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Crock Pot Chicken Santa Fe … So Easy, So Good!
So I’m trying to be good. Good as in, “I will use up every bit of whatever I buy, open, and stick in the fridge.” It’s been a thing with me — but just with weird stuff. For instance, I’ll buy some new curry sauce at Trader Joe’s, use half of it for dinner that night, and stick the second half in the fridge, where it does the slow dance to the back along with all the other archaeological relics. But no more. Today, I turn over a new leaf. And it begins with that can of chipotle in adobo that I bought and opened when I got home from…
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Sunday Dinner: Ham and Copycat Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole
Updated 3/5/20 Oh, how I love Sundays! On the mornings when I’m on the worship team, I arrive early and get to hang out with some of my very favorite people on earth while we go through the morning’s worship set. Then people start showing up, and the hugging begins, along with the questions you ask people you haven’t seen in three long days, or seven. “How was your week?” and “How did that job interview go?” and “How is your friend we’ve been praying for?” Then we worship together, in an intimate, candle-lit downstairs room barely big enough for our growing church family, and when Dave takes the podium…
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Retro Alert: Tuna Noodle Casserole (Plus a Possibly Paleo Salad)
So, this is embarrassing. I fully expected to have a picture for you. A long-shot, for sure, so you could see all that retro cheesiness in its full glory. But at least one close-up, once the first serving had been removed, so you could see all the individual layers of noodles and French fried onions and, yes, more cheese. And probably a very close shot of a forkful of all that deliciousness heading toward my iPhone camera lens. But somebody put it on the potluck table before I could get the long-shot. And by the time I’d wrapped up my conversation and made my way to the line and reached…
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Enchilada Casserole
Not too much time today … I’ve got my little grandperson toddling around in front and behind me, wanting up one minute and down the next. Gage disapproves of my blogging, so whenever the chance strikes — say, when something on Sesame Street catches his eye and he forgets me for six seconds — I type as fast as I can. But I don’t mind. As I remember things, these babies grow up much faster than we’re comfortable with. So here’s a very short, very sneaky post. Enchilada Casserole 2 lbs hamburger 1 large onion, chopped 1 medium green pepper, chopped 2 14-oz cans diced tomatoes 1 cup water 2+…
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Cottage Pie
It makes me so happy when leftovers become the star of a new dish. That’s what you’re looking at right here: the second life of a big pile of potatoes. For some reason, we did not eat the ten pounds I had anticipated when I made salmon and garlic mashed potatoes the other night. So when I was batch cooking all that hamburger Wednesday, and I opened the fridge and saw that mound of potatoes staring accusingly at me, the two came together in a serendipitously chocolate-meets-peanut butter way. You’re probably thinking this looks/sounds a lot like Shepherd’s Pie. But you would be wrong about that. And that’s appropriate, because…
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Because They Love It So … Tater Tot Casserole
After twenty-five years of marriage, I finally broke down a few months ago and made my first tater tot casserole. I don’t know what possessed me to do so, but I did it, and now there’s no turning back … because they absolutely loved it. Their eyes — when they could pull them from the sloppy concoction in from of them — looked on me with adoration and gratitude. Who knew? I had always disdained this particular casserole. Tater tots? I’d think. Really? Can’t you think of anything more imaginative than that? But … there’s something to it. I can’t fight its popularity. So I’m sticking it in the rotation,…
