Recipes

Summer meals in August

August 28, 2020 By Annette1 2 Comments

I have been so busy cooking and making food this month. It’s been fun! A lot of our meals have featured zucchini simply because we have a bunch of it and I like exploring new creations. Our summer meals in August have also included such staples as burgers, hotdogs, BBQ chicken etc. It is summer after all! 🙂 I didn’t include EVERYTHING I made that’s new, but much of it is here and perhaps it might inspire you!

Zucchini Recipes

Stuffed Zucchini was a hit! This was such a good meal, and it made enough to serve everyone two meals (including our tenant). I did make a modification to this recipe. Instead of sausage meat I used ground beef and added a touch of salt and pepper. Also my bread crumbs were seasoned.

The Best Classic Zucchini Bread. Made with the light green squash. I stuck these immediately into the freezer so can’t tell you what we thought of them. I did add a few chocolate chips to the recipe.

Zucchini Chili was made this with the big round green squash. This was quite good though hubby said it needed more spice. I liked it as is. Changes I made: Only one bell pepper, no tomato sauce, two cans black beans, no pinto beans, and no jalapeno pepper.

Zucchini Muffins made from a zucchini bread recipe. (made as muffins) Made with regular zucchini. 250 calories each with raisins. Hubby liked these which is a good thing as I made a double-batch with half in the freezer. 🙂

More Zucchini dishes….

Zucchini Garlic Bites. Makes 52 bites if doing a triple recipe. A great way to make sure everyone gets some. This time when I made it I almost forgot the garlic so I added 3/4 tsp garlic powder instead of minced garlic. I like how they turned out.

Made a double recipe of Chocolate Chip Zucchini bread . If I make again I would do maybe 3/4 cup chocolate chips as this was just a bit too much adding a full cup. I didn’t expect that.

Zucchini cheddar cheese savoury muffins. These surprised me. They would be excellent served with chili, as a side breakfast item, or by adding a touch of bacon or ham to them. A nice quiet part of a meal. A good surprise. My tenant said, “get me this recipe!”. 🙂

I was reminded by my sweetheart that I hadn’t made “apple pie” with zucchini in quite a while. As I was searching for the recipe again I came across this savoury pie as well. Both were great!

The sweet pie recipe I changed by making it as a crisp. The savoury pie I mostly used as it but added 3/4 a can of chopped spam to it. I also just used onion rather than shallots and chives, and changed the type of flour and milk.

Birthday Cooking

It was my birthday this month so I made food that I liked when it was time to celebrate. I failed to get a picture of some really good pork chops. Garlic Rosemary Pork Chops are quite excellent. Made for a lovely meal that son and I enjoyed but hubby declined as “I don’t like pork chops”.

Two types pasta salads which were quite different from each other. The one I made thinking my hubby would be delighted with it… he was, as was my son. Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad. I did a herb garlic base and added 1/3 of a red pepper along with half a white onion. Total hit for my fellows.

The other recipe I LOVED. I kinda… scarfed it down over two days. Yes, yes, I know.. totally horrible from a weight loss point of view! 🙂 Smoky heirloom Tomato and grilled peach pasta salad with basil vinaigrette. I did make some changes. Instead of grilling corn on the BBQ, I used canned corn which I put on a frypan for a bit to darken. The peaches I did not grill and I chose to use regular pasta. Basil leaves… I didn’t have enough fresh so I used dried basil which worked quite nicely.

My mom-in-law brought along some cauliflower and cheese, and chiffon lemon pie (my fav). My mom brought her own lovely self. We had hamburgers with all the toppings (at least the fellows had all the toppings I stuck with cheese and peach slices).

Canning

I put up two kinds of zucchini relish. It’s a great way to use up a lot of zucchini quickly and both of my fellows really like it. This year I tried a new one that’s supposed to be Sweet and Spicy. I also did up a more normal relish. They cooked up quite differently so I’m looking forward to testing them out. With the more normal one I didn’t let the zucchini sit overnight as the recipe said. I’ve never done that with my relish and it always turns out. I just let it set out and drain once I had all the veggies mixed. The bit I had tasted good (Just had too much for the jar).

I love how pretty it is in the jars.

