When there’s a sale at my local grocery store, I like to stock up. New Season’s Market recently had their whole, organic chickens on sale and I bought several to freeze and roast later. Oven roasting a whole chicken is easy to do, tastes great and once you follow these steps, you’ll never want to… Continue reading Oven Roasted Whole Chicken
Category: in the kitchen
Meal planning, grocery shopping, and healthy eating. Cooking, eating healthy food and reducing food waste.
Smoked Salmon Spread
This is my family’s favorite spread. I have even heard elaborate explanations of why this smoked salmon spread should be eaten with a spoon out of a small bowl. “But, it has dairy and fish. That’s really good for me to eat,” is what I hear when I bust my husband or kids tucked into… Continue reading Smoked Salmon Spread
Egg, Ham, and Cheese Biscuit Sandwiches
This is our Easter Sunday morning meal and it’s a crowd pleaser! If these look like a fast-food sandwich to you, that’s where the inspiration came from. These are tasty and easy to make. Egg, Ham, and Cheese Biscuit Sandwiches Biscuits :: These biscuits are not homemade but purchased from Trader Joe’s (national chain, U.S.).… Continue reading Egg, Ham, and Cheese Biscuit Sandwiches
Weekly Meal Plan
The trick with having beans on the weekly meal plan so often is to make them taste good and be good for us without adding lots of salt. Honestly, I’m trying to make them taste great and not just good! What I do is vary the flavor of the bean centered meals and cook them… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
The last of summer 2012’s tomatoes got thawed and devoured this week. I made the mistake of thinking the sauce could be used for two dinners but it was so good, we all had second helpings! All that was left was a very small container that I tucked into the freezer. It will make a… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
If you ever wonder if I try and trick my family with meal planning the answer is yes, I do. With weekly meal planning, I’m able to keep track of how many times a week we eat fish, greens, and meat. Weekly meal plan #48 and weekly meal plan #49 each included 6-days in a… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
Remember when we had to get rid of one of our backyard chickens last year? It was hard and I don’t want to have to do it again but one of our hens hasn’t laid an egg in months. At the top of the pecking order, she’s quite mean to the other hens who are… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
When someone tells me they don’t meal plan because they don’t cook elaborate or fancy meals but instead simple ones, it makes me smile. There’s nothing fancy about the meals that are being cooked at our house but I still meal plan. It’s a money saver, time saver, and keeps me on track for using… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
This week’s meal plan includes “Super Bowl Sunday” and with the football game shown on network TV and not just on paid television, we were in business. I don’t really care about watching the actual football game but I do care about what we’re eating and I do most of the cooking because it’s generally… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Vanilla extract, which is in practically every baked good recipe on earth, should have 2 ingredients in it: alcohol and vanilla beans. If your vanilla extract has more than these 2 ingredients, consider how unnecessary the other ingredients are. Plus, this is so easy to make, you’re never going to buy vanilla extract again. Homemade… Continue reading Homemade Vanilla Extract
Go Gingham 