 18 September 2008 | No Comments »
We all have them - morning routines. Yours will differ from mine. Mine differs depending on the season and the day of the week. It is fall - almost even on the calendar - and that routine includes a pot of tea.
Now, a lot of people drink tea on a regular basis but I love [...]
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