Rabbit Dishes

I had a rabbit that was throwing a random weepy eye. Never lasted beyond four hours at a time, but it was concerning since it was repetitive. I decided that I would euthanize her and see if I could determine a cause. She had a lung that wasn’t quite right so I believe it was a good call. I let her sit in a salt water bath for a few days and this morning cooked her long and slow in the oven.

She turned out great! I made a kinda soupy stew out of her and served it over mashed taters. My son had some later and …gasp…had seconds! 🙂

It’s easy to make once you have your slide off the bone rabbit.

The liquid from cooking the rabbit, a can mushroom soup, a can onion soup, about 1/2 a pack mixed veggies, a liberal amount of rabbit and because it’s still liquidy, a package of gravy mix. It’ll still be thin, but thick enough to pass sorta as a stew. 🙂 I enjoyed it with mashed taters, the lad did bread and cheese on the side.

I unfortunately didn’t get a picture of it, but I made this REALLY REALLY good pulled rabbit BBQ meat dish. It was so very good, the lad kinda scarfed it up so fast. It was enough for what I thought would be three meals… We got maybe 1.5 meals out of it. Crockpot, pulled rabbit, manwich sauce with 1/2 bottle chicken bbq sauce. REALLY REALLY GOOD. I will make it again sometime. See if I can persuade hubby to try it… just once.

How about you?

Did you make any interesting dishes this month? What new things did you learn would work? Were you inundated with squash and figure out new ways to cook with it? Or perhaps your tomato season is just coming in and you’re thinking… what do I do with it all? Let me know! It’s good to share new ideas don’t you think? Tell me what your summer meals in August were! 🙂

Other meals I’ve shared:

July. January. February. March and April.

Tasty Meals in July

July 30, 2020 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

Woot woot! I made tasty meals in July!! I originally planned to do one of these posts every month. You’ve seem my posts for January. February. March and April completed, but life hit! Life got busy with gardening, managing COVID requirements, and my bunny business. It’s been a little hectic! Maybe it’s been like that for you too?

Anyways, perhaps I can make life a little easier for you. I made lots of tasty meals this month and I wanted to share them with you.

Meatless dishes

Vegetarian pasta. I ran across this recipe on a blog share post and thought it looked interesting. I didn’t have all the ingredients so left out the cucumber and changed out the dressing, but otherwise made it as is. It was a hit with everyone but my son who said “It looks like too much work to eat”. Go figure eh?

This next meal I made on a Sunday afternoon when I was in the mood for some beans and cheese and it looked interesting. Mexican Layered Bean Casserole. I didn’t have corn tortillas so used some regular ones, and changed out the Monteray Jack cheese with some jalapeno cheddar and havarti. My homemade salsa worked really well in this recipe. It was a hit with ALL members of the household, including our tenant. We plan to have it again, but are thinking of using corn chips in place of the corn tortillas, don’t you think that would be a good option?

Black Bean Quinoa Salad was a dish enjoyed by hubby and I but it didn’t have longevity. It is really best fresh or next day. It made too much to eat in one day or two. I’ll make it again, but only a half-recipe.

Zucchini Recipes

Oh, zucchini … I have zucchini coming out of my ears it feels like! 🙂 I’ve had the joy of passing some along to neighbours and friends as well. It’s so good to do that.

I’ve made quite a few new to me recipes this year.

Lemon Zucchini Cake. REALLY good, I messed up a bit on the glaze. But this was a solidly good coffee cake. I used yellow zucchini instead of green so it was a very light in colour cake.

Lemon Zucchini Bread. Nice bread. A good change from the zucchini chocolate chip bread I normally make. A drier loaf so it keeps nicer in the hot weather we’ve been having. It’s also a bread where it’s easy to slice very thin slices which means no over-indulging! 🙂

Zucchini Bites. My word these disappeared so fast I only had six and I made a double recipe! I was stunned at how fast they were gone. Very good, each a single mouthful. Just very good, a nice dry bite. MAKE THEM!

