Tag: Eating

Shepherd’s Pot Pie for Recipe Friday

I don’t know about you, but I absolutely LOVE leftovers! Just kidding. But they can be pretty good when I can disguise them so that you can’t tell you had them the night before. That is how this recipe came about. The first time I made...

Stained Glass Cookies for Recipe Friday

Four or five years ago, I was baking cookies for Christmas and my son (who was 10 or 11 at the time) was helping. Although they are not a traditional Christmas cookie, I was making some peanut butter cookies because both my son and my...

Pecan Pie for Recipe Friday

I took the day before Thanksgiving off this year to hang out with my son and do some baking. I knew I wanted to make coconut macaroon cookies, but I also wanted to make a pie for Thanksgiving. After all, Thanksgiving just isn’t Thanksgiving without...

Creamed Peas & Carrots for Recipe Friday

This is the vegetable we had with Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. It is a modification of a recipe my son made last year for a French class project. It’s really easy, though I’m not sure how healthy it is with all the cream and butter! Oh...

Apple Stuffing for Recipe Friday

Last week I bought a package of stuffing from my local Safeway bakery. The other night I decided to make it to go with the Cornish game hens my son was making. The recipe on the package called for adding onions and celery, but I...

Polenta with Marinara for Recipe Friday

This is a new recipe that I just came up with the other night. I had purchased a roll of pre-made polenta at the store. I know, if you’re a purist you would cook your own polenta, but life’s too short and this stuff is...

Moroccan Beef Stew for Recipe Friday

So far on Recipe Friday I have shared old standards of mine that I have made many times. But this week I have a brand new recipe that I just came up with last weekend. It came about by the convergence of two circumstances: (1)...