Maybe I was dozing

But some time in the last 18 months, BARLEY has gone from being something I bought by the bag for $.79 on the dried bean aisle to being an item that can be found with Specialty Items for $1.99 a BOX.  At first I thought I was just shopping at the wrong store, but the [...]

Tofu Manicotti

This is an awesome dish that I originally got from Susi in the very early days of Summit Adventure, the wilderness program that we were involved with for many years. One of the things that the cook at Base Camp always had to factor in was how many vegetarians were going to be at dinner. [...]

Sweet and Sour Meatballs

Years ago, my good friend Jeanne Howard gave me this recipe. It was our favorite company meal for quite a while until I made the fatal mistake of making these meatballs when I was about 10 weeks pregnant with my son, Josh. Unfortunately, it was years before I could make these meatballs again. At this [...]

Hot and Sour Soup

Sometimes I forget to check my email. Embarassing, but there it is. Today, when I finally remembered to check, there was an email from Britney, sharing her Hot and Sour Eggdrop Soup recipe. If you look at the top of our Main page, there’s a link to recipes that we’re searching for. One of those [...]

Venison-Pork Sausage Meatloaf

Since we have a freezer full of venison and pork, Dave has been on the lookout for good recipes for both. Meatloaf has never been a favorite food for me and I rarely make it, so I was perfectly happy to let Dave search for meatloaf recipes. He ended up developing his own original recipe [...]

Cha Da Thai

Boone has a new Thai restaurant and we snuck out tonight to try it. I always have to try the Pad Thai at a Thai restaurant….that is sort of my baseline menu item. If their Pad Thai is good, the rest of it is likely to be. I was pleased with dinner, although a little [...]

Simple Cranberry Muffins

This morning, Michael spied the very large bag of dried cranberries that Dave bought at Sam’s Club. Jon asked, “Is there any reason why we CAN’T make muffins?” Nate found muffin recipes for me…lots of them. So we made muffins. We decided that we need to do that way more often because they were delicious [...]

Curry Sweet Potato Soup

We’re in the middle of a really cold, dreary spell here and the thought of nice hot soup just warms the cockles of my heart. Today’s soup was pretty free-wheeling and majorly creative. Fortunately, the end result was simply delicious.  I’ll write the recipe out as a narrative of what I did to reach that [...]

Er….Food Goals….

Frantic shuffling of papers, nervous glances from side to side, hissing whisper, “I didn’t know we were supposed to set FOOD GOALS!” Cough, cough….well….ahem….I’ll have to get back to you all on that. Later.(Where IS that little smiley that blushes?)
Barb

Chicken or Beef fajitas

In the very early years of our marriage, Dave and I visited his parents for the weekend and were served fajitas. His mom had bought a chicken fajita mix from the butcher that was just incredibly delicious. That launched me on what was probably the very first recipe sleuthing enterprise. I worked for years to [...]