This light and flaky homemade pie crust recipe will be a winner this holiday season with your family.
What do you do when you get a deal on cherries at the farmers market? Well, you make a cherry pie, pinwheels and can the rest. I learned from our trip to the strawberry farm that you can easily waste fruit if you have too much and don’t handle it fast enough. This was not something we ever thought about before we started making our food from scratch. Read More →
These homemade nachos just might become your new best friend but be sure to share them with the ones you love!
It was one of those hot summer days when you consider moving to Canada. I know it gets hot in Canada as my northern friends tell me but this is a level of hot that can only be achieved in the deep south. I mean cook an egg on the sidewalk hot. I thought I was going to melt away anytime I had to go outside. Forget getting the mail, it can sit in the mailbox all day until the sun goes down. And trying to accomplish anything with your hair is just an exercise in futility.
Making dinner in the summer can be a dilemma. I try to serve as many salads over the course of the summer that I can get away with before the crew starts to mutiny. But I don’t want to heat up the house by using the oven or cooking over the stove for a long time. Read More →
I hate tomatoes. I mean loath them with a passion. I think fresh tomatoes are a slimy scourge sent down from some alien planet. I can eat tomato sauce, ketchup, and salsa but have never been able to hold down a fresh tomato. I don’t know the reason why but they make me gag. I have tried to psych myself up and buckle down and force myself to avail. Read More →
The other day the kids were asking for nachos, not just chips and salsa, for their snack. I try to make a little bit more elaborate snacks during the weekends since I have a little more time to work with.
It was one of those lazy Saturdays where everyone got up late and we were eating breakfast at 11 am. We don’t often get to sleep in like that so it totally throws off our usual schedule. Since breakfast was so late, I decided to have a heavier snack than usual.
It was my little sister’s birthday and we were having a full on Chinese food night with stir fry, egg rolls, shrimp fried rice, dumplings, and crab rangoon on the menu. As always, when there is a wide variety of cooked dishes to be made at the same time, the kitchen quickly got very hot, and I got very frustrated.
I could only wrangle one little helper into the kitchen that night, and I had him making the egg rolls. While he was working I made the fried rice, and stir fry. Then I noticed the wonton wrappers sitting on the counter….
Oh…right.
The rangoons.
The part everybody was looking forward to the most.
It’s a good thing it doesn’t take that long, I thought. I started getting out the ingredients and I went to the fridge to grab the crab last….
Oh.
Oh no.
No crab……
I frantically looked through the kitchen for anything I could use to substitute from the crab. For a while I was seriously thinking about using Spam. Luckily I noticed a few cans of Bumble Bee® Prime Fillet® Albacore Tuna with Jalapeños & Olive Oil. My helper was about halfway done with frying the egg rolls, so I grabbed the tuna and started working.
