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Easy and Delicious Swedish Meatballs
I know I’ve got a good thing going when Dave tells me four times how good it is, then adds, “These meatballs are five times better than Ikea’s, and four times better than Costco’s.” I had no idea my husband had spent so much time analyzing meatballs, but as long as mine came out on top, I don’t really care how he reached those numbers. His parting suggestion was that we “eat them a lot.” So that’s the plan. And here’s the recipe, my adaptation of Alton Brown’s recipe: [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:14]
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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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No-Bake Mountain Bars … and a Dream
I had a dream last night … and let me tell you, it was a doozy. In this dream, I was in a foreign land, or so I thought, until I realized it was Brooklyn. Dave was there with me, and someone asked him to do a Catholic funeral at a place that was supposed to be a large church, but which ended up being big and expansive, like a sports stadium, except that it also felt like a small, intimate bowling alley. We’d been assigned the center four “lanes” for this particular funeral, but other funerals were going on all around us on the other lanes. Ours was the…
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Crock Pot Salsa Pork
I was SO sure I had already posted this recipe, because it is just about the easiest thing you could ever pull together, and I make it a bunch, and why would I not have already shared that here? But when a friend asked me about it the other day, and I directed them to T&F, we both discovered that I had NOT already shared it. So here it is. Try this some day when you’re too busy or feeling too lazy to cut, chop, dice, puree, mash, blend, saute, braise, boil, whip or fold … or anything I left out. This is all “plop and pour.” And then, devour.…
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Spiral Ham and Scalloped Potatoes (AKA Potatoes au Gratin)
Happy Sunday, everyone! We had another really beautiful day at church ... lots of new people, a few faces I hadn't seen in awhile, one in particular that was very dear to my heart (daughter-ish, even). Being that my husband is the pastor, Sundays tend to be long days for us. Tera was on the worship team this morning, which meant that I had to have her there around 7:35, and we had a ministry leaders' meeting scheduled for 1:00, right after the second service. I was playing barista in our espresso bar before and after first service, but then, after wiping down the machine and putting everything away, I…
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Creamy Chicken Crock Pot
A friend from church had surgery earlier this week, and I’ve signed up to bring her a few meals. I wanted to make something creamy and comforting, and this dish came to mind. Now, it’s definitely creamy and comforting, but it’s not at all diet-friendly, so there’s your warning. Were you wanting a warning? Maybe not. 🙂 I’ve been watching it lately. I have to. Something very strange happens when you hit your late 40’s: your metabolism starts arguing with you. Do nothing at all … just coast along like you normally do … and you’ll gain weight. It’s truly maddening. So now the fight is on. I’ve been jumping…
