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Wonderful December Meals

December 31, 2020 By Annette1 2 Comments

It’s the close of a year! Oh, the meals we’ve made over this past year. As I sit here pondering our wonderful December meals I am also watching the Xmen movies with my family. Every year we watch some series together and this is what my guys chose. In the past we’ve done Lord of the Rings, and Marvel movies. It’s a good family time!

Anyways, on with some deliciousness eh! 🙂

Meals the Lad Made

So I’ve been wanting my lad to cook at least one meal a week and it’s just been a battle to get him to follow through. I finally said “You know what, your friends cook meals at home for their families, so you can cook meals for us too.” He wanted to choose a mid-day to do it but I said “NOPE! You can cook Sundays. It’s a day I don’t want to have to fuss in the kitchen so it’s your day.”. It’s working out really well. A consistent day, no school to interfere, and I or hubby am around to help should he need it.

He’s made this month

Manwich
Chicken wings with sides
Turkey Croquettes. We used this recipe that hubby found.

The croquette recipe caused the lad to ask a ton of questions and have to do some problem-solving. He was quite pleased with himself at the end of it and thoroughly enjoyed them.

Baking

It’s Christmas… baking happened. One needs treats for eating over the holidays even if you don’t have friends and family coming over.

Most of the cookies we made I’ve already chatted with you all about.

But we also did homemade turtles, dipped pretzels, and …. oh shoot.. I know I made something else but I can’t recall right now.

Homemade Turtles, we made some with pecans and others with pretzels as the base.

Christmas Dinner

Well.. I made the BEST STUFFING EVER! See I don’t much like stuffing, but this stuffing was good… in the turkey and done on the stove top. BEST EVER!

So what did I put in it? Stuffing from a box, half pack hash browns (those diced potatoes), apple, pepper, onion, celery, carrot and various seasonings. I made have used bouillon/chicken stock instead of water. REALLY GOOD. I hope I can replicate it next year!

Other than stuffing we also had Turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, cauliflower with cheese sauce, beans, plain potatoes, gravy, and cheese buns. Very tasty indeed!

More Wonderful December Meals

Parmesan Herb-baked Salmon Fillet. First time ever really cooking with a salmon fillet. Oh my.. YUMMY!!!!! Changes I made… I used more salmon so I needed to adapt the recipe and used dry basil instead of fresh. It disappeared too fast to get a picture.

I got inspired after visiting my mom and she had made an apple pudding. I thought the lad’s would enjoy this meal and I was right! Taste of home’s recipe was the one I chose to use.

We’ve made a number of hot sandwiches using bagettes. Manwich, tuna salad, turkey fry with cheese, egg/potato hash, etc.

Jerky! We made both rabbit and beef jerky. The rabbit made using a teriyaki recipe, the beef with basic jerky recipe. It was funny, the lad was threatened by his father…. for going a bit overboard on the jerky eating. Next time we have jerky apparently the lad will be helping to make it so he knows how much work goes into it! Tons of apologies. I think next time sharing will happen a bit more readily eh? 🙂

In between Christmas and New Years I have to admit we did a lot of leftovers and junk food. We did cheese and crackers, and chicken wings, and cookies, lots of cookies. 🙂

How about you? Does your meal planning go a bit wonky over the holiday season? Did you make any wonderful December meals? Do share them if you’ve a mind to. I love discovering new recipes to make.

Comfort foods in November

November 26, 2020 By Annette1 2 Comments

It’s been a long nine-months hasn’t it been? Stress and anger and all kinds of things happening in the world with elections, deaths, covid and the like. Now that winter is drawing nigh it’s time to make it some things better eh? Thanksgiving has come and gone, Christmas becomes it’s time to make some comfort foods in November! What’d’ya say? Here’s some that I made.

Main Courses

Crisply Baked Basa Fillets was a total winner. I had hoped to have leftovers (as it technically made four servings) but between the teen and hubby all of the fish disappeared. Oh…to make it more calorie friendly don’t use the oil, just spray down the parchment paper with pan spray.

Meat/rice/cream soup goulash. This was just a simple dish that I make on occasion. Every time it turns out a bit differently. Very easy to make. Dice up some onion, fry up a pound of ground beef seasoned however you like it, as it cooks cook up a 2 cup serving of rice. Once the rice is cooked toss it in with the ground beef, add a veggie of some sort (today I did green pepper but I’ve done grated carrots, canned peas, diced zucchini etc), and mix in some cream of mushroom soup. You can easily swap out the soup for one of your choosing. Also works well with ground anything or sausage fixings. My guys always like this dish.

