One of the best breads we’ve eaten

About two years ago I received a bread machine as a gift for the holidays.  I have made several recipes that my family loves such as raisin bread, French bread and hearty wheat breads.  Last year in November, my computer’s hard drive went out and I lost all my bread recipes. Now I back up my hard drive (a lesson learned).

During the winter the boys and my husband wanted some banana bread and I

Comfort Foods: Chicken Soup and Beef Stew

With the upcoming rainy weather, we will be indoors. I have decided to make some good comfort food to last the next several days for meals.I got out my large pasta pots this weekend and cut up chicken, vegetables and cooked pasta for some Homemade Chicken noodle soup. For the other pot, I added some stew meat, potatoes, carrots to make some Beef stew. What’s great is that I can made this meals

Menu Plan – August 30 – Sept. 5

This is our second week of Homeschool so I am including our lunch menu for Monday through Friday only. Breakfasts this week consist of banana bread muffins and fresh fruit, banana or blueberry pancakes (freeze ahead), cereal or oatmeal. The weather has cooled a bit so we plan for eating some of our lunches on the patio. I am trying for some variety for dinner this week with some family favorites

Roasted Corn

My husband and I have always looked forward to eating roasted corn on the cob at the carnival but it can get expensive buying roasted corn for a family of four.I found a wonderful and simple way of getting that delicious corn taste right from my oven using frozen corn on the cob, believe or not. It tastes great with BBQ, chicken or alone with a dash of seasoned salt to taste, Now we can have our

Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

For years, I have used a white flour recipe for making dough for pizza and calzones. Three years ago, I started using whole wheat flour for my baking breads and wanted to add it to my pizzas,Concerned over the texture of a chewy pizza that my sensory sensitive son would not like, I opted for a mixture of both white and wheat flour and the result is marvelous. The kids love this crust and we add

Healthy Wheat Banana Bread - Muffins

We started using whole wheat flour in my baking about three years ago. At first I was hesitant about using whole wheat since the consistency is more dense but it taste great and you feel much fuller eating less. I use whole wheat flour when making pancakes, breads, muffins and even pizza!This is a very good recipe for banana bread. My tip would be that you make this recipe as muffins since I have

Menu Plan ~ August 23 - 29

This week we are omitting fresh eggs from our menu due to the recent recall, just to be safe. We start our first week of Homeschool so I am including our lunch menu for Monday through Friday only. Here's the menu for this week:MondayLunch - Soup and sandwiches, lemonadeDinner - Baked Ham, potatoes, yams, pasta steamed corn on cob.TuesdayLunch - Baked Potato with toppings of diced ham and chives,

Creamy Chicken Lasagna

I used to make a traditional lasagna with beef but that changed when I found a new way of making it that was delicious and added savings too.We enjoy having this meal on Sundays. It a family favorite at the dinner table in our family. After first making this lasagna over two years ago, no one in my family has asked for Beef Lasagna again! My sister tried this recipe too and her family loves it!

Menu Plan for August 16 - 22

I am a little late posting this but better late than never. We used to plan our menu day by day but that changed a year ago when we started planning a weekly menu. I have the remainder of this month planned. Here's dinner menu for this week:MondayRoasted chicken, baked potato, brown rice, steamed corn on cob.Tuesdayfettuccine parmesan pasta salad with steamed vegetables.WednesdayPark day so it’s

Creamy Mashed Potatoes

I admit it. Most of time I made mashed potatoes from Instant Flakes. The only time I ever made homemade mashed potatoes was for Thanksgiving and special occasions, but not anymore!Now after finding this recipe, I can make homemade mashed potatoes more often because they taste even better the next day! The boys loved them and I can even use fat free cream cheese seperately and stay within my

Marvelous Meatloaf

First let me tell you why I call this recipe Marvelous. I call It that for two reasons. One, it tastes great and secondly it's the only Meatloaf recipe my hubby and kids love.I have tried countless recipes. I even cooked meatloaf in a bag and no avail did my husband or kids like my meatloaf until now!With this recipe there is no more need to crumble bread crumbs because you are using a pre-made