March Daring Bakers: Lasagna (Gluten Free)

I will go ahead and admit that I wasn’t that excited when I saw this month’s challenge.  I know there is a Daring Cooks group to debut soon, but this seemed too close to cooking, and I wanted to be more challenged in the baking arena.  I also had to make the gluten free version [...]

Jambalaya

David and I just love Jambalaya, but I haven’t found a recipe that I am in love with yet.  When I saw Kelly’s post, I thought it looked promising, so I decided to make it for dinner one night.  The best part about Jambalaya is that you can tweak it based on your personal taste [...]

Chicken Brunswick Stew

I love soup, but David is not a fan of most soups, so we really don’t eat it all that often.  Luckily, though, he likes this kind of soup.  He says that “hearty” soups like this with the chicken or a beef stew are fine, so I tend to make things like this when I [...]

Chicken Potpie

Sorry for being a TWD slacker.  I have had so much going on over the past week.  I’ve been sick and we had to go out of town unexpectedly over the weekend for my husband’s grandfather’s funeral, so the rice pudding just didn’t get done.  I’m sorry, and I’ll be back next week for the [...]

October Daring Bakers: Peter Reinhart’s Pizza

The Daring Bakers are baking up another Peter Reinhart recipe for October’s challenge.  I didn’t mind one bit because I love Peter Reinhart and his book and because I had really been wanting to try out his recipe for pizza dough.  This gave me just the nudge I needed!  Rosa of Rosa’s Yummy Yum-Yums chose [...]

September Daring Bakers: Lavash Crackers

This was a new experience for the Daring Bakers group this month, as the hosts made it easy for the bakers to go gluten free.  Natalie of Gluten a Go Go and Shel of Musings from the Fishbowl chose the Lavash Crackers from Peter Reinhart’s book The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. I was excited about this [...]

Pasta with Asparagus, Parmesan, and Crispy Prosciutto (or Bacon)

It seems as if I have just been posting sweets on this blog lately, but I promise we really do eat dinner every night!  We usually don’t eat dinner until later when the light isn’t as good, and we’re usually in too much of a hurry to eat for me to get good pictures!
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Penne alla Vodka

I had been craving a good pasta dish. We hadn’t had pasta in a while, which is very unusual for us. I love pasta and could probably eat it even more than I already do I had been wanting to try this dish for a long time, and I decided [...]

The Best Pizza Dough

Chelley read my mind this week when she made this pizza dough. Over the weekend I decided that I wanted pizza sometime this week and the recipe that Chelley used was the same recipe that I had planned to try. I had previously tried a recipe from allrecipes.com that was popular for a [...]

Spicy Italian-Style Chicken with Sausage, Peppers, and Onions- Scarpariello

I was looking through the Cook’s Illustrated website for dinner ideas and came across this recipe when I was searching for chicken ideas. It sounded interesting and I wanted to try something different, so I decided to go for it. We ended up really enjoying it. I haven’t done a whole lot [...]