Beautiful Calling

My husband is a meat man. We like home made things. He makes good use of his smoker, sausage stuffer, meat slicer, BBQ and various other tools. You can find him at eBabble.net sharing his various experiments; some better than others. He makes a great Smoked Hunter’s Sausage. You will need a stuffer to make [...]

  Cheese Dreams So simple, yet so tasty! Is this even considered a recipe?!? Old buns (but not too old, preferably no mold!) Cheese Whiz Optional: Fried Bacon (or pork loin, peameal pieces etc.) Spread Cheese Whiz on buns. If desired, ‘decorate them’ with meat. Put on a rack under the broiler for a minute [...]

With a 2 year old and a 4 year old, needless to say, we love cookies at our house. Cereal Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup of butter (if unsalted add 1/2 tsp salt) 2 eggs 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp vanilla 2 cups flour 2 cups rolled oats 1 cup [...]

My littles love pancakes for for some reason, when I am expecting, pancakes become a favorite. Maybe it’s because they are easy on the tummy or maybe it is just because I like real maple syrup. In any case, boxed mixes {have their place} but can never compete with homemade. Ingredients: 3 TBSP melted butter [...]

Easy Pizza Ingredients 2TBSP sugar + 1 tsp sugar 1 package of yeast (2 1/4 tsp dry active yeast) 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp onion salt 1 1/4 cup water (divided) 3 cups flour pizza sauce can of pineapple chunks stick of pepperoni chopped onion chopped can of mushroom pieces shredded mozzarella cheese Easy Pizza [...]

  {handful snatched from the garden} Veal Veggie Braise DH got a great deal on bone-in veal blade chops the other day so I made up a batch of this delish dish. It’s adapted from an ossa buco pine nut recipe by Mario Batali. I’m off lately with taking pics. I did take a picture [...]

Grilled Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts Every so often, we {DH} grills up several boneless, skinless chicken breasts. We like the PC Memories of Greece to do a quick marinade (at least 30 minutes) before putting it on the BBQ.  Usually we’re not a big fan of bottled or premade marinades, choosing to make our own, [...]

  Super Yummy Banana Bread 5 Tbsp Salted Butter 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1 Large Egg 2 Egg Whites 1 tsp Vanilla 1 1/2 – 2 cups mashed banana 1 3/4 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 cream (or milk, half and half, buttermilk or [...]

View Full Album I love fish and liver with onions. Not at the same time of course! My husband isn’t a fan of either of those so we don’t eat them at all which is a shame since both are quite healthy in moderation.  I’m trying to eat more protein to help combat the fatigue [...]

 Photo by me! Last week we enjoyed a Thanksgiving Feast a little early since my inlaws will not be around for Thanksgiving or Christmas. The littles and I made an apple pie for dessert and I don’t think I have ever seen Chloe prouder of anything we’ve made than she was with this pie. In [...]