Holy moly, roasted garlic and bacon!! They taste darn good together, especially in a risotto! It was another night, raiding the fridge and pantry for dinner ingredients. Now that it is getting dark so early, I am also more reluctant to venture out of the house after say 4:30 or so. Result: some…
Archives for November 2014
Thanksgiving Turkey Lettuce Wraps
Always wondering what to do with that left over turkey? It’s so darn good as a sandwich, but I am always looking for new ways to serve it. Today at our Thanksgiving cooking class we made some ground turkey instead of using leftover turkey bird. So this recipe shows you how to do that too…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’m a purist when it comes to chocolate chippers. Scratch that I hate the word chippers. I like em soft and puffy and with the chips all melty, mmmmm good. Don’t get me wrong, the crunchy, butter ones, ala Steve’s Nana’s famous Chocolate Chip Cookies or Tate’s are unbelievable. But they require a different craving…
Hubby Can Cook?
Two weeks in a row!!!!! I love to cook so normally I want to do all the cooking in the house. However, after a long day of teaching fourth grade and then teaching a cooking class after school, I am pretty wiped. Still willing to cook, just not as enthusiastically as usual. So, Steve…
Rainy Day Soup Concoction
My mom says I have been making “concoctions” ever since I could hold a whisk. They were usually pretty disgusting. I used to leave them hiding around the house where they would grow mold. What can I say, I liked to mix things up 😛 Now that I’m grown up, I’m still making concoctions, but…
I'm a country girl at heart. I tried living in the city and it just didn't work. Welcome to my ramblings as a teacher and wife. 