Hashbrown casserole, or Bacon, Potato, and Egg Casserole. Changes I made: I used fresh potatoes from my garden, and I also cooked it straight-through, not taking the time to keep it all fancy looking. The fellows enjoyed this with ketchup. I by-passed the ketchup and ate as is. Tasted great to me. They wanted a bit more seasoning, hence the ketchup.

Crock pot ribs… oh my, these were good!!!! I didn’t have chili sauce so I did extra bbq sauce. The guys devoured them quickly. There was expressed disappointment when they were all gone.

quick comfort foods in November

I made a quick meal one day out of some leftover honey garlic sausage, about 2 cups of cooked aztec rice blend and a pint jar of homemade salsa. The lad and I have been very much enjoying it. An excellent simple meal. Just heat it all together.

Today I’ve been feeling a bit poorly due to getting a cold from our tenant. It left me feeling selfish in my cooking habits so I made food with myself in mind. This rather good mac and cheese casserole, and I made some cheesy garlic bread to go with it. Add a jar of bruschetta mix.. Excellent meal. My hubby who said “I’m not hungry, don’t plan on me eating… decided he was hungry after all and went back for seconds”. The lad did the same. So much for me having my just-for-me casserole all for myself. 🙂 Later I made soup for supper which my tenant and I enjoyed.

Other highlights

What else were highlights of the month?

a package of soup mix, I loved it, the lad thought it interesting, hubby wouldn’t touch it. Had curry in it so I had a couple restless nights with weird dreams so I ended up giving the rest to a gal needing a few meals with no cumin allergies. 🙂
Maple-crusted Peameal bacon roast. YUMMERS. It disappeared way too fast and I only got one serving out of it.. bummers that! The lads are too good at making some food disappear…..
I made a very slow cook roast in the crockpot with potatoes and carrots around it. Added a variety of seasoning packets. Again, I had like one serving and the fellows took care of the rest.
There was this zucchini casserole that well… ended up in the compost. It didn’t turn out well. Some recipes are like that eh? Just don’t work for a household’s taste buds.

Desserts

THIS was a very good pumpkin pie! Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie. Just excellent. The lad’s totally demolished it, my tenant asked for a second piece, and I liked it too and I’m not even a real pumpkin pie person.

I had planned to make some interesting desserts this month but I think that will have to wait until this coming month. I made pudding! Does that count too?!?!? The fellows were quite pleased with it, I can tell you that much. And I bought ice cream which is ALWAYS a favourite! 🙂

One of the great things about making dishes with pumpkin and zucchini? Oh.. making roasted or baked whatever it is, squash seeds. I’ve been experimenting with plain salt, or salt and pepper or even with funky no salt seasoning. LOVE THEM. So much fun and so super easy to do. 🙂 AND!!!! Since I’m the only one in the household who likes them.. they are always, all mine! No sharing needed!

My Latest Experiment

One day I was browsing Youtube. I think I had just finished watching a Shawn Woods MouseTrap Monday show… and somehow I got onto this “how you make extracts” channel. I thought HEY I can do that. When I mentioned it to my fellow, he said “I can make you the alcohol, no need to buy it”. So there yah go! Truly homemade extracts to try.

I have some alcohol left and thought about making vanilla extract which hubby nixed as vanilla beans are rather expensive. He suggested I made almond extract instead. Here’s how to do it! Super Easy eh?

Other meals I’ve shared:

July. January. February. March and April. August. and October. What comfort foods in November have you made? Anything you care to share? It’s great to discover new recipes don’t you think?

October’s Delicious Meals

October 29, 2020 By Annette1 2 Comments

It’s that time of the month again! Time for me to tell you about October’s delicious meals made by yours truly.

As you might guess, zucchini featured in a lot of our dishes. I made a fair number of meals that we often have like meatloaf, pork chops, and chicken casseroles etc. We celebrated Thanksgiving with family (complete with leftovers!) and have, overall, had fairly nutritious month! 🙂

Zucchini Recipes

I was busy cleaning the kitchen one day so needed to use up some zucchini in order to get clean counters. I made this zucchini bread with some yellow zucchini. Instead of adding walnuts to it, I added chocolate chips to it.

I used a different type of granola in these carrot muffins, and since I was short on carrots I added some zucchini to them. The lad really enjoyed these. A bit of a funny story to them. My tenant gave me the granola and said “I can’t eat these since they have hazelnut in them. I’m allergic”. I said “great, maybe I’ll make some muffins”. I did, and then brought one to the lad, and then offered one to B. She said sure, I got her one and then went back to the kitchen to work.

