Easy Family Recipes
Mix up dinner tonight with this fun Fish & Chips on-a-stick recipe! Here in Southern New England fish & Chips on Wednesdays and Fridays are sort of a tradition (Why those two days in particular, I really don't know). The problem is most of the time families get this meal as take-out, and by the time everyone gets to eat it... they are often greeted with limp, greasy soggy food, and if someone has food allergies they may be left out completely. Here, with the help of some frozen Continue Reading
Looking for a gruesome yet healthy Halloween snack to give the kids this year? Eye of Newt Pudding is just the thing to creep them out. This is actually just a simple chia seed pudding, which is a particularly popular dessert for those on raw food diets, as well as many other health conscious people. Great to make with children, since it doesn't even require any cooking, just mix it up and let the seeds swell up overnight. I presented it in a vintage vaseline glass dessert dish, but small Continue Reading
Pineapple Ribs may just be the perfect summer food! These pork ribs are slathered in a luscious pineapple BBQ sauce and finished on the grill after slow roasting in the oven. Pineapple Ribs It is tailgating season, the perfect time to throw some ribs on the grill. This Pineapple spare ribs recipe with Pineapple BBQ Sauce is perfect for entertaining. Slow roast the ribs prior to game day, then baste em' up and get a nice char from the grill. The wait to serve them is short, but you get Continue Reading
Flourless peanut butter cookies, yes, you heard me right, no flour of any kind in these peanut butter cookies. The recipe is super simple: peanut butter + sugar + egg = yummy cookies. WTH? How on earth does that make cookies? Obviously it does, she had pics to prove it. I had to give it a try. I can't make anything without messing with it, so of course I had to push the envelope and change up a few things. I used a natural super chunky peanut butter with honey (Honestly, because I Continue Reading
This apple cider pork shoulder recipe is one of the best fall family meals. You'll love the warm flavors in this homecooked dish. Fall is in the air, well it will officially be fall this weekend anyway. This time of year calls for lots of homey slow cooking, with an emphasis on seasonal flavors like apple cider. Last weekend, my husband was coming over to visit with our daughter, so I figured it was a good time to cook that Hormel Pork Shoulder I had picked up earlier in the week. They both Continue Reading
These Apple Oatmeal Muffins are what I call mildly sweet. Many times, when I want something sweet, I don't want something that is tooth numbingly so, especially in the morning. I am looking for something more in the range of "sweet like over ripe fruit". I think this growing preference is probably related to all the home cooking I do, and cutting out the bulk of chemicals and preservatives in our diet around here. This recipe for Apple Oatmeal Muffins is gluten-free, and high in soluble Continue Reading
