Recipe Swap: Chicken Pot Pie

I’ve decided to drop the “themed” and “organized” approach to the Recipe Swap for this week. Perhaps this shall be the new norm, and every now and then we’ll have a theme. Your thoughts?
I found a new recipe last week for chicken pot pie; it was my first attempt, and it went over […]

Recipe Swap: Dinners - Summer Edition

Rules for today:
Cannot use oven - stove-top/microwave/grill/sidewalk/hood-of-car all okay.
Extra points for a cool, refreshing dish.
My dish earns me no extra points for the cool/refreshing factor. But! It’s roast chicken! In a Crock Pot!
I’ve been cooking Tammy’s recipe for roast chicken for months now. Love it. It’s the easiest (no chopping […]

Recipe Swap: Seafood Edition - Crispy Oven-Fried Fish

I hope you all are ready to astound me with your seafood recipes. Because I only have two. Tuna noodle casserole and this one. Crispy oven-fried fish. Pathetic selection, I know. And fish is supposed to be so healthy for you, too!
(But I can rarely find it at $0.79/lb like […]

Recipe Swap: Desserts - Summer Edition

Requirement for this week’s swap: Must avoid oven! (Stovetop is okay.)
Bonus: Is served cold
Extra, extra credit: Is low-fat. (Swimsuit season. Meh.)
My contributions (yes! two!) both follow the requirement and the bonus. But I’m not getting any extra credit.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares (Originally from Tammy’s Recipes)
Ingredients
1/2 c butter
2 c creamy […]

Paws Epicer: Noitide Sdrawkcab

For those of who not in the practice of reading backwards, that’s:
Recipe Swap:  Backwards Edition
This is the edition where you confess your culinary catastrophes (cannot… control… alliteration…) in hopes someone out there can set you straight.
Simply blog your desperate plea, link it below to Mr. Linky and hopefully someone will google “Paws : Noitide Sdrawkcab,” […]

Recipe Swap: Casseroles - The OLDE-SCHOOL Tuna Noodle

I’ve been comforting a sickly, teething baby all day, and this is the first chance I’ve had to type two-handed.  So please forgive (and understand!) the tardiness of this post and please forget that just about every other post I try to have ready on a specific day is also usually late.
I think I’m a […]

Recipe Swap: Bread Machine Recipes

Oooh, I have so many good bread recipes. But there is one that rises to the top as the dominant alpha male and continues to assert his authority by snarling viciously at the lesser breads.
Viciously.
Introducing…

The Awesome Bread
(a.k.a. Half-Whole Wheat Honey Oatmeal Bread with Butter Crust)
(See the splatter spots on the napkin? It’s from […]

Recipe Swap: Using Leftovers - Making Chicken Broth

I have a confession. I tend to buy carrots and celery for one particular meal and then let them go bad in the fridge waiting for that meal to make its way back on the rotation. Because that meal only called for two stalks of celery or three medium carrots. And the bags […]

Using Leftovers: Roast Chicken - Family Sized Baked Burrito

First of all, my apologies for completely spacing yesterday. Giveaways and What I Believe have wiped my brain clean of any intelligent bloggy thought. Hopefully you’ll forgive me.
Second of all, after Thanksgiving this year, I posted three cooked turkey recipes I used to get rid of the mass quantities of […]

Recipe Swap: Toddlers - What Do They Eat?!

Let’s just make a list of the average toddler lunch menu:

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Grilled cheese
Hot dogs
Lunch meat
______________ (fill in the blank)

I started to really look into these foods to see what my girl was eating on a daily basis and found:

[Cheap] Jelly has high fructose corn syrup
Velveeta is “pasteurized cheese product,” meaning it is […]