easy recipes

Tuna Casserole: An Old Favorite

October 4, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My youngest asked for tuna casserole tonight!  It’s been a long time since I made this so I browsed a few cookbooks and ended up with following the basic recipe in Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition – 2006, which is really a great source of all kinds of great recipes, even old fashioned casseroles! [...]

Spanish or Mexican Rice

September 27, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

A red rice goes nicely with Mexican food and in the past I’ve relied on this recipe, which is good. I wanted to kick it up a notch though and was making  a larger batch than normal for a wine tasting party so I found this version in one my old standby cookbooks, Desperation Entertaining!.  [...]

Chicken Panini Sandwich with Roasted Red Peppers

September 25, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I really made too many chicken cutlets the other night. However, they are good simply reheated.  Last night I used some up in a

Lemon Squares Recipe

September 13, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My lemon trees are in overdrive mode these days! And my girl’s packing lunch so I figured these would provide a great dessert.   The recipe is from Mom’s Big Book of Baking. Crust: 1 cup flour 1/2 cup powdered sugar 2 Tbs cornstarch 1/4 tsp salt 7 Tbs butter, chilled and cut into small pieces [...]

Pulled Pork in the Crockpot

September 8, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My youngest requested pulled pork sandwiches and pork shoulder was on sale! I like it when requests line up with sales!  I’ve done a few pulled pork variations in the past, including this pulled pork in the slow cooker where you basically make your own barbecue sauce with onions, garlic, chili powder, black pepper, chili [...]

Easy French Dip Sandwich Recipe

September 3, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Here’s my normal French Dip Sandwich recipe, but it requires hours of time, a crock pot and perhaps more beef than you might like (although it does freeze well, especially if you freeze it in the jus/juice).   Driving home from school today, youngest and I talked about dinner and settled on French dip sandwiches.  We [...]

Sort-of Buffalo Chicken Sandwich

September 2, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Since neither of us were starving tonight but we still needed to eat dinner, I opted for a sandwich. One of us had had a chicken taco salad for lunch so I didn’t want to do another “salad with meat” thing.  I had these fantastic breaded chicken cutlets from the other night so went for [...]

Turkey, Spinach and Carrot Wraps

September 1, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My eldest packed this for lunch for her first day of school. We bought some wraps and spread flavored cream cheese (chive and onion in this case but we often just use the “veggie” one), baby spinach leaves, grated carrots, chopped olives and turkey. Spread the cream cheese on the wrap first, then lay out [...]

Sausage, Red Beans and Rice

August 28, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I had a kielbasa sausage that need using up the other night and was also in the mood for beans and rice.  This was a pre-cooked kielbasa sausage, just fyi.  First I started the rice in my rice cooker, then I went on to the rest. I would have used a green pepper if I’d [...]

Cheeseburger Soup Redux

August 23, 2009 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

Eldest is off for her first year of college. Youngest chose Cheeseburger Soup as our first meal together with just the two of us.  I took shortcuts tonight, using a can of cream of mushroom soup instead of making my own white sauce and using some chopped mushrooms. Original recipe is here. Here’s what I [...]

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