Easy comfort food dinner: Paprikash & noodles

Last night, I tried a recipe I clipped from the label on a can of Giant Eagle condensed cream of chicken soup. When you want quick and simple, those cream soups are terrific! Recipes and more info are below the gallery. Busy Day Paprikash Taken from label of Giant Eagle Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup. [...]

Homemade honey oat sub buns

They were okay, but still kind of dense. I used cheap all-purpose flour from Aldi along with the good KAF whole wheat. Makes a difference. Homemade subs Here’s the finished subs, wrapped in foil and fresh from the toaster oven. They were dinner Friday night. Howie liked the, but I didn’t like the buns too [...]

An important tool in my kitchen.

Can you guess what it is? It’s a recipe hanger! I use my hanger made of twist tie wire and two binder clips to hang my recipes from the pot rack when I’m cooking. I do most of my prep work there, so it’s the perfect spot.

You gonna finish that?

You don’t want all that sherbet, do you? If you need help finishing it, just let me know. My schedule’s wide open tonight, won’t be an imposition at all. You gonna finish that? You don’t want all that sherbet, do you? If you need help finishing it, just let me know. My schedule’s wide open [...]

Spider-Dog, Spider-Dog…

This is not the best quality video, but gives an idea why we sometimes call Stella “Spider-Dog”. It was dinner time and she was dividing her attention between the cat in the bedroom, her dinner being prepared in the kitchen, and bouncing off the couch.

Cuisinart SM-70′s maiden voyage

She did a great job on a batch of focaccia bread dough containing 6 cups of bread flour. I’m very pleased with how sturdy the machine is and the dough hook worked great to mix the dough and knead it. Focaccia bread, hot from the oven I made the basic dough recipe from the Cuisinart [...]

The Cuisinart’s finally here!

Squeeeeeeeeal, it’s here! Now I’ve gotta scrambleand come up with something for our get-together tonight!