Something special from Mandy's kitchen...
Last summer we grew carrots for the first time, and as first time “real” gardeners, we actually reaped a pretty decent harvest! We grew an excellent crop of carrots with huge, bushy green tops! What a magnificent joy it was to see these wispy carrot …
My husband loves chicken Parmesan. One valentines day while we were dating, I made him chicken Parmesan. I bought sheets of large green square lasagna noodles and hand-cut tiny little heart shapes out of them for the pasta to go with our chicken Parm. Yes, …
Sourdough seems to be very trendy lately, and while I’m not usually one to hop aboard a fad train, I do actually enjoy sourdough bread. My good friend, who has celiac disease, started making her own gluten free sourdough and has even graciously baked me …
I adapted this recipe from a Whole 30 paleo cookbook I had received as a gift years ago. My version isn’t quite paleo because I use organic frozen mixed vegetables, which include peas, corn, and green beans, but the original recipe calls for just diced …
This is another recipe adapted from my father-in-law. He makes the absolute best fried rice, but it is not gluten free and it also contains eggs, so unfortunately I never get to enjoy it when he makes it. It’s requested at all family gatherings, whether …
I love lasagna. In fact, I posted a vegan-gluten free recipe on my web site several years ago made with almond milk ricotta cheese and lentil lasagna noodles that was absolutely delicious! Check out that recipe here! But for those of you who can enjoy …
Mama’s meatloaf sounds like a hand-written family heirloom recipe passed down through generations; a tattered, sacred, grease-splattered note with words written in such fine cursive it’s almost impossible to read. Well, I’d like to tell you that were true here, but in this case, I’m …
As I mentioned in a previous post, we’ve had two breakfast staples in our house as of late: baked oatmeal and homemade muffins. Depending on what ingredients we have on hand, we make one or the other, and we change our muffin variety all the …
Another staple in my house: noodles with meat sauce. I used to make meatballs with pasta for my kids, but I found myself just chopping up the meatballs into tiny, bite-sized pieces for their tiny little mouths anyway, so to save myself the hassle, noodles …
My grandmother makes the best pumpkin pie. Her scratch-made pie dough is the perfect flaky crust for her creamy, sweet, and wintery spiced custard. And she bakes her famous pie in a well-seasoned, weathered, almost cracked ceramic pie dish that actually has a pumpkin pie …