Zucchini Cakes/Patties. Best same day, they don’t keep well. Not only enjoyed by my family, but also by our tenant and her son. “wow, zucchini can taste good even if it’s not in bread!” Her son exclaimed. Good to surprise a 19-year-old isn’t it? 🙂

I have plans to make zucchini boats and bowls, some regular zucchini bread, chili, and muffins too. But I’ll share those in August if all goes as planned.

Oh, I made this really good quick stir fry for hubby and I when the lad was off for a couple of days with roasted veggies fried up with fresh zucchini. Solidly good meal.

Meat Dishes

I work at the foodbank here in town and this week they said “Take home a turkey we had tons”. So Thursday I cooked up a plain turkey, no stuffing as I’d be predominately using the meat for other meals. We had turkey for lunch, and then I made a really good Turkey Shepherd’s pie. Peas, corn, carrots, mashed taters, mushroom soup, onion soup and some slower cooker spices. Along with turkey of course. REALLY good, the fellows want me to try to make it again sometime. I have loads in the freezer for making stews, casseroles and soups. All the trimmings will go to the cats.

Hearty Baked Beans was a huge hit with my man. A very simple meal to make with beans and ground beef. Fits into a small crockpot easily. My son helped me throw it together adding the sugar, ketchup and mustard.

I confused my family by making rabbit wings. They were all “rabbits don’t have wings”. I just grinned at them. They aren’t keen on rabbit but I like it so it gives me free range to do nibbly food when I’m in the mood. These were very simply made with shake n bake.

Other Meals Made

My son wasn’t keen on this currant loaf I threw together, but hubby and I found it delightfully different. A nice taste to it.

I made some zucchini cookies but I don’t remember what recipe I used. They were a fairly moist cookie that my son and hubby devoured. My tenant kept asking “Do you mind if I have one?” Makes my heart smile.

Red Currant Scones were devoured by my hubby over the course of three nights. When he was finished enjoying them he promptly decided that minding his calories would be a good thing. I don’t know if there is a connection between the two. 🙂

More Tasty Meals in July

I made quite a few other tasty meals in July but I think this post is long enough to intrigue you. No links for most of these, I either made them out of my head, or they got lost when I reset my tablet.

Swedish meatballs on noodles – disappeared so fast….
baked fish and fries – lemon and fresh dill from my garden – good!
Sausage and potato stovetop casserole – I enjoyed this immensely
Mixed rice with fish – the rice was great, the fish rather meh
Meatballs with fresh slicing beans from the garden – totally yum
Gooseberry jam which turned out more of a sauce
roasted veggies – will do this again Sunday coming

Summer Rhubarb Recipes

May 18, 2020 By Annette1 2 Comments

Did you know that rhubarb season has started? It’s a wonderful thing indeed! Time for sauces, cakes, loaves, muffins and so much more. This week’s challenge is summer recipes and I can’t think of anything more summery than rhubarb as it’s good all summer long! So let me share some summer rhubarb recipes with you.

Facts about Rhubarb

Rhubarb is a plant that everyone seems to know, but not always know what to do with. Is it a fruit or vegetable? Though it is technically a vegetable, it is legally a fruit. This was a ruling made in New York. Rhubarb is a fruit since we use it to make desserts and pies.

We only eat the stems, not the root or the leaves. In fact the triangular leaves contain high levels of a poisonous chemical called oxalic acid. You do need to pull it out by the root as that stimulates the plant to grow more leaves. Cutting off the stems only encourages rot and that will hurt your rhubarb plant in the long run.

They LOVE fertilizer. I cover mine with rabbit manure throughout the winter which gives them a great start in the spring. In July I’ll pull most of the stalks and then replace the manure pack which strengthens the rhubarb for continued production.

I remember as a child eating raw rhubarb, it was quite tart but I loved it! As I got a bit older I would sprinkle a bit of sugar on it. I still like to nibble on raw rhubarb but never a whole lot. Too much tartness no longer agrees with me! 🙂

Summer Rhubarb Recipes

This week I made a very moist loaf using rhubarb. This recipe is very similar to the one I used, I didn’t add nuts because we don’t care for them in our loaves. But a nice tasting loaf, definitely worth making again.

Rhubarb Cake is a favourite around here. Cinnamon sugar, rhubarb, moistness and a good cake taste.

