Welcome! I started food blogging on January 9, 2006. My goal was to simply collect my recipes all in one searchable space for use in a cookbook or two I hoped to write someday. As of 2024, most of the recipes on this site are from 2006-2021. When I moved them from my previous domain, the pictures did not stay with the posts. I have fixed a few, but right now my priorities are creating new posts and writing my SECOND cookbook. YAY! I finally wrote a cookbook!
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Quick and Easy: Comfort From the Kitchen.
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In the meantime, here are a few recipes, and you can scroll through them all via the Recipe Blog page.
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- Pressure Cooker Chili with Beans
Let me get this one thing out of the way: In Texas, chili does not have beans. But there are plenty of regions where beans are acceptable, if not mandated. I use beans. Click here for a bit of history: The Great Chili Debate: Beans … - Quick and Easy MeatloafThis is from my cookbook Quick and Easy, Comfort From the Kitchen, but with a change – I have found that it has an even better texture if the amounts of milk and breadcrumbs or panko is 3/4 cup each instead of 1/2 cup each. …
- The Jello Side Dish
Several years ago, I had the pleasure of trying a crazy-delicious, albeit not high on the nutritionally healthy level, jello-based dish that my at-the-time rector’s Mom brought to a church luncheon. If you are from the mid-west, you know the sort of dish I am … - Sourdough Discard Crackers: Crisp and “Cheesy!”
These are SOOOOOOOO good. They almost taste like cheese crackers. And the pack quite a crunch. Along with a gazillion other people, I started playing with sourdough in March of 2020, when no one could get their hands on yeast and we were all trying … - Crowd-pleasing Simple Mushroom Onion Soup
Melt butter in a 3-quart or larger saucepan, add the mushrooms and onions, and cook for about 5 minutes over low heat, stirring often, until the mushrooms have released some of their liquid. Using a whisk or wooden spoon, stir in the flour, add the … - Awesome (Mostly) Whole Wheat Tortillas
I started making tortillas after finding Gemma’ of ‘s recipe on her Bigger Bolder Baking food blog that used a mix of whole wheat tempered with some white flour. They are, as she says, a bit “rustic,” and I can never get them to be … - Chicken Stock Under Pressure – the best!
While I opt to poach boneless skinless chicken breasts on the stove top,* I always use a pressure cooker when I have a whole chicken to work with. Just follow my directions and you will end up with close to two quarts of delicious chicken … - Pan-seared swordfish with lemon butter caper sauce — Easy!
So easy! So delicious! So quick! Use this recipe for a quick meal or as part of a company meal menu. And, while you could leave out the capers in a pinch, or if you don’t like them, I think they put this recipe over … - Ground Beef and Cabbage – So easy and so delicious!
This is a great one-dish meal – just add some good bread to soak up the juices or serve over rice or pasta. Plus, it offers the perfect way to get nutrient-rich cabbage into your meal routine. To watch my cooking demo video for this …