Beautiful Calling

  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 [...]

View Full Album For the first night of Awana earlier this month Chloe, John and I baked cookies. Boy, my little tots were excited. They love making anything at all that involves icing and/or sprinkles.  We have ABC alphabet cookie cutters from William Sonoma and let me tell you, we’ve used them a ton. Not [...]