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Jill is a Mom, wife, teacher, artist, & creative genius. She works everyday on her blog at SimpleDailyRecipes.com. When she's not home schooling her kiddos or filling her blog, Jill likes drinking lattes & dancing to funky disco in the living room.
Aunt Deb’s Layered Salad
My Aunt’s layered salad YUMMY! Our family eats it every time we have Italian meals. It’s great to make for pot luck gatherings and can easily be made ahead. In fact, this layered salad tastes better when made one day ahead of eating it.
This recipe makes A LOT of salad, perfect for potluck, holiday dinners, [...]
Saturday Night Lasagna & Sunday’s Lunch
Again, I’m sorry there’s not a photo of this DELICIOUS recipe. Good food and hungry families don’t wait for photo shoots.
Let me begin by saying that my daughter is not a tomato sauce fan. I usually prepare something different for her when we have Italian food night. Yes, I know there are white sauces, but [...]
Ground Beef Cooked Ahead
You will see me refer to this recipe, very often. When I know I have a busy week coming up, I cook ahead.
I have learned to keep cooked meat and poultry in the freezer. It saves me money to buy the meats in bulk and I save time when I cook it all up [...]
Banana Bread Anytime
HERE’S WHAT IT TAKES
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/3 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (3 to 4 medium)
1/3 cup water
1 cup all purpose flour
2/3 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup toasted pecans, chopped
Heat oven to 325F degrees. Spray smooth, dark coated [...]
7Sep2007 | Jill | 6 comments | Continued
Quick Barbecue Chicken Dinner
I’ll admit it! I was not in the mood to cook tonight, but I was in the mood for barbecue chicken. How was I going to get a full meal done with very little effort? I did not want to turn on the oven, even though cooking the chicken would have been a easy [...]
3Sep2007 | Jill | 5 comments | Continued
Sloppy Chicken Enchiladas
Today has been crazy! The kids and I have been driving all over East Texas taking care of our candy machine route. Did I ever tell you that I had a candy machine route? Well, I do. It’s fun, but that’s another blog. As soon as we arrived home at 4:05pm, I remembered Max had karate [...]
14Aug2007 | Jill | 5 comments | Continued
Kitchen Clean Up Tools
Due to karate class, gymnastics class, and a back to home school party all in one evening, I didn’t cook last night. I declared, “You’re On Your Own” night. It worked out fine, we had delicious leftover black bean enchiladas and Monday night meatloaf to chow on. Therefore, I don’t have [...]
10Aug2007 | Jill | 3 comments | Continued
Black Bean Enchiladas
I'm excited to share this recipe with you because I changed the way I normally prep the corn tortillas and it only took 35 minutes to get it to the table. The after dinner clean up was super easy, too!
When making enchiladas, I was taught to heat a little oil in small pan, place one [...]
Monday Night Meatloaf
Monday night dinners are served later than normal around my house these days. My son’s karate class is conveniently scheduled at the same time I prepare dinner. Do you have this schedule too? Eating out is not an option on Mondays, we save that luxury for Friday night, maybe. Eating something [...]
7Aug2007 | Jill | 2 comments | Continued
Tex-Mex Cheesey Macaroni
My kids are just like yours, they LOVE, LOVE, LOVE macaroni and cheese. However, some nights my husband and I need something with more kick. That’s when I get out the precooked ground beef from the freezer and mix it up a bit.
HERE’S WHAT I LIKE TO DO
1 box of Kraft Thick [...]
3Aug2007 | Jill | 7 comments | Continued
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