Rhubarb Sauce is so very easy to make. Cut up rhubarb, add a touch of water, and let it cook until soft. Add sweetener if desired.

I was talking to a lady that I sold some rhubarb too and she mentioned that she adds apples to it when she cooks it. Doesn’t that sound good? Apple and rhubarb goes together so well.

Other recipes with Rhubarb
Recipes with Rhubarb
Rhubarb Apple Crisp.
Rhubarb Pudding Cake.
Rhubarb Bread.
Rhubarb Cake 2.
Rhubarb Muffins.
Rhubarb Crisp.

I invite you to join in on the linky. What summer recipes would you offer up?

Healthy Eating in April

April 27, 2020 By Annette1 7 Comments

Ohh… this coincides nicely. I was going to talk about our meals for this month (January, February, March) and the challenge for this week is healthy eating! I can’t say that EVERYTHING I made this month of April was really healthy, but most of it was. It was all better than store-bought that’s for sure. 🙂 Stay tuned for the linky below. We did some healthy eating in April for sure!

Breads

Braided Easter Bread. This disappeared fairly quickly. Hubby helped me to transfer the ring to my baking sheet as I couldn’t figure out how to move it on my own.

I also made scones which are something I used to make all the time. I’m not sure why I stopped. My fellows were happy with my decision to make them again.

Simple Whole Wheat bread. I made this a while back and decided it was time to make it again. It turned out a bit heavy, but was ever so good hot out of the oven with a touch of honey. I made them into cheese buns, dinner buns and a loaf of bread.

Sweet treats

Okay, my GOAL was to make donuts. Regular ordinary homemade donuts. Couldn’t find our donut making tray so I went to a different style. The directions and my collection of pastry cutters didn’t mesh so… I decided that Donuts Holes it would be! I cooked them, the lad made the glaze. It worked well. Such a quick disappearance. I was quite surprised when I went to wash the container… someone didn’t close the lid and well um, we had an “ant surprise”. Let’s just say that about 100 ants were washed into our pond for the goldfish to enjoy. BLECH!!!!

We normally do a special breakfast on Easter Sunday, but you know… COVID! Allrecipes.com sent me an email that had a recipe for Churros and I thought hey…that looks easy enough. And it was! The lad and I enjoyed them during our Easter Service. Hubby kept saying “I don’t want any”. We took him at his word. Later one he complained, “You didn’t save any for me!” GAH!! There’s no winning somedays eh!

I THOUGHT I had a picture of the donuts and churros, but alas… cyberspace has swallowed them…

Meat Dishes

Pesto Chicken. This was a huge favourite with my fellows and they wished I had made more of them. I will definitely do this recipe again some time.

Cordon Blue Chicken Rolls: I didn’t make the cordon bleu sauce, I used turkey bacon instead of ham, and panko not corn flakes. I thoroughly enjoyed these but would put a bit more bacon on them next time. I used cheddar cheese. It was an interesting challenge to for me.

Easy Tuna Patties made for a quick meal one night when we were tired of chicken and ground beef.

Chicken barley Soup, I really like this soup and have made it more than once. I’ve changes seasonings, added lipton soup to it, and changed the meat source. But it’s an easy soup to make and my lad really likes it too.

Tuna and cheese casserole. I totally forget to add the cream soup… this was so good. My son (14 years old) ate HALF OF IT!!! Hubby was so disappointed. so make it, and “forget the soup”.

Apple Dishes

I was gifted about a bushel of apples one week and they NEEDED to be used up, I made applesauce, a couple of apple crisps (I made two since hubby complained he didn’t get enough of the first one) and then two different apple loaves.

Dutch apple loaf and Apple Fritter loaf. Very similar. but with different toppings. I added extra apple to both recipes but should have added a bit more to the dutch loaf. Of the two I preferred the Dutch Apple Loaf but the lad liked the apple fritter one better.

