This week, I am going to stray a bit from my usual Friday Favorites post. While I read plenty of wonderful blog posts this past week, I thought that it would be fun to change it up a bit and draw your attention to some great blogs that are supporting one of my favorite causes…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Tomato and Squash Skillet
Last week, my husband was out of town, so I ended up cooking for myself for a few days. On Wednesday, when I picked up our CSA share, I decided to make myself a quick vegetarian dinner since I had an abundance of veggies from both the CSA and garden that I didn’t want to…
Penny Pinching Pantry Ponderings
It’s official… The Penny Pinching Pantry Raid is over! It’s hard to believe it has been four weeks already. When I started the challenge, I wasn’t sure if I would make it for four weeks, but now that it’s over, I’m wondering where the time went. Before I get into my ponderings and reflections on the…
Buffalo Chicken… Pretzels!
This month’s Pre-Made Our Way Challenge was to make soft pretzels. As with many of the other challenges this month (Daring Bakers, not to mention any names), I waited until the last minute to make these pretzels. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested, I just never seemed to get around to it. The original challenge…
Baking Cookies with the Daring Bakers
The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network. I was excited this month when I saw that the Daring Bakers would be making cookies. I can trace my interest in cooking and baking back…
Apple Maple Chicken Sausage Frittata
Earlier in the week, my husband went out of town for a few days. I had to drop him off at the airport in the afternoon, so I decided to make a good hearty lunch for him so that he would have at least one good meal before the trip. I guess that’s my mother…
Friday Favorites – Episode 19
Vacation is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? Unfortunately, coming home from vacation isn’t. Don’t get me wrong – it’s always nice to be home. It’s just that coming home from vacation means laundry, cleaning, and getting back to work. So, needless to say, I am glad that it is finally Friday! I’m ready for the busy “back…
Slow Cooked Chicken Sloppy Joes
Let me just say that I don’t really have a green thumb. I can’t really say that it’s brown, either. In fact, I think I would have to call it a red thumb. Why? Because the one thing that I seem to have a lot of success with is growing hot peppers. In the last…
Cajun Bean Soup and Lessons Never Learned
I remember it like it was yesterday… Mrs. Weist, my first grade teacher, handed out a coloring assignment with a long list of directions at the top. I immediately got to work, coloring furiously as I worked my way down the list of directions. About halfway down the list, though, I ran into trouble. One…
Three weeks down, one to go…
It’s hard to believe that three weeks of the Penny Pinching Pantry Raid are behind me already! While I have had to make a few exceptions along the way for some family events and our camping trip (as I had planned from the beginning), I have managed to stick to the program for the majority of…
