You’ve all heard the old saying…When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well…When one of my favorite stores (“The Outlet” in Coralville) gives you a great deal on a half gallon of buttermilk… MAKE BUTTERMILK PIE! While I was looking online for uses for buttermilk, and I stumbled across this recipe, and it brought back […]
Key Lime Pie – So Simple Even A Five Year Old Can Make It…And YOU Can Too!
First of all…who doesn’t love PIE. And our grandkids know their way around the kitchen…especially if dessert is the result! When 5 year old Claire came home from preschool, she whipped up a key lime pie…almost by herself. (I separated the eggs and put the pie in and out of the oven…but she did […]
Easy Chicken Parmesan
Recently I made a BIG batch of Chicken Parmesan. And I used what I had on hand… I pounded the chicken breasts to about 1/2 inch thick, and I created a breading station with three dishes. Egg with a little water, flour with salt and pepper, and Italian bread crumbs. I dredged the […]
Cucumber, Onion, and Tomato Salad
The other night, I decided I was NOT hungry for a regular green salad…but I still wanted a rainbow for dinner. So I whipped up an old standby from my Mom’s era…A cucumber and onion salad. I don;t remember my Mom adding tomato to her dish…but I love the addition. So here is […]
Red Wine and Mushroom Reduction
A bunch of our friends got together for a “Pot Luck” recently…and I offered to make a this dish to top the steaks… MUSHROOM RED WINE REDUCTION I’ll try to break the recipe down to smaller quantities for you… RECIPE: 2 pkg. Portobello Mushrooms, sliced, and stems removed if tough 2 […]
Mushroom Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast
Today was a day to clean out the refrigerator. I thawed out some chicken breasts, and I didn’t want to do the same old, same old recipes. So I began to pull stuff out of the refrigerator and I created a new dish… MUSHROOM CHEESE STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS 1 T. Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2 […]
Tuna and Mushroom Spaghetti Pie
The other night, I cooked more spaghetti than we needed for dinner. So I put about two cups of THE plain pasta in the refrigerator and decided to figure out what to do with it later. So on Friday, I was brainstorming for a new twist on tuna…and I came up with this recipe […]
Cedar Plank Grilled Marinated Salmon
On a beautiful night for grilling, I created a delicious marinade for our salmon… 1/3 c. brown sugar 1/3 c. soy sauce 1/3 c. water 2 T. Key Lime juice I combined all the ingredients in a zip lock bag, and marinated the fish for about an hour. And since I forgot to […]
Rolled Sugar Cookies and Decorator Icing
Many of you have asked for my Valentine Sugar Cookie recipe…and the Decorating Icing that hardens…so here goes… ROLLED SUGAR COOKIES (You can double or triple this recipe as needed. I always make AT LEAST a double batch…and this year it was a TRIPLE batch.) 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 cup white sugar 2 eggs […]
Bacon and Asparagus Omelet
I hate leftovers. But this is one way to disguise them so you don’t even realize they were left-over in the first place. I fished the small amounts of veggies out of a zip lock bag of leftover salad from dinner last night…and I found the cooked bacon in a bag in my meat drawer. […]