Apple crisp is always a favourite in this household. I made one (used a different one than the one I linked) but hubby complained that it disappeared far too quickly. I made another since I had lots of apples. 🙂 Oddly enough the second one disappeared almost as quickly and I didn’t even get any! My fellows and their love of yumminess. 🙂

Apple strudel Muffins. These came out really dry, but they were excellent with some hot chocolate. If you are a hot coffee or hot tea drinker they’d probably go well with that too. Third day I polished off what was left and totally blew my calories for the day. 🙂

I made a goodly amount of applesauce, I put four ziploc bags in the freezer. Frozen applesauce is one of my favourite treats (eating it barely thawed). My applesauce is never sweetened. I do cook it with the skin on so once I put it through the mill it comes out nice and pink. I had some tonight with some rice… it was SO yummy. 🙂

What kind of healthy eating did you do in April?

Zeroing in on March Meals

March 30, 2020 By Annette1 4 Comments

It’s that time of month again.. .YES time to be zeroing in on meals, today it’s many of my March meals.

Come see what all we made won’t you? 🙂

Dutch Meatball Soup

With a hubby not feeling well and a lad with a sore throat I looked to make a favourite. I haven’t personally made dutch meatball soup before, but it’s a favourite for my fellows so I figured I’d give it try. The recipe I used I doubled and I gave some to our tenant as well. Carrots, meatball, celery, a fairly simple soup to make actually. The fellows added some salt and pepper and called it good.

SouthWestern black bean taco salad

I used this recipe. Though I did make a change … I didn’t add avocado (didn’t have any) and I used lemon juice instead of lime juice since well lime juice just seemed an unnecessary expense. 🙂 My surprise was great at how much I enjoyed this… hubby did too, and the lad was like “mom, this is better than I expected!”.

Doesn’t it look just SO good?

Rice Salad with Turnip Pork Hash

I made some rice one night to have with some leftover chili I think it was… and I cooked up the whole package even though I didn’t really need it. Just really had no place to keep an open bag of rice well. I looked around to figure out what to do with it and came across this salad. I thought I had kept the rice open on my tablet but alas I did not.

Rice has a simple oil/vinegrette type dressing, cucumber, bell peppers and cilantro in it. I remember I modified the recipe since I didn’t have wild rice. Anyways, 2/3’s a cup makes a decent serving and I discovered it went EXTREMELY well with my turnip cranberry pork dish. Even my non-rice loving hubby said it was good. My even more non-rice loving son wouldn’t even try it! Though he did enjoy the pork hash. 🙂

Oh. how to make the hash? Grab up a turnip and dice it up put in water for a bit. Meanwhile with a bit of oil in the pan cook up some onion, add about a pound of diced up pork tenderloin and let it brown. Let that cook for about five minutes. Add your turnip, toss in a handful of craisins, and a splash or two of water, put the lid on and let steam five or so minutes (depends on how big your diced turnip/rutabaga pieces are). Add some VH sweet and sour sauce, let it cook five minutes to meld the flavours and it’s done. Be mindful you turn it down so it doesn’t burn (been there, done that, waste of perfectly good food). Makes four servings. This meal is fairly similar to one I made last month.

Crab Salad

I really can’t remember what all I threw into this. I had some imitation crab, found a recipe for a dressing that would go with it, then tossed whatever I had on hand in with it. My tenant made some suggestions with seasonings as crab is fairly bland and her dad was a decent cook. Onion, bell pepper, tomato, kiwi I think, and I dunno what all else. I know I ate about half and then said “this needs some salad greens” so added those and it was decently good. Could I make it again? Possibly…but wouldn’t be exact. Its not a meal I offered to my fellows as they wouldn’t have touched it with a 10-foot pole.

What else?

Well my son made a banana chocolate chip loaf which disappeared too quickly for pictures. I made a good variety of cookies, some buns, and a couple of different pot pies. A stew (without the bread bowl) and a Chili made it into the mix.

Oh.. a turkey hashbrown casserole. Eggs, hashbrowns, diced turkey, bell pepper, seasonings of choice, and a touch of milk. Cook in the oven for 40 minutes or so. You get a meal that I love, the lad likes with ketchup and dad passes on. I borrowed ideas from a couple of different recipes and was happy with how it turned out.

What have you cooked this month?

So okay, this is the last in the alphabet blogging for this go round. I am not sure if I’ll do another, if I do it will probably be themed on Canada or science or something like that.

Others in this Series

Best Meals for February

February 28, 2020 By Annette1 6 Comments

Last month I shared the highlights of our meals for the month of January. February is pushing to a close so sharing this month’s best meals.

