So, here’s one of those left-over meals that I alluded to earlier. I used a bunch of the ingredients from my Pasta à la Vodka to whip up lunch the next day for Oliver and I (the fresh pasta and pancetta). This is so, SO good! Oh yeah, it only takes about 5 minutes to make…
Dinner
Creamy Pasta à la Vodka
Now, I’ll admit right off the bat that I think this recipe still needs a bit of tweaking. Bo and I thought it was just too acidic tasting and could use a bit more body. I’m thinking that really cooking some tomato paste with the onions might help a little bit, but I haven’t tried…
Pub Style Buffalo Chicken Bites
So, hockey season has started and in this house, we bleed blue and white. It’s a birth right, or requirement, to be a Toronto Maple Leaf’s fan, and Bo and I had our own little hockey tradition going. Until the kids that is. Every hockey game we used to go out to a local wing…
Chicken Fried Steak
Ok, I know what you’re all thinking: Holy heart attack on a plate. You know what, that’s exactly what I thought every time my Papa ordered it at the Cracker Barrel on vacation. On a side note, if the Cracker Barrel is scoffed at by actual American’s, this Canadian doesn’t care. I live for those…
Mexican Style Skillet Chicken and Rice
Sorry, I’m not feeling very creative right now. I can’t seem to come up with a shorter more creative name. Something like Sombrero bake…that’s horrible. Let’s just leave well enough alone. Want to know what else I’m sorry for? I forgot to take pictures of this one as I cooked it. And it’s not so much that I…
Easy Garlic Parmesian Chicken Bake
Tonight was one of those horrible nights. I’m going to go ahead and assume that everyone has them, so please, don’t feel the need to correct me. Anna and Oliver both got shots today, Anna’s first set, and she was not happy about it. At all. The tylenol didn’t help her at all and while…
Scalloped Potatoes
This is a recipe for my cousin Jenny 😛 You see, we have the same splurge of a pot, and I promised her that I’d load her up on recipes for it, which I hadn’t done. Until now. Consider this the start, though I also make chicken with 40 cloves in it. Looking at those…
Manicotti with Meat Sauce
So, while the fresh egg pasta of my last post is great and all, I’m guessing it’s a lot more useful with the recipe for the actual meal. So, here goes, manicotti with meat sauce. You don’t have to use home made pasta though (obviously). Just, please don’t use those hard manicotti tubes. The ones…
Food Processor Fresh Egg Pasta
So, last weekend Bo sat through a marathon of cooking shows with me (what a good sport), and he came away from it with a migraine and a request for manicotti with a meat sauce for dinner one night. Obliging wife that I am, I spent three and a half hours this weekend making it for…
Skillet Lasagna
Finally, I’m back to posting up recipes, and boy, do I ever have some catching up to do. So, where do I decide to start? With what we had for dinner tonight. This is because I’m feeling ridiculously overwhelmed at the stack of recipes I’ve got in a pile, in a bag, in our office,…
Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Pot Pie I’ve spent a couple of weeks on this now, and finally have it to the point where I think it’s perfect, there’s nothing else to add or do to it (such a relief). I’ll probably try to figure out how to freeze it at some point, but for now I can’t stand…
Pizza Rolls
Pizza Rolls (aka Pizza Fingers) These were my favorite things to order at a restaurant called Melanie Pringles in the town I grew up in (I think it’s still there). When we moved, I found them at M&M Meats, but then they stopped making them. I had no choice but to figure out the recipe…
Oso Buco
Classic Osso Buco Want to know what a recipe is without a picture…Here’s your chance! Sorry about that by the way, I never took one the last time I made this a couple of years ago, but it’s been on my mind so I dug out the recipe and am planning to make it in…
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Home Made BBQ Sauce
You want to know what can take these from “Oh my god these are fantastic” all the way to “OMFG if I stop shoveling this into my mouth I will die” in two seconds flat? Garlic toasted buns. That’s right folks. Slather some garlic butter onto the buns before you toast them, maybe…
Teriyaki Chicken – Best Ever
Best Ever Teriyaki Chicken Prep Time: 10 minutes Bake Time: 50 minutes Serves: 4 Ingredients: 8 bone-in, skin on chicken thighs 2 tsp vegetable oil ½ cup soy sauce (use the low sodium if you can) ½ cup sugar 2 tbsp white wine 1 tbsp grated ginger 1 garlic clove, minced ½ tsp cornstarch 1/8 tsp red pepper…
Chevapi and Crostini
This is an absolute favourite of Bo’s, being that he’s Croatian/Serbian it’s basically a staple. There’s a little butcher shop about a 45 minute drive from here that you can get them at, but they aren’t hard at all to make, it just comes down to how lazy I’m feeling, lol. Chevapi Prep Time: 20 minutes…