She came out, holding out a muffin with a tiny bite out of it, and said “Annette, are you trying to kill me?” Gave me a moment, and then I blurted out “AH, oops, sorry DON’T EAT THAT!” We laughed. The lad was coming into the kitchen at the moment to snag up another one and asked what was up. He hooted! It was SO GOOD to hear this moody 15-year-old really laugh. B. had told me she wasn’t deathly allergic, it just makes her tongue frozen, so I didn’t technically try to kill her… but still! It was SO funny. (which reminds me I need to mark the bag of 12 I have in the freezer).

Even more breads and muffins

Since that day I have also made Classic Zucchini Bread from The Wholesome Dish. I added chocolate chips to the recipe. I tried Zucchini bread recipe from Simply Recipes. The unexpected use of raisins surprised them, and decision was “good bread, but we prefer chocolate chips”.

Banana Zucchini Muffins... lovely lovely muffin. You taste more of the banana than the zucchini. But it’s a lovely moist muffin. Needs to be used in three days or kept in the fridge. Added chocolate chips of course. The fellows were reticent at first to try them, but once they did.. boom gone!

Zucchini muffins October's Delicious Meals

Zucchini Cookies

I made two versions of Oatmeal Zucchini muffins. They were very similar to make but with quite different taste profiles. The one that our tenant, myself and son liked best was from Sally’s. Zucchini Breakfast Cookies were so close, but we decided would be better served with hot chocolate.

I also made Zucchini Cookies that turned out completely different than what the picture looked like. I’m not sure why that happened. They were VERY good, and were too easy to overeat them!

Other Zucchini Recipes

Did you know that Zucchini Garlic Bites heat up really nicely in a toaster over? At least this recipe does. I also like them chilled, but warm is better. For this recipe I did make some changes I used dried parsley, basil and oregano. My breadcrumbs were seasoned.

Canning Dishes

This Year I have learned to make homemade ketchup, Spaghetti sauce from scratch, and green tomato relish.

One day I had a young man and his family over learning about rabbits, I mentioned to his mom about making some green tomato relish. She mentioned she just got a canner so I sent her home with enough green tomatoes to make a big batch for canning.

Hubby brought home a cauliflower head one day … it’s on for a great price hun! He was hoping I’d make some pickled cauliflower. I didn’t add the chili pepper though as I’m not into heat. While I was making those I thought hmm… on my search to make spaghetti sauce I saw a recipe for pickled cherry tomatoes why don’t I try them too?

Main meals and Casseroles

WOW… this lasagna recipe… wow… HUGE, very tasty, but wow.. makes for a very full dish, ergo a longer cooking time. I will make it again, but probably reduce the size of the filling a bit. Changes I made: all beef, homemade spaghetti sauce (so all the make your sauce ingredients I eliminated), all cottage cheese, no provolone, and I used cook in the pan lasagna noodles.

I made some boerenkool as well. Surprised my fellows. I make it so seldom, but being originally of Dutch stock, I have to make sure my lad knows what it is. We made ours with smokies, completely from memory of watching my mom make it, but if you don’t know how to make it, this recipe is fairly close. I didn’t put a bay leaf in mine.

I made a really tasty potato bake that disappeared it seemed like literally overnight. No pics, but boy it was good. What was in it? Mixed veggies, cubed potatoes, cream of mushroom soup, cubed turkey, various spices, and cheese. Just gone, like so fast!

Biscuit shepherd’s pie met a similar fate. Made like a typical shepherd’s pie but with a biscuit cover instead of mashed taters. I put some grated cheese into my biscuit mix.

And my chicken stew, “hun, this is really good!” Could I ever replicate it again? Probably not. It has chicken, carrots, potatoes, beans, leftover mashed taters, gravy, seasoning and whatever else I could find. It was a bit more liquid than intended so it was half stew, half soup. Either way… YUM!

Other meals I’ve shared:

July. January. February. March and April. August.

So how about you? What have you added to October’s Delicious meals this year? A friend of mine made these cookies that looked just wonderful.

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?

Recipes

Meals the Lad Made

Baking

Christmas Dinner

More Wonderful December Meals

Main Courses

quick comfort foods in November

Other highlights

Desserts

My Latest Experiment

Zucchini Recipes

Even more breads and muffins

Zucchini Cookies

Other Zucchini Recipes

Canning Dishes

Main meals and Casseroles

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

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