Here’s another recipe using the leftover “southwest” sauce. And it’s really flashy fast. I’ll have another sauce for you to use with this recipe posted here at a later date because I also have a pretty decent red sauce. But this is what I did this week. Chop and sautee a small onion with some … [Read more…]
About 3 or 4 cloves garlic (chopped, pressed, or the kind that comes minced in a jar) 1 small chopped onion 1/2 chopped green (or whatever color you want) bell pepper 1 cup corn kernels (frozen or 1 can) 1 15oz can black beans 1 15oz can refried black beans 1 15oz and 1 8oz … [Read more…]
Brought to you by the leftover half-box of cooked elbows in my fridge. Why is that in there? Well let’s just say someone who shall remain nameless forgot to cook up some rice to go with dinner the other night and the fastest thing we could think use as a replacement were elbows. So we … [Read more…]
Tonight’s flash dinner is brought to you by way of a black bean lasagne. I recently made four of these. Three for families with brand new babies and one for myself. I have to apologize to the families with the new babies. I’m afraid this recipe came out incredibly soupy. I had some leftover sauce … [Read more…]
Tonight’s kid/baby-friendly flash-dinner: Chicken Teriyaki with ginger veggies and rice. Chicken: 1 package of chicken breasts chopped into a small pan and coated in a sprinkle of ginger, garlic powder, Chinese 5 spice, and a layer of rice vinegar, teriyaki sauce, soy sauce and an 8 oz can of crushed pineapple. Bake at 350 for … [Read more…]
Tonight’s dinner is soup. A very generic soup. Sausage, sweet potato, spinach and bean soup. It’s soupy weather. 1 onion chopped 1 rather large sweet potato diced in 1/2 – 1″ ish squares 1 package Aidells pre-cooked smoked chicken chorizo cut into rounds and then cut in half 1 can great northern beans 1 32 … [Read more…]
To be filed under “Don’t Judge.” This is tonight’s Flash Dinner is two packages of Bird’s Eye frozen creamed spinach and 1 Pack of Zatarain’s dirty rice mix with ground turkey browned with 1 chopped onion and 3/4 chopped bell pepper (that was pre-chopped in my fridge). There’s that old adage about fast, cheap, and … [Read more…]
I asked mom for grandma’s borsht recipe. Here it is. Sorry some bits are vague. I will try and clear those parts up next time I make this. I do not recall that we ever served it with potatoes. I recall grandma would always serve it with cheese blintzes on the side. -Mishka (serve cold) … [Read more…]
My new years resolution once again involves better discipline. How did I do in 2011? Let’s see… Get to bed at a reasonable hour (between 11 and 11:30). Lights out between 12 and 12:30. – Getting MUCH better at this one. Baby wakes up at 7am! I still need to work on it juuuust a … [Read more…]
After 10 years of carrying around my very last jar of Sainsbury’s Greengage jam because I wasn’t sure I’d be able to get it again EVER, I opened it for breakfast today. It is still quite good, though no longer very green. Odd. Usually when a food turns, it TURNS green. Anyway, the internet has … [Read more…]