Turkey Vegetable Soup

You may remember me sharing this recipe a couple of weeks ago. Turkey vegetable soup was enjoyed by all.. both at the Cadet luncheon but also by our own family.

Set a pound of ground beef on to fry with one onion that’s been diced. Season as desired. While that is browning up nicely, dice about five or six potatoes. Toss them in with the ground beef adding a bit of water for cooking purposes. While the potatoes are cooking open up a can of corn and toss that into the fry pan. Let them cook for another five minutes. Open up a can of cream soup, mix into the hash thoroughly. Cook for another 3-5 minutes and it’s all done.

This meal is a favourite of everyone in the family and is SO easy to make. 🙂 I love the potatoes just slightly underdone but the guys like them soft so I always add some potatoes a bit later so play around with it a bit. 🙂

Baking Treats

My Son requested zucchini chocolate chip loaf. I made a triple batch of Two Peas and their Pod’s recipe. We’ve tried a number of zucchini breads over the years and this one is my son’s favourite. I altered it a bit this time by using some leftover white chocolate chips along with regular ones.

It was my turn to cook for bible study this month so I made some cookies. Some cinnamon Lemon cookies and Oatmeal chocolate chip. I just used recipes I found on-line. They worked out quite nicely.

Macaroni Casserole

My son shocked me with this one. I can’t recall what all was in it, but I know that I had planned for hubby to have a good chunk of it for work meals but a 14 year old loved it!

What was in it? I think it was a tuna, cheese oven baked casserole. I used the twisty pasta which I discovered the lad really likes. Tuna, with a bread crumb/parm cheese topping. Peas, tuna, cream soup, cheese. It was a huge hit with the lad. Hubby got one meal out of it I think.

Over the course of the month I made turkey shepherd’s pie, lasagna, meatloaf, meatballs in sauce, pot roast with veggies, a variety of pizza, potato soup (which I loved) and odd meals.

My last best of meals to highlight for February is my attempt at bagels. The fellows definitely want me to make these again. New York Style Bagels. They so fell in love with them but I rather dread making them. I suppose I’ll get better over time with making them….

January Meal Highlights

January 31, 2020 By Annette1 6 Comments

I’ve been missing posting up recipes so I thought I would start a monthly recipe post. The last day of the month I’ll pull up some of the meals I made over the course of the month. I’ll tell you a bit about them, if we liked them or not, or some other detail. I doubt I’ll include full recipes since most of the time I wing it with my recipes. With no further delay here are our meal highlights for January 2020.

Spring Salad Mix

Mmmmm… I really like this salad, easy to make.

I discovered these amazing mushrooms at the local Asian Market when I was helping my son get stuff for a science experiment. Enoji mushrooms. They are super small, thin, and come in a bundle. They have a slightly nutty taste. I love them in this salad as they just kinda slip into all the small spaces.

Add a strawberry, two cups spring greens, a bit of crumbled feta, a medium carrot fine grated, and a stalk of celery diced medium. I don’t put dressing on as I don’t care for it. My son really likes it as well.

Pineapple Rabbit is a dish I came up one night when I was looking for a quick way to cook up some rabbit legs. I took some pineapple sauce, poured it over the rabbit. Then I added some pineapple slices leftover from pizza night and let it bake in a 350 oven til done. The sauce is one much like the one I linked below. (amazon affiliate)

January meal highlights : mine!

Pizza Night

Once a week (almost) we have pizza night. I was inspired by Lori and various other friends. It makes for an easy meal with plenty of conversation in the making of a meal. We use smaller naan bread, red sauce, add some oregano and basil, cheese and whatever toppings we want. Sometimes we nix the red sauce for homemade pesto.

I like to push the edges a bit with my pizza. My motivation is often that I want to use up some leftovers. 🙂 I almost always put pineapple on my pizza, and some type of meat. Might be turkey livers leftover from Christmas dinner, or pickled eggs, or whatever is sitting about. Add sauce and cheese, and generally anything is good. I’m thinking my pizza tomorrow will have some potatoes, bacon, and maybe mushrooms on it.

What do you put on your pizza?

