Recipe

  • Venison Daube

    Venison Daube*   3 tablespoons olive oil 1 3-pound venison roast, cut into 3-inch cubes Salt and black pepper to taste 4 cups white wine 2 tablespoons grainy Dijon mustard 4 onions, peeled and thinly sliced 1 28-ounce can fire-roasted tomatoes 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped 1 tablespoon tarragon, chopped 2…

  • Tomato, Basil, Cheddar Soup

    Oh Yum.  That’s what we sad Saturday night. Source: morefruitplease.net via Layla on Pinterest   So we started going through the list of ingredients to see what we had… everything but Greek Yogurt. No problem… we decided to substitute in Cream Cheese… So here’s the recipe I used.  And holy cow was this awesome! Tomato,…

  • Table of Equivalents

    I’m not sure if you remember back to when I said I found recipes that were my great-grandmothers or not, but I found this list of Table Equivalents she clipped out of the newspaper.  The newspaper is old and tattered and like I stated before, my grandma said it was probably cut out in the…

  • The All-American Ruben

    As I told you recently, my husband LOVES Rubens.  Well, we can’t always just hop on a plane and head toward Las Vegas for the best Ruben.  I’m not going to lie, Swiss Cheese isn’t my favorite, however, a good Ruben (with other cheese possibly) sometimes hits the spot! So here is our homemade take…

  • Pastry Crust

    Last spring hubby really wanted to make a Cherry Pie (recipe coming tomorrow!!).  After a long string of events we didn’t have any eggs so I stumbled across this pie crust recipe from my grandma. I read through the ingredients and didn’t see eggs. Score. So he mixed in extra ingredients, then reading through the…

  • Chicken Crescents

    One night we got the idea to mix up our breakfast crescents and try to make it a dinner crescent. We had some chicken that my mom gave us that needed to be used.  We used part of one breast the night before, so we had 1 breast and a half of a breast so…

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    Serendipity III {Las Vegas} & Frrrozen Hot Chocolate

    Do you remember the 2001 Romantic Comedy Serendipity starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale?  Well back in 2005 for my college graduation present from my mom, she took me to New York City.  One place on my must-see list was Serendipity III.   Do you remember that Frozen Hot Chocolate they ate/drank in the movie? …

  • Swiss & Bacon Dip

    My aunt introduced me to this recipe years ago.  She said you could founder on it.  Now that is a horse reference and definitely something you DON’T want to happen!  It’s a bad deal.  But this recipe, it’s excellent And for me to say this it must be pretty darn good b/c I’m generally not…