Pickled Cauliflower

So I have this thing where I can’t eat cauliflower, broccoli or other such foods. My digestive system is rather unhappy, but for whatever reason I can eat pickled cauliflower. This year I thought I’d experiment and make my own pickled cauliflower. Since I had the jars, and the pickling juice I tried some carrots as well.

I’m going to pull out my cauliflower tomorrow as it has to set a bit before eating. Oohh… I should try it on pizza!!! 🙂 If homemade pickled cauliflower works it will be a pickle recipe more frequently made.

Cranberry, Turnip, Beef Dish

I really don’t know what to call this dish. It’s super easy to make and one of very favourites. You can serve it with hulled millet, potatoes, rice, or noodles. It works well with most anything. Hubby said this was his January meal highlights.

This particular dish I normally do with pork tenderloin but this time I thought I’d do it with ground beef. I took a pound of ground beef, three honey garlic sausage (just the meat). Fried it up with some onion, added some diced turnip (was about 2/3 a normal rutabaga head). The smaller white turnips work well too. Add some diced mushrooms and a good handful of cranraisins. Season as you’d like, this time I added salt, pepper and a shepherd’s pie seasoning pack.

I learned how to cook hulled millet this month (there was a package at the foodbank that had sat for quite a while so I brought it home to experiment with). I found a recipe for millet porridge and it worked out okay. I served some to my tenant and her son and they both liked it (first time I had squash and I liked it!!). My 14 year old lad had seconds. I wasn’t keen on it hot but enjoyed it cold, and it was most excellent with this meat dish. Hubby really liked it too.

Bean and Ham Stew

I also made Bean and Ham Stew which both of my guys kept calling a soup. Hubby wasn’t keen on it but he really needs to be in the mood for ham to eat it and it didn’t work for him this month. The lad, myself and our tenant enjoyed it full well.

The recipe I used served only as a guide as it wasn’t particularly well written. 🙂 5 cans beans, 1.5 pound ham diced, onion, diced bell pepper, minced garlic, two cans tomatoes, season as you like, celery, and carrot. I had to kinda guess on the amounts and what seasonings to use.

Carrot StamPot and Sausage

We’ve done a variety of sausage dishes since I’m trying to empty our freezers a bit. I chose to highlight this dish because my lad was surprised at how much he liked it. It’s easy to do. For January this was definitely a highlights meal for my 14 year old.

Mince some onion, fry it up. Add some water, potatoes and carrots to the pot. Let it cook. If you have an already cooked sausage lay it out over the veggies if they cook, if not, as it all cooks get your sausage done. I did my sausage in the oven, starting it about 1/2 an hour before the veggies started to cook. This way it was all done at the same time. Mash the veggies together well and then enjoy. You might want to pepper and salt it. Some folks do, others done. I add a bit of salt as it cooks, leaving the fellows to add pepper when they eat it.

Other meals we’ve done over this month that I’m not highlighting are turkey shepherd’s pie, turkey soup, meatballs, scalloped potatoes etc. I can’t do them all eh! And besides… I don’t have pictures of them all, sometimes my fellows gobble things down before I say HEY! I need a picture! 🙂 I told hubby I was writing this post and he said “Don’t forget to tell them about your ovenbaked french toast. That was really good!” So I told you. Now go make it! This is the recipe I used (I think).

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed a month of our meals. Maybe it will inspire some meals in your house!

Recipes

Zucchini Recipes

More Zucchini dishes….

Birthday Cooking

Canning

Rabbit Dishes

How about you?

Meatless dishes

Zucchini Recipes

Meat Dishes

Other Meals Made

More Tasty Meals in July

Facts about Rhubarb

Summer Rhubarb Recipes

Breads

Sweet treats

Meat Dishes

Apple Dishes

Dutch Meatball Soup

SouthWestern black bean taco salad

Rice Salad with Turnip Pork Hash

Crab Salad

What else?

Others in this Series

Turkey Vegetable Soup

Baking Treats

Macaroni Casserole

Spring Salad Mix

Pizza Night

Pickled Cauliflower

Cranberry, Turnip, Beef Dish

Bean and Ham Stew

Carrot StamPot and Sausage

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